This week we have continued with our animation projects in all our classes except Gavin's, in which we did a practice reading assessment, as we will be doing the real one next week. We also looked at the Micheal Jackson Black or White video (again!!), in preparation for our assessment the week we come back from the Xmas holidays.

Week Ending Friday 4th December

On Tuesday with John we started constructing our sets, using foamboard, wallpaper, coloured paper and started to make our props, using plasticine to cover dolls house settees and tables, and we also started to make our models out of plasticine. This continued into Angies class in the afternoon, where we continued with our our models.

These are the four figures we made, I made the man second from the right, and I also helped make the blue footballer figure. To make them we used zinc wire and polymorph beads to construct an wire armature, then used different coloured plasticene to cover the wire frame.  This allowed the figures to be moved for the animation, although we found after a while of using them the plasticene melted and the wire started poking through in places.  The feet were also a problem, after being moved and squashed a thousand times they did not resemble feet, and did not keep the figure standing.

 

 

On Thursday in Gavins class we did our presentations, and did a small project on narrative, involving putting a Pingu cartoon into the right order. On Friday in Ewans class we continued with our projects, although I was off college and missed it.

On Tuesday, in Johns class we updated our blogs and worked on putting sound and effects on our bendy figure animation we did the week before. On Thursday with Gavin we did more research and worked on our presentations which are due next thursday. My topic for the presentation is techno DJ Jeff Mills.

On Friday in Ewans class we finalised our idea for our animation, and started working on a rough storyboard. Our idea is "Don't Judge a Book by it's Cover", a white guy in a restaurant, an asylum seeker with a suitcase comes in, white guy ups and leaves in disgust. Later, asylum seeker is on TV scoring the winning penalty for the white guys team, and the white guy is excited and happy. back in the restaurant, the white guy is there again, the asylum seeker comes in and the white guy shakes his hand. We are now in the process of drawing up rough storyboards, and refining our idea.

Our first attempt at an animation, we came up with the idea as a group, then individually made the props at home. However, we managed to make it come together sucessfully, even although it does not have and sound as of yet.

This is the final version of Mr Bat goes on fire, with music and sound (and a little commentary from Big John!).

Timetable and Jobs for Project

Friday 20th November:

Today we split into our groups, to work out a timetable and allocate jobs for our next project, an animation on the topic, Show Racism the Red Card.

The job allocation is as follows:

• Filming - Ryan
• Props, Models and Backgrounds - Dawn + Abee
• Storyboards - Kayleigh
• Equipment + Sound - Adam
• Editing - Emma + Flea

The Timetable is:

Week Ending

• Wk 1 - 27/11/09 - Work out final idea for animation
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• Wk2 - 4/12/09 - Put together rough storyboard/final storyboard finished. Adam to think about sound for it.
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• Wk 3 - 11/12/09 - Sort Out Props, finish models
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• Wk 4 - 18/12/09 - Filming
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• Christmas Hols
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• Wk 5 - 08/01/10 - Editing
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• Wk 6 - 15/01/10 - Final animation finished
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• Wk 7 - 22/01/10 - College on holiday for a week
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• Wk 8 - 29/01/10 - Final submission due

It's Friday, and it's actually stopped raining!

2 weeks worth of classes this week. A week past on Tuesday with John we added sound effects and music to our animations, then in Angies class we made practice plasticine models for the animation. On Thursday with Gavin we did a review of a Michael Jackson film and then looked at audiences in the next class. On Friday with Ewan we started to do a practice animation with card, which we had to put together at home for this week. We did an assesment with Brian in the afternoon.

This week, we started a short animation with John using bendy figures, our group did YMCA on the beach. In the afternoon we made wire figures with angie as the start to our final animation. On Thursday with Gavin we started planning our individual presentations in the morning, and in the afternoon we did a task with and Oor Wullie story, putting it together from individual pictures. In the morning with Ewan we did our animation with cut out card.

Friday again...

2 weeks worth of work info today, last week we started thinking about our next animation project, and finished off our art projects with angie and brian.

This week we have been doing more research for our new projects in Johns class, and picked our groups for it, in Gavins class on Thursday we did our listening assesment, and work on types of audience. In ewans class on friday we finished off our flip book animations using Imovie, and uploaded the finished result to youtube. It can be found here.

Hand Drawn Animation -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb3zPvdbRE4

This is a short animation of a persons hand opening. It has been drawn by hand, using pencil then put together into a short animation.

