Multimedia

2010-03-06T15:41:00.000-08:00

Requiem For a Dream

2010-02-24T18:41:00.000-08:00

i started watching this film the other week and didnt get to watch it all, the bits i watched were very good, not really sure what the plot of the story is but the filming is very unique.

There were parts in the film, when the people were taking drugs they kept flicking through selected screen shots and during the shouts they would play sound to go with the pictures but they would almost exadurate them so the were very clear and it really gave you a clear idea of drug taking and how harmful and tripy it is. I just thought it made the film look different and really good. once iv watched the rest of the film i can comment on some more parts.

Cashback film

2010-02-24T18:05:00.000-08:00

This film is about a fine artist who can stop time with his mind and almost see people in their comfort, he can picture them naked basicly. he is a very talented artist how is very intreged by the human for especially the female gender.

what i liked about the film is the way it was filmed, the first clip is of the boys ex-girlfriend screaming and shouting at him but she is on mute so you cant hear here, what you can hear is his voice/ well his mind thinking and ontop of that clasical music. i just thaught the contrast of the scene created a very interesting sence of the person, it just really struck me as a very interesting way to film the piece using the opposites.

there are also other parts of the film were one minute he is in a coridor with walls around him and the camera swings round (this is all in one shot) and the boy almost looks like he is falling into bed and he is in his room, again another very clever piece of filming. there are lots throughout the film and its is very interesting.

Harmony Korine

2009-12-13T21:06:00.001-08:00

this man is Harmony Korine he is an american film director, producer, screen writer and Arther, he has done films suck as kids, gummo, julien donkey-boy and mister lonely and his latest film is trash humpers.

if you have not seen any of his films then it is hard to explain them.... some would call them strange, odd or disturbing in some cases. i just love the way he films, for instance julien donkey-boy has very little script yet you still know what is going on, but at the same time the film doesn't really have a point which really intrigues me about the film.... the style in which it is filmed, almost none professional looking just really attracts me to it as well.

in kids the story line is very shocking and to the point, again the way it is filmed and just how true and real he can make serious things seem- it is about HIV and how easily it can be given, it is given around a group of friends, sounds shocking but the way it has been done is very clever.

the man intrigues me a lot, i have yet to see all of his films but I'm sure they will be just as interesting.

Quentin Tarantino

2009-12-13T21:05:00.001-08:00

obviously everyone knows who Quentin Tarantino is, cant not appreciate his films really, the way pulp fiction was filmed in an almost non-sencical order is just genius again i grips you to the film and makes you want to watch it. i just really like films that are based in the olden times and quentins film are, death proof is a violent film but the way he films it and the story line it just works. inglorious bastards, the way he films it with almost like theatre breaks or old film written scripts every now and again just tops the film off. very clever director

Shane Meadows

2009-12-13T21:03:00.000-08:00

this is Shane Meadows is a film director, screen writer and an occasional actor, who has done such films as dead mans shoes, a room for romeo brass, this is England and somers town. again i just really like his old style of filming, the way this is England was filmed is just really well done, the not perfect filming but it almost makes you feel you are there, the story line is brilliant and it really grips you to the film as it goes on. he is another director i am fond of.

interactive narative

2009-12-13T18:51:00.000-08:00

for my final idea i decided to use the photography as i thought up the best scenarios for this idea and i thought it might work well

i drew out a diagram to help me see the efficiency of the photos and were to put what.

do you want this person to take a picture of you- yes or no? (numbed slide one)
yes, he asks which button to press- you are given a choice left or right button? (numbed slide 2)
left button, deletes all your photos (numbed slide 3)

no, to the first person ask this person- yes or no? (numbed slide 5)
no- leave without a photo taken (numbed slide 14)

yes, to the second person- keep the photo or ask to take another one? (numbed slide 6)
ask to take another one, person run off with camera- chase or report to police? (numbed slide 11)
report to police- camera found (numbed slide 13)
chase- don't catch him and he gets away with camera (numbed slide 12)

keep photo, this is the photo (numbed slide 7)
use this photo in uni project- yes or no? (numbed slide 8)
no- back to beginning page

yes, get a good grade- happy with grade or want more? (numbed slide 9)
happy with grade- back to beginning page
want more- goes up on wall in gallery (numbed slide 10)

i numbed the slides to help me with the coding of the linked pages, i wrote out the codes to which slide i had numbed to make the process a lot easier.

