DONE! DONE! DONE!
Rich Media Project done, dusted & handed in!!
So here we are, first year of the HND completed. It has been such an amazing experience with some truly inspirational and cool people.
Hope to see everyone in September for HND Year 2! Have a good summer guys, see you in July for the End of Year Exhibition and thanks for eveything!
Big shout goes out to my tutors, you know who you are!! Without your encouragement and guidance i couldn't have got through this first year!! Thanks so much!!
All Seeing Eye Design
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Idea Creation. Presentation
A DVD could be considered as one of the best ways to illustrate HOT & COLD media. You have to interact with it to make it work but most of all it's a medium soon to be out of date. New technologies are constantly emerging that will make it a dead medium. With this in mind it can be considered as something that can never be altered and the contents on the disc can never be changed. It will last forever in time!
As part of the original brief we were asked to demonstrate How to.....? (see Introduction to Designing for Interaction: RICH MEDIA section further on in the blog). This is how we interact with the final piece of work. Do we push buttons or do we move handles to open it. How do we feel when we view the end product? Obviously taking this into account i decided that due to the nature of my final film clip i wanted to present it as large projection. This form of presentation is probably the best way to illustrate the final film. You could imagine sitting in a large, dark room bombarded by this visual feast of sound and images. So with this in mind i decided to put my final piece onto a DVD. Pop the disc in to a DVD player, press the PLAY button, double click the LIFE icon on the Home screen and off you go. Enjoy!
Created in InDesign, this is how the final design for the DVD sleeve looked. On the back of the sleeve there is a description of the How to.....? part of the original Rich Media Brief. Also included on the back is my BLOG address.
As part of the original brief we were asked to demonstrate How to.....? (see Introduction to Designing for Interaction: RICH MEDIA section further on in the blog). This is how we interact with the final piece of work. Do we push buttons or do we move handles to open it. How do we feel when we view the end product? Obviously taking this into account i decided that due to the nature of my final film clip i wanted to present it as large projection. This form of presentation is probably the best way to illustrate the final film. You could imagine sitting in a large, dark room bombarded by this visual feast of sound and images. So with this in mind i decided to put my final piece onto a DVD. Pop the disc in to a DVD player, press the PLAY button, double click the LIFE icon on the Home screen and off you go. Enjoy!
Created in InDesign, this is how the final design for the DVD sleeve looked. On the back of the sleeve there is a description of the How to.....? part of the original Rich Media Brief. Also included on the back is my BLOG address.
Idea Creation. The End Result
The great thing about iMovie is it's overall simplicity to edit and add sound to a video or project. My original idea to create two short films for the "flow - course" project was re-evaluated after i showed one of the rough films to my tutor Nigel. This fast-paced, vibrant, intense visual illustrated the "flow - course" theme really well. This video was put together from footage of me driving along motorways, main roads and other areas where there was a large amount of moving traffic. This was then imported into iMovie and edited to fit around the song "New Dawn Fades" by Moby (one of my two choices for music to accompany to final film clip), so the length of the film had to match the length of the song to work successfully. Each desired frame of the imported footage was sped up to full capacity to intensify the overall flow of the film.
Each frame was deliberately cut to fit with certain breaks and beats within the song. Gaps in the song were replaced with blank black sections and when the song would start again or a heavy beat would come in the film would start again. Over the heavy guitar sections in the song i used a multiple frame to show intensity. Over the vocals i took the film back to normal.
Throughout the entire film i used a widescreen theme to add a more claustrophobic atmosphere and keep continuity. Within all the clips i took away the colour and intensified the contrast and brightness. This was done to confuse the viewer in some way. You know what you're looking at for a second but all of a sudden it becomes unrecognisable as you are blinded with the brightness and flickering of the images. It is like a journey of the senses. The intensity is almost unbearable.
The film itself lasts just over 5 minutes in total.
Idea on how to present is another story..............
Each frame was deliberately cut to fit with certain breaks and beats within the song. Gaps in the song were replaced with blank black sections and when the song would start again or a heavy beat would come in the film would start again. Over the heavy guitar sections in the song i used a multiple frame to show intensity. Over the vocals i took the film back to normal.
Throughout the entire film i used a widescreen theme to add a more claustrophobic atmosphere and keep continuity. Within all the clips i took away the colour and intensified the contrast and brightness. This was done to confuse the viewer in some way. You know what you're looking at for a second but all of a sudden it becomes unrecognisable as you are blinded with the brightness and flickering of the images. It is like a journey of the senses. The intensity is almost unbearable.
The film itself lasts just over 5 minutes in total.
Idea on how to present is another story..............
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Idea Creation. Bringing My Idea to Life
With all the desired footage i began to edit it using iMovie. I had been thinking hard about which song/songs i could use to accompany the film and was instantly drawn towards two of Moby's tracks called "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters" which is an incredibly atmospheric song and "New Dawn Fades" (originally recorded by Joy Division) which is again a very atmospheric but also very hard-hitting, fast-paced track that suited the overall vision perfectly. Because of the amount of footage i had gathered i wanted to make two short films, one "road movie" (using "New Dawn Fades) and one thought provoking film using my "journey through life" idea (with "God Moving Over....").
Both of these songs are from one of my all time favourite films "HEAT" starring Al Pacino & Robert De Niro. Hugely inspirational.
(See below for clips from the film, including the song "New Dawn Fades" and "God Moving Over...." by Moby)
Both of these songs are from one of my all time favourite films "HEAT" starring Al Pacino & Robert De Niro. Hugely inspirational.
(See below for clips from the film, including the song "New Dawn Fades" and "God Moving Over...." by Moby)
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Idea Creation. Filming
Once i had decided on my final idea and how i would like to present it i borrowed a Camcorder from College to capture some footage of cars in motion and roads. I decided to film from inside a car and record out through the widscreen as i was travelling along, with the the intention of speeding up the footage to create a fast paced, thoughtful, atmospheric short film. At this stage i wasn't quite sure if i should create just a single "road movie" or add other scenes, so on a trip to London i went out on the streets near King's Cross to film both traffic movement and people moving around at night.
In total i filmed over 2 hours worth of footage with the Camcorder in both night and day settings. With all this footage i had an idea to create a short film accompanied by music in iMovie HD.
In total i filmed over 2 hours worth of footage with the Camcorder in both night and day settings. With all this footage i had an idea to create a short film accompanied by music in iMovie HD.
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Road Movies
These video clips are some of my favourite "Road Movies" that have inspired me in my Flow - Course project.
Further Idea Development for Flow - Course
I have been looking at developing my idea/ideas for Flow - Course by drawing out some very quick idea sheets on layout paper. Trying to both establish the idea and develop some sort of order.
As explained here before, i would like to follow the journey of life and the choices we make. I have had a look at some of my inspirational "Road movies" like Kalifornia, O' Brother, Where Art Thou, Duel and Once Upon A Time In The West to get some ideas on how to demonstrate it. (see above for video clips)
My first idea being that of an old American road movie. The view out of the windscreen as you drive down the long, straight roads of the American highways.
As explained here before, i would like to follow the journey of life and the choices we make. I have had a look at some of my inspirational "Road movies" like Kalifornia, O' Brother, Where Art Thou, Duel and Once Upon A Time In The West to get some ideas on how to demonstrate it. (see above for video clips)
My first idea being that of an old American road movie. The view out of the windscreen as you drive down the long, straight roads of the American highways.
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