June 2009
24 posts
Vimeo Clip →
Finally finished
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...
WatchI’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.
All done
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 the 30 second audio clip I mixed up. It...
Cutting it close
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...
WatchAlmost 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.
Time to get serious
Alright, its a new day and a new idea. We were going to reshoot the images for our whole clip to replace all the dud, out of focus, poorly lit, images. When you’re taking 300 or so images it’s hard to get them all perfect. So we have a day to go and are currently busting our chops to restart and finish this.
Since we were going to reshoot 300 or so images anyway, we decided...
Almost hand in
Dave took a massive amount photos for our intro and (outro) at his flat today using his flatmate as a handmodel. From here we need to bust out the body of the clip, including some satellite photos, and edit it all together. Progress.
We also decided to add a lipstick kiss mark on the plane, to add a bit more character and make the plane’s communication subject a little more obvious.
Back to business
Dave and I got together last weekend to film our clip. Hmmm… this did not really eventuate. We set out at full momentum to crack on with our clip and ended up being stalled by the amazing weather that Wellington turned on for us. We did, however, manage to make a super awesome new paper plane mach 3.
We had a solid idea, all ready to be filmed, so we decided to resume the next good...
WatchOur remade clip from today.
More added to clip
During today’s studio session Dave and I set out to make the second half of our test clip. We found a quiet house not far from campus and took some frames of our plane. The weather was perfect so image quality was a lot better. This half of the clip includes a few interactions the plane with its environment - including an upside down loop, skip along a seat, and squeeze through some bars....
WatchThis is the test clip Dave and I made this afternoon. If you look closely you will see Dave make a few cameos.
Plane takes its second test flight
Dave and I spent this afternoon making our second test clip for our paper plane.
Loooking at the complexity of our most recent storyboard we decided to dismiss the idea of having several paper planes and just stick with following one as we originally planned.
Feeling a little uninspired, we decided to just get stuck in and shoot some images of the plane in flight in town and let it take us from...
May 2009
11 posts
WatchDave made a handheld paper plane rig. He tested it out in this short clip. This works and really gives the plane a character. The only trouble is that you see the wire.
Weekend planning
Over the weekend Dave and I met to discuss our clip. We had a solid idea, using the paper plane. We just needed to decide how we were going to make it.
We were unsure how we were going to make the paper plane ‘fly’ around the city. Obviously we couldn’t throw a plane in every frame, that would just be a waste of time.
We came up with the idea of taking several still photos of a...
Backing music
Background music will be a vital component of our clip. With the pace and content of our clip we think that we will be using something quite jazzy.
I spoke to the guys from Wellington’s Harbour City Electric and they said they wouldn’t mind if we used an excerpt of one of their songs.
Alternatively, I have the equipment to make music through my computer. This could mean that we make...
Storyboard refined
After our second class session we decided to refine our idea a bit. Our paper plane will still fly around the city but as it flies it will pass and meet other paper planes in a ‘stream of communication’. This will give a physical form to a communication in transition.
As our plane flies down a street, other paper planes will emerge from shops and houses. A plane leaving a shop may be...
First storyboard created
During today’s class session my work partner Dave and I came up with our first storyboard. We spent most of the session discussing a few ideas and if they would work. We wanted an outcome that was a tangible way of communicating our interpetation of communication.
The storyboard we created started with the idea of a communication being transformed or personalised in the process of going...
WatchHere is another clip which I found particularly relevant. It is a clip that we were shown in a lecture recently. I can see that in our stop motion clip we will probably need a few different styles of transition between scenes. In this clip we see transitions between scenes by moving between locations in a house, layering of images, and moving from flat image planes to 3D.
Things to consider for video clip
Since we are making a stop motion style video clip I have to consider, when is a stop motion clip not stop motion?
In the initial stop motion exercise we did in class we used over 160 images in 15 seconds. This works out to be close to 11 Frames per second. Our project three clip is suppose to be 25 - 40 seconds long. For a stop motion clip of that length we are looking at around about a total of...
Project three begins
The class was given the brief for project three on Thursday. We have to develop a short stop motion clip that reinterprets Nokia’s role of ‘Connecting People’.
We began the class session thinking about general ways in which we communicate. I was amazed when I realised how many ways we communicate and interpret or infer communications. At the basic human/animal level we use...