Evaluation Question 6: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
From our first task of the continuity sequence upto the finalisation of our title sequence i believe that i have learnt a great deal of things. First and foremost, continuity: important to keep the feel of a sequence and to keep the interest of an audience as well as just making sense. The 180 degree rule, upon breaking this rule you throw evrything off balance and can confuse and distract the audience from what you want them to be focusing on, which would be the film product. I've learnt that in group work, if you want to try something different, new and possibly something none of you have previously attempted it is a good thing to suggest and try to persuade them by putting forth the benifits of the end results as well as the experience that would would gain from attempting such a task. For those reasons i am glad that i managed to do that to our group as now i have the experience of creating a type of animation and will have some indication of what we will need to do next time if i choose to atempt an animatic project again.
In conclusion this task has been a great and overall success. I have gained much more experience in the use of editing programs aswell as recording hardwear. I have an insite and better understanding of different types of media and genres. Most of all i think my greatest lesson has most likely been the lesson of a team combination as most of my previous tasks and projects i have atempted and carried out alone, i have a greater understanding of how each member has their abilities that they're better at than others and it was a very interesting and enlightening lesson for me.
Friday 3 April 2009
Evaluation Question 5
Evaluation Question 5: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have personally learned a great deal of the technological process during the making of our title sequence, this is because although i have previously made films and videos this was te first time i have attempted anything like this. As our aim was to create an animatic title sequence the processes we had to go through and use were very different to those you would go through in filming an ordinary sequence. Our first variation was that all our images were captured using photographic cameras, using their multishot settings to generate continuity within the actions happeneing. When filming a 2 minute sequence it is common knowledge to film much much more than you need and re-record shots you have created, we also done this taking a large sum of 7000 photographs and repeated each sequence at least twice so we were certain that we would have enough to make our sequence.
For the editing, we had to do a sort of double edit, as we wanted to create the look that oour images were drawn out, as we were inspired by the title sequence of 'Juno' where a sketch effect had been used. We spent much time searching through different programs in attempt to find a way in which we could mass convert our 7000 photos with the sketch effect. This proved difficult as we were having trouble with the softwear and computers, but in the end we had worked out how to convert in bulk on Adobe Photoshop which pleased us so. This also gave me the chance to experiment with photoshop, trying out the different effects and tools that it had and i believe that i could comfortably use photoshop again with another project.
Once we had all our images converted we then had to piece them together to create our motion picture. For this we used the 'Imovie' editing program, although i would have prefered to used 'final cut pro' as i thought i would achieve a better quality of edit and cut to the sequence, but i was proven wrong as i believe we achieved just as well a finish by using 'Imovie'. i have never used either 'Imovie' or 'Final Cut Pro' but after using 'Imovie' i would say im comfortable with the program and that i could quite comfortably use it again to edit projects in the future.
I have personally learned a great deal of the technological process during the making of our title sequence, this is because although i have previously made films and videos this was te first time i have attempted anything like this. As our aim was to create an animatic title sequence the processes we had to go through and use were very different to those you would go through in filming an ordinary sequence. Our first variation was that all our images were captured using photographic cameras, using their multishot settings to generate continuity within the actions happeneing. When filming a 2 minute sequence it is common knowledge to film much much more than you need and re-record shots you have created, we also done this taking a large sum of 7000 photographs and repeated each sequence at least twice so we were certain that we would have enough to make our sequence.
For the editing, we had to do a sort of double edit, as we wanted to create the look that oour images were drawn out, as we were inspired by the title sequence of 'Juno' where a sketch effect had been used. We spent much time searching through different programs in attempt to find a way in which we could mass convert our 7000 photos with the sketch effect. This proved difficult as we were having trouble with the softwear and computers, but in the end we had worked out how to convert in bulk on Adobe Photoshop which pleased us so. This also gave me the chance to experiment with photoshop, trying out the different effects and tools that it had and i believe that i could comfortably use photoshop again with another project.
