This week

Tuesday

Big johns class

well i guess i finished the alloa tower project video i edited a few bits and bobs and finished it then i rendered/saved into a movie file and put it in the shared folder along with the adam eased in which i also finished and also a slide show that eta made.

then adam put them all onto idvd and fixed it all together and it looked pretty awsome along with our animation from our last project.

Then in angies class she wanted us to draw more things using different styles of drawing so i started to draw my shoe with charcoal then with chalk and other things which i cant remember the name of but it looked pretty good and yet again angie said i done a good job and that i should of joined art next year..but im more of an editing type of person i love to animate aswell along with making effects and sounds i can pass days easily just editing my own projects at home.

Wednesday

In gavins class we were watching a documentary for our nab we had to do with him about rice farmers in africa..i guess i didnt understand it well but i tried my best on it i was too busy editing the last few weeks when gavin was telling us what it was about but hopefully i passed

Then i showed gavin our finished video of "The adam easedin show" which he was impressed with the editing and work. also i wanted to show gavin one of my best edited work ive made at home which is on youtube called "Attack of the meme smiley's" which is basically a dirty humor/comedy with animation and effects i spent 6 full working days on editing, gavin was fully impressed with the editing and lightsaber animation and other people in the class were also impressed :)

Friday

25/5/10 to 28/5/10

Tuesday

Big johns class again i guess their isnt very much to say since i was just editing the alloa tower project again like last week i still had to add etas clips and images in and to trimmed more bits off and fix the audio sync because when i added etas clips in it doesnt push the audio along because they arent grouped but it was no big deal it was simple.

Angies class

she wanted us to draw more things just to learn of be more creative with shading and such which i find hard to do i dunno why but its just not my strong point i was drawing things around the class room which was alright and angie said i done a good job but im a negative person and i didnt think it was great

Wednesday

in gavins class i was still editing the adam easdin show video sorting it out and i had to add titles which made the sound effects out of sync which annoyed me but i left them and started editing the rest i didnt know how to put them back in sync but i was waiting till friday to ask brian since hes the wizkid of the mac.

Friday

Brians class i was just editing all the clips together again on the alloa tower project i fixed all the audio and clips together and i added some titles more transitions and many other things i was nearly finished which it did look pretty good and smooth well atleast my opinion thinks soo.

18/5/10 tp 21/5/10

Tuesday

Starting with big johns class

i was editing all the alloa tower clips together bit by bit waiting and collecting more videos and images from other class mates to edit their pictures and videos all into the big project it wasnt hard or anything although would of been helpful on a more professional program.

Then in angies class

Angie wanted us to try somthing new again soo she took us to the garden at the back of the college and told us to draw anything in that area using chalk charcoal and other things soo i drew these bunch of bricks which was annoying because there was soo many of them but angie says my drawing was great but i beg to differ.

Wednesday

In Gavins class i was still editing the adam easdin show which wasnt hard it was too easy i was just simply adding clips together cutting from top and tail and sorting the sync of the two camera angles i enjoy editing allot soo i stayed logged in to keep editing and finish as much as i could.

Friday

same as monday editing the alloa tower project all together and getting music for the background which was pretty cool john gave me some he recorded and i guess it fitted in well but i was still waiting to edit etas clips because she lost hers so she had to make her own again from footage and putting audio over the top of it

but i was nearly finished.

Then in angies class again she took us out to the garden again for more drawing which was roasting that day but was good and i was drawing more things which was hard because of the angles i was at.

f5br11 art and design: digital video skills

What research did you do?

I researched alloa tower into 2 search engines, Google and Yahoo

I searched for many images of alloa tower just to see what it looks like and details and surroundings of the area

Some textures and angles i needed to know to take pictures of for angies art class and also for the alloa tower project

also done research on video/documentary makers how they film and what they do as their job

I looked up some info on the alloa tower its history and to its present day.

Links to places on the internet about documentary makers that you found helpful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Morrison_(documentary_maker)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Douglas_(documentary_maker)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Watson_(documentary_film-maker)

Give 3 examples of display and/or storage methods for Digital Video.

