CSS

When I have finished Interactive Space website I want to look into this website more: http://www.w3schools.com/

ONE SHOT FILM 300 WORDS Rationale

One Shot Film:


For our second carousel it was the turn or film and producing a One Shot Film. As a group we did not come with the idea as it was difficult to get the entire group in. So I and another team member came up with the idea of the newspaper article and news report style a day or two before the shoot. This idea stemmed from what Me and Houston was discussing after mentioning film near the end of  our one hour tutorial session with Simon Perkins the week we need to  get on with shooting the One Shot in which Simon asked if we had any ideas. We said we had maybe a few vague ones and was finding it difficult due to not being in contact with the other members of the group. He provided the idea of booking a studio room out and using the projection screen as a platform of technology that would showcase the One Shot.         

INTERACTIVE SPACE finished on 2/12/10

300 WORDS FOR INTERACTIVE SPACE:
A previous sequence that was a set of 5 pictures telling a food story influenced my design (http://chatterbox-rachbrown.blogspot.com/2010/11/interactive-5-pictures.html). It triggered other thoughts off about food and came to the conclusion that I wanted 100% to do Subway. The only problem was I could not decide what to doL. So in Andrews Tuesday class for the second week of Interactive Space he asked us all what we were doing and I said FOOD to which everyone laughed ;-) to which I went on to say Subway. Andrew asked around the class to see if there was any possible ideas that be linked to Subway to which Jordan Brooks came to my rescue ;-) and said how about a sort of like a menu style so like go through the stages of me deciding what  subway sandwich I want or something to that affect with a twist. I so excited by this idea that Jordan got a big high five but the mood did not last long. This was due to when I went into Subway and asked if I could take a selection of pictures of the breads and the salads they said no. So I had to come up with a second idea. The second idea behind my Interactive Space Website was a story about two friends that are at home and one of the mentions that they would be hungry. (IT WAS ME THAT WAS HUNGRY FIRST ;-), CHATBURN JOINED IN). Then there is a journey throughout where they are at home to find if there was any food that can be eaten. This journey then carries on into the outside world as Me and Chatburn try to find a remedy to our hunger. Areas of interest in the interactive space: Mystery, suspense, food, making you think, showing things that you like off - food which came from a fun memory from when me
and one of ma best friends were in Derby city centre on a dinner break.           

http://makingnewmaps.com/

http://makingnewmaps.com/maps/Rachelle_Brown/index.html

Sites that I have looked at:
http://www.hasbro.com/games/en_US/clue/# 

http://www.free-mystery-detective-games.com/2009/12/play-cluedo-online-how-to-play-clue.html

http://www.learn4good.com/games/adventure/huntsville/play_mystery_case_files_huntsville.htm

http://www.mysterygamecentral.com/games/onlinegames.html

OneShotFilm

OLD IDEA'S FOR INDIVIDUAL EDIT FOR ONE SHOT FILM



I have decided to change the idea slightly by having the theme of the newspaper set in the past  

ONE SHOT DEFO FINAL MASTER EDIT

ONE SHOT DEFO FINAL MASTER EDIT ;-)


One Shot Newspaper Report from rachelle brown on Vimeo.


The sound quality/pitch has slightly changed due have great dificulty in shortning the sound, previuos attempt it distorted the sound on various areas.

I have changed the quality of the picture to balck and white and changed the opacity. I have also made the film bigger in size so that you can see more of the film.

I have also added in the bits of film that I cut out and reworked the the whole project.
Research for the oldness of the newpaper:


http://www.collectingpapermemories.com/vintage-newspapers.html
http://www.thelooniverse.com/movies/west/aspectratio/aspectratio.html
http://anoldbeginning.com/Newspapers.html
http://www.sendler.co.uk/Exhibitions/WASPS.htm
http://contentmarketingtoday.com/2008/12/18/the-sad-new-news-media-mantra-all-the-news-that-fits-we-print/

Making New Maps Plan, Dev pictures, LEFT TO RIGHT

Making New Maps Plan For Web Pages For Interactive Assignment:

Dev Images In Maps Folder that follow the story that I required:

(left to right) and then
(handle then goes street at top)

Dev images files that I decided not to use:

NEWSPAPER ONE SHOT MASTER COPY OF INDIVIDUAL EDIT

NEWSPAPER ONE SHOT FILM

NEWSPAPER ONE SHOT FILM from rachelle brown on Vimeo.