Once we had all our images converted we then had to piece them together to create our motion picture. For this we used the 'Imovie' editing program, although i would have prefered to used 'final cut pro' as i thought i would achieve a better quality of edit and cut to the sequence, but i was proven wrong as i believe we achieved just as well a finish by using 'Imovie'. i have never used either 'Imovie' or 'Final Cut Pro' but after using 'Imovie' i would say im comfortable with the program and that i could quite comfortably use it again to edit projects in the future.
Evaluation Question 4
Evaluation Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?
Our film is aimed at both genders from the ages of 16-35 and those of an interest in the thriller/horror genre, but aswell as these an arthouse audience, as our film is low budget and has an abnormal story to it. We agreed that our film would obveously have a certificate of at least 15 possibly an 18 as it contains some rather gruesome, graphic scenes aswell as foul language. On screening our title sequence to a small audience we found that our film seemed to interest a majority of females as to our prediction of a mojority male interest. Both genders had positive comments of our title sequence and said that it has drawn them in and they would like to remain and watch the rest of the film.
Our film is aimed at both genders from the ages of 16-35 and those of an interest in the thriller/horror genre, but aswell as these an arthouse audience, as our film is low budget and has an abnormal story to it. We agreed that our film would obveously have a certificate of at least 15 possibly an 18 as it contains some rather gruesome, graphic scenes aswell as foul language. On screening our title sequence to a small audience we found that our film seemed to interest a majority of females as to our prediction of a mojority male interest. Both genders had positive comments of our title sequence and said that it has drawn them in and they would like to remain and watch the rest of the film.
Evaluation Question 3
Evaluation Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
As our title sequence was shot low budget and the rest of the film would follow the same pattern, aswell as its small target audience, getting a major media institution to distribute our film would obveously prove difficult and from this it would be obveous that our film would most likely be television prmiered before it was cinematically premiered. Two ways in which we could distribute and advertise our film would be: self advertisment and distribution or finding a smaller distribution company and pay them to do it.
Self advertisement and distribution:
if we chose to self distribute our film we would most definatly use the internet as our main source of distribution, posting our film on many video websites and film site would mean that our film would surely be seen, also we could try to use and distribute onto television, contacting channel four and attempting to get our movie shown on film four would also be a great way to distribute our film and get it seen. The downside to this is that there would be small overall success, resultng in smaller profit from the film.
Payed distribution:
The other option would be to find and pay an ordinary distributer to market our film for us. This would mean that our film would be produced to other countries in attempt to get it put into the cinema. I believe that using 'Brain Damage Films' would be a good company to approach as they are a distribution company who specialise in horror/thriler whcih fits our film exactly.
As our title sequence was shot low budget and the rest of the film would follow the same pattern, aswell as its small target audience, getting a major media institution to distribute our film would obveously prove difficult and from this it would be obveous that our film would most likely be television prmiered before it was cinematically premiered. Two ways in which we could distribute and advertise our film would be: self advertisment and distribution or finding a smaller distribution company and pay them to do it.
Self advertisement and distribution:
if we chose to self distribute our film we would most definatly use the internet as our main source of distribution, posting our film on many video websites and film site would mean that our film would surely be seen, also we could try to use and distribute onto television, contacting channel four and attempting to get our movie shown on film four would also be a great way to distribute our film and get it seen. The downside to this is that there would be small overall success, resultng in smaller profit from the film.
Payed distribution:
The other option would be to find and pay an ordinary distributer to market our film for us. This would mean that our film would be produced to other countries in attempt to get it put into the cinema. I believe that using 'Brain Damage Films' would be a good company to approach as they are a distribution company who specialise in horror/thriler whcih fits our film exactly.
