Done, Done and Almost Done

Had a lecture today on Identities, which I'm really excited about!
I love the way our tasks are to play Second Life, how crazy?

I can't wait to start working on our little boxes. I really hope mine turns out well, I wish I could use flash as well as the examples that were shown to us, they were stunning. I'll have to watch a lot of those tutorials, and maybe even invest in the software.. hmm..

Well I've finally handed in my 3 projects. The Pixilation, One Shot Short and Flash Narrative have all been slapped onto a DVD and submitted for assessment. Eek! Apparently, I was the first, so that's good!

I've also written the first draft of my essay, so that's one MASSIVE pile of bricks off my shoulders.

And I've even created my entire PowerPoint presentation too, so I just hope that it a) plays correctly at Uni and b) goes well and I don't trip up over my words too much.

Right, I'm off to download Second Life, what fun!

Flash Fury!

Much to my annoyance, I spent hours working on Flash trying to figure out audio settings, yet I just can't get my head around how to make the music stop after each frame.
Instead of submitting my work late, I have removed the audio from the narrative and compacted the Flash Project into a .SWF and .HTML file for submission.

I am not pleased!

Flash Narrative Progression

After our seminar which was moved to Friday, I've started worknig on my Flash Narrative project!!

Even though it's very simple and the photos I've taken aren't that creative, I think my Flash Narrative is awesome! Especially to say I've NEVER even seen Adobe Flash CS3 before and only really started planning this project a few days ago due to all the stressing with my essay.

I will hopefully come back and add some music to the narrative once I've edited it. I'll be adding cheesey music to the Primark scene, cooler music to the River Island scene, and more sort of rappy or RnB music to the JD scene. This will make it more diverse.

Project is due in next Thursday and if I handed it in now, I'd still be very pleased with it!

Essay Hell

Well it has to be said that I hate writting essays with an absolute passion and the one we've been set is no different.

Usually, I generally know what I can write about for my essays and can wack one out pretty quickly. However, this time I had absolutly no idea what was require from the essay question and no idea about how to find out, I was stuck and lost in a world of words and phrases I had never come accross before.

After swapping various emails with one of our lecturers, and getting a book out at the library, researching a few practitioners, I'm finally getting my head around the question.

I'm setting this week, 1st - 7th December, aside to research for my essay, and next week, 8th - 14th December, to write my essay. This gives me one week to have as a cusion incase anything goes horribly wrong.

On top of my essay, I have to actually think about our current project on Interactive Narratives AND produce a presentation of my best work, it's going to be one heck of a busy few weeks! I just hope there's no work set over Christmas!

One Shot Short - Post Production

The video above shows the clip we filmed for our One Shot Short. The video is the raw footage and I have been playing around with it, editing it in PowerDirector to create a different feel to it. I'll upload it once i've finished.

We wanted to film a CCTV style video, showing 2 men trying to ask for directions and then stealing the bag from inside the car, they run off as the car skids away. We thought this idea was going to be quite good and gave us many options to edit with.

Narrative Seminar

This is the kind of project I love and hopefully the area of interest ill be working in for a career. We were given about 9 different videos and we had to put it all together to create a scene. I've cut bits and moved things around to create this scene. The subtitles were placed onto it as our group were told to use them to show what the characters are actually thinking. The positioning of the text, either aligned left or right corresponds with the character to make it easier to understand. The quality isn't that good, but you can imagine it being better quality with more time to work on it.