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Finally finished my final video and the website. All up and running now. Didn't run into any more major problems which is great.
Only took two sleepless nights to get everything finished.
The website is based around a news room and links to my main site and my other 211 assignments.
Project Three Webpage
After the presentations we were given 3 more days to finish our projects before the final hand in.
I got home the night after presentations to find that my external had been corrupted when ‘somebody’, not naming names, ejected it from the Mac we were doing presentations on incorrectly. So that’s great. Most of the work I had is gone. I managed to get some back and will have to do my best to finish from what I have.
I no longer have the high quality renders so all the rendering that I will do from now will not be as good as they could have been.
I stayed up all night before the presentation trying to get as much done for the presentation as I could. I didn’t manage to get all of the tracking done, or the closing credits, or the title for the reporter when he first comes on screen. And the film is still very dark. I tried to correct this but everything I tried made the film really grainy. I would rather have the film be dark than look shitty like that so I kept it dark.
A couple of weeks previous the tutor Naomi suggested to bring in cake for the presentation. I thought it would be a good idea since it fit my assignment so nicely and so I went to Arobake that morning and bought a cake.
The feedback for my documentary I thought was quite good. I told Naomi that I wanted to reshoot the opening scene as it was really dark and raining at the time but she said she liked it how it was so I decided against it.
I was worried that people wouldn’t find it funny. But they seemed to laugh a bit so it should be all good.
On to the editing. After sifting through all the takes of each scene and finding the most suited ones for the documentary I stuck them all together, this was all done in avid. Along with the boosting of sound and some colour fixes.
I noticed that some of the scenes were quite dark; particularly the sign off at the end by the reporter and the beginning when the drug dealer is being tracked down. I may have to do some reshooting.
I took the compiled sequence into After Effects for the final stages of the editing. The tracking of the black square on the drug dealer’s eyes was very time consuming because the film is quite dark. I had to do most of it frame by frame.
I had a few troubles rendering from After Effects - A lot of troubles really. Most of the time when I tried to render it would get about 90% done and then crash. This happened at least 20 times throughout the whole process. Really annoying considering that it takes about half an hour to render up to 90% anyway.
After writing out my script I hired to camera to do some filming. The only night that everyone was free it happened to be raining which was unfortunate but we had to go with it. This resulted in some of the opening sequences to be quite quiet to try and get rid of the background noise.
The third project for my 211 paper is about making a documentary. After thinking it over I decided to take a slightly different approach than most people by doing a mockumentary. There are difficulties involved with this though. For one I would have to write an actual script rather than just a plain interview, and I would have to get people to act in it.
The topic for the documentary I’m choosing to do is cake. Basically I’m taking every day cake and making it out to be a hard drug.
Initially I intended the documentary to be an overview into the cake drug but then I decided to narrow the scope down and do an inside view of the drug from someone who sells and uses ‘cake’ and have a tour around the place that they do all this.
The blurb which I have added on the webpage for my handin.
Just explaining what the assignment was about and how I decided to go about it.
'Assignment two for my 211 paper: “Site/Non Site”
The site I chose to explore is located down Lambton Quay in Wellington. I decided to explore the areas in and around a tunnel in the city and focused on movement, light, shadow, reflection and the echoing sounds that are heard in tunnels. I used numbering on the walls of the tunnel as a central focus, which counted down from 10 throughout the video.'
I finished creating my webpage using a screenshot from the video as a central image.
I would of wanted to make the video fit the same perpective as the tunnel image that I've used as a background, but I couldn't get it working correctly.
I ran into quite a few difficulties actually getting the video up on to the web. It would work whenever I previewed it in dreamweaver but wouldn't load when I went to my website. After about 4 hours trying to fix this, moving files around on the server, changing code, using different templates, I finally managed to get it going.
I've finished editing my video and I'm happy with the final result. I have numbers counting down from 10 throughout the video to keep a constant theme going.
I've used 5 or 6 layers of film at any one time in the video, while it was in aftereffects I had 32 layers going at once, but that was all compiled down to do some extra editing.
After a few set backs and delays with the starting of filming I've finally been able to go out and capture some film for the project.
The camera I was planning on borrowing ended up breaking a day before I was going to use it so I ended up borrowing one from the shop.
The video is being recorded into avid at the moment and should hopefully be ready to start editing from tonight. Some re-recording of sound may need to be done.
The area that I've chosen to explore for the second project of 211 is located down Lambton Quay in Wellington. I have chosen to explore the areas in and around tunnels in the city and look into things like sound, light, movement, shadow and maybe the path that people take. I hope to use either at least three tunnels or just one tunnel but explore it at three different times. It could be a combination of both though.
Then by editing them together, make it look like one tunnel that ends in all different areas. I hope to do this by following behind people through the tunnel, then looking down and then up into another area with the same person in front of me. This will enable me to keep a constant focus in the video and make it seem like the same place, only different, almost like a never-ending tunnel.