Evaluation Question 2
Evaluation Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our title sequence doesn't represent any particular social group, this would mostly be because our title sequence and film is about a young schizophrenic woman who has a murderous side, and this representation of our character is hardly a commodity in our society. But on the other hand if it did represent any sort of social group, it would represent the problems that people with a mental illness may endure and the effects of these problems, albiet slightly extream as she is a murderer. It would also represent the 'outcasted' social groupp of single people, loners, and the effects off seclusion from lots of social interaction with regualr 'normal' people.
The main character in our Film is:
• White British , Female
• Young, aged 14
• Obsessive over spiders and mentally unstable due to schizophrenia- get the sense that this is all she knows and that she has nowhere to go.
• Looks slightly unstable but would be difficult to tell until up close.
• From the title sequence the audience gets the feel that the protagonist is a bit of a loner, mainly from the longshot of her walking down the feild, alone.
Our title sequence doesn't represent any particular social group, this would mostly be because our title sequence and film is about a young schizophrenic woman who has a murderous side, and this representation of our character is hardly a commodity in our society. But on the other hand if it did represent any sort of social group, it would represent the problems that people with a mental illness may endure and the effects of these problems, albiet slightly extream as she is a murderer. It would also represent the 'outcasted' social groupp of single people, loners, and the effects off seclusion from lots of social interaction with regualr 'normal' people.
The main character in our Film is:
• White British , Female
• Young, aged 14
• Obsessive over spiders and mentally unstable due to schizophrenia- get the sense that this is all she knows and that she has nowhere to go.
• Looks slightly unstable but would be difficult to tell until up close.
• From the title sequence the audience gets the feel that the protagonist is a bit of a loner, mainly from the longshot of her walking down the feild, alone.
Thursday 2 April 2009
Evaluation Question 1
Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of a real media product?
The opening sequence to our film 'magnus opium' follows the forms and conventions of a real media product of the same sort, this is because it creates enigmas to entice people into watching the movie further, to find out what all this is about.
one of the things that our product has in common with the 'real' products would be the advertisement of the production company. In our case the combination of Zebra Animations and Art House Productions. The introduction of the main character within the title sequence. The titles displaying the help enlisted to make the film such as director, editor, producer etc.
The soundtrack, although sounding echoy and dirty, give an extra ery feel to the title sequence, aswell as the black and white sketch. The visual effect i would say compares to a 'real' product as we chose to do this upon seeing the title sequence to juno where this sketch effect has been used, although a different genre alltogether, i feel it has just as good an impact as the juno title sequence.
Also the fade to black which we used at the end of the title sequence to merge it with the begining of the film runs smooth, but has that element to pull the audience away from the enigmas raised from the title sequence and bring them to what is currently taking place within the film, which i believe many films have done in the past.
The opening sequence to our film 'magnus opium' follows the forms and conventions of a real media product of the same sort, this is because it creates enigmas to entice people into watching the movie further, to find out what all this is about.
one of the things that our product has in common with the 'real' products would be the advertisement of the production company. In our case the combination of Zebra Animations and Art House Productions. The introduction of the main character within the title sequence. The titles displaying the help enlisted to make the film such as director, editor, producer etc.
The soundtrack, although sounding echoy and dirty, give an extra ery feel to the title sequence, aswell as the black and white sketch. The visual effect i would say compares to a 'real' product as we chose to do this upon seeing the title sequence to juno where this sketch effect has been used, although a different genre alltogether, i feel it has just as good an impact as the juno title sequence.
Also the fade to black which we used at the end of the title sequence to merge it with the begining of the film runs smooth, but has that element to pull the audience away from the enigmas raised from the title sequence and bring them to what is currently taking place within the film, which i believe many films have done in the past.
