interactive narrative

I have now completed my final interactive narrative project, however i am having trouble uploading it. if anyone can help me please get in touch. hopefully it will be uploaded soon for your viewing pleasure.

Luke Burtons Oneshot and my review

this is Luke Burton's oneshot video, today i was sat next to him as he was editing it and we ended up working together to produce the audio. we filtered out all the high frequencies and reduced the volume of the Franky goes to Hollywood track using adobe soundbooth to make the music sound like it is coming from another room. however in places for few second blocks we brought back the high frequencies and increased the volume to create the illusion that the toilet door is opening and closing.

things i like about this video my video doesnt have.

i like the way luke intended his video to be funny and it turned out to be funny whereas i intended my video to be scary and it isn't.
i like the way luke didn't rely on technology during the shooting process, its simple but effective.

things i like about my video lukes video doesnt have.

i like the original idea of my video, i think my idea of sinister images on screens has alot more room for development.
i like the face my video has an unusual twist at the end.

Visual Feedback

I read an article online that said if you point a camera at its own monitor you can create visual feedback and that this technique was used in early film making.

final oneshot

This is my final oneshot short, my group liked my earl er oneshot video and ran with the idea of using monitors and web cams. the easyest part of shooting this video was shooting the pre recorded clips to go on the monitors. the hardest part was synchronising ourselves with the clip on the monitors, as you probably can tell. in many ways i prefer the oneshot i made to present to the group, less effort went into the shot but i think it has a better overall effect. this is probably due to the fact there is some form of lighting in the first one.

overall i thought that it was a good project, i enjoyed doing a project with a group as i usually do projects by myself or with a friend. what i found most interesting was how every group member fell into a natural roll and how my natural roll wasn't what it normally is. i was in shot, usually I'm a tecky. i learnt how to do a few extra things on premier which I'm happy about and made a few future project buddies, so overall a pretty good project despite the fact i could be happier with the final video.

oneshot filming

today me and my group filmed the footage for our oneshot short, we filmed it in the Waverly building as we needed an inside location and two large computer monitors, we didn't manage to use any interesting lighting in the shot because the power outlets where computer only outlets. if you look at my previous posts the onshot i made myself in my basement you will see a desk lamp, i intended to use this in the final video but couldn't due to the outlet problem. i wanted the lamp to flicker on and off towards the end of the shot as i there was a power surge, but if i did plug the lamp in there would have been a real power surge. here are a few photo of the shooting process.

colour and light

Figuring light, and the intangible exhibition at Djanogoly art gallery lakeside.

I found this piece very interesting and eye catching, the artist Rebecca partridge has used I wide collection of both contrasting and complimentary colors. Even more interesting is the use of plain white for the background and the way in which the concentration of colour reduces as the geometrical shapes near the edges of the piece, as if creating movement.

When this piece first caught my eye the different colors on each side of all the geometrical shapes appeared random. But as I looked more and more I noticed that the majority of the shapes were either themed with warm colours or cold colours, but then just to ruin my theory I noticed there were a few shapes consisting of both warm and cold colours. That’s what I like about this piece, it confuses me.

Light has been taken into account with this piece in a very interesting way, some of the geometrical shapes are a solid colour but the ones with a lower concentration of colour appear translucent against the white background. More interesting than that is the larger geometrical shapes near the edges. they have the least concentration of colour, what I found interesting was how these shapes don’t appear translucent but appear in the distance, giving the picture great depth

photoshop colour replacement

i chose these colours to demonstrait both warm and cold complimentary colours. and both cold complimentary colours

oneshot film idea

i realised that it is difficult to make an interesting video when you only have one shot to play with, so i had the idea of having a monitor in the shot, that way a pre recorded video could be made and edited and cut as many times as necessary before hand. this is a short video i made myself to present the idea to my group. after showing my group this video they liked the idea and decided to run with it. in the final video we are hopeing to have 2 computer monitors with 2 people sat in front of them. however we are going to experiment with people moveing from monitor to monitor. me and sam are going to be the people in shot and martin and steve are going to direct and operate the camera. i used a desk lamp to light my mini set in the video below, im thinking of using this same lamp in the final video but maybe attaching a dimmer switch for better control.

The rule of thirds

The rule of thirds is a compositional tool used in design and any other visual art. The rule states that an image can be divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines. The points on the picture where the lines cross can be used to place the main features of the picture, or photograph. Using this visual tool gives a more interesting and professional looking picture than it would if you were to just centre the main feature.

The rule has been around for centuries and has been taken into account in the creation of oil paintings through to digital photography. As an amateur photographer myself I was surprised how much better photographs you can take when considering this rule.

wach the video to see what i mean,

pixalation project final video

this is my final pixalation project video, some of the footage was shot in my student house and the rest was shot with my project group. what i found interesting about the group footage was its all the same photos but the ways in which the different group members edited the pictures in different ways gave a completely different feel and mood to the video. the pool playing part of the video was shot in the basement of my student house, this was probably the most time consuming part of the video to create, if you look at my previous posts there are a few behind the scenes pictures of the making of that.
if i had more time to do this project i would have recorded some audio samples of pool balls hitting each other ind added them to the audio track to create a more realistic audio for that part of the video.

