Skip to main content

Pixilation

The day started off in the base room, the randomness of where we start the day always confuses me. Maybe there is a routine but it's not something I've picked up on. Annabeth told us the actual function of tilt shift, my stupid self thought it was just an Instagram filter. The effect was strongest from above and gave the illusion that everything as toys, I'm still confused on how that it actually worked but it could be something we use in the city brief when we start working on it. She then showed use some videos using pixilation such as a Peter Gabriel music video which I thought was directed brilliantly, she also mentioned that Jan Svankmajer also used this technique, which makes sense because pixilation is essentially the stop motion illusion in real life.



Darkness Light Darkness (1990) by Jan Svankmajer (mp4 360p) from Ron Schijfs on Vimeo.

 I was sitting in the back next to Indya and we got separated into groups so we got paired up which i was quite happy with because I hadn't been in a group with Indya yet. However we needed two more members and Annabeth gave us Kez and Keiran, something I knew it would not work out great as they don't get along. I get Kez is hard for people to tolerate and understand but he doesn't tell anyone he's autistic and I think it help the situation so much if he did. He didn't help the situation at all as he basically refused to work, same went for Keiran who didn't want to work either, so we just left them to participate when they felt like it.


Image result for do some work meme

 Me and Indya weren't too bothered and we just started brainstorming ideas, and we decided that using paper elements would be easiest while also giving a good visual effect. The idea we initially had was to unzip a jacket and have paper organs fall out, but we kind of realised that it would difficult to do in the small amount of time we had so we refined to it so that the guy has a broken heart.  I tried to force Kez to the actor for the video, and he surprisingly agreed but he was too tall and was moving too quickly for the effect to look good. Indya was already on camera duty so it was left to me to be the actor, and I think I did it well but I was smiling in some frames so my face was kind of jumping around. I was so glad to have Indya in my group because I don't know if I could haven't handled Kez and Kerian without her. After shooting we took a break and some guy approached us asking to be part of an audience for this radio demo they were doing in 10 minutes, we went and it was some truth or lie game. It was pretty amusing but because they didn't seem to know what to do and they were all super nervous. If they did it again I would definitely go again because I didn't get to do my truth or lie but I won the general knowledge section and won a degree so I guess I don't be to come to university anymore. Also when Annabeth was showing us how to composit the images in Premiere, she stressed earlier not to delete frames because it be a headache later. The only group who didn't delete frames was ours and that as because Indya was on camera duty and we finished our work even before Annabeth had finished the lecture.



Pixelation. from Indya Naylor on Vimeo.

 I was quite fortune to have Indya but if it was just me, Kez and Cerian I genuinely wouldn't; know what to do. I can tell the groups we are in are going to be key in the quality of the work we produce but I don't want that to be the case, I want to be able to work with anyone in the class and produce work I'm proud of,  but maybe I'm being naive.    
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Creative play with digital media students

The day began in the maker space, along with the digital media students. The digital media tutor called Mark explained to us that we were going to be placed randomly selected groups and make a tower only using paper and no other materials. My team was nice however they were quite quiet, me and Decland tried to lead the conversation and get everyone talking and sharing, they opened up a but but even by the end of the day some members of the group weren't really talking. The first task was building the tallest tower using only paper and no other materials and at the top of the tower an egg for fifteen seconds. I felt like only half of our group were trying to work quickly and because we were working at a slightly slower pace to other groups it hindered the potential of the final product. As a team we decided that it was best to have the egg protected so it wouldn't die.  With our team being number one we were made to present first, and then we were told it would be measured f...
Post a Comment
Read more

Belbin - Making of

Belbin roles - Making a balanced team  Going into this session, I still hadn't decided on which group i want to join but Annabeth said it should be decided by the end of this session. I had offers from a few groups but decided to join up with Jolanta, Elena and Alisha as i knew i wanted to another attempt at a 2-D group project and i felt like this team had good chemistry and was full of talented artists. Annabeth explained Belbin roles to us and how these 9 personalities make a strong balanced team.  When going through the Belbin roles i found that these four applied best to me;   Monitor Evaluator  -  I feel this suits me well as i know that the critical side of my brain is over developed and have always thought i had sound judgement when it came to decision making. Working very slowly resonated too deeply and is something I'm trying to work on. Team Worker -  I feel that my social relation when working in a group is always good,...
Post a Comment
Read more

Trying to give triangles life

I knew Chris was going to be in the afternoon lecture and i hadnt gotten much round to doing any character designs for script to screen, mainly because they were traingles and i didn't think it would be too difficult. When i got round to it i was struggling to give the characters personality and they just looked really flat. I experimented with creating more complicated designs using a verity of triangles but because the story i had in mind was light hearted and comedic i thought it'd be best to keep with a more cartoonty simple style. Howver i was still left with the problem of the designs looking lifeless When lecture came about chris thought it'd be best to go back to basics and focus on gesture lines and had us in groups create actions and to draw them out. I enjoyed working with my group, but talking to people after class it seemed like half the class didn't enjoy it which kind of baffled me Near the end of class i got chris to look at my des...
Post a Comment
Read more