Displaying a video/film on a projector

Storing pictures/files in the network drive that can connect to any computer (for sharing purposes)

displaying on mobile phones and ipads

Displaying video/film and any other things on t.v's or pc monitors.

storage in ipads computers or even flash usb drives

Describe the process for creation and use of digital video sequences by three artist/designers.

Charles Atlas is a video artist and film director who also does lighting and set design.

He is a pioneer in developing media-dance, also called dance for camera. Media dance is work that is created directly for the camera. While Atlas’ primary artistic medium is video, he also began to experiment with live electronic performance in 2003.

Colin cambell

Campbell's work has been exhibited internationally since the mid-1970s, including the 1980 Venice Biennale. In 1990 the Winnipeg Art Gallery organized a national touring retrospective of his videotapes (1972–90). His first film, Skin, premiered at the Festival of Festivals (Toronto International Film Festival) in 1991.

Shaun Wilson (born Melbourne, 1972) is an Australian artist and film maker.

Since 2004 he has produced over 350 video artworks under the titles ofMnemoria series, The Memory Palace series, Filmic Memorials series I-IV and Uber Memoria I-VII/Proto. These particular works that Wilson himself describes as ‘video paintings’ explore the nature of memory and place through the moving image and its subsequent effect on autobiographical memory. In doing so, Wilson has deconstructed family home movies, vintage 8mm film, and found 9mm film and from late 2006 onwards he has incorporated these filmic images with High Definition Video (HDV) to convey tensions of fractured memory.

Sadie Benning (born April 11, 1973) is a video maker, visual artist, andmusician.

She first made her name in the early 1990s as a teenage video maker from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her earliest works, made from the time she was 15, were shot with the Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera, which recorded pixelated, black and white video images onto standard audio cassettes. The Fischer-Price PXL-2000 camera used in her early works that brought her to the spotlight was a Christmas gift from her father,experimental filmmaker James Benning. At first Sadie was standoffish to the PixelVision camera. "I thought, 'This is a piece of shit. It's black-and-white. It's for kids. He'd told me I was getting this surprise. I was expecting a camcorder." The majority of her shorts combined performance, experimental narrative, handwriting, and cut-up music to explore, among other subjects, gender and sexuality.

The process that we followed to produce our film is as follows...

• Research on Alloa Tower and watching documentaries on TV to see how it is done
  
• Story-boarding angles areas and scripting
  
• Getting permissions and ready to go film
  
• Editing the video clips adding music and sorting out titles
  
• Making the final video into a quicktime movie and putting on a DVD
  

14/05/2010 Brians and angies class (problems day)

Well today in brians class i had to edit the video clips from our alloa tower project.

wasnt too hard but their are soo many clips to edit and its a pain to edit in imovie since it takes forever to load up all the video clips.

i had a few problems while editing it kept crashing/freezing on me then i had to get brian the wizz kid to fix the problem with imove because it kept saying that it cant find the files soo then he used a geeky way to find it all again using old saved reference files i think? not really sure but he then put it on the computer because it was on an external harddrive which was the problem..

Then in angies class i done some more sewing on another picture of the alloa tower but i kept having problems with the machine it kept getting jammed and all that but i did learn how to set up a sewing machine properly and ive still got to finish that piece of work

then later on in that class brian took a good quality picture of me on the sewing machine which looked great in quality i was impressed and he asked me for permission to put on his site and gave me his card with his links of pictures which i did have a look at later on the day.

12/05/2010 Gavins class

Today in gavins class i started editing the video clips of the small tv show we were making while everyone else were looking for sounds and soundFX and many other things.

It was pretty funny watching the video clips being put together but to be honest id rather edit on a more professional program such as final cut pro or sony vegas pro 9 instead of imovie 

its just to basic and simple for me and professional programs i find much easier to edit since its got allot of shortcuts and ways to do things but after all im finding it no problem editing on imovie but i still have to edit the rest of the video.

