Idea for Say Something Political!

hmmm well this week I have been researching and having a look what I could possibly do for this assignment and have decided on going down the student fees route since it is pretty current and already have a significant amount of knowledge on the subject. For location wise I can film in Nottingham and I am surrounded by students who will hopefully be willing to be in my advertisement. However I have got to get a few people to help me with camera work etc. I will be basing the film on why students should have to pay so much money to compensate for the governments downfall. I have the idea of showing a more well off student and another student who cannot possibly afford to go to uni since its gone up to 9 grand.

And so it begins....second year!

Blimey, the summer has flown I really have had a great one! I have been away travelling to Cambodia and Thailand however i became very ill and ended up in Portugal to recover! Today I had my first lecture/seminar for moving image, my chosen pathway choice. Our first project for DP3 is to produce a short sequence called MALac. I have offered to be directer for this short script that has been written to get us back into the role of uni! Our first major project is to make an advertisement...."Say something political" which should be interesting! I am pretty happy we are to work independently on this project to give me the chance to improve my skills especially in the camera and editing department....I am absolutely hopeless at it.
This week my goals are to...
>Come up with some fresh ideas for MALac
>Get thinking about ideas for my advertisement.

500 word evaluation for ANIMATION and video!

The brief of the project was to create 3 scare scenes for a haunted ride. My ideas and intentions were to do this, however it didn’t turn out exactly how I thought it would! As seen on my blog my mood board, storyboard and sketches included more of a grave- yard approach that entailed witches, bats, ghosts and haunted babies.  However even though the ideas were there, putting it into practice was another story.

My design layout was much more basic than I first anticipated however I think my project is a lot better than my first animation project last term. This reflects that I have obviously made a lot of progress since then at least. And so I changed my original theme into a “warehouse for haunted props”. And so there is still a sense of my ride being gloomy dark and scary but Iv scattered different props around the ride to give it a warehouse feeling. For example there are random candles hanging above coffins.

            Overall I am actually quite happy with my animation since I managed to use over fifteen different textures and managed them to apply them to different objects I had made. I managed to include a tree, stairs, a tomb candles, coffins and other props.

You cannot really see my cart in the ride however, I was happy with this and managed to modify it and change its shape to make it look more realistic and not quite so basic.  I received quite a lot of help, which I needed. I managed also to put in different lighting with tints to give the ride a scary feel. Once I had rendered my animation it was one minute however when I came to export it in premier pro unfortunately it was only 50 seconds long which is odd. I could then not change it.  I have learnt so much during these five weeks but unfortunately I haven’t had time to go back and add sound and make it more complex because it was last in the carousel for my projects.

I did experience problems with the soft ware and it crashed a lot of the time. When I came to render I don’t think it did it properly since my overall video is a little jumpy however I ran out of time to re render.

            I have learnt it is so significant to produce a decent project not only to have great creative ideas otherwise it is useless. There are a lot of areas for improvement for example I would have liked to add sound techniques and sort out the slight jumpiness of the camera. However the jumpiness may fit in quite well since t is supposed to be scary! I would also add more complex props and learn how to make different objects however I managed to do the task in the end…just!

            I do not think a new project would come out of this one since I really do not enjoy the software, I enjoyed coming up with the ideas, drawing and scenes but has completely solidified my choice next year to do moving image!

Cart...

I have currently built a cart however need to edit it to create something like this:

Other props in my haunted castle ride include....

Because 3d max pro is new to me I doubt i will be able to create amazing props however I will have a go!

Haunted Ride Entrance

This is a sketch of my haunted castle ride entrance. By achieving this I think i will have to create 3d boxes and clone them to then be able to build an archway:

I have been doing some research on the internet for textures that i can use for my haunted ride. This will give the project verisimilitude.

I want to include these kind of colours.

Animation Progress

Currently I am about to go in my third week of animation and i am finding it very difficult! I am managing to do it after hours of reading tutorials but it is starting to come together now at last. Here are a few snap shots of my work currently using 3d max pro.

This is a snap shot of my cart I have designed. Tomorrow when I have my next seminar I will get on with the textures to create a spooky ride look.

Track design

To help me design the track to see it flows fluidly I have sketched it on a theatre map of the Waverly building.