Ident Project 2 / Part 3

Here’s the next update on my project so far.

Over the last few days I’ve been battling it out with flash to try and get my videos and music to work fluidly. Took me a while, (and a few trips to the vlp software tutorials) but I managed to get it working really well ^_^. I’m very happy at how it’s looking right now. I managed to get 4 tracks playing when you press the red button. Well, not all at once (duh, would sound terrible). By pressing the red button another menu will come up giving the user a choice of 4 of my selected tracks. Here you can stop the tracks or alternatively go back to the main interface menu and keeps the track playing. YAY:



Unfortunately I've only managed to do two of the five buttons. I’ll be working on the third & fourth tomorrow. I will be trying to get another video and a logo for my identity project.

That said, I have actually been doing a lot of work for this. My layers are starting to really add up, and with my computer having a good old 15 inch screen, I’m starting to find it hard to see it all in front of me:



That’s basically what I’ve been up to over the last few days. Hehe.

Laters

Ident Project 2 / Part 2

So now that we are well underway into our last term here at Trent, I thought I should really be getting on with some more work. So far I’ve not posted much on my blog about my current project so I thought I'd give an update on how it's going.

I decided to have an interface compromising of a Guitar Hero guitar fret board, with the 5 different colours. I decided to go with this since, well firstly, it’s one of my favourite games, and secondly it fits the bill perfectly. The 5 coloured buttons can be used as the 5 interactive objects. Great!

I have been playing around with flash recently to get to grips with it, before taking this course I had never used flash as such so already I’m quite impressed with what you can do with it.

The interface is now working nicely, when you hover over the buttons and animation occurs which moves one of the fingers to the button being hovered over. It then pauses while hovering over the button to see if the user would like to actually click this button with the mouse (and thus continue onto something else i.e. One of the identity boxes). Then if the user clicks the button It will open up the next part. If you move the mouse off the button then it will go back to the main scene where the hand is simply holding the fret board.

Here are some pictures to give you an idea:

Ident Project 2 / Part 1

Ok so I’ve been sooooo slow to start this one. I have had a few ideas popping round my head for a while but never bothered to write them down or formulate them into anything good. But now I think I've got it!

Well I guess I should start with explaining project 2. Basically we have to create an interactive flash piece that will represent our identity. So how best to do this! Time to upload some pictures.

Here are some sketches and ideas:

A new term a new post / Careers

So I've been back for about a week and a half now for my last term. I had a review which went well, putting me in the right direction for my next year, which I hope to be doing AV production as my pathway. So I'm happy.

I've not posted for a while (nice peaceful Easter break) but now its down to business. I thought I would post about a future career pathway in AV production.

So I started as I usually do: with the Internet. I looked around a few various sites seeing whats what, and what kind of jobs there are in the industry where I'm hoping to work.

One that caught my eye was that of an editor. Basically they work with the director of the film/documentary/tvshow etc in order to create a piece of work that flows with the narrative. I think wikipedia is probably better explaining it then me:

"Film editing is an art of storytelling practiced by connecting two or more shots together to form a sequence, and the subsequent connecting of sequences to form an entire movie. Film editing is the only art that is unique to cinema and which separates film making from all other art forms that preceded it (such as photography, theater, dance, writing, and directing). However there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms such as poetry or novel writing. It is often referred to as the "invisible art," since when it is well-practiced, the viewer becomes so engaged that he or she is not even aware of the work of the editor.

Because almost every motion picture, television show, and TV commercial is shot with one camera per take, every single shot is separated from every other single shot by time and space. On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique, and practice of assembling these shots into a coherent whole. However, the job of an editor isn’t merely to mechanically put pieces of a film together, nor is it to just cut off the film slates, nor is it merely to edit dialogue scenes. A film editor works with the layers of images, the story, the music, the rhythm, the pace, shapes the actors' performances, "re-directing" and often re-writing the film during the editing process, honing the infinite possibilities of the juxtaposition of small snippets of film into a creative, coherent, cohesive whole.

Film editing is an art that can be used in diverse ways. It can create sensually provocative montages. It can be a laboratory for experimental cinema. It can bring out the emotional truth in an actor's performance. It can create a point of view on otherwise obtuse events. It can guide the telling and pace of a story. It can create the illusion of danger where there is none, surprise when we least expect it, and a vital subconscious emotional connection to viewer..."

Looking further into this, I read that work experience as a runner is of great value. It shows you all aspects of av production. Although often only doing meaningless tasks for the production crew, you get a great insight into this type of work and it is seen as essential work experience for anyone wanting to get into AV. So looks like this is where il start ^_^.