Thursday, 18 February 2010

Suzie Final Production 18th Feb 10

Today was the day that we filmed our show.. I think that the message was portrayed and that the overall result was good. I enjoyed the process although found it quite challenging at times.. I think me and Helen worked well as a team and are overall very pleased!!

See you soon.. Thanks Suzie xx

Suzie 11th February 2010

Hellooo...
Last week i thought i had updated my blog but it hadnt saved so here doing it agin!! last week, Myself and Helen set ourselves the task of adding the sounds and visual additions to our film.. We found it difficult to sort out what sounds went where and how to change the sound half way through.. We found this to be a big problem so in the end we decided to keep the original music throughout the clip.. We added some visual effects such as smoke and fire to our film which really brought home the drink driving message.
I am pleased with how our film has turned out but think if we did this again i would approach the filming aspect differently. we filmed ours using the camera and not the on screen button but after some editing we managed to make our film playable although it is not very smooth.
I think we worked well as a team and are pleased with the final film.
Hopefully filming will go well and the message will be clearly portrayed.
Fingers Crossed!!
xx

Thursday, 11 February 2010

Suzie - 4th Feb 10

Hello... Myself and Helen come into uni this week (reading week) in order to crack on with the filming of our project and see if we can complete this stage in order to edit the film and add our sound effects appropriately.. We are hoping that by doing this, this will enable us to finish our film within the next lesson ready for filming.
We first started by making sure our props were made and finished and then proceeded to filming. Our character, named Britney, is first filmed dancing at a disco hall. The film shows our character dancing and drinking bottles of beer all night. Eventually, Britney drinks so much that she becomes sick and is unable to stand up. The film continues with Britney going outside to her car and trying to get in and drive away. Following a series of unfortunate events the film ends with the car crashing into a tree and Britney being thrown from the car.
The plan for next week is as i said before, to add sound effects and general touch ups.
We are also going to highlight the dangers of drinkdriving with some statistics of drink driving..

Bye byeeee x

Thursday, 10 December 2009

Suzie - 10th December 2009

Today is our final lesson before christmas. Myself and Helen have decided that we are going to change our topic to drink driving rather than the carbon footprint issues at the moment. We think this will be simpler in the long run given the time span we have left to complete the assignment.
In the lesson today, we completed our backgrounds and models ready for filming in the next session which is around the 8th of February 2010. We designed the 2 film sets that we are going to use: 1) disco room showing woman dancing and 2) a road scene with tree and fence. In that lesson we are planning to film our topic and edit that during the follwing week ready for presentation.
I am really pleased with what we have obtained today and am looking forward to the next process.

Chow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Lecture 3 - Mandy Nov 19th

Hellooo....
We've arrived at the first of Mandy's lessons and so far so good.
We are evaluating Opus presentation made by other students as im guessing were going to have to make a similar version for our project. First thought is that this will be challenging but fun and hopefully we'll be able to make a good presentation.
Having evaluated a project, i think it will be fun to try and make our own. Fingers Crossed!!

Thursday, 12 November 2009

Stop Motion Animation

12th November 2009
Hellooooo..

Having missed our first session, i was very confused after hearing a mixture of things about what the lecture would entail. However, after speaking to Suzie, i found out alot more information and think that the animation process will be fun. Myself and Helen, my partner, have discussed a number of possible themes for our animation and have decided that it would be good to explore the carbon footprint and relate our theme around what we already know.

We have designed a brief storyboard which outlines our ideas and thoughts and have been jotting down a few ideas of materials of what to use in our film. We have discussed sounds and backgrounds but will explore this in more detail at a later date.

I am looking forward to the next couple of lessons and getting our film up and running. I am also looking forward to keeping this blog up to date as its something i have never done before.

When i find relevant information for our project i will post it on here!

Byee Byeee for now :) x