friday 11/12/09

Today starting off with ewan's class we were still working on the models and the backgrounds.

i helped make some flags out of plasticine for our mascot models then started fixing the start and finishing line. it wasnt stable enough soo i got some wires and twisted them together to make a good structure to stand up then i put back on the orange plastacine.

Also i helped make a new crowd background by putting coloured circle dots on a big sheet of paper, we couldnt use the last background because of copyright and we couldnt contact the person to ask for permission to use the background image.

i also had to help making grass by cutting up thin sheets of different colour of green paper for the running track that the mascots will be running on.

In brian's class i had to catch up on my planning sheet because i was off, i filled out the two sheets then moved onto my sketch book colouring and sketching out the model mascots i made also writing in information about how to make it and what are the requirements.

I didnt have enough time to blog this at college or get pictures of what i was doing :(

10/12/09 gavins class's

today i done my presentation in gavins class it was really easy for me because it was about the basics of editing and what programs to use for it and how to save and render files. and editing is a topic i really enjoy and can talk forever about and edit for hours and i got good feedback at the end and gavin looked pretty impressed what i had to offer.

for his second class we were analysing Michael Jacksons video black or white and discussing the sterotypes they used the lyrics and the hidden messages in the video.

Video url for the music video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqZnxvAPkL8

Catching up "flipbook"

i was recently off and today i was making a flip book animation.

i started drawing my picture by picture animation then finished and then printed them off to the computer and saved each picture into a folder and soon enough ill stick them all into imovie

catching up Friday, 23 October 2009 finished websites

My group with: adam kayleigh and dawn.

We all finished our website design for our project bounce insane in the brain
it wasnt that much hard of a job all we really needed was research and just to design it and it was done.

Here is a link to our finished website for bounc: http://www.delphcreative.co.uk/temp/bounce/index.html

catching up "what happened today"

Today in john's class we were still working on our props and backgrounds on our project.

i made 2 plasticine models one which is a teddy bear and the other one which is yellow with a spikey red head.

we decided to make mascots for our animation project and that they would compete against each other in a race and all win in the end.

it took me a while took make them and i think i done a pretty good job

catching up "story boarding background set up"

today we got got all our ideas set up on our story board soo then i started drawing in the story board and putting useful information to help guide us or anyone else to what we were doing

Group activities

this is our group and what we are doing in them

Becca-collecting resources;

Karen-setting equipment;

Joanne-setting equipment;

John-research;

Eta-collecting resources

Allan-filming editing

Rab-final storyboard;

Jamie-filming editing

blog catch up "show racism the red card"

Our topic for the new project is "Show Racism the Red Card",over the the next few week we will be exploring various model making techniques suitable for 3D animation:

1. Mod roc
   
2. Wire
   
3. Plasticine
   
4. Backdrops/props

animation techniques

i was off allot recently so i have to catch up with my college blogger account and this is

about animation techniques

just a couple words about animation techniques.

stop motion or model animation :also known as stop-action or frame-by-frame) isan-animation technique to make a  manipulated object appear to move by itself. The object is moved in tiny increments between individually photographed frames creating the illusion of movement when the set of frames is played as a continuous patterns. Clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Stop motion animation using clay is described as clay animation or clay-mation. For example Wallace and Gromit -clay animation,Robot Chicken-stop motion animation.

Drawn animation: pop aye family guy and other things like futureama are drawn animations then they are coloured in

rotoscoping:One original use of  rotoscoping was in the star warz movie, it was used to make/create the glowing lightsaber effect, by creating a matte based on sticks held by the actors. To achieve this, editors traced a line over each frame with the prop, then enlarged each line and added the glow.Cut-out animation: such as southpark using cutouts and animating them together..

Computer animation or computer generated imagery: is the art of creating moving images with the use of computersan image is displayed on the computer screenand repeatedly replaced by a new image that is similar to the previous image, but advanced slightly in the time domain usually at a rate of 24 or 30 frames/second 

this technique is identical to how the illusion of movement is achieved withtelevision and motion pictures  for example shrek and toy story.

A brief history of animation from 1671 to the present day

The magic lantern 1671

Its an oil lamp with a lens and has images painted on the glass. you light up the oil lamp and project the images on a suitable screen

A thaumatrope 1824

is a disk or card with a picture on each side with 2 pieces of string attached to it. if you twirle the strings with your fingers the pictures combine together giving you an illusion 

The praxinoscope 1877

This was an animation invented by charles-Émile Reynaud.

It has a strip of pictures around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder

A flip book 1868

A flip book is a series of pictures from one page to the other.

when the pages are turned or flicked rapidly the pictures form an animation. 

Stop motion

Stop motion is made with frame by frame its an animation technique which makes objects apear or move. You can do it picture by picture and make each one move slightly in a way which will turn into animation.

BBC and IGoogle layouts

BBC

The bbc website has a really good layout and allot which you can move around.

Compared to Igoogle, bbc website has more colours and graphics and a very good design. it shows history, news, childrens channel, radio, tv and plenty more. BBC is very useful to use for day to day things and keeping up to date.

