Self Evaluation

I attended all the sessions bar two due to illness. Due to the nature of the module I felt that more would be gained by attending as many workshops as possible. I think in some workshops I could have attempted more. Particularly, in the visual effects workshops, I didn’t do a lot of experimentation with the software. I think if I had, I would have been able to get a better understanding of the software itself but also be more confident in using independently. As it stands, I feel that I would struggle to use After Effects and Mia. In the workshops in the workstation, I’m quite pleased with how things turned out. In the time given. I think Alice and I planned our time well in making all the different elements for the scenes. I think the only thing that didn’t work well is the small liquid latex wound that we made for the actor. I think that we spend so much time trying to work on the fake arm and hand that this had to be made at the last minute. As a lot my time during the workshops was spent making special effects, I didn’t have a lot of involvement with the actual set build and set design. I think that I could have been more proactive in helping out here, when extra hands were needed.

After effects

 This weeks workshop involved using Adobe After Effects to produce some of the visual effects we wanted in the final group project. We looked at how some of the effects could be achieved and then had a go ourselves. These are screen shots from what I did.

Proposal, for a music video..to something like Fatboy Slim

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The sun shines down on a side street in the city. It is lined with restaurants and cafes, filled with consumers sharing stories. Towards the end of the street, two buskers are setting up; they have with them an old cassette player and bongos. The first busker puts in a well used tape. Whirr, click and the tape is in place. Music begins to filter out and approaching the musicans is a couple. They get closer – the beat kicks in tom-tom-tick tom-tom-tick – and they begin to dance to the music. As they do so, their bodies ripple and stretch. As they move it looks like different past of their body become stuck in position, stretching –ly to the next move. The dancers are in sync. A skateboarder goes past and does an air 360. Like the dancers, his body and board are briefly stuck in position making a spiral shape as he twists, and falls to the ground. A boy then approaches- tom-tom-tick- --and he flips over some boxes on the pavement; his body becomes an arch, a human slinky. tom-tom-tick. The music and the buskers still play and the people still dance. In the background, some friends are having coffee. One of the party lifts his mug from the saucer to his mouth. Like the dancers, the bottom of the cup remains on the saucer and stretches up to the mouth, warped. Opposite him, is his friend. He places two sugar cubes into his cup and we see its creates two solid white arches from the bowl to the cup. The coffees ripples in time to the beat.  Music cuts and all returns to normal. Final shot is of the buskers packing up and leaving their mix tape for someone else to experience it.

personal proposal moodboard

2nd proposal inspiration

Li Hongbo - Pure White Paper from Dominik Mersch Gallery on Vimeo.

music i listened to when writing 2nd proposal

Joseph Cornell

Cornell's boxes are self described 'visual poems' depicting things we can not see, we things we can. I quite like Cornell's work.  I think the idea of putting lots of different items in a box and creating mini collages and worlds in something that people can really relate too. A lot of people put their on belongs from an event or moment in their lives into boxes so I think to play on this is really interesting.