Friday 6/5/11

Today, we've been tasked by John to write an extensive blog entry about the whole film project and shizzle.

At first I thought filming was gonna be easy, a simple this and that thing, just holding the camera and recording, oh boy was I wrong D: As we filmed, we as a group learned it was harder than it looked, first, the acting, some people just couldn't do basic acting. such as george, who couldn't even act natural without putting on this crappy lame tough guy voice, damn it was annoying -_- Lucky you didn't have to hear it, then there was Alistair who rages too much over nothing, that I practically wanted to punch him several times, lucky for him, I just sucked it up and continued, seeing as I wanted it done, the idea at the start of the project was to create this awesome zombie movie but by the time of just under halfway through the month, we just wanted to finish it, we didn't care how it turned out as long as it was decent afterall, we re-wrote the script twice, seeing as Megyn's script just made her (and her only) look too much of a badass and Olivia's was more conversation than zombie movie, then I rewrote it, but i also drew it out in storyboard form with the lines underneath the respective panels, I guess when I wrote/drew mines, I imagined it a little bit out of my reach at the moment, I imagined it in a similar fashion to modern blockbusters despite lack of crew and technology, afterall this is my first REAL experience with film making ever and there was more drama than the film we made in all honesty, all natural unfortunately, see, george was dissing Olivia's accent quite a bit, and it was annoying Olivia alot eventually, it reduced her to tears D: which was baaaaaad!!!!
After an hour long obstacle of not being able to film much due to lack of Olivia, eventually she wanted to finish it, and thankfully we weren't far done, after a lil bit of improvising we filmed the final scene, where I had 2 roles :D not bad for my first film, right?

Character roles:

Scott Burns: Ryan/Zombie 1
Olivia : Olivia (couldnt be bothered giving her a made-up name)
George: John/Zombie 2
Alistair: Kyle
Megyn: KD (left due to some made up holiday)
Emily: Zombie 3 (from the other group but willingly helped us :) )

Thursday 5/5/11

Today in Laura's class, I went onto moodle and did the Customer Care course and scored 14/15 in the quiz getting a nice pass which is now another thing to add onto my CV.

In Hannah's class, we continued getting closer to finishing our title sequence for the film project, and we're doing this animated poster thingy, adding effects and sounds and shizz to it, though I may have to start again due to it's slowdown

For college printers, the standard DPI for images is 150 whereas in professional printers, the DPI setting is 300 :)

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Thursay 28/4/11

Today in Laura's class we went onto moddle and she showed us this task bar that students can download for free which is very useful for working on the computer, we downloaded it but unfortunately it wouldn't work, so Laura talked us through how it works.

In Hannah's class we continued with our title sequence, we ran into a little bit of trouble with some lost images but problem solved now, hopefully it still works out, and speaking of trouble, both coloured printers in the library were out of order, so I couldn't print out my poster in colour D:

Oh Well </3

Byeeee

Thursday 21/4/11

After a good 2 week break, we're back in college :)

And while we're back in college, it means another blog entry ;D

So....in Laura's class we sat outside due to the awesome and lovely weather we're receiving today!
We just discussed what we did over the 2 weeks and stuff! :)

Then in Hannah's class, we had a group discussion and got on with doing our intro sequence for our film, not long till we're done! Also I finished my poster during the holidays! I'm so proud of it! :D

Framerate: The standard rate of any animation is 24 FPS (Frames Per Second) which creates a flawless illusion of movement, we did an example of this in our flip books and I did over 30 frames so the framerate was at something like 0:01 seconds to create the illusion of movement.

Onion Skinning: It's the process of placing a picture over another picture, then turning the opacity on the image to abut 50% so we can see both images to align them together, this was another process which we did for our flip books when putting the images together.

Tweening: It's the process where a professional drawer draws the two key images of a picture and the assistant drawers draw everything in between to create the animation :)

Below you can see my finished poster!

Friday 1/4/11

1. I found the campus of Stirling University to be a really beautiful place :) the place was neat and tidy and the location was just lovely!

2. the art shown throughout the tour of the place was eye catching and really helped colour the place up and the library was enormous with 3 floors of books and computers for research, studying and the likes.

3. The MacRobert centre on the campus was probably the coolest area, having a kids play area, a bar and a cinema which is impressive for a University :) It was probably the most colourful area of the whole place xD





Today in Dee's class, we continued on with doing our intro sequence for our Zombie movie project, which by the way, we completed today in John's class with editing still needing done!

Below is what I did today, my movie poster design, which has been scanned and in the process of being fully coloured in!!!

so yeah....GO ME!!! :D

Friday 25/3/11

Today in John's class, we got the cams, tripods and whatnot and got filming ASAP, but now we're using 2 camera's instead of one, cos like...I think thats better :P

I've got a feeling that we may JUST pass this section of the course, as it's tough, I admit, but do able, especially since, next week is the last week for filming :)

We'll see how it goes though <3

Later in Dee's class, we got in our groups, discussed what to do and went at it,  but I am currently having problems with photoshop, so im gonna try colouring the pic at home :) hopefully all should go well, but not getting my hopes up xD

also we get out early...woop :D

(note for group: For rotoscoping, use quick selection and then fill bucket)

anyways.......


BYE!!!!!

Thursday 24/3/11

Today in Laura's class, we filled out a survey for the University of Stirling about our everyday life and such.

It was easy and didn't take long, leading me to an early break! :D :D :D <3

Then in Hannah's class, we got into our groups, discussed what we're doing for the next few weeks (again :/ ) and gave everyone (including the recently appeared Olivia :D ) jobs to do and got started right away :P
So far it's going nicely and I gots a feeling the finished sequence is gonna be amazing, ahaha!!!! :D

so as the Terminator says......I'll be back!

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