Foley Unit

18/11/15

This is a foley film I started from last week and finished today.



I learnt that every piece of sound in film matters, because they give audible depth to the set of the video. When I was given the task of adding sound to this mute video I thought I was going to use Freesounds. For this video however, the only thing that cheesed me off was when we had to record our own sound. But I shouldn't complain, I admit I did kind of enjoy recording the sounds we did, especially the thump sound when the guy accidently bumps his head on the table. It wasn't really what I thought I imagined, because the ending did not match the sound we did last, but fortunately or unfortunately I added a crowd booing sound from Freesounds.

Flash

17/11/15




I was finally introduced to Adobe Flash. We had to take screenshots of our progress


But first we all watched a couple of videos: including a low budget film 'The Giant Claw', a short video explaining animation and a clip from The Box Trolls.


We were given a task on animating a 2D bouncing ball (see two examples below), I did this by creating a series of key frames and used the 'Onion Skin' tool to ghost the previous images/frames onto the current one. I think I did reduce the number of frames per second of the animation played at from 24 to 10. I had an issue with the colours, but then counteract it by letting the ball stay the same colour after the first bounce.


I then realized I need to add a second bounce, so I did. In the second animated GIF, I to elongate the ball on impact the second and when it takes off to make it more cartoony.

16th November's lesson

16/11/15

We were working on our presentations on job roles within Media.

• We all picked at least 2 roles that seam suitable to our interest, I personally chose Concept Artist and Video Game Test.
• I had to choose 2 skills needed for each role and write about them.
• We also worked on skills in the roles that needs a bit of improvement for jobs similar to them from websites like Prospects or Total Jobs.

Thursday's lessons

12/11/15

We worked on our movie mood boards, especially me. But when I got word that the town Laredo was very expensive to hire, I almost felt like giving up. Later we were then put into pairs to recognise three elements on script we were given.

Then much later on, Leanne showed us the task brief for Christmas cards. We all then went onto Pinterest individually to create our own Pinterest boards. Leanne explained to us that in this task we have to make our own Christmas cards using our drawings and Photoshop. We then went out into town to look for examples of existing Christmas cards, including their price, their style and their content.

My first stop motion film

10/11/15

 



 

This is a stop motion clay We Bare Bears video, I made in iStopMotion. I did this, similar to the GIF I made, by taking photographs with the Bear stack moving shot by shot.

Changes:

What I could of done was give Grizz (top bear) the movement when he lifts up his paw to say hello.

Clay motion

10/11/15

We were shown three videos made by clay motion:

Adam

Adam was funny I guess. Though I know in the bible Adam and Eve were naked when they were created by God, but does his privates really need to be shown? I do like how Aardman Studios included a real man's hand as the hand of God, who created Adam.

Darkness, Light, Darkness

At first I found it weird for the moving limbs, but then it turned damn right creepy and disgusting real damn slowly. I was very grossed and very creep out by this short, how does Jan Svankmajer even sleep at night with this imagination he has?! Where did he get the brain, the tongue and enough sanitizer from?

Morph

I haven't really much to say about that Morph short, except that it was quite hilarious, but adorable at the same time. To be very honest as a Morph short will go, I was kind of expecting Chaz to play a prank on Morph like he sometimes or always do.

Roles in Media

09/11/15

Today in Employability, we were talking about the different roles in the media industry. There are apparently a lot of roles in the industry, such as,

• Editing
• Designing
• Reccee
• Location scouts
• Proof reader (possibly a lot)
• Production journalist
• Camera operator
• Floor manager
• Gallery director
• Script writer
• Multi-platform editor
• Bi-media editor
• Head of context

Leanne then gave us a task to talk each other about the skills of these roles

• Broadcast engineer: He/she is responsible in building or repairing equipment in a broadcasting studio
• Media planner: A media planner sources out anything in the industry for a client's brand or product to use

We then watched The Story behind the Poppy charity video.