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.

Thursday

Today we started on our story boards for our animations i felt this was a bit of a fun exercise as i instantly had an idea for a character.
I decided that my character would be named Stressed Dave and he will get more and more stressed until his head explodes.
This character was taken from my flip book that we all had to create at the beginning of the day.


I think that when it comes to animating it i will keep to this colour scheme because of how simple the characters are i don't want to flood the viewer with unnecessary bright colours.

Today we had Sarah Strickett to teach us about animation she started of by letting us know about her history within the animation industry for one thing she helped on the show 2DTV that was a very funny cartoon
later we went on to have a look at the persistence of motion
the persistence of motion is an optical illusion that works on the idea that things can move faster than the eye can perceive
for example on one side of a piece of card a picture of a man with his hand out like he is holding something, on the other side of the card is the item that the man is holding. When the piece of card is flipped from one side to the other and back at a fast rate then the man would appear to be holding the item.

ANIMATION

Today we started a new unit for animation as always we stared with our research that includes looking in to the history of animation and already i have learnt that animation started a long time ago back in 180AD in china but the need to animate started way before that by cave men. after having a quick class discussion about animation we all sat down to watch "Steam Boat Willy"

from my understanding of animation it is a series of images played in a sequence at a speed that the human eye cant distinguish between the changing of images

we spent the rest of the day looking in to all aspects of animation from stop frame to time lapse and all other forms in between.

on another note my tutor John surgested that i watch "Koyaanisqatsi" so i will try to get a hold of this on my day of.