final animation session

We continued with our final workshop of animating our sequence, i painted the hills green top give it another field of depth.

Also i created the dancing scene with the sheep, and recorded some of the footage, once we had created the final animation, we came back down to the media room and started to edit the footage together.

14th june 2012

     The strengths for our animated sequence are; we have 3 people to work on it so we get things done quickly, we are all hardworking and get into the work from the start also we have created the background and the sheep also this lesson we created the farmer who is a big contribution toward the making of our film.

The weaknesses of our video sequence is that sometimes we can go off takes or we can not focus on the task at hand.


Our plan is to finsh painting an decorating the background, put our final production piece together for the arnolfini centre.

The group has progressed well from last week as we have created our farmer and pieced together the start of the final production piece.

1 Day In The Art Room.

In this session we went to the art room and started to put together a backdrop we used an A3 paper box, ripped some of it off with a knife, after this i painted the grass for the background and also made the hills and cut the cardboard out to make it,i also made the sky coloured it blue and made the clouds using wool. i drew on faces for the sheep using a permanant marker.

creating a pixilation and editing

this week we continued on our research report and i made a lot of progress on it this week by adding in why characters are important to making the piece a successful, also i included the history of stop-frame from the 1890's-1910's and from the 1980's- present. then in the middle two lessons we went to create a pixilation/stop-frame film starring ourselfs! i was with jaime and we deceided to show me moving round a bench by sitting on each one and taking a picture on each seat. the last two lesson's we edited our sequences using adobe premiere elements, here is my video ....

animator and authour visit

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This week we had an animator come in to teach us some animation techniques, show us different types of animation and different types of animation we could create.

Some of the animating techniques we learnt were maybe not start the film with all characters on stage, but to start with a plain shot of the background and then to bring in the characters according to how the story was planned out.

He also taught us some types of animation; my favourite out of the few he showed us was the clay-mation, i enjoyed this because it’s something that’s not easy to make, takes a long time to create a final piece. So that was why i enjoyed it, the downside to clay-mation is that you need a lot of time and effort put into it if you want your animation piece to be presented well, and i don’t know if our group has the patients to carry on this animation technique.

The animator also taught us you can have different types of animation (as in genre of film) such as; action, horror, thriller, romance and much more.

Or task was to create a horror like feeling from the script we got and put the final ideas down on the storyboard, i came up with showing a kitchen then a women coming in to open the freezer and calling her husband’s name, but there is no answer, she starts to get scared and then after calling her husband’s name over and over he finally appears behind her giving the women a shock.

Claymation workshop

This morning we were shown an animation on YouTube called ‘Trap door’ this animation was well created because they got away with not moving the character though he did a lot of talking so this made it seem more interesting. We gained a lot of inspiration from watching the video so I and samy decided that our characters were going to be monsters.

When we were going to make our monsters we had to think carefully about the way we wanted them look, what colours to use and how they would move.

Once we had made the bodies of both our characters we then had to think about what their faces were going to look like, my character had one eye bigger than the other and his arms were like boxing gloves, he had little pink antlers on his yellow head.

Samy’s character was a big pink blob with brown eyes and a wide mouth for eating; his special feature was that he had a hammer finger on his head which he used to kill the other character in the animation.

When we finally got round to filming the animation using stop-motion pro, we couldn’t find a background suitable and then we found a paper box and put some paper in front of it to make a white background.

The lighting was just right as we were near light so it wasn’t dark but I was shining on our characters so we couldn’t see them.

We tried to focus the camera but we couldn’t so we just waited for the camera to get into focus by-itself.

The video was about 30 seconds long and we were very impressed with what we had created.

animation review

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In the first two lessons we watched five or six animations that were made by some professionals, there was one that really stood out for me and that was called ‘food’ by Jan svankmajer (1992) this was about two people who went to a restaurant and the waiter kept running past them, so they chose to eat their own clothes such as; hat, shirt, trousers, pants and shoes. They also ate the table, chair and cutlery from the table.

I thought this animation was good because it was very humours the whole class thought it was a good animation and our group decided to bring some funny elements into our piece so that we could make our audience laugh.

The target audience for the film Jan created was from 8-12, even though I thought it was a funny film I wouldn’t be able to watch the whole clip as it got quite repetitive and boring so this is why younger kids would find this much funnier than some of us did but on a whole it was a film anyone could watch.

ANIMATION

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We were given a new assignment to do called ‘animation’ as a group we had to come up with an animation from the wining short story from 2011 ‘the bovine histories’ which is about some kows (cows) who live on a farm and there are some secrets that get passed down each generation.

The class got a visit from Joe Melia, organiser of the Bristol short story prize who told us; short stories work well in as animation also he said it’s a chance for 400+ people to see these films at the arnolfini gallery which is something we can put on a college application.

Our ideas were that we wanted to focus on the short song the kows sing at the start of the story, we thought to break off from the story because we all like music and the ideas that we came up with for it were looking good. The outcome of all our inputting ideas was that the kows would start by eating the grass and singing this heaven song to breakdancing and rapping.

Some of the problems that could come out of this are that when we come to producing our animation it could possibly take longer than expected because we are doing stop-motion which includes making a set, characters and moving them frame by frame which takes a long time.

On the whole I think we have a good idea that could get a lot of recognition if we really try to create a good piece of animation.

last editing day and press release

in the first two sessions today we were trying to persuade our teacher why the best film of all time was... and the best album of all time was... in this exercise we had to use persuasive language.

editing session!

today was the first editing session and by the end of the day my target was to edit all the work i had collected
from the previous weekend when we went to shoot the film.
 some of the new editing techniques i learnt were cross dissloving between shots, also i leaned how to import some of my songs to go on my video.
at the end of the lesson i had manged to achieve my target of editing all the footage i had filmed.

1st march 2012

this week after filming our short video to enter in electric December it was time to do a editing session, unfortunately Mr gove couldn't be with us and so we had to complete any pre-production work that hadn't been completed earlier in the term . after we had finished this we could put our videos on adobe premiere elements.

filming

last week we had to start filming our short films which would be entered into electric december.
I am working with samy so me and him went to town so that we could start shooting our film, we decided to put the interviews off for another day, that left us to choose where to set up our camera and film. All this is leading up to a editing session next week.

Final write-up

last week we had to write up 3 proposal's for things we could do out film on! we had to input theme; genre; location; equipment; cast; ETC.
After this we had to write up 1 final formal write-up including a 200 work discription for the theme.

my targets for term 3

One thing i found hard to do last term is to keep up with my blog entry, this is due bad time management.
If i could keep up with my blog entries i think it would help me achieve my target grade or even go above it.

Another target of mine would be to do keep track of all my tasks, if i reach this target i will be able to have some more free time to catch up to any other incomplete work or complete my work in more detail in order to reach my above my target grade.