Monday 26 January 2009
The Begining of the End
And so we reach the editing process =O we made it this far!!
well after a good 20 mins of uploading we managed to get all the photos onto the mac and then hit our first bump, where to edit them into a drawn style, so we cooked up jerry and talked about what we wanted to do, we found a great chalk and charcoal effect on photoshop which we loved, it was exactly what we wanted but then we realsied that we would have to put the effect on each photo one by one, to 7000 photos... *cry* jerry suggested another program..the name has left me, where we couldconvert all the images at once, but just have to wait for the computer to do it itself, the downfall to this was that we couldnt have the sketch effect, just making it black and white. So at the end of transfering 26 photos into sketch and at the end of lunch we decided that it would be a good idea to go off and get our heads around what we want to do about it.
well after a good 20 mins of uploading we managed to get all the photos onto the mac and then hit our first bump, where to edit them into a drawn style, so we cooked up jerry and talked about what we wanted to do, we found a great chalk and charcoal effect on photoshop which we loved, it was exactly what we wanted but then we realsied that we would have to put the effect on each photo one by one, to 7000 photos... *cry* jerry suggested another program..the name has left me, where we couldconvert all the images at once, but just have to wait for the computer to do it itself, the downfall to this was that we couldnt have the sketch effect, just making it black and white. So at the end of transfering 26 photos into sketch and at the end of lunch we decided that it would be a good idea to go off and get our heads around what we want to do about it.
Film Friday, Like a Normal Friday but with Film
Well Well we've manage to finally get all of our photos done and down.. all 7000 of them =/. the day was a great success and went off without a hitch involved,Robyn was a star and did everything we wanted of here. We headed up home around about 4ish with memory cards full to the brim with photo gold, 7000 worth, but we had hoped we had taken enough photos too cover all our titles. well i say without a hitch, but i guess you can never reli avoid those mid day dog walkers can you? =]
The New Big Shoot
A/S Media Studies Shooting Schedule
January 2009
Film Title: Magnus Opium
Film Crew: Ross Lusted, George Woolford,
Cast: Robyn Lusted
Contact Numbers: 0208………3, 0208…....5
Place Time Date Props Cast
Gardens 8:15 Friday 16th Robyn
Castle 10:15 Friday 16th Spiders Robyn
Pathways 12:15 Friday 16th Robyn
Field 2:15 Friday 16th Spiders Robyn
Trees 3:00 Friday 16th Robyn
Pond 3:30 Friday 16th Robyn
January 2009
Film Title: Magnus Opium
Film Crew: Ross Lusted, George Woolford,
Cast: Robyn Lusted
Contact Numbers: 0208………3, 0208…....5
Place Time Date Props Cast
Gardens 8:15 Friday 16th Robyn
Castle 10:15 Friday 16th Spiders Robyn
Pathways 12:15 Friday 16th Robyn
Field 2:15 Friday 16th Spiders Robyn
Trees 3:00 Friday 16th Robyn
Pond 3:30 Friday 16th Robyn
When the cats are away the cast must stray
Well with Kirsty amited to hospital and us being photoless, we have been able to enlist the help of Ross's sister, who will instead be appearing in the footage from Kirsty.
The Big Shoot
As i still skii the mountains of grenoble, it was decided that Kirsty and Ross would be able to get all the photos done before kirsty headed off to hospital, and ready for me to edit when i got back and heres how the shoot was ment to go
Shooting Shedule
All of the below shots mentioned will be photographed in Oxleas Woods.
Friday 9th
8am - Meet at Falconwood Station
8:10 - Begin photographing Close-Ups (CU)
9:30 - Photograph round the gardens
Saturday 10th
12pm - continue photographing in the gardens
3pm - photograph running through trees
Continue Sunday 11th if needed.
Sadly Kirsty forgot about the shoot so arange again it must.
Shooting Shedule
All of the below shots mentioned will be photographed in Oxleas Woods.
Friday 9th
8am - Meet at Falconwood Station
8:10 - Begin photographing Close-Ups (CU)
9:30 - Photograph round the gardens
Saturday 10th
12pm - continue photographing in the gardens
3pm - photograph running through trees
Continue Sunday 11th if needed.
