Friday, 30 October 2009
week beginning 26th October
On Tuesday we grazed the surface of a new project we could be doing (give racism the red card) with John, discussing our views and opinions. With Gavin we split up into our groups and went to film a short movie titled 'The Chase'. I had fun doing this. On Friday (thank god) we looked into animation and its history, starting a little flip book we are going to produce. Til next week...
Below are links to the different types of animation throughout history. Click on the name headers to watch a clip...
The first documented case of animation was the magic lantern (in 1671). Produced with an oil lamp and a lens, images were painted onto a glass plate and projected onto a screen.
The thaumatrope came next in 1824. A picture was put onto either side of a piece of card attached to a peice of string and twirled around quickly to make the images appear as one.
A zoetrope is made into motion with a series of still pictures moving in quick succession (first documented in 1834).
The praxinoscope came in 1877 as the succesor to the zoetrope. it is a strip of images placed inside a spinning cylinder.
The flip book eventually arrived in 1868, and is a series of pictures changing steadily from one page to the next.
Stop motion is the general term for an animation technique which makes still objects appear to move, using individual photographs.
CGI:
CGI (computer generated imagery) is animation created and produced using computer technology. This is also used for special effects in movies and television shows.
An animation technique where animators trace over real film movements, frame by frame, to produce an animated peice.
Friday, 23 October 2009
Final week of the project
In the final week of our projects we finished of our websites. Above is some screenshots of it. Adding in the podcasts we did with john about our respective groups/performances. Thursday was called off, but we managed to have everything up to scratch! Bring on the next project!!
Friday, 9 October 2009
The week before the holidays... October 09
This week with John we were making a podcast with our groups on our assigned topics. This involved collecting pictures, and then describing them. We each took turns which gave it an edge.
We continued with our product making (I'm making merchandise, a t-shirt and a cap) basically just finishing off my designs.
On Thursday with Gavin I finished off my report on Linkin Parks music video, then continued our discussion about media language (camera angles, lighting etc) and made a storyboard of a short film we will be doing in our groups.
Today we followed up on last weeks html class and designed the web page that will front our website.
Video Sharing
YouTube is the most popular video sharing website with millions subscribed. YouTube offers the user to upload videos and let the viewers rate them with a star rating system (5 being the highest). users can also leave feedback on what they thought of the clip.
Yahoo Video is similar to YouTube, but focuses on more mainstream videos ie clips from television, or important news. Users still get to post videos and give feedback though.
Friday, 2 October 2009
Google is one of the websites that allows you to change the layout of its home page to suite your personal tastes. For example, if you travel alot a special search menu for train/bus times can be set as the home page, making it easier to search your times. Below is someones home page suited to their specific needs.
The BBC also allows you to do this. So for example, if you liked the news, it could be first on your homepage making all the breaking news easily accessible. It allows you to do this for a wide variety of things from the weather, childrens t.v to food.Photo Sharing
Flickr is a photo sharing website where people can post photos of anything ie events, parties, family ect. A feature of this website is the edit section, where you can cut, crop and obviously edit photos to your specification. You can also look at peoples photos from around the world.
Photobucket is another photo sharing website, with other features including art an d quotes & sayings. It takes the artistic side of photography, with still shots, black and white shots ect. People can post their photos and share them with the world. There is a most viewed catagory aswell, which shows the most popular pictures.
This Week... (29.09 - 2.10.09)
This week we managed to move on to designing our web page for bounce on Tuesday morning. In the afternoon with Angie I managed to start my repeat pattern for the poster we are making. Its in the early stages of development but I have a rough idea of what I'm doing.
On thursday we done a review on a specific music video Linkin Park's In The End) which I have yet to finish. In the afternoon we had a discussion on media language, looking at camera angles and lighting.
Today (Friday) we are using .html on this site to change the appearance of our posts.
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