Wednesday, June 11, 2008

The beginning of the end

phew phew phew....

i am finally finished with my project, i had been spending the last two days sleepless and event though my expectations were quite high for this project, i dont think i achieved them to the full capacity, but nevertheless i am extremely happy with the way this project turned out for me.

For this project i did encouter many problems which included firslty the dvd studio pro was just not working for me at first at even though all the connections seemed right, and still the transitions were not working at all, then i had to change the format of the movies which seemed to do the trick.

The second problem was not so much the program but the amount of time it was taking me to do one zoom in earth animation in the After Effects, which took almost the whole day as i had to watch like 2 hours of tutorials to learn how to do it. But i am glad i did as now i am excellent in using this program.

Finally my other problem lied with the case as i had to disjoint peices and i had no idea how to fix them together as my idea for the case is pretty out of the box.

In the end i am extremely happy with my work and am very suprised to how much i can pull off.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Progress

So, For the last couple of days, i have been working out what my interface is going to be and what my case would look like.

My overall theme is going to be "The World", and have the interface as the globe and give the user the choice to choose the continent which pops up with the specific project.

On the other hand my dvd case is also going to go with the same theme, and im going to have my dvd inside a Globe, in the middle, still havnt figured out how i am going to do this but i am going to figure it out.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Last PROJECT (DVD)

We are down to the very last project and i have been really looking forward to this project as this is a sort of real world project and i think will help in later years.

I have not yet thought of a good design yet, (it is very hard!!!!) but i am getting my footage and content sorted, i have a general idea of what kind of content i will have and how it is going to transition into different things.

Very exiting couple of days!

Monday, May 19, 2008

48 HOUR Film Festival

Sooo, 48 hours is finally over!!
PHEW.......

This was probably the most stressful project i have ever done!! and its only worth 10 percent. Also this was probably was one of the most exiting and real world constraints included project i've done.

Over all i really enjoyed making the film, even though we got the film 15 minutes late. I think our assigned area (Action/Adventure) was probably a dream come true as we woudve hated to have something like Romantic Comedy!!

Our movie is called BAD APPLES and is a very stylish and cool crime action short film. I think that we had some really good(killer shots) in the movie which really made the movie even more cool.

Some of the problems that we encountered while making the film was that we could not get the film off the camera onto the avid as we were using a High-Def camcorder and it took us pretty much half the day to get that working. After all our editing and fixing up the film we had a huge problem with the video where we were missing the audio, when we finally did get the audio in, the damn audio was out of sync!! after that we had a HUGE problem getting the video back into the DV tape (The reason why we handed it in late)



In the end i think that our project turned out pretty good/cool and am happy with the amount of work we got done in that time. I think Morgan would be quite impressed with the quality of the film and how good it actually looks and the shots we have in there.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Presentation....

Soooo today we had our presentation and in my opinion, i found it extremely tough!!!

I think my presentation didnt go that well,the comments given by morgan were constructive comments which will help me in future projects. For my project it was pretty much impossible to get original footage, so i tried my best to work with what i had and what i could find.

Therefore because of the my project missing original footage, i think i might get marked harshly.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Audio

For my docmentary style video i had an idea to put some instrumental music, mayebe something with a saxaphone which in my opinion will be a really stlylish feel to the movie.

More on the project itself....

well i've pretty much edited my movie, ive string together a sequence of films over my voice which is reading a script.
there are a lot of still images in the movie, as i wanted the movie to look and feel like a STYLISED DOCUMENTARY. I do how ever have a lot of relevant clips that i got through archive.org