Our final clip is now online and viewable. Throughout the course of the last couple of weeks our ideas have changed and our clips with it. A lot of development, testing, and trial and error went into creating our final clip. However, I think we could still develop it more. I would include cleaner transitions, tidier cropping and superimposing, more considered Google Earth photo captures, more considered environments for our actors to be superimposed on, and also add something extra into the Google Earth images - such as lines showing transit.

Our clip gives a tangible form to communication. Most types of communication are virtual or mysterious. I doubt that many people would know what happens after you click a send button or even put a letter in the post. Of course, our clip is not possible, but it is something that people will immediately relate to.

I’ve uploaded our final clip to Vimeo, Youtube and Flickr. Vimeo and Youtube both have queues for video processing. Flickr has uploaded first time and is available there.

This is one of the images we spent the morning photoshopping and superimposing. This series of shots makes up our intro component.

You immediately recognise the bucket fountain as a piece of Wellington culture, just as you recognise Banksy’s graphitti as English culture. Dave, seen making a cameo here, captures a message about Wellington and sends it off to Jack in England, on the other side of the world.

After an epic morning remaking our intro and partially fixing our movie clip skipping problem we are done. Link to be posted as soon as it finishes uploading to Vimeo.

This is one of the images that I superimposed Jack onto. He is getting ready to catch an incoming paper plane. We chose the Banksy wall to be our background because it is a little iconic in England, the place that Jack is receiving the paper plane. Also, I spent hours photoshopping Jack out of studio images. If we wanted to just superimpose people in front of a house, why not just shoot in front of a house. It would be much faster. So after so much photoshop work Dave suggested we may as well superimpose Jack over something is a little quirky or outrageous. Jack looks obviously superimposed in these images. This is because it creates a clear difference between what we see in the clip as the topic and what is background. When shooting our original paper plane idea flying around the city sometimes it was hard to distinguish between what we wanted the audience to see - background or plane foreground.

This is the 30 second audio clip I mixed up. It may resemble parts of M.I.A.’s paper planes song. It has a consistent pace which should make it a steady choice for our audio.

Dave and I had a serious session working on this today. We had many objectives: to have a paper plane being passed fom location to location with different people, to create a basic tune for our clip, to gather images for the body of our clip from google earth, and altogether process them in photoshop for final production.

Dave took photos of classmates acting as plane passers against a blank wall in the photolab. We planned to superimpose them on top of their location, i.e. a landmark in India etc.

I spent hours processing photos of our volunteer, Jack, to be the final scene in our clip. From this, 36 good final images of him were produced, which can be seen featured in the last part of our clip. He is superimposed in front of a famous piece of British design by Banksy. We are very grateful that Jack took the time out from his own work to help us with our clip. Unfortunately, we don’t have a huge amount of time to superimpose the other ‘actors’ into our clip. We are still very grateful for their help also. We will still see our message bounce from country to country across the globe.

I also took roughly 170 images from Google Earth which span across countries. We had the intention of applying lines on top of the images to show the path our plane has travelled.

I also made a quick mix up of a song which may sound similar to M.I.A.’s song ‘paper planes’. We thought this tune would give us an obvious cheesy humour effect.

Early tomorrow we plan to add additional frames to our beginning and end to provide a less confusing storyline.

Almost there. This is the clip of what we have produced so far today. Will fix up some things before hand in at midday tomorrow. For some unknown reason frames tend to get ‘stuck’ in windows movie maker. In the part of this clip that explores the Earth there are 170 or so frames. However, due to an error in the program we only see half of these as the rest get skipped.