THE IDEA FOR MY INDIVIDUAL EDIT FOR THE ONE SHOT FILM IS: SET IN THE FUTURE NEWSPAPER ARTICLES. THIS IS WHY THE PAPER IS ALL OLD AND STAINED AND SOMEONE FROM THE FUTURE FINDS THIS BALL OF PAPER AND OPENS IT UP. THIS IS WHY THE PAPER IS ALL CREASED. THE NEWSPAPER WAS CREATED FURTHER IN TIME THAN WE ARE NOW SO THE NEWSPAPER COULD PLAY NEWS REPORT VIDEOS.

THE ORIGINAL DESIGN FOR THE NEWSPAPER BACKGROUND: DONE FOR GROUP.  

Done in illustrator.  

Things I changed:

• I changed the sound -
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNpwh7NJozc
  – tuition fees,  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feEDsiuaY5o   - domestic violence,
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDBIn0dVma4&feature=related – unemployment

• The titles of the newspapers so that they would be more fitting to the sound.

Simons lesson Interactive

http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=691

Interactive Simons lesson - 25/11/2010

CHOOSE A DIFFERENT ENDING: INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING
 http://www.folksonomy.co/?permalink=1503 - ON SIMONS BLOG

NEW DESIGN more edited for One Shot film

INDIVIDUAL EDIT DESGIN IDEA


WHY I CHANGED ?

• I changed because I could not find a way to achieve the crumpled paper look in MOVIE PREMIERE so I decided to take the design back into PHOTOSHOPand start again.

THE IDEA FOR MY INDIVIDUAL EDIT FOR THE ONE SHOT FILM IS: SET IN THE FUTURE. THIS IS WHY THE PAPER IS ALL OLD AND STAINED AND SOMEONE FROM THE FUTURE FINDS THIS BALL OF PAPER AND OPENS IT UP. THIS IS WHY THE PAPER IS ALL CREASED. THE NEWSPAPER WAS CREATED FURTHER IN TIME THAN WE ARE NOW SO THE NEWSPAPER COULD PLAY NEWS REPORT VIDEOS.   

SOURCES FOR ARTICLE AREA WRITING ON DESIGN.  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/health/newsid_7878000/7878698.stm 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/3519536.stm

http://www.politics.co.uk/news/education/lib-dem-rebels-challenged-on-tuition-fees-$21385494.htm

New Design for ONE SHOT FILM



NEWSPAPER CRUMPLED EFFECT

INTERACTIVE - 5 pictures

INTERACTIVE

FIVE PICTURES TELLING A STORY

ONE SHOT FILM - Group

Plan for OneShot:

ONE SHOT FILM with SOUND with group BUT it is  UNEDITED

One Shot Film Interview

Interview with a Moody Lighting set up.    

Animation Ident

Animation Ident






This version I manged to be able to figure out a way to make the sound longer in 3D Max and keep the sound quality and not having two separate sound files for the same audio. What I did was left click on the sound file and then on Speed/Duration , changed it from 17 seconds to 30 seconds and clicked on maintain audio pitch. 

I did try soundbooth but when I changed the duration of the sound in there it distorted it.   


Tutorial help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71TWmMFvATk

Comedy by Greg Glienna

I know it's not a one shot film but I really like the idea of this particular short film.





This short comedy film is based in a lift.

Ident

New Version Animation

You Decide! Moving Image Practice Run

ONE SHOT FILM PRACTICE

This was our first practical session in the introduction to film in our first term at university.  

The brief  for this session was to create a one shot film that could last between a minute and a minute and a half. 



For the One Shot Film we as a group produced we used a Panasonic Video Camera and it was placed on a tripod for our practice video. 

? The Plot ? 
Initially we were going to film in the Arboretum and possibly interpret and mould a scene that we happened to walk past. Its was a girl was getting interviewed by a man and he seemed to be asking her a set of questions. However we changed our mind when the day of filming came due to the time we had and the reduced amount of people in our group. We had thought it would not be possible for us to think of the questions fast enough, so we changed the location to the graveyard. The dialogue was literally made up on the spot.  
.

