Thursday, 5 November 2015

Shutterzoom





In Shutter priority Mode is a technique called panning. Panning is done by moving the camera from one side to the other, resulting in images that show motion. To pan successfully, you have to slow down shutter speed to a value lower than the inverse of your focal length. When you have a shot like this where the most important element that produces the shot is the shutter speed, you need to use shutter priority mode it just makes things simpler because you can adjust using just one dial, freeing you up to compose and make other creative decisions.
To do panning successfully, i have to slow down the camera. Set ISO to the lowest possible. 
Setting used for this shoot: 

Use Manual Focus
ISO: 200
Shutter Speed: 1/20 

Thursday, 21 May 2015

Final Hands Stop Motion Animation.


Final Animation Evaluation



Our final animation we created a claymation animation. We choice this type of animation because we thought it would attract the audience. The technique was used is hand animation, stop motion made everything easy it to create by shooting every frame. By using hand animation to make things disappear we called that the magic hand.

The hand animation is doing it all by pretending to draw shapes, and cleaning the mess by covering the shapes and it disappear. Keiran and myself came up with this to make it creative for the audience. Morph animation project helped us a lot to come up with our final claymation animation.

Stop motion animation also called stop frame animation is animation that is captured one frame at time, with physical object for e.g. the project we were working on the final animation, Stop motion helped us to move between frames. When you play back the sequence of images rapidly, it creates the illusion of movement and create mood for the audience.

The basic process of our animation involves taking a photo frame of our object or character, moving them slightly on each shot frame, and when you play back the images consecutively, the object appear to move on their own. We rushed the project but we came up with a creative idea to support the claymation animation


Feedback the magic hand is a cool great idea, he liked the way we came up with the idea “hand animation” it shows how creative its and the research we worked on.

   
The video was very creative it showed the group knew what they where doing, you can see the effort they put into the stop motion at the time it took them to film and edit it. Over all it was very good but for improvement they should move faster to the background lighting would stay the same.
            







Storyboard


Thursday, 16 April 2015

Animation Timeline


Morph IStopMotion 






Parasyte is about 17 years old teen named shinichi who lives with his parents
in a quiet neighbourhood in Tokyo. Parasyte is a body horror, science fiction.  Migi is the parasite which lives in Shinichi hand. Migi has no desire to kill human for sustenance, and is nourished by the food Shinichi eats. Migi is like other parastye, completely without emotion. one night, worm like creatures called parasites appear on Earth, taking over the brains of humans hosts by entering through  their ears or noses. one parasite attempts to crawl into Shinichi's ear while he sleeps but fails as Shinichi is wearing headphones, and enters his body by burrowing into his arm instead.











Zoetropes Animation

The Zoetrope was invented in 1834 by William Horner, who called it a "daedalum" or "daedatelum" meaning wheel of the devil. The faster the rate of spin, the smoother the progression of the images. a viewer can look through the wall of the zoetrope from any point around it. A zoetrope is bit like a cinema because cinema use zoetrope on a larger scale the side of the zoetrope act like shutter on a cinema projector and it shows each frame the action of the frame. My zoetrope was ball bouncing getting creative with the zoetrope can get fun by drawing different characters on each frame. I had to draw a ball bouncing by separating them in the eleven frames. Zoetrope helps the drawing transform into something else by spinning the zoetrope faster it could go smoother with the drawing and can tell a story.












The strength about this project zoetrope can help by getting more creative with the key framing and its pretty simple. The zoetrope was invented in 1834 it was quite exiting because it was one of the first devices to create moving images which i found it fun too. A zoetrope is like a mini cinema. it is like a drum with slits going all the way round, you can insert a paper strip with animated drawing on. when the device is spun and the viewer looks through the slits an illusion of movement is created. The faster you spin the drum the smoother the movement of the images will look which is exiting.
E.g. of images of frames i created i create a ball bouncing on the Zoetrope, it moves really smooth specially if the shapes inside the frames are bigger the smoother the movement of the images inside the frames will look exiting.

Eadweard Muybridge was born on April 9 1830. Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion picture projection.






Eadweard Muybridge photography of moving animals captured movement in a way that had never been done before. His work was used by both scientists and artists. At the age twenty, he immigrated to america , first to New York working as bookseller and then to san francisco where he acquired an interest in photography in 1855. At this time, he changed his surname to Muybridge.

Starewicz began making 3-d stop motion animated films puppet films, as he called them in 1910 and continued creating the until his death. His films, although emotionally aimed at children are what we today would deem because of the often protesque characters and situations..

Starewicz had become a master animator by 1933, incorporating techniques neverused before and rarely since such as moving the puppets during the actual exposure to create blurring for fast movement. His use of rear screen projection is also surprisingly effective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-mkGqcvKPM
His most recognised work "The Mascot" was one of the later produced animation films in the 1933. A story about toy dog that comes to live, that tries to obtain an orange for his owner. just like every other character, the toy dog is portrayed in a very human like manner, allowing the audience to freely relate to the character through its expression and emotions.
Patrick “Pat” Peter Sullivan was born on the 22nd February 1885 was born in Paddington, Sydney, Australia. He is the second son of Patrick Sullivan (Cab proprietor) originally from Ireland and his wife Margaret who was born in Sydney. He then left for the US around 1910 after spending months in London. He then worked as an assistant to William Marriner (Newspaper cartoonist) and decided to draw four strips of his own.