IGoogle

IGoogle is also usefull aswell but its different in a way compared to BBC. it also has the layouts you can move around where ever you want to put them on the page. It also as BBC shows the weather and the news but you can also add in your own gadgets such as currency converter,Youtube gadget,face book, facts and many more. Really good layout gadgets you can add in is google translate and also have your own email login and viewer layout gadget.

Blogger + Facebook

Blogger

When using blogger you can do many things on your blog, you can have different themes you can use html/script have different fonts and colors and a range of templates.

blogger is owned by google and you can log in with your google account, you can also add in a gadget with your google adsense account and make money off advertisment. their are many gadgets you can use such as followers, pictures, slide show, video bar and even a search box.

Facebook

Facebook is a social networking site where you can also blog about yourself, you can add friends join groups and message people. you have your own wall which tells people what you are doing such as if you upload new pictures or a video or even playing a game. you can also tell people what your doing and it will go to their homepage wall not their own personal one. facebook also has a quickchat feature at the bottom its like a toolbar which also shows you notifications.

Research & printing

Today i was researching more information on Bounce -insane in the brain, i found reviews and printed them off and also looked what was on the insane in the brain cd. i found more things such as images, videos and more information. I also was using iweb seeing what stlye could be good for insane in the brain i was just mucking around on it.

Search engines

Their is many search engines such as google, yahoo, ask jeeves and bing

they all have a search bar where you can type anything you want to look of research for.

Most search engines show links to websites, images and videos other search engine such as google show them also and news and many things more to help you get what you want. also some search engines show sponsored links at the side or at the top these are advertisements that are related to your search in the engine.

search engines can do many things, you can calculate numbers or check the currency or even convert the currency.

here is an image of google :

and here is an image of yahoo

Here is an image of ask jeeves:

Here is an image of Bing:

EPK research

Research

Explosive hip-hop (rap, jazz, funk, metal, grieg and tango)

Energetic

Breakdancing

 

Good website for insane in the brain

http://www.sadlerswells.com/show/Insane-in-the-Brain-Bounce

 

 

Production information

By:

based on the play by Dale Wasserman and the novel by Ken Kesey

Management:

Bounce Street Dance Company

Cast:

Filmon Michael, David Dalmo, Fredrik Rydman, Joe Jobe, Ambra Succi, Alvaro Aguiliera, Jennie Widegren

 

Tickets

£10-36

group discount (8+ 20 % off)

 

Contact

 

Ticket office:

0844 412 4322

How to find us

Peacock Theatre
Portugal Street, Holborn, WC2

 

Running time

1 hr 20 mins (no interval)

 

Bounce reviews

Website link:http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/feb/29/theatre.musicals

 

“It’s a bit bonkers and a bit brilliant”

Swedish company

 

 

Website : http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/25585/bounce-insane-in-the-brain

 

“their bodies fizzing with energy”

 

Peacock Theatre 

You tube videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptP5jqTBgd4

                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMK9Njt6peo

 

Photoshop & Video sharing sites

Photoshop

Today in class we had to go on photoshop and learn the basics of the program, I already knew the basics so i made a banner on photoshop with a gradient background of 4 colors and duplicates of adam sandler with beveled edges and in the middle had text with different colors and size 72.

To made the duplicates of adam sandler is used the magic wand tool to cut out all over the white background on the picture just like a green-screen effect and added 3 of them together.

Video sharing sites

Youtube: Youtube is the most popular video sharing sites in the world, you can add friends and family on you-tube also share your videos out to them. Their are many things you can do such as favorite videos you like, rate them 1-5, share them to other sites such as face-book Bebo my-space blogger and plenty more.

On you-tube you have more own channel which you can design and put a background also upload your own picture on the avatar. you have a subscribe button on you-tube say if you likes someone's videos you can click subscribe and whenever they upload a new video you will notice their new video in the subscription box and also you have an option to get emails if someone makes a new video.

Mega video

Mega video is like youtube but different in some ways, you can upload longer videos like 1-3 hours such as movies. you can also have your own profile but it isnt as good as youtube's profiles and you can comment and favorite videos also.

You can make money also by uploading a video which gets loads of views and the more you get the more money you will get. you can upgrade your account from being a non member, non member accounts can only watch 70 minutes of videos per 55 minutes and when you upgrade you can watch allot more.

friday reviews

Photobuck Review : Photobucket has alot of usful features such as there partnerships with netwoking sites such as facebook and myspace . Easy to use, has fast uploading speed for use. You can look at other related photos other users have uploaded themselves. 

This site is good for storing and keeping old photos if you dont want to use computer memory files (pictures) can be edited with a easy / professional generator This is also a photo client for put photos on networking websites . 

Flicker : flicker is easy to find things and has useful things such as tags so you can find images or photos easier and has good things such as maps and photo streams.

Flicker uses a system where you can make business cards , Calendars and photo albums for novelty purposes , unlike photobucket flicker is also a networking site were you can keep intouch with friends and family 

First blog friday

Today i learned how to use  iWeb

Iphoto photobooth and garage band