Production Bibles!

Only 1 assignment left! :D I found the MAA2 Reader quite useful, especially the "A technique for producing ideas" by James Webb Young which I tried and it helped since normally I dont write down my ideas enough just keep them cluttered inside o_O Slightly uncertain about presenting my Taxonomies tommorrow, its been good practise for me in terms of cutout/stop motion even though I'm perhaps more interested in the 3D and I really enjoyed making it and animating my most pride possession (DaddyTeddy).

Production bibles are going well, trying to decide which idea to present, it does say "a fully developed idea for a film that presents a very mundane event [...]" are the others supposidly not fully developed? I found I'm quite good at thinking of stories, I used to do RPG which is about using your imagination to create stories/worlds for other people to enjoy as well as write your own story inside a world someone else has created.

Working on my Negociated proposal version2! >_>

Deadlines

Well I'm up late working on Taxonomies!I initially started with animations with images taken by other people but in the end I decided to try to animate something I've wanted to animate for a long time, my teddy bear since I was born, DaddyTeddy. The idea I used of having a still image with various things in it that are important to me was an early idea of mine but I scrapped it since I couldnt get the video to play effectively in the small box but thankfully Miao gave a helping hand :D

Drip Splat Boing I went for something experimental using notice board pins, lots of them to represent a ball of water that drips from the ceiling, it worked out pretty well, I also experimented a little more with stop motion with some pencils and small plasticine ball.

Return to Newport

I have returned! Spent New Year in London with MiaoMiao, time to work! For Drip Splat Boing i've decided to use Photoshop initially then manipulate it in After Effects, for the "analogue means alone" the 2nd DPB animation I've decided to use my graphics tablet, since I want to improve my skills with it and also its still hand drawn.

Would have been better if the assignments had been spaced out more rather than have multiple assignments due on the same day but in the words of Reinhold Niebuhr "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference".

Les Bibles de production

Well I've started on my production bibles, I've decided to do a How to be Subservient or in this case, how to be a Doorman. I wanted to pick a boring job and make it interesting rather than doing a mundane event like eating, sleeping etc..

for the fairytale I'll probably do a Hans Kristian Andersson (famous Danish storyteller) and I'm thinking about recoding the Emperor's new clothes, perhaps modernising it.

Blogger is proving a pain to access on my computer here in italy, keeps crashing, luckily I managed to get on this time after multiple attempts.

Animation at X-mas

Well been 10 days since I last wrote, handed in my essay on Character and Film Narrative in Computer Games, i'm very proud of the essay once I got into it I ended up writing 4,000 words, so I put 1,500 words in the appendix as a sort of background reading, "evolution of a diegetic world", that part discussed evolution of characters into human shapes (anthropomorphise, i think thats a word) Pacman being the first.

The presentation well quite well I think, I am very passionate about games so its a subject that always interests me so I think thats maybe why i found it easier to present it, I also think my research was thorough but presented simply.

The David Smith essay is debatable, the lectures didnt really cover how to analyse a research it was more the research methods (hence the title), almost all stuff I learnt when i did my dissertation on my BA (focus groups, questionnaires etc..) That essay I think I did it well enough but perhaps could have organised it a bit better and concentrated more on analysis, i think at times i concentrate more on synopsising.

The new projects:

Taxonomies - going to try to mix still images with video in a sort of albumbook list of things I like or are important to me
Production Bibles - Been thinking about that recently
Drip Splatty Boing - Hand Drawn animation or cut outs for one, and Flash for the other



Back Soon :D

Been a while - Essay Mania!

Well deadline approaches, got 2 days left, kind of!!! :)

the 2,500 word essay i chose to do it on something computer related i had several ideas but was advised to pick Character and Film Narrative in Computer Games. The essay is still not completed im at about 70%, it talks about development of narrative as well as characters in computer games. It also goes into how exactly games are narrative, what types of narrative are there as well as what things computer games has taken from film in terms of conventions.

The Research Essay for Monsieur Smith, I did it on "Violence exposure in real-life, video games, television, movies, and the internet: is there desensitization?" by J.Funk which discusses the possibilities of children become desensitized to violence by continious exposure to it.

The presentation I'm still not organised, 20 minutes is a LONG time. I found a demo of a game called Fahrenheit which uses Film Conventions, perhaps ill show that in class.

Le Life Drawing

Just organising my drawings so far. Unsure how many sketches we're supposed to have done, since you could submit a small sketchbook or a 100 page poundland one! I'm happy with my drawing it's improved drastically during the course, Life Drawing classes have helped but I think also the fact i've put aside time to practise and try to read tutorials or books has helped me on my way! I've gone from newbie->adept I think! Although almost all my drawings are just copies of images or characters I liked. I did a lot of trying to draw from 3d Images in 2D which I was told is difficult but I didn't want to fill my sketchbook full of rubbish just for the sake of filling it up, it's a mix of computer game characters, anime & cartoons.

Next mission, eSSAY! :) Hopefully try to finish the 2,500 essay this week or get well into it! :D