Thursday 28 June 2012

Today's session

Today, we had to finish of everything; our animation, and our research report.

We also had to type up an evaluation of our group animation, talking about how we came up with our ideas, how it links to 'The Bovine Histories' and what we think went well, and what we think we could improve on.

Suprisingly, I also ended up finishing my individual flash animation aswell (with alot of help from katie). it was really important that all the girls from redland finish everything today, because this is our last week at fairfield until next year, because next week, is our work experience, and then the week after that, it's fairfield's. so we will be at redland then.

Thursday 21 June 2012

Today

Today, Jess and I Finished the script for our animation, then went into the audio lab (because it was quieter) to record it. Surprisingly, this took us a very long time, because we had to get each line exactly right, ready to be put o the computer.

Then, we went upstairs into the art room, I used Mr Gove's computer, because it has audacity, to combine all of our clips. First I did the Jump sound scape, This took me ages to layer up each section, then add different effects, such as Eco, and change the tempo of each different part. The only other two pieces I had to do after that were much simpler, I only needed to cut them a little bit, and now that I had more experience of audacity, it was allot easier to accomplish.

Thursday 14 June 2012

Today

In today's practical session, I had to take pictures of the Illustrations from last week, and import them into premier elements, I then combined the images together, and added a Live camera effect, so  that the image shakes a little.

I then worked with Katie to find some music for our final piece, and we put the pieces of our animation so far into premier elements.

I like our animation so far, because the mix between computer animation and live drawing is really interesting, because you then know which parts are flashbacks, and which aren't.However, I am unsure that when our animation is complete, that people will understand the link to 'The Bovine Histories', because we have changed it so much from the original story.

Wednesday 13 June 2012

Last Week

Last week we got all of the things that we needed for our practical animation week, including:
-charcoal
-graphite
-tracing paper

Me and Jess developed our images for the flashbacks, and made copies of them, so that when combined, the image will look more animated. Katie was also progressing her running sequence, and combining it with an eye sequence she had created before.

We also had a visitor this week, she asked us lots of questions about the Bristol short story prize, and about everyone's different techniques, because she didn't really have much experience with our line of work.