Cut Out Animation -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqb7PeY7I2M

this is a short film of and aeroplane flying across the screen with a man parachuting out of it. It uses cut out aeroplanes and figures.

Stop Motion Animation -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjLW5_dGAM

A short animation using a rubiks cube, modelling clay, pots and pans and tinfoil, to create a fabulous effect.

CGI -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reE0rfxvoOk

A race between 2 supercars, with spectacular crashes and great scenery. Almost too real, only the ott crashes and background scenery make it definitely CGI.

Rotoscoping -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X77r2vLl8lQ

This is a short animation of a guy breakdancing that has been made from an actual film of someone doing it, by drawing over the film.

Magic Lantern -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_lantern_(projector)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0c4-AHvG1Q

Thaumatrope -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaumatrope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dol1xOW_Qzk

Zoetrope -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiYNqPThZBY

Praxinoscope -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxinoscope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez_UJAafRMs

Flip book -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_book

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwKQXaUrwBQ

Stop Motion -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_motion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG5gO4nlLRQ

CGI -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_imagery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHoNWIIiRWs

Friday....yet again...

A screenshot of iweb, which we used to put our epk projects together.

This week after coming back from the October holidays we have to finish our EPK projects, which I have now successfully done at 10.45am on Friday 23 October. On Tuesday with John we finished our podcasts for the website, however my groups is not quite done. Yesterday Gavin was off so we got sent home.On the Friday before the holidays, Brian showed us how to scan our drawings onto the computer and start colouring them in with photoshop.

Friday 9 October...

A screenshot of Garageband, which we used to put our podcasts together.

Last Friday with Brian we continued with our A2 development sheets, using both the pcs and art equipment. On Tuesday with John we split into our groups and worked on podcasts for our EPK, John was off so it was only Karen and I that did it. On Tuesday afternoon Angie was off so Brian took us for her class, we continued with our work from Friday and I help Karen get some ideas for her sheet. On Thursday morning in Gavins communication class we proof read our music review articles and were given the brief for our next project, which is to write another music review but based on our own music choice. In the next class with Gavin we discussed storyboarding and made a start on storyboards for our own short films which we have to make, based on the idea "The Chase", then we had a half day off. Whooooo!

On Friday morning we were told by Ewan that we had till the friday after we came back from holidays to finish off our EPK's and I panicked, as Karen and John have both been off for most of the days we had to work on our EPK's and we have hardly anything done. I have had to copy and paste info onto the EPK as there is nothing written up, and work myself to put the website together.

Both msn.co.uk and bbc.co.uk offer customisable homepages without logging in, allowing the user to choose the information that they want displayed on the page. Both sites have weather feeds that can be set to the users hometown and news feeds. There is a huge selection of other selections, such as news, sport, entertainment and more. MSN offers a more commercial side, with advertising, shopping links, whereas BBC has more of its own content on offers, such as children's programming, BBC iplayer and a food section.

It's Cold, it's raining, it's Friday again....

A screenshot of iweb, which we use to organise our photos.

Last week on Friday afternoon in Brians class we continuted with our projects, then continuted with them in Angies classs on Tuesday afternoon. This week, on Tuesday we worked in our groups having a look at iweb, doing some trial pages for our project and doing some research with John. On Thursday in Gavins class we did a review of a Linkin Park song as a practice for our assesment and in the afternoon we looked at language and video, discussing scenes, camera angles, lighting etc. In Lauras class we went to the library and looked at the online database. On Friday in ewans class we had a look at html, then worked in our groups on our projects and did our blogs.

Today we are learning about html, it's friday morning and its raining.

What a lovely day.

Hhhmmmm....

1. Google
   
2. Hotmail
   
3. College
   

Friday Randomness (Yes I've done work this week!!)

Last Friday in Brians class we started the first design sheet for his project. On Tuesday in John's class we completed a comparison of 4 search engines for our blog, on Thursday in Gavins class we did a jukebox jury thing in the morning to find out which 4 tracks won, and then we are doing a review of that track next week, in the afternoon we made Conventions of Musical Genres posters in groups of four.

Today in Ewans class we are continuing with our projects, setting out plans for the website we are creating and updating our blogs..

Blogger v LiveJournal

Both of these websites offer much of the same service, offering users an online blog service with lots of features. They both give users the opportunity to post an online blog with photos or videos included, and the ability to embed links in the blog. Users can also use and HTML editor to compose the blog if they prefer.

On LiveJournal, the user can specify the permissions for each individual post as to who is allowed to view them, leave comments and also show viewers what mood they are in, what music they are playing etc.