Graveyard:

• Two friends that have hearing problems go to visit their friend at the graveyard.  
• The friend only died a week or two previously to them but really the friend was very much buried alive. 
• The two friends talk to the friend they think had died and at certain trigger points that we created seconds before we started the buried alive friend shouts out I AM NOT DEAD.        

Source Of Image:

http://www.goodsbestprice.co.uk/Panasonic-SDR-S50-Camcorder-SD-Card-X78-Enhanced-Optical-Zoom-best-price-sale 

I edited the Panasonic image both in Paint (Scale of picture) and Microsoft Word (Picture effects).

Animation Ident

Never thought I would see the day that I would actually be posting a working ident after all the trouble I have had.

Here it is:


GOSSIP IDENT

URL:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXGwdo4sKtk

Shopping mall sound - Source:  http://soundbible.com/search.php

(300 Word Essay). The millionth version due to my 3D Max having its own mind. Ok down to the good stuff.

When I initially read the brief for the Animation Ident on the first week I was scared shitless this was due to: never using the software and the ideas in my mind were just going blank. But after that first week I looked at the brief with slightly new eyes, I found myself thinking if this was actually a real life situation and I had been asked to create an Ident for a cable channel that was my twitter, blog and facebook account what would I DO? I found myself thinking of the wide range of comments that have been posted in the past on my facebook friend’s pages and one in particular came to mind: SHE SAID WHAT!!! This phrase got me the gossip theme for my Ident which includes red pout lips, the book and the open room.  

The genre that I wanted my work to portray for my Ident was a fly on the wall documentary, a type of documentary that is an observational representation of what an individual or individuals get up to.  The fly on the wall theme was chosen because it is where people can express themselves; this is one symbol of the book. Big Brother was a fly on the wall documentary and it reminded me of what it can be like on facebook.

Symbolism of the lips is that gossip happens an awful lot on facebook. The red lips indicates girls are passionate about talking, having an opinion. Gossip is linked to freedom of speech in the sense that you should be free to say what you want but with gossip it can get twisted and be further from the truth. This happens in daily life and is extremely common on the internet.        

The book could represent that the words are documented, gossip in a school or in an area where people talk to one another - gossip is spread.  Words (gossip) talked about another person are invisibly stained in the air around us/ people’s memories.    

Research on IDENTS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yBvZy6dHYs&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW9-7g9h-GM&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eViASfZko9o

http://freakishkid.com/?cat=40

http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/otherchannels/nickelodeon.html 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Qi8FpV7As

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StationIdent

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/22/bbc.television2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zccNjxOaEY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzRAGtTIuqg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmfI8C3DbNI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHrTEeF0kMA&feature=related

http://www.theidentgallery.com/bbc3-2010-special.php

http://www.theidentgallery.com/bbc3-2008.php

http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/otherchannels/bbc_three.html

OMG

I have nearly spent 32 hours after class and on days off doing my ident yet when I saved my ident on friday it chose not to save the work that I spent all day doing. Similar has happened a couple of times throughout the week.

I am seriously fed up and hope I can get it done on monday. 

200 Word Multimedia Interest

Spots Versus Stripes Advert


Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a37MnPcc9Ok

The piece of multimedia that has caught my interest lately is adverts and I have been interested in Cadburys since I did an advertising module when doing BTEC national in Business. I felt that at times Cadburys did not show a great sense of purpose in the adverts and like they were just pushing a new one of the advert production line e.g. Cadbury eyebrow advert. But with the Cadburys Spots Versus Stripes advert I feel that it is quite in tune with what happens in the daily life of the world.  How they connected the nature of sports and the nature of sea life together shows that the competitiveness of humans when competing in sports is fundamentally the same as the food chain of sea life and other wild life, there is just different factors involved. A fundamental in either is that a chain reaction sets and can alter the course of a race and or the end result. I love how they animated this advert which was done in the animation program Maya; the life likeness of the creatures is so surreal it’s amazing.     