red button- slide 5, green button- slide 2
green button left- slide 4, green button right- slide 3
red button- back to slide 1
red button- back to slide 1
red button- slide 14, green button slide 6
green button left- slide 7, green button right- slide 11
red button- back to slide 1, green button slide 8
green button- slide 9
green button left- back to slide 1, green button right- slide 10
finish
green button left- slide 12, green button right- slide 13
red button- back to slide 1
red button- back to slide 1
red button- back to slide 1

inerative narrative by ~tobiasjdrew on deviant ART

i am happy with how it turned out i found flash really hard to use and i would prefer to have proper workshops on just the individual programs so that we can get to learn them better.

the reason why i used buttons on this project is because i felt the buttons looked a lot like camera buttons so i didn't want to hid them seeing as the film is predominately about the camera.

*for some reason the video hasn't worked and it was working before i uploaded it up on here, a few people have said flash hasn't been working for theirs and i assume that that is the case but i think something has happened to the codes in mine, i haven't got flash.*

interactive narrative ideas

2009-12-13T18:06:00.000-08:00

i struggled to find examples of interactive narrative that weren't on the example list given but i had quite a few ideas of what i wanted to do in my head, i didn't realise until i tried to put them on paper that it was a lot harder, thinking up a different story lines that link well.

i just wanted mine to be a bit different than the standard thing and idea of fighting with different outcomes.

i originally wanted to mix in drawing with my pictures in some way but i wasn't sure how.

my first set of idea that were in my head and i thought that would work well

person asking for charity money

jist of the story was that you thank them for putting money in if you didn't they'd ask for it back, but i didn't think it was that strong enough.

photography

ask some one to take a picture of you and follow different things happen one person is bad and one works out.

trying on cloths for an event party or date

i wanted it to be a load of different cloths and depending on what combination depended on how the date went or the party went.

late for something how they would get there

different type of travel and different things going wrong along the way unless you chose the right pathway.

party, drug taking and drinking and what goes on

person taking different types of drugs and different side ffects.... basically a campaign for not taking drugs, they would all end bad.

skateboarding

chose which tricks to do in sequence in a competition and certain way wins some get you to second and some fail.

i followed a few ideas through

goes to a house party around the corner or go to town on three pounds
three pounds isn't enough to go any were in town
house party, you don't know what to wear jumper or t-shirt
jumpers is to hot in the house take it off or leave it on
take it off t-shirt has a hole under the arm
take jumper off put it down and it gets stolen
leave it on go outside or stay inside
stay inside someone spills drink on you and it gets dirty
go outside and cool off, 10 pounds on the floor take it or leave it
leave it, stay in house party most people go to town and its rubbish
take it go to town after all

if you can understand the colour coding you will understand the links between them, i just wasn't 100percent sure on this idea.

i also followed the charity idea through but decided there wasn't enough things to happened or scenarios that would work so i dismissed that after trying to make a spider diagram.