Felix the Cat was the Mickey Mouse of its time. He was created in the silent film era and was the first character from animation to attain a level of popularity sufficient to draw movie audiences. Felix became a mascot, a pop culture icon and and even became more popular than  most movie stars and world leaders of the same era. His popularity then lead to merchandise sold all around the globe.

The strength of Felix the cat:  
Felix the Cat became more popular than world leaders.. That’s a huge achievement, especially around that time
Animal Friendly
Voted in TV Guide’s 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time, ranking #28
Age appropriate
One of the first cartoons to go from silent films to colour
Winsor McCay was born in 1867 in Canada. McCay had an interest in drawing from the moment he could hold a pen. His father was a real estate agent and encouraged him to become a businessman. unknown to his parents, he worked as portrait artist in a a "dime museum" in Detroit while attending business college. "Dime Museums" were popular forms of entertainment in the 1800s where patrons could view carnival type acts and oddities including "freak shows" and other forms of entertainment.
McCay left school at the age of 21 and went to work at the national printing Company of Chicago. Here, he illustrated posters for circuses and other promotions. after two years he moved to Chincinnati, creating advertising posters for the Kohl and Middleton Dime Museum. He began to create quite a name for himself as a very talented artist.













Richard Oliver Postgate born 12 April 1925was an English animator, puppeteer and qritwe. he was the creator and writer of some Britain's most popular children's television programmes. Ping wings, Pogles'wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss. They all were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day. in a 1999 BBC poll Bagpuss was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time.



Bagpuss was created in the 1970s by Smallfilms, a television company run by peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate. 


Pixar Animation Studios is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio is best known as CGI animation.  Pixar began in 1979vas the graphics Group, its own implementation of the indursty of the images  its used to generate high quality images.

First computer animations trow 

computer animations can be created with a computer and animations software. Some impressive can be 

Monday, 23 March 2015

600 Words Lucozade Sport Drink Evaluation

 Lucozade Sport Drink Advert Evaluation


I started with my research by looking at different sports adverts and how to make my advert look different to the professional one. I looked at different sport drinks and I thought Lucozade sport  was the best one because a lot of teenagers and adult workout, also Lucozade offers the best recovery for them. The research I done helped me to think of the idea and the difference shots that I could include on my advert. I drew some storyboards for my advert, which was detailed a young adult training his basketball skills, the storyboard also showed him taking some shots which I followed step by step. The advert shows me trying to improve my shots on the hoop and work on my game, I used voice over to motivate the audience particularly people that exercise a lot, the ending of the advert shows the product Lucozade sport drink and ball rolling toward the camera.

Our advert was about Lucozade Sport Drink and was aimed at people who are interested in fitness, we tried to refresh the audiences memory of what the advert was about at times which is especially clear with the last shot used that places the product next to me. Overall it was great advert. The voice over was 30 seconds long it is initially but the voice over was slightly too short and when the music switched it was slightly disjointed, quickly moving from one to another.In the future i would look to  fade the voice over in to the next song which would give the advert a more fluid and smooth experience for the audience. The location was obvious because we started using the changing room for a warm up and working out which some sport people do workout before getting started, this set the tempo of the advert adding a motivational quality. Working out and getting warmed up is important part before you’re game. We used the changing room instead of the gym because we had a problem accessing to the gym although this was not part of our initial idea this worked well and we managed to get good shots for our advert to make it look more professional. The voice over would of been great if I slowed it down and used it for the whole duration of the advert. I used the voice over to motivate the audience. The length of my advert was two minute longer compare to professional TV advert. I could improve the advert by cutting the length of each shot used making each part five seconds or less to make the advert shorter and more entertaining for the audience.


The link above is similar to my advert because it makes use of a workout and also displays how Lucozade helps the body to stay active for long period of time replacing 'electrolytes' lost. The benefit of Lucozade it gives the customer’s energy and recovering from sports day to day activates. The drink can be used before, during and after physical activity.
The benefits of the Lucozade sport drinks is that it provides energy from sugars which helps too improve performance and endurance. The difference between my advert and the professional advert was the way in which Lucozade is promoted as they tested Lucozade against water to see which one increased recovery more quickly and it is made clear that Lucozade is more effective at this then water. In my advert I used Lucozade and a voice over to motivate the audience. I had to make my advert look completely different. The advert i made was effective at communicating with the products chosen target audience which i feel it was successful at because my focus was on sport which was easy to produce. Getting access to the basketball court enabled us to choose what sport to focus on in the advert which could also have of been football, basketball or any other sport that include a workout for the product sport drink, however with my own skills as a basketball player this choice was easy by me. The target audience for the product was teenagers and adult to encourage people to exercise more and motivate the audience into becoming more active and using the product as part of this active lifestyle we tried to portray. I chose the product because sport is something i am interested in and the idea of the product being linked with helping people participate in sport and perform better, aiding recovery and encouraging people to exercise more made me more interested in using Lucozade sport in my advert.