Creative Project Review

Well my last creative project must be for the DP1, and this was a 'One Shot Short'. In this project we had to produce a Short film, between 1-5 minutes. So it wasn't to short and not to long and boring. This was a good exercise but we were then hindered with the rules; The camera had to stay on a tripod and only move on the tripod. This is where we as a group had to think of what we could make, considering we were stuck in one position with only moving up, down, and left and right.

I had a thought of being on night out, and used the camera in 4 different stages, as the camera rotates 360, this would require good acting to pull off, and in my opinion, 5 multimedia freshers aren't the next John Travolta.

So the process of how we got our project done;

-Think creatively in a group throwing ideas to each other of what we can do, remembering the key limits to the project.
-Note the sensible ideas down, and realistically thinking if they are possible without hiring acting's etc.
-To book or ask permission of space that we wanted to use to film in.
-Once deciding on location, booking equipment ready for the day we are wanting to film.
-To each write a storyboard and make a final storyboard with the our ideas as a collaboration.
-FIlm and critique, film again, critique until we were happy with our result.
-Discuss as a group ideas on how we are wanting to edit our film and what we would like as a final result.
-Editing the film and critique the edit to see how we can make the final edit even better.
-Upload to Youtube..

I will post again with the final project and write a mini review of how it went and how we could have improved it.

Day in a Life Video

Here is a day in a life video of Nick Jensen. The task that Sidewalk Skateboarding magazine set was to film a video in the city in one day. The city was London, and they had one day to film. Im not too sure on editing time. I really like this video. I think it portrays London in a beautiful way at night. Doesn't show congested horrible London that you would think of. I love the way the video shows all the aspects of London and all its famous architecture and to do all this whist showing a skateboard film is really clever stuff. I also love the music too, it really fits the theme of the video. Sadly this was back in 2001 and VHS's were used at the time, so it's not the best quality copy.

Sigma 10-20mm

Got a new lense today for my Nikon D60, this is the first photo i took, and of corse is a bottle of lager. Really love how this lense views objects. You can get so incredibly close and cause of how wide the lense is it can fit everything in frame. Looking forward to using this lense a lot. Hopefully i will get to use this for my animation project too.

Whiteboard Animation

Here are the animations for the first years Multimedia.

We were put into groups of four, and given a whiteboard, pens, camera and tripod. We then had to work out a way a box had to get from a to b. Like most groups we used a house as the obstacle that the box had to get past. We started out as a jack in the box and then once that had jumped over the house we used ourselves to flick the box back to the ground. While this was happening we had loads of other things going on at the same time.

I really enjoyed this task and it was good to break the ice with team building.

BA Multimedia

Well, I have been asked by NTU to sign up with blogger to create a journal. While in the process of doing this i had remebered that i already had one when i was doing BTEC Multimedia at Leamington College. So i have a few old posts in this blog dating back to 2006 when i was using 3D Studio Max and researching how CGI was used in the industry.


I will try and update this blog as much as possible to include thoughts, links to work and anything Multimedia relating, weather i understand it or not. I will also post a lot of my inspiration, as the internet is full of it nowadays and this is a good place to anchor down everything that interests me.