Different fashion icons influence most students who attend ‘City of
Westminster College’ such as mainstream celebrities like Rihanna, Chris Brown
and Kanye West who has anticipated in creating an A-list fashion line for celebrities.
As a group we will be interviewing several students around the college asking
them about the latest affordable fashion and analysing their outfit (where they
got each item of clothing from and prices).
Thursday, 21 June 2012
Zoetrope
I am going to explain the process of using the zoetrope method.
Zoetrope is a cylinder optical toy with numerous slits with a series of images on the inner surface, when reviewed the cylinder rotating, it gives an impression of the images moving in a continues motion, scanning through the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together so that the user sees a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, the equivalent of a moton picture. When looking over the cylinder optical toy instead of looking through the slits you cannot see the pattern.
Jordan: Producer, Actor/ Rapper, Camera Man, Location Scout
Production Diary
Week 1: Discussed and chose the song in which we will be using in our music video and allocted our job roles, understanding what specific roles we will be doing in the music video.(15 Minute discssion)
Week 2: Discussed and developed mind maps of different music genres suggesting intial and final ideas.
Week 3: Developed our final ideas into a storyboard of what specific movements and actions that will be happening whilst filming our music video.
Week 4: Filming Music Video
Week 5: Continue all asspects of filming and begin to edit the music video on final cut pro.
Week 6: Complete all editing and written work. We will then post our video on youtube and show our class to recieve constructive feedback.
Mind Map
Story Board
Scene 1: An establishing over the sholder shot of the music video being watched onj a mobile phone, and Sheniz's boyfriend (Rusher) is angry that she is with another guy. The camera then zooms into the mobile phone and the music video will begin to play.
Scene 2: Shot reverse shot of Jordan and Sheniz at song opening establishing the scenery. Sheniz then starts with the song chorus. -Jordan then raps to the camera on his doorstep.
Scene 3: Sheniz will then be singing to the camera and will be walking down a deserted road portraying different angels and camera shots (portraying her confidence).
Scene 4: Jordan does his rap whilst walking down the street after Sheniz but she is unaware that he is following her.
Scene 5: Jordan then grabs Sheniz's hand and walks infront of a car where we have a slight romantic dance and Sheniz sings to Jordan displaying her love for him. This will be transitioned with a short clip when Sheniz is with her boyfriend (Rusher) and catches her eye with Jordan but gets pulled away.
Music Video
Monday, 28 May 2012
CWC INDENT
Evaluation
In class sue gave us the task to create a ident specific for City of Westminster College, our group consisted of Raymond, Alessandra, Shaniz and Me (Jordan).
To begin our ident for our college we had to begin with critical planning of initial ideas of what we wanted to include. We then created 3 mind maps of all our ideas and then deciding on the best one to use. I believe that I managed my time very constructively as I tried to keep myself busy at all times and asking members of my group if they need help whenever signs of struggle appeared. I rate myself a 4 as I was absent once throughout this task meaning the production process of our ident was slowed down.
I therefore rated my group 5 out of 5 as they where always ready and keen to keep on working, even when I was absent they filled me in with any idea changes that was made on that day and also asked for my input. Our college ident very much related to the design brief as we included different areas of work that the college educates, and also including the college name and logo.
In our animation we included the clay mation technique which is a technique we learnt how to use and evaluate in class, so we decided to include a morph interacting with a college student so that our ident relates to not only a younger target audience but an older target audience, we received feedback from our fellow classmates and said that they 'Really enjoyed the ident' but we also received negative feedback as the morph put his middle finger up which is very inappropriate and could be changed by including another shot of the morph or blanking out the morph hand.
What I would do differently? The things that i would do differently is include more areas of animation techniques to showcase our talents and make the college ident even more interesting to watch and eye catchy. We also needed to include a shot which appears to be missing which is the transition the the classroom door to the desk as comments on the video, this was addressed. I believe as a group we worked very well and I would defiantly chose the same people again to work with.
What
is Gumbasia animation? Gumbasia animation is
the first created clay animation created by Art Clokey produced in 1953, which
consisted of a 3-minute short clip conveying several different shapes which
their size and angels are manipulated creating an abstract feel.
As a pair, we where given the task to
create a short a clay animation using the gumbasia technique. The first area in
which we needed to tackle was the actual theme we wanted our clay animation to
be based on, which meant critical thinking had to come into play and also
analysing previous gumbasia animations so that we where aware of the types of
movement we could undertake. After evaluating several clips we then began to
create our characters using clay relating to our initial ideas of a
conversation between a child and a student. We then used the software
istopmotion to take individual snap shots to create our clay- mation at each
movement made by our characters to indicate flowing movement. I believe the
amount of ideas generated by the group helped the creation process, but
throughout the development stage, some members of our team skived away from
working together meaning our animation wouldn’t be completed on time scheduled.
What
is Aardman Animation? Aardman animation is a
British based animation studio. The studio based in Bristol is famously known
for films created using stop- motion clay animation techniques; characters such
has Wallace and Gromit where invented by this production company. The company
was founded in 1972 and began producing short animated motion pictures for the BBC; and currently the company is working on a larger scale Aardman production company
have been announced to create 12 shorts films using the Nintendo DSi studio.
Morph created by Aardman animation is a children's character created from clay mainly directed at deaf children as the animation uses sounds sounds instead of actual words. There are several strengths with using clay animation as you can animate and manipulate the clay morph character easily and can easily be remolded, there are also disadvantages as creating the animation is very time consuming as individually images have to be taking of each slight piece of movement toconvey a change in its transition.
Creating our morph for our animation was very time consuming as there was limitations to what we could make as we didnt have enough time and lack of experience in creating our morph. Whilst filming our morph animation we came across several obsitcals when the clay got very warm and the characters arms and legs where breaking of evidently meaning remaking our morphs several times.
The difference between our cut-out animation and morph animation is that we where restricted with our imagination as cut out animation meant we had to work with a flat surface and not being able to make our character turn 360 degrees. In my own
opinion I don't think that there is a big difference in using clay animation or
cut out animation because you are using the same techniques, but one type of animation is using clay and
the other one is with paper.
If i was given this task again, the things I would do differently is plan my time wisely and create a story board of what will be happening in the animation so that half way through I dont forget what the animation is about and not skiving of and talking to friends so that i could get all work completed on time.