11/05/2010 Tuesday Going to Alloa tower

Starting with big johns class i walked down to alloa tower with some people from class and met big john and laura outside alloa tower and then we got all the gear ready such as cameras and tripod and went into the tower and got a tutorial around the tower and the history of the tower...

Then later on i started filming in one room about the roofs and the rebuilding of the alloa tower

i done many pan camera shots and angles it looks nice especially with the quality of the camera i was using.

 here are some pictures of us at the alloa tower

Then i walked back to college and uploaded all the clips from tape onto the mac .

After all that i went to angies class and she wanted us to try something different than mono-prints, she wanted us to sew the textures and lines of alloa tower pictures on to some cloth/sheets using a sewing machine and it worked out pretty well :)

Today in brians class

ahh well today in brians class had some tasks to do such as keeping out blog up to date and also playing around with imovie again yet again i made another pictureslide video of alloa tower and done it in a different way using some effects and different ways of the ken burns effect.
also i done my numberacy task which was quite easy to do basically stuff on cds and music and also dorritos adding up money getting a percentage also doing bargraphs and pie charts.

another week goes by 05/5/10

Starting with gavins class since we were all off on monday and tuesday due to bank holiday

anyways

we came in to our first class and no one was their i heard that that lecturer left but gavin took us and we made our jerry springer like video that we planned the week before. it went ok i didnt think it went on great or anything but i cant complain since some people are new at things but it was a good laugh i was acting in it along with flea and rab their was allot of outtakes but next week ill have to edit the video and we still need to get the advert and the weather forecast finished.

This week. 28th april untill 30th april

This week i missed tuesday off i was under the weather again not feeling well.

I went on wednesday and gavin was here, in his class we were planning/scripting out tv show video and it wasnt too hard... we got our ideas who would act who would film and deal with cameras and im acting helping with cameras and also editing aswell i love a good challenge although its pretty easy since im used to doing this sort of stuff at home

now on friday i was doing some tasks how project four went well.. the magazines and i finished all that then we had to make some slide shows on Imovie and Iphoto i guessed i learned a tiny bit on Iphoto since i didnt know you can turn pictures into dvd/videos from it.

In angies class i was being creative atleast i think i was..well i forgot the name of the technique but basically i had a photograph of some textures of the wall of the alloa tower and i put ink on this sheet of glass and smeared it all out then put paper on it to get some excess ink off then i put the tower picture on a piece of paper and drawn all the lines textures and details over the picture and back of the sheet and the ink came on in reverse on the paper and looked good and then i added more detail with some chalk and it looked nice and angie said she was impressed which is good i guess

After the holidays

20/4/10

Tuesday in the morning johns class, we were using imovie but it kept crashing and it was annoying but john was basically showing us a tutorial on imovie again incase some of us forgot about most things on it.
20/4/10
in angies class i needed pictures of the alloa tower so me and ryan walked down to alloa tower and took pictures from each angle outside of it.

i wasnt their on wednesday or friday due to a chest infection

Catching up in March

i have fallen behind in blogs mainly because ive not felt well in weeks and not attended much because of it.

but anyways

We started our new project,which is making documentary film video about Alloa Tower,to attract more visitors.
Here`s some info about a group work:
Overview-Abee
Staircase-Robert
Roof-Bex
Great Hall-Eta
Dungeon-Kayleigh
External-Emma
Groin vaulting-Tyan
Vox pops-Alan
Toner model-Karen

i was off soo i still yet need to discuss what im doing with one of the lecturers i asked angie and she said id have to ask john.

its been a while since ive blogged

Well lately the last few weeks ive been off allot some problems being ill hurting ankle but im catching up and im gonna blog them last few weeks into one.

mainly in brians class been doing articles for the magazines soo at first i had to learn what things where on magazines such as inner margins and outer. then i had to trace a magazine then name most things that were in it.

after that i had to get information and images that i was going use in my article and well i mainly just need pictures and my article is about editing what programmes/ software to use.

another day in brians class he taught us all how to use scribus its mainly a program were you can design a page and stuff like that. he put us through a tutorial and it was fairly easy except the programme crashed allot which was annoying

and the latest day in brians class i started making my article for the magazine.

gavins class

i was barely at his class these days i just havent felt great atall but from what i know and done

i was helping ryan and alan to make a radio audio soo basically we were structuring what to do and what types or stuff we are gonna talk about and it will be Epic Radio for the name and then we had to go in the cupboard to do some recording.