Sadly Kirsty forgot about the shoot so arange again it must.
Storybord
Well with me away on holiday and kirsty away presumably to do with her hospital plans, Ross decided that it'd be best for him to get on with a storybord, as he says, he didnt draw every frame as to why it may look a bit jumpy
Oh Here Comes Our First Attempt
So we've had our first attempt at getting those photos as Kirsty was due to go into hospital just after christmas and i on holiday. But the day didnt go without its problems and many flaws. We headed out with just the one camera as my was otherwise engaged in other antiques.. thats just the begining. Forgetting its the winter, forgetting how quickly it got dark and forgetting we live in the U.K. we hadn't managed one shot before it had even gotten to dark for the camera to pick anything up, which lead to the flashhaving to be used, which would have been no problem had we been able to take asmany photos as we could have without it. But with the flash overheating and only getting one or two photos every 2-3 seconds we decided to call it a day, but the day hadn't gone a waste as we still managed to gt some good shots and some new ideas such as the 'freak out' shots where the character would breakdown and change from one personality to another.
Experimentation with Digitalism
Well unfortunatly i wasn't able to make this lesson so im affraid ima have to tell you what dear old Ross told you on his blog. so here you go:
"In lesson today George unfortunatly wasn't in so we couldn't really crack on with our storybords so instead myself and Kirsty decided to experiment with digitalism seeing how many photos the camera could take per second.
We discoverd that it took more photos with the flash off but then unless we changed the shutter speed then all the photos would look really dark.
Another idea to consider when editing the photos is when Kirsty becomes evil is that we have ocasinoal flashes or parts of the film that are inverted/negative. This will look good because then it will show how the two personalaties are complete opposites.
I think the eyes and sky both look really effective heer, this is somthing we should definatly consider especially with your make-up Kirsty."
"In lesson today George unfortunatly wasn't in so we couldn't really crack on with our storybords so instead myself and Kirsty decided to experiment with digitalism seeing how many photos the camera could take per second.
We discoverd that it took more photos with the flash off but then unless we changed the shutter speed then all the photos would look really dark.
Another idea to consider when editing the photos is when Kirsty becomes evil is that we have ocasinoal flashes or parts of the film that are inverted/negative. This will look good because then it will show how the two personalaties are complete opposites.
I think the eyes and sky both look really effective heer, this is somthing we should definatly consider especially with your make-up Kirsty."
It Ain't no Title Without no Tunes
Well thats my being imaginative for today ^^^^
Well as the good title says its no title without no tunes, so our miss musician (Kirsty) was asigned to that task and take to it she did, the sounds she brought out of the piano were exactly, if not better than what we wanted so thumbs up to that. Bout the only things thats solid so far =]
Well as the good title says its no title without no tunes, so our miss musician (Kirsty) was asigned to that task and take to it she did, the sounds she brought out of the piano were exactly, if not better than what we wanted so thumbs up to that. Bout the only things thats solid so far =]
Indepth Development on the Plot
Ahh, once again we meet to disscuss our plot to our titles indepth even more. Which was relatively painfull not just because i lost my voice either =P. Well we manage to spit a few things together such as using both my sister's and Ross's cameras we would head upto Oxleys wood, set the cameras to multishot and fireaway at Kirstys every step, and a bit of scenery.. why not?
An idea that had been floating around from the start was the inclusion of spiders in the titles, such as the schitzophrinic adopting the murderous styles of spiders/using the spiders themselves in the murders someway/or just a trademark thing, such the like as roses,cards,kisses, something significant to the merderer. At which we decided that we liked the idea of spiders as the murder weapon, so arose the Magnus opium. This is a pod of web created by the spider to protect its young, which the killer would place inside the throat of the victim and then leave it for the spider to hatch out insearch of food and to devour the victim from inside out. ANd from this arose the idea to use webbing for the titles themselves, we thought this would look rather good and would fit in rather nicely. Bringing the spiders back into it we thought that we could also get someshots of spiders climbing ove other instruments used for murder.
