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.
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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.
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
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.
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