Wow pretty interesting

I thought this was so funny and wow on flash, I want to create one mixed with different animes, it seems really cool and interesting.
Combining the most unlikely pair ever, both pokemon and naruto which was pretty impressive.

As much as I like animation/animes/flash it isnt a option for me in my 2nd year, because I dont want to be a animator as a career when I have to choose a pathway, although I will be doing it in my own time.

Narrative Coursework 1: Part 2: One Shot Film

This is my one shot film, where we had to do some sort of meeting without using camera movements, expect one. We had a camera man called Daryl, and the idea we had was thought up by the group, the idea was to have a meeting at the vending machine, for example a queue with a person taking a long time to choose something.
So in a way we were meeting with the vending machine, this followed the brief since with such a wide title as “The Meeting” this could suggest anything.
We wanted to be different from other groups by not just doing something everyone does, for example a meeting in office or something around that.
So we decided on a meeting with a object like a lift or cash machine, but in the end we decided that a vending machine would be more interesting.
Many movies or shows have used objects/machines to have voices, for example “Doctor Who” whenever they travel to a different planet or future
(example cash machines talk) or “Terminator” where machines have minds of there own.

The idea was well thought since we didn’t need to worry about sound because we were going mute the sound and add music, as well as voice over’s for people and machine’s thoughts.
Everyone did their own music, edits, voice over’s though, for example for mine,
I wanted make it contain at least a fragment of hilarity so I used voice over’s from "Full Metal Alchemist" for the thoughts of myself, the reason for this is because the anime has a great number of funny moments.

The second person Zhino, I needed a conversation on the phone, this was extremely difficult since searching through Youtube was weird, for examples I searched phone calls, I couldn’t get a decent phone conversation. I ended up with prank calls, which were mainly guys, or I ended up with girls being annoying with weird voices, but after looking for a hour i ended up with a decent funny prank which seems to suit well I believe.

For the Last person in the Queue I needed music that wouldn’t be expected to be heard by Eric, so I used a "High School Musical" song which worked out well in my opinion.
I had a lot of ideas for the music though because I listen to a range mixture of music, so I didn’t have a difficulties with this.

The Final thoughts I needed to do was for the machine, this wasn’t hard with the amount of machine voices that exist in movies, shows, animes today. I knew a lot of that had machines for example, “Terminator” etc. Although I ended up using “Transformers“, after buying the DVD I got inspired for the voice over’s to make it funny, for example a robot vending machine!!.
The song played throughout was a anime song “Tenchi Muyo- Memories“, this fitted excellent I believe because its a calm song which went well with the queuing up.

I had a lot of fun editing this video even though filming was a challenge, couldn’t move the camera expect once for a one shot film. I would also think this would have to be my best project I have done at university so far, comparing to my homework assignments and my previous coursework “Pixilation“.

Assignment 3: Rule of Thirds

The “Rule of Thirds” is basically one of the most significant composition rule for both photographs and films, this is mainly a image/video divided into 9 squares, like a 3x3 grid as shown in the image.
The key attractions of a image/movie which are important to the viewer, will be placed inside the 4 dots on the square, where the lines intersect. For example a main character’s face reaction or important objects.

The Rule of Thirds is said to be where the main interest is, which people’s eyes will go straight into looking at that area.
In my mini video example I showed 3 of the points I wanted to use for my rule of thirds, I used special effects animation using software like After Effects/Particle Illusion to create the key features of the movie. This helped me remember the rule of thirds reasonably well because of the movement in these areas.

Narratives Coursework 1: Part 1: Pixilation

Ok this is my Pixilation using stills, I have been ill and had few problems with premierer (codec stuff was crashing my laptop), but its all fixed now. Storyline is like a magical teleporting journy getting home.
It was my first atempt but i ended up with a better idea after I done it lol, which I will create some other time.

The song suits the pixilation really well since both seem jumpy, the song I used was air gear- theme song from a anime I like (air gear).

Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel was one of the Pixilation videos i watched to inspire me on what could be done, and the types of illusions that pixilation could create.
But i didnt like the video itself because it was too confusing and weird for the actual music.

Ok Little Late

Yeah i'm having few problems actually, trying to finish the video (Coursework module 1:Pixillation).
Besides the 1 hour lesson where ppl started to edit the video (I spent hour trying fix my pics cause they were being weird reordering theselfs).
Anyways by the time I fixed the pictures, the lesson had ended, also my adobe premierer on my laptop doesnt seem to like my laptop -_-, something about audio card not supported and freezes laptop everytime.

I fixed it today since I woke up early (had install a dell driver) just little late to start edit = I will do it by the end of today for sure!!.

Assignment 2: Why Design ?

I was given a assignment to write about one of my favourite well designed objects and answer the following questions, I was also asked to include a image of the chosen object which in my case was the Nintendo DS which I have recently bought.

The Nintendo DS Lite is a remarkable piece of technology, showing us how much devices can evolve while using some of our state of the art machinery. For instance the DS touch screen stylus pen allows the user to draw and write on the DS, or simply move around in games while giving us a whole new experience in playing, a example would be “Legend of Zelda - Phantom Hourglass” where to move the hero, the user would have to use the touch screen pen to reposition the hero to a location.

When I saw this I was thinking to myself in amazement “you cant ask for anything more”, here’s where I was surprised when I saw that the Nintendo DS has wireless network, a microphone which is used in some games, and a powerful rechargeable battery pack which lasts for 19 hours of play each recharge.

Why is it that we want our belongings to do more for us than to just
function well ?

We want so much more from our devices like phones, I-pods, handhelds etc. This is clearly because of how far technology is advancing which gives people the idea “it must have more then one use!!” into our head.
For example is I had to buy a hand held console, back few years ago people would buy the game boy advance which allowed us to play games only. Though if we look at the present date today, no-one would purchase a handheld where you can only play simple games on, we would get the latest handheld like the DS Lite which consists a touch screen, microphone, a calendar to store important dates and it stores images/music. This not only allows to play games but also allows us to have a lot more uses for the device such as a personal calendar.

Why are we willing, as soon as we can afford it, to play extra money for things with appealing forms ?

Well this is a really good question, I would say that the extra money is well worth it if you gain something a lot more appealing to u.
For example looking at the first Nintendo DS, which only had the basic black/white colours at the start, we see that when the DS Lite was released many new colours came with it such as ice blue
(my preferable favourite which I own), pink and colbalt/black.
The range of colours are important to attract people cause owners of the devices would prefer a colour they like instead of a boring colour like white and black. Also the new DS Lite is slimmer then the previous version, This also helps people pay the extra amount of money because not a single person would like to own a heavy and large object being carried around.