Blogger also allows the user to set permissions for their posts but it is done from a central page in the options.

LiveJournal offers a messenger service based on Windows Live Messenger, Blogger does not offer such a service but does offer many more services in its collaboration with Google.

22 September 2009

The search engines I chose were Google, Ask, Yahoo and Bing. Google and ask returned much of the same results, while Bing and Yahoo were more similar in their results.

All of the search engines provide the function to search for web pages, images, videos, while Google and Bing provide a map search function.

They all have a function to search the whole web or just pages from the UK, and also have an advanced search and the ability to set your own search preferences and save them.

Friday Again???

18 September 2009

On Tuesday this week we were doing storyboards with John in the morning because the computer network was down for most of the class, then in the afternoon we went to the library and did research for our projects. With Gavin on Thursday we did formal letter writing in the shape of a complaint letter, then in the afternoon we had a debate on should smoking be banned, where the smokers in the class had to take the side of banning smoking. On Friday morning I continued researching my project, trying to collate all of the links I have found together in one place, as follows

Directors Masterclass – Phillipe Falardeau – It’s Not Me I Swear

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=festivals&jump=review&id=2478&reviewid=VE1117938243&cs=1

• Review of film from Berlin Film Festival

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj7X0CwulMg

• YouTube link to It’s Not Me I Swear

http://www.azmovies.net/its-not-me-i-swear.html

• Movie trailer for film It’s Not Me I Swear

Film Screening – 32a

http://www.janeypictures.com/32A/

• Link to website for film 32a, has reviews, stills, video and more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dysIJlVXE0g

• link to clip on youtube

Film Skycrawlers

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8269

• Website with info on film

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sky_Crawlers

• Wikipedia page for film with links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDcpm1GVAiA

• youtube link to Skycrawlers

General Links

http://www.dca.org.uk/

• Link to DCA website

http://www.dca.org.uk/about/news/discovery-youth-screen-award.html

• Information on Youth screen awards

alice.black@dca.org.uk contact details for Alice Black at dca, need to contact her regarding which actresses are doing the 32a acting masterclass, and which films are in the Youth Screen Awards.

Email received from Colin Gunning today

Hi All,

I will contact the DCA today to find out what they can offer. I’ll be in touch as soon as possible.

Regards,

Colin Gunning

Friday Again...

This week we have finished off our podcast with John on Tuesday, and finished off our paintings with Angie in the afternoon and were told what we would be doing next week. On Thursday morning we wrote a short story and did a quiz on types of communication.In the afternoon we were split into groups, in my group was John, Adam & Becca, and we had to discuss the conventions of musical genres within our groups, agree on 4 for each genre then discuss it with the class. On Friday morning we had a quick intoduction to photoshop, then did another comparison of video sharing sites using YouTube and Google Videos. We then started work on our projects.

YouTube v Google Videos

YouTube v Google Videos.

YouTube is proboably the most well known site for video sharing, its has many thousands of videos and has started some of the biggest internet crazes. There are short films and adverts now speciffically made for YouTube it has become such a sensation.

The main features of YouTube are an easy to use search function which corrects spelling and gives a list of all the related videos, plus other options with results from the channels on youtube and other users playlists. You can also sort the results by different options.

YouTube also offers the option to create and account and upload your own videos, create your own playlists and share your video with others.

Google videos

Flickr V Photobucket

Flickr v Photobucket

Flicker offers an easy to use front page with a good search engine. The site is organised in a very user friendly way, with a simple tour which explains almost all of the functions. Photos can be uploaded and organised into groups with other photos from other users with the same subject type, the user can edit photos with a built in editor, set the photos to be shared in a variety of different ways, use the map function to show where the photos were taken and make different products using their, or others photos.It also offers the ability to download the photos in many different sizes.

Photobucket offers a search engine, easy to upload photos, easy sharing with different websites/email,there is no option to download the photos in different sizes, however there is an option to send them straight tot a mobile phone. Photos can be edited and saved to the users own album even if the photo is not theirs originally, depending on permissions. There is no map function on the site, unlike flickr. Users can also add their photos to site wide groups with other members. Photobucket also runs competitions where users can enter their photos.

In my opinion, flickr is a more user friendly website in it's design, and based on the search I did there are many more photos on flickr then photobucket. Many of the features are the same on both sites, and each has it's own individual features which are good.

Friday Feeling?

It's Friday, today we have set up our blogs at blogger.com, used iweb to learn how to set up a basic website and iphoto to do some basic photo editing.