One shot Final Film

2009-12-01T12:57:00.000-08:00

We started off by again deciding the basic storyline and what the main idea would be. we quickly decided after a few ideas had been thrown around that we would do a scene again using the camera as a person and the story line was he had an essay to do and his flatmates kept interrupting him because they wanted him t go out.
as a group we decided were we would film and who did what, i was a bit disjointed that we couldn't all have a go at filming but i understood that the way we wanted to do it that would have been impossible especially as its a one shot film as well.
i really also didn't want to be in it but as it was a group task i offered myself anyway.

we wrote down a pointers list as to what order things would happen and then gave one to each person in the film so they knew what was going on and when, when it was being filmed... that made it all easier.

looking at screen (computer)
title for essay
flickering through book
starts typing sentence
cancels it out
looks at book again (looks at clock)
(music starts playing before looks at book)
one person comes in hold door
asks him to come out
tells him he has an essay to do
boy leaves room
(still hear chatter and music)
back to computer screen
starts typing
gets message alert from same boy who asked him to come out
looks back at clock
msn beeps up
looks at phone, phone rings + text alerts
about to start typing again
couple of people barge in (more drunk)
ask him about going out again and to come and do shots
they shut his laptop
after they go out he looks at clock
group come in with a bottle and a shot for him
someone is sick
looks at everyone
takes the bottle off a boy and has a drink, as in 'stuff it il go out'

when i have uploaded the video you can clearly see the changes made when we were actually filming it it became apparent certain things worked better in different ways.

the main thing that we originally wanted to do was to speed up the clock every time he looked at it, we found that editing it would be to hard, and trying to change it in between clips would also be to hard due to the noise it made and trying to get someone to change it in such a Short space of time.

we also left out a few things to help us fit more to the time limit. it took about 12 takes.

the main thing i did in the group was write everything down and then also be in the video, and i was the organiser for when people went into the room and out of the room during filming. i said before i would have loved to do more the filming side of it.

the video was OK just wasn't my cup of tea really, i would have liked to do something really quirky and different if it wasn't a group project. the idea for the voices inside the head was one of mine which i had got from one of the videos i had researched and i think it works well and helps the viewer engage with what is going on and what the person is actually thinking, as if you were them.

One Shot Film- Test Film

2009-12-01T12:44:00.000-08:00

in our groups we had to first write a short story and we were given Si-fi as our gender to write about. as a hole we struggled at this as a task and didn't/ could not do it in such a short space of time which made me think this project might not go well.

but....

when we started planning for are test shot film, we sort of clicked straight way and came up with a simple but effective idea. we chose to use the camera as someones sight from there point of view, story line was based around someone at a vending machine and it doesn't work.

rough script

looks at item
gets money- counts change
doesn't have enough money
looks around
turns to some people asks for change
person puts money in his hand
puts money in vendor
no drink
out of order

this is the video we came up with after a few takes and i like how it turned out, simple story line and simple idea which has turned out quit well

Group project- One Shot Film

2009-12-01T11:12:00.000-08:00

we had to create a one shot short film which is about a few minutes long, the hard bit about the project is that we were limited to how we used the camera as it was not aloud to be moved for its position on the tripod. this made the planning process a lot hard as thinking of ideas were the camera can not move from the tripod, meaning that we had to pick a space carefully as we could only use the place immediately around the tripod.

i looked at a few short clip films, but none of them were using a stationary camera.

one question

although this isn't really a film and goes on for much longer than we are aloud i just really liked the style of it, the blurriness and in and out of focus really draws me in and i just really like the way it added drama to the clip, also the music which has been added and the clips other sounds i feel have been done really well.

35mm foot age test

again this clip is very similar to the clip about but the way the focus is used and the way the clip and been made to look old-e-fied.

the plan

i thought this was a brilliant short story film, the story line i think is really clever and keeps you wanting to watch it, which i think is very hard to do on a short film. if you loose the view concentration because it is so short there is no getting it back.

the music is used really well and i thought the way the voice overs were used over the clips added a real sense of him thinking in his head. i am also a great fan of black and white filming really focuses thought onto the film and personally i prefer it.

i looked at a few other short films and they all gave me some of my own possible ideas.....

i started thinking about the not being able to move the tripod, and thought of some way which i could be clever with the use of it.

possibly using it out of a window or off the top of a building so that you could have a huge scene.
using the camera as a person from their point of view.
corner of a road, getting a few different directions creating a lot of space.
using a car and having the tripod in it.

