Today after a lot of messing around we maneged to start transferring the video from the camars to the computers.
This was something we should have been prepared for because no one in my team had any experience in using Adobe Premier and none of us knew that the video transfer would take up so much hard drive space luckily the tutor had an external hard disc with a terabyte (1024Gig) of space on it this was extremely helpful as it meant we could transfer all of the video footage to the computers ready for editing together.

Today we learnt about using Adobe Premier Pro i found this a bit overwealming at first but after 5 minutes of playing with it i quickly realised how simple it can be to use
the thing to remember about Premier is its all about the set up, if this is done incorectly then nothing will work properly.
After learning the basics i started looking in to special effects and how to work with them this lead on to finding how to add subtitels.

For the start of the day we traveled around Brighton filming scenes for our video documentary. After gathering a few shots of empty buildings ready for parts of the voice over we moved on to interviewing a friend named Sid and altho he was a bit tired from where we had woken him up for the interview. However the interview went extremely well we even gathered some shots of his dogs.
After this we headed to st James street to try to get some shots of a Big Issue seller but on the way we stoped to take some shots of the police station this was funny as the police (who still haven't contacted us to give us there official stance on squatting) were very quick to come out of the station to check what we were up to. After showing them our IDs to prove that we were not terrorists we continued to st James street only to have the one Big Issue seller refuse to be on film but we did find a busker that was happy to be filmed as we dropped some change guitar case this was a very good shot in my opinion.
We then continued to travel Brighton looking for Big issue sellers and empty buildings. we found a homeless person near the train station that was willing to be filmed as we handed him some lose change this again was a good shot in my opinion.
after we returned to college we had a quick review of what we had filmed before going on to the roof of the Pelham tower to get a nice high shot of Brighton.
the plan is that tomorrow we will gather a few more shots of homeless and squatters to fill up the video and we will also have a panning shot of some information on a table this will be done in the library.
just before the end of the day we had a bit of a panic as we thought that we had filmed over the interview luckily for us this was not the case we just didn't know how to operate the cameras replay function.

Today my group and i whent out location scouting useing a digital camra i maneged to start geting a feel for the scenes and the camra angels that we would use

i was amazed at how the same scene from a difrent angel can give the vewer a diffrent perspective on things

later on in the day i scaned in some of the notes that had been taken throughout the day. While they are basic they are still useful for the group to base some of our ideas of.

Now while these may look like scribels on a bit of scrap paper they are actualy important notes and plans that i have been making based on the group discusions between our group.

Video Production
for this unit we will be creating a short film
things seemed to have changed for this unit as we don't have to do a mass of research which is sort of strange as i had become used to doing research.
we have all been put in to groups and i am in a group that I'm happy with(Me, Luke, Paul and Liam)
today we started on the pre-production part here is my proposal sheet

With a bit more planing we should be able to create a good documentary.

First day back.
Today we have had our first day back after Easter (thank god my sisters kids have gone back) and i jumped straight back in to work
I am enjoying animation and have already completed my final animation it did change alot from the first few ideas i had but im much happyer with it than i was my first few atempts.

I am very happy with how it turned out even the tutor was happy with the final animation and congratulated me on how well it looked.

Lately we have been working on our animation for this task i have been putting in a 110%
my animation has come a long way since i first drew up the story boards

we were shown how to use the "classic tween" and now there is no stopping me. i already had a good idea of how key frames worked form my work with 3d animation and modeling but creating a cartoon is somewhat different and has given me a new appreciation of how frames work. after the Easter holidays i should have 2 working animations in 2 different styles using different techniques.