In doing my essay I found the most interesting of techniques, i think that these are the six steps that are the most realistic when designing, for anybody interested in including them in your essay I have referenced. It was found as a notice on the wall of the Greater London Council Architects Department.
The Six Phases of a Design Project:
1.Enthusiasm
2.Disillusionment
3.Panic
4.Search for the guilty party
5.Punishment of the innocent
6.Praise for the non-participants
[Astragel AJ, 22 March 1978]
Monday 14 December 2009
Friday 13 November 2009
Artists, designers and filmakers i like and dislike..
Mainly, my favourite film making work comes from world cinema, people like Pedro Almodovar(the fountain), and Zhang Yimou(hero, House of flying daggers) who both use striking visuals and current techniques to produce special effects that remain unique to them and are instantly recognisable, this is think is a true stylistic quality; having something like a visual style or technique labelled with your style making you unique.
I particularly do not like the works of M. Night Shyamalan..(6th sence, the village, signs) as i find that his narratives drag, and are way to uneventful, it seems to take a linear line of cause, action effect throughout each movie known as "equilibrium, dis-equilibrium and then the restoration of some equilibrium". Its just not for me as i it doesn't excite me the way the others do with thier storytelling.
I particularly do not like the works of M. Night Shyamalan..(6th sence, the village, signs) as i find that his narratives drag, and are way to uneventful, it seems to take a linear line of cause, action effect throughout each movie known as "equilibrium, dis-equilibrium and then the restoration of some equilibrium". Its just not for me as i it doesn't excite me the way the others do with thier storytelling.
Monday 2 November 2009
The Design Process We Went Through (-sorry its long)
In the Process' used to make the short film used; (the one shot short) we took inspiration from other forms of one shot shorts, and we decided to to develop these idea's we've seen into a first person perspective as without editing and multiple shots to switch back between we felt this to be the most comfortable for the users verisimilitude (believability in context). In understanding that the audiences that where likely to watch our film would be other enthusiasts as this was a small scale, low budget (more importantly non-distributed) experimental film, so we targeted our development stage at their expectations of our intelligence and creativity usually shown within a short experimental film.
We planned and rejected and furthered any ideas that did not adhere to this policy, we discussed a prototype of this film, but time and resources did not allow; so we could not do either an acceptance test in forms of contact with possible audience. or with our own judgment. We where to make sure that we where all content with the plan before filming to achieve maximum effect.
After the filming and sticking to the plan, we had the raw footage, seen on the YouTube link shown below, and we needed next to process the stage of evaluation, we used editing and dubbing to make the audio-visual as good as can be. after which we looked at the effectiveness of it, the most important of the process subtitles. It did fit with the specification we have given ourselves, as the impact of all visual aspects where just as wanted, the audio could have been louder in hindsight but upon completion me and my group were very happy.
We planned and rejected and furthered any ideas that did not adhere to this policy, we discussed a prototype of this film, but time and resources did not allow; so we could not do either an acceptance test in forms of contact with possible audience. or with our own judgment. We where to make sure that we where all content with the plan before filming to achieve maximum effect.
After the filming and sticking to the plan, we had the raw footage, seen on the YouTube link shown below, and we needed next to process the stage of evaluation, we used editing and dubbing to make the audio-visual as good as can be. after which we looked at the effectiveness of it, the most important of the process subtitles. It did fit with the specification we have given ourselves, as the impact of all visual aspects where just as wanted, the audio could have been louder in hindsight but upon completion me and my group were very happy.
Friday 30 October 2009
Courtroom Drama One Shot Piece
ok according to blogspot.com i cant upload anything this big, so sorry, but please go to youtube and type in "courtroom take 2"; or failing that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnYtF2nVyLI
One Shot Short
This is our one shot short, in the group was me, Harvey, Ant, Lars and Sketch. Me and Ant are in the film, Sketch was cameraman, Lars was the Prisoner and Harvey Director and general Organiser, we all contributed to idea's and we all had a certain style I feel that we all came very close to what we where trying to achieve.
We were given rules to our film, the camera must remain on the tripod, and it must be all one shot, and short 1-5 minutes. We struggled with neither of these rules, but only a way of making it new, interesting and experimental to capture the frame of mind and vision of direction we wanted to achieve, the best way we thought to do this was in first person perspective/or P.O.V
We found a great venue to shoot at courtesy of the Nottingham Galleries of Justice Museum, we wanted a dark, 19th century courtroom drama feel, so although we took lights just in case, they where not used; but take a look at the film, please try to understand the vision of perspective we where trying to achieve- all actions and directions were chosen and thought about carefully, it is experimental so bear with us, one shot is nobodies preferred cinematographic* choice *(yes that's a word)
- The File is over 200MB so i doubt it'll let me upload, if not I'll also try to put it on YouTube. (to all lecturers I'll try to put it in the drop-box on NOW too)
We were given rules to our film, the camera must remain on the tripod, and it must be all one shot, and short 1-5 minutes. We struggled with neither of these rules, but only a way of making it new, interesting and experimental to capture the frame of mind and vision of direction we wanted to achieve, the best way we thought to do this was in first person perspective/or P.O.V
We found a great venue to shoot at courtesy of the Nottingham Galleries of Justice Museum, we wanted a dark, 19th century courtroom drama feel, so although we took lights just in case, they where not used; but take a look at the film, please try to understand the vision of perspective we where trying to achieve- all actions and directions were chosen and thought about carefully, it is experimental so bear with us, one shot is nobodies preferred cinematographic* choice *(yes that's a word)
- The File is over 200MB so i doubt it'll let me upload, if not I'll also try to put it on YouTube. (to all lecturers I'll try to put it in the drop-box on NOW too)
White-board Animations
OK, I had such fun doing this, working in a group definitely made it quicker, sometimes opinions clashed, but its all good.
I look forward to doing this in the future again, even though its a simple and very very long process it theoretically is limitless in possibilities, the more time spent learning how to match timing correctly into 12fps is difficult, but overall I understood it and think next time i will use as many colours as possible to liven it up even more. (p.s our groups is the very very quick one about half way in - with the earthquake and flying super-blob)
I look forward to doing this in the future again, even though its a simple and very very long process it theoretically is limitless in possibilities, the more time spent learning how to match timing correctly into 12fps is difficult, but overall I understood it and think next time i will use as many colours as possible to liven it up even more. (p.s our groups is the very very quick one about half way in - with the earthquake and flying super-blob)
Thursday 29 October 2009
My Fav Advert - and animation ever
Hi to all.. haven't been using this blog at all all course so i shall start 2day; lucky for you i have a great clip, its my favourite advert, and I think coke adverts are just the best; Heres why...
1. Always make you happy, ALWAYS. 2. their so creative and colourful, absolutly love the whole fantasy element introduced here in this clip, 3. They always have just so much action and great characters, easy narrative and great cinematography (yes this has been cheorographed)
If this upload doesnt work please go to YOUTUBE and look at the "Coke-Cola Happiness Factory" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwCn-D5xFdc
1. Always make you happy, ALWAYS. 2. their so creative and colourful, absolutly love the whole fantasy element introduced here in this clip, 3. They always have just so much action and great characters, easy narrative and great cinematography (yes this has been cheorographed)
If this upload doesnt work please go to YOUTUBE and look at the "Coke-Cola Happiness Factory" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwCn-D5xFdc
Wednesday 7 October 2009
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