Big Johns class

same as above been off allot

well i went to big johns class and he was telling me what part we are doing in project their but then he taught me about pro tools which is a very simple programme you just need to know the basics but we are doing a part of project on alloa tower and i will be the editor editing all the clips and audo also image files together and also i will be doing the camera doing the angles aswell for it.

Angies class

well mainly im quite behind i took a bigger step than other people. i wanted to put food on my self potrait making the features of my face such as spaggetti hair chilli lips pizza eyes and its taking time making me behind and other people made theirs simple.

Well this is mainly what ive been doing since febuary and march i would put more but ive been off like i said.

12/2/10 catching up

Today i learned more about magazines how to design them and word for certain areas of them such as:

overline

drop cap

outside margin

inside margin

follo page

footer

allly

stickup cap

header

byline

text wrap

sidebar

jumpline

body text.

soo i was basically tracing over a magazine which was a nintendo one took me a while to do, tacing lines as text and tracing over the images.

then i had to draw out the main lines and name each thing in the magazine with a pen on the traacing paper and basically write things i did not find onto a sheet and put a page in the magazine which had them. This was for brians class.

In angies class i basically finished drawing out my big picture i traced of my self, i had to blow the traced paper up onto a huge sheet of card by puting it on a projector and holding the card up on a board. after that then i planned what i should put on the picture and i though of using my favorite foods to put on my face use such as chilli as lips.

spider gram

I-web

Here is a print-screen of I-Web

I-web is a basic web designing program you can use on the mac, You can make pages links and many more.

I-photo

A Print screen of I-photo

I-photo is a program where you can organize your photos put them in folders and edit and export to a different image file.

Garage band

Here is a print screen of garage band.

Garage band you can make music, videos and podcasts it had many features and loops that can help you make a great product.

"Folder one" in "Folder two" in "Folder three"

Here is a picture of a Folder inside another folder and another folder.(for our assessment)

Animation report

Animation has been around for 100's of years from the magic lantern to 3d digital animations on computers. Animation has changed soo much in the last 400 + years and now that we are in the 20th century we have realistic looking illusions especially when using 3d glasses.

Animation years back was mainly zoetrope and the flip book but nowa days we have much better illusional ones we have many techniques these days and much easier ways, using computer software in professional ways to help us out to make a great animation such as rotoscoping cut out animation and other digital ones, star wars lightsabers as rotoscoping and also a cloning effect they use in "the island" which is also rotoscoping, south park cut out animation and things like family guy for digital drawing.

We will be soon to find more techniques to use which will end up getting more easy to use especially when we have computers by our side to help us design make and produce our animations maybe their will be a next step/leap from animation who knows we are soon to find out plenty more in the future.

Here are some pictures (catching up)

2 white commentator models made by alan
Teddy model mascot -made by me
flower model mascot - made by robert
red spiked head model mascot - made by me
orange bubbled head model mascot - made by alan
stadium all together made by us all

18/12/09

today we only had only 2 classes which was double of ewans. soo i got back to the animation i started off on monday but had a slight problem, the lighting was different soo i had to start over again or the project would look very odd with 2 different colours we done a good few hours of work made the clay models run around the track and the project still needs some work to be done

17/12/09 thursday

today we only had gavins 2 classes as usual but we only went to one because we were finished up for that day and had to do a reading assessment which was pretty easy and i passed it.

15/12/09 monday

Today in class we were still doing our model animation project changing things around like the crowd background and upgrading it. later on that day after johns class i went to angies class and i was by myself because my group left for some odd reason. soo i go on with it and started taking picture by picture moving the clay models around which was hard word. later the lamps/lights were making the clay melt and hard to work with soo i had to wait a couple of minutes and wait till they were hard again.