The link between spider and Schitzophrinic isnt all that different in our case as they share many features in the film such as tehy both bound thier victims in webbing/rope, alsoo some spider commit suicide after birth (weird huh?) which is also what ends the reign of our murderous subject.
Although a merciless killer who appears to have no concept of the law, our character does have a reason to her bloodshed. She reaps those who bear children but neglect,beat,abuse them. She belives that the way they treat them they dont deserve them, at an extreamity we admit, but the push was the character herslf being infertile and unable to bear a child of her own. In a sense she is just an excentric justic bringer.
Earlier i mentioned the whole tophat cape thing to represent the 'evil side' well we liked the idea of a visual change so we decided upon good old make-up and colours to get the change in personalities across. So we thought light or no make-up with bright summery colours for when shes in her, what we call 'good side'. And heavy make-up, possiblywith tatoos/marking upon her face, with dark colours, blacks heavy greys and red for when she is at her 'evil side'. As Kirsty is alergic to facepaints we decided that mascara and eyeliner would do just fine and Ross suggested something like that of the band 'KISS' =P.
And back to talk of footage we were, the idea of flashing images of her eyes and the like would give it a.. jumpy feel? well a bit thrilling anyway.
An idea that had been floating around from the start was the inclusion of spiders in the titles, such as the schitzophrinic adopting the murderous styles of spiders/using the spiders themselves in the murders someway/or just a trademark thing, such the like as roses,cards,kisses, something significant to the merderer. At which we decided that we liked the idea of spiders as the murder weapon, so arose the Magnus opium. This is a pod of web created by the spider to protect its young, which the killer would place inside the throat of the victim and then leave it for the spider to hatch out insearch of food and to devour the victim from inside out. ANd from this arose the idea to use webbing for the titles themselves, we thought this would look rather good and would fit in rather nicely. Bringing the spiders back into it we thought that we could also get someshots of spiders climbing ove other instruments used for murder.
The link between spider and Schitzophrinic isnt all that different in our case as they share many features in the film such as tehy both bound thier victims in webbing/rope, alsoo some spider commit suicide after birth (weird huh?) which is also what ends the reign of our murderous subject.
Although a merciless killer who appears to have no concept of the law, our character does have a reason to her bloodshed. She reaps those who bear children but neglect,beat,abuse them. She belives that the way they treat them they dont deserve them, at an extreamity we admit, but the push was the character herslf being infertile and unable to bear a child of her own. In a sense she is just an excentric justic bringer.
Earlier i mentioned the whole tophat cape thing to represent the 'evil side' well we liked the idea of a visual change so we decided upon good old make-up and colours to get the change in personalities across. So we thought light or no make-up with bright summery colours for when shes in her, what we call 'good side'. And heavy make-up, possiblywith tatoos/marking upon her face, with dark colours, blacks heavy greys and red for when she is at her 'evil side'. As Kirsty is alergic to facepaints we decided that mascara and eyeliner would do just fine and Ross suggested something like that of the band 'KISS' =P.
And back to talk of footage we were, the idea of flashing images of her eyes and the like would give it a.. jumpy feel? well a bit thrilling anyway.
Loglines
So the logline.. hate these things..
well for the logline i guess we'd have to consider things such as:
1. Who/What is the main character/central focus of the film and what is it they want or are striving to achive throughout the film. In our case it would be:
- A schizophrinic murderer, who kills due to the desire of her 'evil' side of which she cannot control.
2. What sort of problems/troublesom encounters the main character faces. In ours i guess im'a have to go with Kirsty and say:
- Herself?
3. What can we say briefly about our film that makes it unique from all the other murder films out there?
- A female play on the old jeckal and hyde story, with an obsesion with spiders.
