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!

Final Version: Girls

Finaly! After 3 painful weeks of renaming, filtering, re-filtering, rerenaming and nameing and refiltering and putting together and taking apart and adapting and moving and cutting and squashing, I can now unveil the final version for my pixilation animation project!!

This dance mix of "Girls" by the Sugababes is an excellent track to experiement with pixilation effects. I took an original remix and cut it down to about 6 minutes and then decided to add into it all the filtered photos as well as utilising the originals. The outcome is a pretty sweet dance video that's fun to watch and keeps the pace up.

There's no real meaning behind the video other than a journey, and it's deffinatly been an eventful one through the creating of this video! So sit back and enjoy, while i go nurse my throbing headache!

I know what!

As usual, the best ideas smack me in the face just as it's too late!!

Just listening to Sam Sparro's album, there's a track called Recycle It! and it's given me such vision to do the pixilation project on recycling. I could've made a really funky and cool video about recycling things which would address today's concerns in society about recycling and making an effort towards C02. Damn!

I may do this as part of my next project instead, or film it anyway as a video to add to my collection.

Pixilation Project: Another Version

I was never fully happy with my first attempt at my pixilation project and tried to find a way of improving it. I decided to film more of the train, and include our group work. I've now made a second version, using the song "They" by Jem. I feel this version has more of a spiritual feel to it. It's more about finding out who you are, why we do things and where we want to head in the future.

I also applied a "warm" colouring to the original outside photographs which is clearly evident in comparison to the Bright Idea video. I felt that its given the new video a more colourful feel, and makes the video seem more optimistic and fun, rather than gloomy and depressing, which didn't really match the Bright Idea song.

In total, the new version took me over 12 hours to produce using over 4,000 photos.
Hopefully, I'll try and make another video, using a more prominant filter on the photographs.

Pixilation Project Progression

Due to difficulties in my private life, ive not been able to update my blog as much as I wanted. But that doesn't mean I've stopped thinging about my project.

Having put together the first draft of my video, no sound, it seems really hard to watch as the camera's moving all over the place and it gives you a headache fairly quickly. I found myself really stuck as to what to do, then my mum suggested that I filmed a model train set. Showing it started at the shed and working through the track and arriving at a station.

I decided to integrate the two ideas and add the Orson song, Bright Idea. The video now represents the hectic student life, the hustle and bustle of a new city with the direction of trying to find your way back home and to some familiarity. I chose Bright Idea as it's a perfect song to kick start my portfolio at Uni as you can relate it to all the Bright Idea's Multimedia students will have and their creativity that'll be expressed.

In other words, it's very relevent to now and looking forward to the future to come.

Pixilation Project Thought

My first thoughts for the video were to go from my room in halls and take photos of the entire journey back home to my room in Derby.

I've finished the shooting for it and I'm just putting together the "prototype" now. After a motivating lecture today, I'm wondering whether or not to scrap that idea and focus on another idea of mine involving stationary and create more of an advert for NTU or even focus on creating words with socks and promote an advert for Primark or something.

Lots to think about, maybe i'll just do all those ideas and see which looks best!

Still wondering what sound to use though, a song isn't really creative enough, however i'm a bit limited as to what I can create audiowise as I don't have much background knowledge with it.

Time to whip out Dance Ejay!

Pixilation Project

A projet for us to work on has come at a good time. I was beginning to feel a bit lost, a bit lathargic with Multimedia. We hadn't really started anything and I looked ahead at the assignment and thought "what the hell is it asking me to do?!". I even showed my mum, who works at Derby Uni and she was unsure. Since my lecture today, I was pleased to hear we'd be given more guidance in future lectures, which was very welcome news!

Putting my anxieties aside, the pixilation project sounds like fun! We began shooting it today. Me and two other guys, Tom and Nick went outside and filmed various shots on the grass, no real aim or story to it, which at first made me a bit apprehensive, but using this as a starting base, I will take it, utilise it, and progress with an idea of my own, with a bit of an idea from Nick. Using my own camera, ill take my journey from my halls, all the way home to Derby, sort of documenting the journey, focusing on things I see and notice as I walk through the two cities. Hopefully this will be a good introduction into animation and multimedia as I will be introducing myself through the journey from Uni to Home and using a modern song (currently undecided) which I like, to express myself.

We'll see how it goes, at least this idea has more of a focus and structure to it, and of course, ill be using bits of the already filmed stuff along the way!