I found an article that talks a bit about how the creatures were created and I have got interested into more about how they were created.

 http://www.moving-picture.com/index.php/commercials/954-cadburys-spots-v-stripes.html

I would have done this journal entry earlier than on Monday the 18^th of October at 3.41am but the inspiration and the internet actually working took a while to come to me.

OMG, spent like four hours in room 105 in waverly doing the ident work for animation and I am still here lol. I think it is time to stop because I am going crazy and a serious headache is coming. I am glad these four hours have been productive as I felt more comfortable with the software even if am still not quite sure what am doing haha. I have ended up producing some animation work today that I think will be the making of my final piece for this three week animation project. Still abit to go but a think fingers crossed that this is going to be a good piece of work.  

P.S- Please everyone wish for my interent to arrive because I am going nuts without being able to get on lol.

Ident so far: 

• A room with three walls and the front view is open.
• The red hot lips represent gossip and since our ident is about twitter, facebook and blogs it seemed quite fitting for the scenario.   

Can also see animation at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71TWmMFvATk

Possiable ideas for ident

I just played around with the idea of trying to get the words to bounce in the water but it did not quite work the way I wanted.  However I do like what I achieved for the fact that the text did what I wanted for the end result it just did not bounce in the water like I first pictured.

JellyHead

This link  represents what I achieved to create in the 2nd week of the three week animation project.

Jelly Word

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkvhzqrHNCA
This was my first attempt at creating the Jelly word which was on the 5th of october. It did not bounce as I had wanted to and instead just made a smiling action.

Jumping Jelly

This was my second attempt at making the jelly word bounce.

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

My Design Process - Jools context 1 activity

My Design Process

When I was on my gap year I decided to go on the BTEC First in Art and Design to acquire more skills in the Art field. The Bauhaus, a school of Art and Design which was based in Germany and the Bauhaus Archive/ Museum of Design and this was one of the topics that was running through all subject areas within the course. The assignment I am going to talk about is the subject areas of graphics and how it came about. 

 In a studio session I produced an A2 sheet of cartridge paper that had six different designs for logos that were presented as thumbnail sketches that included the words Bauhaus Archive incorporated in the design. Mediums that were used in the thumbnail sketches were Gouache paint, crayons and watercolours.  Once these six logos were complete that then meant I could get on with producing the specific outcome to the specific subject area in art.  Screenshots that shows my design process:

     

Some of the tools that I used to create my logo:

• Move tool
• Shape tool
• Copy a shape: CTRL + Click - Duplicate layer.
• Command and T = Flipping a shape around.
• Screen Grab = Shift, CMD and 3. I create screen grabs of all my layers so that I could look back and see how I created different parts of the logo in each of the layers.  
•  Type tool: I used a Bauhaus font so that the writing would fit in with my Bauhaus theme for my logo.

Final version of logo

I did have development pictures of different design but at this current time it will not let me upload these two pictures.

For Graphics I was required to design a logo on the Apple Macs that could be used on a number of items in the Bauhaus Archive shop. I used the logo design that I had chosen to do in print and simplified it so that there were less triangles on the logo and the composition of these and other shapes were not conflicting or causing confusion on the logo. This was so that it could be reproduced more easily in Adobe Photoshop. The artist that I took inspiration from was Wassily Kandinsky for this logo and the print logo mentioned previously as his bold sense of colour and shape was inspiring and his designs were the best to mould and interpret into my own piece of work. The creation of my logo was to retain the feel and aspects of Kandinsky but get a simpler and professional look. The logo was first printed out as an A4 final logo and then it was adapted into a repeat pattern so that it could be used as a wrapping paper in the Bauhaus gift shop in the Bauhaus Archive. The wrapping paper was printed out on A3 size paper.     

First Animation Lesson - 5/10/10

Wow that was defenitialy confusing and interesting at the same time. The lesson was really fast for me and would have liked more worksheets to start animation off with as it was very daunting and even though my bouncing word sort of worked it was not what was meant to be the end result.


The software I found was difficult becuase I have never used it before so it is just going to take time and practice.


I really hope I get my support sorted soon as then I will be able to get all the help I need in and out of class so that I can do well.