Me and my mate Matt fire eating

me and my mate matt joined a group called fields of fire shortly after moveing to notts, it is a group of fire manipulators who do things such as fire spinning, juggling, eating and breathing. the group meat on forrest recreational ground every thursday night with good weather. click the link to learn more about fields of fire and wach the video of me and matt. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21310021261

Videos me and my mates made when we were little.

the summer holiday of 2004 me and a few friends invested in a digital camera and spent hours and hours filming random things and editing on movie maker. the videos below are some of the first videos i ever made, i realise the quality is crap and the editing is very poor however these videos mean alot to me because the making of them made me realise what i wanted to do at university. have a look at them, i hope they make you laugh.

My pencil Tattoo drawings

these are a few of my pencil tattoo designs, i never did very well in art at school but iv always had a thing for drawing random pictures such as these ones, later on in life i realised that they would make good tattoos and i have had a few of them done already and hope to get a few more when i have the money. if anyone would like one of these drawings as a tattoo or any i upload in future i have no problem with that, i would consider it an honour that somebody wants my designs scarred onto them.

skullcandy headphones

Think about what goes on in your head when u buy something new, take a photo of your favourite designed object and answer the following.

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

Why are we willing, as soon as we can afford it, to pay extra for things with appealing form.

Skull candy headphones are a stylish brand named headphone, infact they are the last gadget I bought. I purchased the headphones from Tamworth snow dome as I am a snowboarder and skull candy are a well recognised make for snowboarders and come complete with a fitted bottle opener just for a giggle. The headphones have a frequency range of 100 to 18,000 Hz and an impedance of 50 ohms, in English that means they make a pretty good sound.

Skull candy headphones are a perfect combination of fashion and function, they make a good quality sound and at the same time they are a very cool fashion accessory. I think the thing most people want in a product other than for it to function well is for it to look good at the same time. it is just the human way to want to be recognised in having the latest products on the market, for instance I could have purchased a pair of headphones with equal sound quality specifications for around about 20 pounds, but instead I chose to pay 45 pounds for the skull candys in order to be recognised by other snowboarders and audio enthusiasts. There is a lot to be said for paying for the label, not only do u purchase the product, u purchase the recognition of owning a quality piece of equipment.
Click the link. http://www.skullcandy.com/

EzVision specks

Write 300 word article that tells the audience about a recent multimedia technology that is being or has been developed in the last six months and explain what you think the impact this technology will have upon society.

The EzVision original and the most recent EzVision X4 are a very interesting product. Both versions are light weight virtual reality eyewear and plug into your iPod Video or a portable DVD player or anything with an AV output, and shows your movies as though you're looking at a huge screen. The Original shows you movies at the equivalent of a 50 inch screen, and the X4 a 60 inch screen. Click the link to read more about this product. http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/gadgets-gizmos/digital-dvd/ezvision-eyewear/index.html
And to see a close up video of this product click the following http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ8khtM4XyM

More interesting than the EzVision eyewear is what a virtual reality product such as this one could lead to in the future. A more advanced version of the EzVision specks may have a far better surround than a virtual 60 inch screen. By this I mean a 360 degree view that moves corresponding to the users head movements. If a technology like this was to be used along side a virtual program such as World of Warcraft or Second life, you would see things as if u were in this virtual world. For those who have never heard of these programs click the links. http://www.trywarcraft.com/index.html http://secondlife.com/

EzVision specks are a human interface device for the eyes. The specks could possibly be used in unison with other human interface devices for other parts of the body, such as a suit which animates your online character according to your body movements, then we have achieved complete virtual reality.

Another interesting development may be using virtual reality specks alongside Holophonic sound. Holophonic sound is recorded by two microphones positioned as though they were ears and panned either side of the stereo spectrum. It is virtual reality audio that works over stereo headphones combining the two technologies could create an interesting AV virtual reality that can be experienced from your home computer. To experience Holophonic sound for yourself click the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA

free stop motion software

me and Joe made this video a while ago with some free software from the Internet, we had the idea of making an animated seres with paper cut out characters and photographs for the characters heads, we never followed through with this idea due to how time consuming the process was but hope to follow through with it one day, the video below is the little experiment we did. click the link to download the free software. and watch our video, it might make u giggle. http://www.clayanimator.com/english/clay_starter_kits.html

pixalation project behind the scenes

these are a few behind the scenes photos for the pixalation project i have yet to complete. the pictures show how we shot the pool scenes in the basement of our house late one night.

what do i want to get out of the course???

i want to have i broad understanding of AV, and be a skilled animaitor. i would also like my skills as a web page dessigner to improve because im crap at it. X)

what did i do in the first week???

weeks been pretty good so far, i think im gona like this cource yesterday we made cameras out of beer cans, our first home work was to drink a can of beer, how cool. thats about it so far, ill tell u the rest wen its happened.

first post

just starter uni, tis pretty spiffy