Lighting seminar

On thursdays seminar we discussed and practised lighting in films. we learnt that lighting plays a big part in film and we learnt that there are 3 key lights.


3 point lights which include:
- key light (hard)
- back light (hard)
- fill light (soft)

Three main properties of light:
-Coherence (quality)
-Colour temperature (colour)
-Intensity (strength)


after learning this in our groups we was set the exercise to create a day light inviroment setting in a studio and to evidence it in a short interview.


heres our examples;

Structuring my new website

when creating my new website first i thought of what information i wanted to get across then structured the design around it.

1.Logo
I placed my logo in the top left hand corner of the page because users  read from left to right then top to bottom and that's how they mostly view websites. so it made seance to put my logo in that position.

 
2. Tagline
Having a tagline allows the users to gasp a rough overal idea of what the page is about and what the designer (i.e me can do).

3. Portfolio
This is a good way in showing off your best bits off work mostly used in a banner. this can help draw the viewer in.

4. Services
My tagline was a quick discription of what i do. but this part takes them headers and expands them into more depth.

5. Call of action
These are links i have placed in certain areas of my page to try and keep the user viewing then can be links to anything I.e Read more, Contact me, View Portfolio.

6. Social Networking
Adding social networking links into my website allows the user to follow me and see what projects im working on and my design process. it also lets them speak to me alot easier then sending me emails.

7. About me
with all portfolio you have an about me this allows the user to read a little me  and maybe understand how you work, what qualifications you have and were your from.  Its a little along the lines of a cv becuase your trying to sell yourself and your services.

after this process comes the fun part designing the website.

Our final idea for the One shot film

after taking into account what Deborah said over the weekend each of us in the group thought of ideas to add to this storyline for the final one shot & also think of a few new ideas. 


So today we discussed our one shot film. We've decided to stick with the original idea of two people meeting up in the park to hand over a package. Then with what Deborah told us about adding a twist we decided to make the twist into a birthday surprise.

Here is the story board for this;

Our practise run at one shot

On Friday we filmed our idea. We tried the idea from 5 different angles & these 2 videos were the best & most effective of them all:






after showing our example to the class Deborah said if we went on to have this for our final piece something twisted / unexpected could happen to make it more entertaining / gripping. Over the weekend each of us in the group are going to think of ideas to add to this storyline for the final one shot & also think of a few new ideas. We will then discuss them in the next seminar to see which we think will work best.

One shot film

today we were split into groups to start our one shot film. Our first task is to create a rough One shot film to get us into the hang of planning and doing risk assessments.

our group decide to create a spy theme after discussing it while walking round the arboureton park although we haven't fully thought through who will be doing what but we have came up with the location of were we are shooting, the story were are trying to get across.

Outline of the story
the film will start off with someone sitting on a bench looking very suspecious while another person walks up carrying a bag. they then sit next to him. there's a  pause as he looks around to see if theyre being watched then the person gets back up only to walk away leaving the bag. the other person who was already sat their then grabs the bag and walks of in the other direction.

but then we couldnt decide either to just leave it their or have the guy look in the bag only to realise that some things missing then going back to confront the other person. were therefore the story conflicts drama.


we came up with a quick risk assessment to try at determine if it was safe and the risk we fount were;
Wet ground
dips in the pavement
steps
camera equipment

all the risks are not very dangerous and nobody should get hurt as it is a very straight forward film.

Here are two example along the lines  of  what we intend to create;

Bad Design

 Billy Connoly's website (bad design)

My Version of good design

Here’s my 300 word rationale on animation.

For the animation project we have been asked to create a Station Ident that represents ourself. For this assignment I decided to create a music advert because music is a big part of me. First I did a lot of research on station idents to try and determining which ones stood out to me after gathering afew adverts I put pen to paper and started creating a storyboard trying to imagine how I want my station ident to go. I wanted my station ident to have a maximum impact on my target audience what was the music scene.

After searching for Ideas I found a text explosion effect what I found visually effective and generates a sense of excitement. So that gave me the idea to add an explosion. Then I decided to make the text hidden in some boxes at first what fly in only to explode to reveal the text. After this main part of the ident was complete I wanted it to say tv next to the text what has just appeared. but thinking about it more I came to a conclusion after watching bbc2s station ident that I was going to have a tv on wheels that came speeding and skidding up to the text.

Although I finished my animation in 3d max with added lightings to give it shade I wanted to go into more depth with it. So I imported it into after affects and added a sky in the fourground what moves as the ident plays and also added a few effects like curve, blur to make the scene more in-depth.

After I finished creating my animation I imported it into adobe after effects were I added sky in the foreground what moved as the ident played and also added afew more effect like curve what changes the lighting and shading to make the scene look impact. Then I exported and imported it into première were I would go on to adding sound effects.

Here are the videos I watched to get some inspiration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx7KBADbhpQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnsVrkqrcl4&feature=fvw

I really struggled to try and make this a 30second animation because slowing it down ruins the effect and there’s nothing else I can really add to this. But here it is I have uploaded to versions of it the first one showing the ident and the second showing how it would work if it was a real tv station.

         My station ident

      


      My station ident real life example 

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