Narrative Coursework 1: Part 3: Flash Narrative

Ok was my first flash narratives, storyline based on boy traveling to other worlds.
I am happy with this eventhough had alot of problems with script (didnt stop sometimes etc).
Though I did want use a song for different parts like battles but couldnt find out how to place a song and stop it, then start different one.

P.S just found out I found more script problems, it deleted some scripts by self -_-, and since I was in rush on friday I didnt see this till now, so i ended up just saving it on cd.
Got to love script <---sarcasm :(.
Hopefully teacher will check my blogger for this final version, or ask in presentation on tuesday.


Flash Narrative by ~LightDuo on deviantART

P.s i really really dont like Deviant Art, it prevents alot of things such as deleting ur own comments etc. I have posted wrong msgs too people and wouldnt even let me delete them.

Deadline 12th December (Talk)

Yay I finally handed in the work on time and finished my flash narrative story,
it was annoying me because the script wasnt working at all, it didnt even stop with the right code.

Anyways i fixed it in the end and will upload later since I have to register for deviant ART, but first im going to sleep. Lack of sleep makes me feel really bad, I didnt even sleep yesterday.
First I needed finish my frames *drawed characters from scratch on flash|* this was weird I had to color in my characters with paintbrush, it wouldnt let me use paint bucket.

FUTURE NOTES FOR ME:

Use Photoshop to draw then import to Flash.

Or longer then 1 week to do a project that may require to draw characters and objects from scratch. (hard on Flash)
Exporting on Flash is in SWF File Format.

Drawing objects with shapes etc is easy to color in and draw (lets you use paintbucket)<--Flash
Script is annoying!!! I kind of did ICT in the first year of college and hated it because of programing c++, script is just as bad. Im lucky I can handle html and know it.

On the bright side, Anime:Naruto Shippuden, New episode is amazinggg (still prefer episode 86-87 cause great music + Shikumaru fight was too good.
Anime:Bleach, New Episode= wasnt that great to be honest, mostly talking and not much fighting with annoying characters.
I would love to create animes (after knowing flash is insanely hard to draw stuff from scratch).

Ideas for Narratvies Coursework

This is my brainstorm I did in my own time, since Ihad many creative ideas before I ecided on my final outcome, this is a useful tool to get out ideas.

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“.

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.