One of the main things that I want to focus on in the project is the light and shadow, maybe at different times of the day and I was thinking of artificially creating some of each to create a different mood during the video than you would normally see just by walking down the tunnel.
I want to do some exploration of sound as well because the effects tunnels can have on sound are always interesting, like echoes, the sounds coming into the tunnel while you are inside them and some aspects of it like that.
After the hand in this morning I found out that I misunderstood what was required in the crediting of the clips that we used. Instead of putting them on the web page that I created I'm posting them to my blog.
The clips that I made are under a public domain license for free use by others.
All the videos that I used in the creation of my three clips were public domain, below there are links to each one that I used.
Atom Bomb 1946
Boys Beware
Night of the Living Dead
Operation 1955
What to do in a Zombie Attack
Your Name 1960
I put together the third iteration for the remixing assignment. I've taken audio from three sources and put it behind short clips portraying what the audio behind it is saying.
I also set up my website to display the first iteration which I chose as my final clip.
I made an image of blood on a bluish background, cut it out and placed the video over the top with a description. I offset all of this to the left side of the browser just for a slightly different effect than a usual web page displaying such a small amount of content.
I had a bit of trouble getting my final clip to resize correctly but got there in the end.
Final clips and website are in the handin folder.
I started on my second iteration which is a educational film about avoiding zombies. I got most of the content for this clip from an old educational film about avoiding pedophiles (only instead of saying pedophiles they say homosexuals; it's serious, but it's quite old so it's based on out of date views).
The clip starts with a boy going over to a car with a man in it, he hops in and the boy and the man go fishing. The voice over is changed to be about zombies rather than 'homosexuals'.
I put the sound of the voice over only coming out through one channel to put more emphasis on when "zombie(s)" is said. ("Zombie(s)" comes out through both sound channels).
I decided to go with a theme zombies, maybe zobie educational films or zombie public service announcements or something like that and started my first iteration. When I changed computer to do more work my sequence was corrupted and I had to start from scratch.
Not cool.
After another six or so hours I've finished the first iteration. It's better than the original, but I have no proof of that. Just take my word for it.
The first iteration starts with a man introducing the clip and he says how they're planning to blow up all the zombies with nukes; a zombie is shown in a house which is then destroyed by a nuclear explosion.
All the clips and sounds that I've used so far have been public domain.
I've collected a range of videos for the first project of 211, including some cartoons, war footage and propaganda, early video advertising and documentaries.
Thinking about combining the video with one type with the audio of another to convey the idea that I'm trying to show. Still not 100% on what that idea will be.
In the first project for the digital media design paper '211' cinematics, we need to create 3 30sec iterations of a clip portraying a theme or idea. I've collected a handful of videos to use for this from the website www.archive.org. Most are under the creative commons licence "Public Domain" which mean s I can use them however I want.
I'm still deciding how I'm going to use the clips and what my overall theme will be.
The article ‘Remix and Remixability’ discuses the idea that remixing ideas, media, technology and design is one of the most important part of advancing our culture and society.
The concept of it has been used since technology was fist conceived and is fundamental for our advancement into the future, as it has been for generations before us.
I look today at all the copyright laws that are being put through governments and organisations and the only positive that can be seen is the money it will make for these groups. For the larger part of the world the idea of copyrighting and restricting creative freedom is going to do nothing but hold us back.
The article also brings up the idea of remixing media in the future in a world where copyright issues will not be a problem. Combining information in a modular form that can be put together quickly by us and then read and interpreted easily by computers to create new forms of the previous design. Ahead of it’s time at the moment but I good idea to consider.
My composite image outlines my daily trip to university.
Photos of ground surfaces and shoes along the way show interaction with people and the evolvement of the journey in this real life network.
Photos of ground surfaces and shoes along the way show interaction with people and the evolvement of the journey in this real life network.
Video of my legs' trip to University each day. Super fast. Shows the process of making my composite image.
Music by Sublime.
The third experiment, 104 in trimester one, 'Navigation', involved creating an environment in 'unreal editor'. The area consisted of a section above, below and on a terrain.
I modelled my environment on a child’s bedroom at an extreme size, the 'on' area being the bed covers which were set up as a bumpy terrain; the 'below' area underneath the bed was dark and messy. The 'above' area set on a shelf above the bed consisted of giant toys, books and a Lego castle.
I modelled my environment on a child’s bedroom at an extreme size, the 'on' area being the bed covers which were set up as a bumpy terrain; the 'below' area underneath the bed was dark and messy. The 'above' area set on a shelf above the bed consisted of giant toys, books and a Lego castle.
The child’s bedroom theme enabled me to create three different areas while keeping a consistent environmental setting.
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