other idea which came to mid were possibly reversing bits of the video to add a bit of a different affect 'rewinding'

the idea i wanted to do was use the camera as a person form there point of view, the person would be on a road looking at a bus stop with a tramp and a person sitting on it. the main jist is that the person is tripping out, dizzy and confused, i would use blur, focus and camera skills to make it look more realistic. he spins around cars go past on one side of the road and the camera turns quickly to flow it, he looks up and down roads, looks to the sky then looks back to the woman sat at the bus stop. she is distressed trying to tell him something but in his dizziness and confusion he cant work out what she is on about then turns to his left and there is a car speeding towards him and then when the car gets close enough the clip blanks out.

Contextual- Design Proceses

2009-11-02T06:58:00.000-08:00

discovering
developing
defining
delivering

these are the four design processes, and these will be used in every project we do.

for the pixilation project i went through all these stages i have not yet currently delivered it so i am in the last stages of defining it, i am choosing the 'developing' process to explain what i did and how i did it.

i started off with all the ideas i gathered from the discovering stage and i picked a couple then started to make prototypes, taking pictures and making mini clips to see which one i think would look the best to use. i think this is important to do so that rather than choosing one at such an early stage, i am still keeping my options open.

i planned out what would happen in each mini clip, and developed them by making the mini clip the actual start of the final project, so i knew exactly which one would be the best, rather than one looking better in something else than the other.

i then played them to a few people and asked them which they thought would be better, this help see positives and negatives from other points of view, which you might not see yourself.

after showing them to other people to see the different view points i could then see which would be the best idea, so i could then develop it more which could be classes as further development or 'defining'.

Pixilation Ideas

2009-10-30T11:28:00.000-07:00

i thought it would be good to also experiment with using the plasticine i bought, i decided to make a character with it and then manipulate it by moving the arms and limbs so that it looks like its is moving, and it is a lot easier to use and hold in certain positions.

once i created the bear i wasted to give him something a bit different so i gave him a 'wheres wally' hat, this also gives me options to use the hat as a prop of some sort and use it in the animation.

for the clip i wanted to put the bear with a different background and see if he stood out or what he looked like, thought the plain white background was good for shadows and things but i wanted something a bit different so i put the latest vice magazine behind it. i only made a short clip and he are some of the photos.

this is only very simple showing the bear scratching its ear, i have made other ones where i walks around and things. once i have done them on adobe premier i will put them up on here for you to see.

i was happy with the outcome of the video, i could have kept it going but i felt that was the right place to stop as i could have gone on and on. there isnt really a limite with using plactacine you can pretty much do anything.

the music i added, some might say it doesnt really go.... i could agree in a way but i wanted mine to be a bit different the music almost to be sounds a bit canival, but also a bit different. i edited the music a bit so that it changes and adds a different beat when the umbrella flys away just to add a drama to the video.

Pixilation Ideas

2009-10-28T20:39:00.000-07:00

experimenting with the human form, using an actual person to create the clip.

some problems i found using this were-

not enough slides per second for certain parts.
use of a tripod isn't necessary depending on what type of style you want.
lighting and flash is important.

i didn't use enough takes for the cigarette coming out of the buzzer button, slowed down it worked well but it needs more for when it is speeds up rather than just a quick flash through.

i quite liked the way the pictures came out without a tripod, i like the sort of style and ruggedness that the movement gives on top of the jitteriness which i think works really well as a hole.

lighting is important, i kept putting my hand in front of the flash so i would get a dark Shadow in the picture, but on the other hand when the lighting changes slightly it gives the clip move of a flickery aspect to it which i quite like almost a flashing effect.

these are just some of the pictures i have taken in a slide form, as an experiment.

i have always really liked photography with smoke and people smoking, all the old black and white ones. so i was thinking of a way to incorporate that into this prodject, this would just be a starter and the basis. the actual clip would have more of the girl walking around and things in it.