So for the logline itself, a dull slightly curious one would maybe be:
- A murderous schitzophrinic killing through London
Whereas a slightly more interesting one might be:
-What will she do as her shadow reaps throught the streets of London?
well for the logline i guess we'd have to consider things such as:
1. Who/What is the main character/central focus of the film and what is it they want or are striving to achive throughout the film. In our case it would be:
- A schizophrinic murderer, who kills due to the desire of her 'evil' side of which she cannot control.
2. What sort of problems/troublesom encounters the main character faces. In ours i guess im'a have to go with Kirsty and say:
- Herself?
3. What can we say briefly about our film that makes it unique from all the other murder films out there?
- A female play on the old jeckal and hyde story, with an obsesion with spiders.
So for the logline itself, a dull slightly curious one would maybe be:
- A murderous schitzophrinic killing through London
Whereas a slightly more interesting one might be:
-What will she do as her shadow reaps throught the streets of London?
Our Plot Disscussion
So we had the style, all we needed now was the idea, or plot if you will. Ross originally wanted to base the sequence on a spider, creating a thriller/horror film titled 'Aracnid', but then we agreed as we were going with the 'juno' idea that photographing a spider, of which A. we didnt have and B. would either be costly and inapropriate to the size of which we would like, wopuld prove rather difficult.
In the end we decided to go with Kirsty's idea of a schitzophrinic who had a good side, but also an evil murderous side, who spreads through London killing. A bit of a Jeckal and Hyde story. We toyed with the idea of having kirsty (who volentird to act) to wear a top hat and cloak for the murderous side (rather generic wouldn't you say?) however this wasnt really what we were aiming for as a group so we decided against it.
Our Title Sequence
Okay so here's what we've been tasked to do, to create the title sequence to a film, genre and style up to us. Beyond the belief that a group of people will agree, we managed to decide what we wanted to do, after a bit of convincing and encouraging i manage to bring Kirsty and Ross around to the idea of an animated opening sequence. So upon the decision we headed over to the mac room and hit on youtube and began to search upon different styles of animation.
I had initialy come to this project with an exact idea of what type of animation i wanted to do, examplefied in this clip, but after a conversation between ourselves and with Nina we realised that this annimation wouldn't be achievable as we didnt have the right programs and it didnt prove to be cost effected either. Aswell as the fact that this would require hand drawn images, which out of the three of us, Kirsty was the onlyone with a rather decent drawing capability and wouldn't be able to produce the vast amounts of images we would nee, so out the window that went.
I had favoured the opening sequence of an animated film called 'Karas' which the exploding titles enticed me, but again we realised that this would not be achiveable, on the basis of programs and the fact that this was the first animation project any of us had taken on.
Finally a bit of time later we were show the titles to the film 'Juno' which we imediatly took a liking to, it was a mix of animation (which we wanted) and photography (a specialty of a fellow member, Ross) so we decided that this seemed acheivable to us and we took it up and worked out we would need roughly 24 frames a second to give it a sense of fluidness.
I had initialy come to this project with an exact idea of what type of animation i wanted to do, examplefied in this clip, but after a conversation between ourselves and with Nina we realised that this annimation wouldn't be achievable as we didnt have the right programs and it didnt prove to be cost effected either. Aswell as the fact that this would require hand drawn images, which out of the three of us, Kirsty was the onlyone with a rather decent drawing capability and wouldn't be able to produce the vast amounts of images we would nee, so out the window that went.
I had favoured the opening sequence of an animated film called 'Karas' which the exploding titles enticed me, but again we realised that this would not be achiveable, on the basis of programs and the fact that this was the first animation project any of us had taken on.
Finally a bit of time later we were show the titles to the film 'Juno' which we imediatly took a liking to, it was a mix of animation (which we wanted) and photography (a specialty of a fellow member, Ross) so we decided that this seemed acheivable to us and we took it up and worked out we would need roughly 24 frames a second to give it a sense of fluidness.
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