Pixilation animation

2009-10-27T09:16:00.000-07:00

iv been looking at a few different ways to approach this, to create a short video/clip in the most effective way, perhaps using an actual person, Lego or play-doh.

the problem with using a person is that it is very time consuming and you have to be patient so the person must be available for a long period of tim

e and perhaps not lose interest quickly, otherwise the clip will come out poorly.

one of my favourite music videos is 'her morning elegance' by Oren Lavie, I'm not sure what exactly it is about it but i remember the first time i saw it i really liked it, because for a music video it is a bit different. i just really liked how it was all done on a flat base, the way they walk just everything about the video as a hole. the part i like the most is the jumpiness that the stop motion affect gives to the video, just gives it a bit of an edge a sort of quirkiness.

Her Morning Elegance-Oren Lavie, video

i would really like to do something like this as i think it would look the most effective as a finished product.

i have also been looking at the Lego pixilation and i think they make the movement look rather interesting again a lot of effort is needed but the final outcome would be worth it, looking at all the covers of games ant thing people have done with the Lego show me that there is a wide rang of pathways, there isn't that much you cant do with Lego in terms of making objects and i quite like the jagged effect the blocks gives to make a curve.

Lego Arcade video

the other part i was looking at was using play-doh/plasticine and creating a character, and using him to make the video doing anything you want him to really. creating a small story if you like.

i first started thinking about the orange play-doh men which were on an art channel like Smart or Art Attack. i couldn't find anything on them though, so i started looking as more famous things like 'Wallace and gromit'. the idea of using this material is that it is easily moulded into any shape, thick, thin, long, short and it is generally quite sturdy so that certain movements become easier to obtain rather than having to hold the object and editing your hand out or the piece of string holding your object up.

Wallace and Gromit video

Whiteboard Animations

2009-10-26T09:25:00.000-07:00

Making a movie isn't as hard as you think, well you don't need all these big special cameras used to film people for films, you can simply create a smaller film using only a whiteboard, camera and pens. the process is actually quite demanding even tho it looks simple.

i suppose you couldn't really make a perfectly flowing movie but personally i like the jumpiness this brings to the animation.

using the stop motion or flip book technique, we had to create a clip or whatever you want to call it of someone/thing getting around a house. in are group we decided to create something which would give us a lot of detail like a jack in the box, which possibly wasn't the best idea because we started slowing moving things cm by cm, and keep rubbing them out the detail part became quite hard to contain, the time was against us and as we tried to make everything perfect it takes a time to create a perfect clip. another important point is to make sure that the camera and the white board do not move otherwise the hole picture moves slightly and can sometimes make it look wrong.

i realise if you are going to do an animation like this one you have to give yourself lots of time, then you can for fill the detail and perfect motion which everyone wants to obtain on these clips.

Pinhole Camera

2009-10-26T08:21:00.000-07:00

Using a beer can, duck tape, can opener, and some card we made a camera. iv never seen or heard of this method before....

to take a picture with a homemade camera with no digital or special soft wear needed is a pretty uncommon thing to come across these days with everything so technology based.

a pinhole camera doesn't need a lens to work it simply needs light to pass through a single small point into the lightproof space (weather that be a can or box) onto the opposite side of the space were the photo paper with be.

you keep the pinhole closed until you have chosen what or were you want your picture, then you need to hold in a steady position preferably against something so it is sturdy. uncover the pinhole for 8- 10 seconds then recover the pinhole.

take the camera with the hole covered to a dark room and go through the processes until you get your picture then once it had been in all the solutions its taken to get blow dried.

we repeated this a number of times to see how good we could get the picture to be. after going through the darkroom processes we put the pictures on photo shop and inverted the photos to create a better picture.

the problems people had doing this was not leaving enough exposure time or leaving to much.

these are a couple of my own, as you can see the first is a lot better to the second and this i due to the fact i didn't use a steady platform for the second picture hence why is it blurry and not that good.