IMAGE 1

This image as used a close up angle to extreme close up on the sheets of paper. The first thing that catches my eye was the stamps on the documents. The shot i think isn't in the mid center but more off the the left hand side which makes it look better than having it dead in the center. This document is obviously important because of how close it is to the papers and what its showing. the background is black and dull so all your attention is on the documents to show it's important.

IMAGE 2

This image got me drawn to the lights up on the ceiling, i saw this first because there is so much going on in this image that the first thing i saw was the thing that was the brightest. This shot i think would be a long shot because you can see many things in the image and nothing is really close up to the camera. There is lighting on the floor that draws my attention to what it leads to which are men working on machines or standing around. There is a man in the very background standing above everyone else and on the line of leading lines which makes him important because its what you see.

IMAGE 3

This image drew me straight to the man in the image which is a close up of his face and a name next to him. i was drawn to his face because it was the biggest thing in this image and also had some lighting on his face which also drew my attention to it. I think that the lighting and the angle of the
shot makes the man look powerful or makes him look like he's high up and important, he's in control. The second thing that drew me to the image was the name next to the man on the wall because behind the name was a light that made the name which was black stand out.

I think what's happening in this scene is that the man from the start who was having a dream about flying an being free then being awoken and told to come to work, works at the place where image 2 is. I think that the man from image 3 was his boss and was the man on the phone to him. I think he's his boss because in image 2 and 3 he's the only one standing above everyone else who's working and he looks like he's in charge and has power over everyone else. I think the man who had the dream works for something like the government or something to do with solving crimes because of the document which was shown in image 1 which was a file of someone.

Alice in Wonderland

Alice -

I think Alice is a calm and considerate person. Alice shows no anger and if she feels it she composes her self very well. I feel like she looks and seems to others as weak but is quite strong willed and determined to show others that she is the real Alice.

I was led to feel this way about Alice because of how her, as a character, was portrayed. She is seen as weak in my behalf because of the texture of her skin which is quite pale and how she keeps getting smaller and smaller when she drinks the potions. My views on her change drastically when she confront the catapilla  and says she's sick of being pushed around and being told she's not the real Alice. It also changes when she chooses to fight the Jabawaki and defeat the Red Queen. I now see Alice as a strong willed and determined girl.

The Mad Hatter -

I think The Mad Hatter is a man who's been through a whole lot that has made an effect on is life. I feel like he is a little mad and crazy but this was caused by how the Red Queen treated him.

I was led to feel this way about The Mad Hatter because of what his costume and the way he acted was portrayed. His costume, I thought, made him look a little mad and crazy because of his hair and eyebrows, which were a crazy fiery red, his eye colour and voice would change when he was mad and his clothes consisted of nice but old and raggy clothes. I soon realised why he was a little crazy and then changed my view on him because of what happened to him and the White Queen. I think the director made The Had Hatter very believable with its make-up and costume.

Evaluation

Part One –

I felt like my overall result of my e-pub book was satisfying and good. I am satisfied with my ending result and I think in the end it all looked good. My e-pub I think would have turned out better if I had more time that what we were given. I know that was my fault about the time because I could have prepared more and planned more so I knew exactly what I was doing and so it wouldn’t have been or felt so rushed. If I could change any aspects of my final project I think I would of added hyperlinks. I saw Christie’s e-pub and she showed me her hyperlinks that link her to her blog. I wish I had the time and planning to do that to my book because I believe it would have looked good and smart to do. I would have also liked to put photos in the scenes but didn’t have the time to. If I could start the project again I would defiantly plan more and use my time sufficiently and sensibly to my advantage to get on top and get most of it done in class instead of doing it at home.

Part Two –

I think that both my e-pub and poster have turned out relatively close to what I pictured them to look like. I think that my poster even turned out better than what I pictured. I really liked what my poster turned out to look like; I pictured it to have my character, Noah standing on top of the world and then have “Our World” in a cool title. This is obviously much different to what it turned out to look like. I really like what it ended up looking like.  My e-pub, I really didn’t know what to expect what it would end up looking like but I am happy with the ending result. My poster does clearly depict the style of animation I was going for and shows a bit of the film in it because there are different landmarks in the poster where Noah ends up visiting. There were a few technical difficulties I encountered throughout the making of my e-pub. One was that my scenes of my film wouldn’t export and wouldn’t move into my e-pub. This made me a little freaked out of course but I got Mr Andrews to help me out and all was sorted in the end J other than that little difficulty and me taking my USB out and causing rainbow wheel to appear, there wasn’t any more massive technical difficulties. For starts, I didn’t have the proper film on my USB, only my partner Grace did but I got that off the class desktop, and next I found out I didn’t have Graces scenes either on my USB to record myself talking over but I solved that problem by putting the whole film into imovie and just cutting Graces scenes out and recording myself over them.  I didn’t use anything like content-lists or flowcharts, my planning consisted of writing down what I hoped to do, typing up my scenes and then having them recorded by me and putting that onto my e-pub. I haven’t put much of my planning onto my blog which I should have done just incase it got deleted, Mr Andrews could have seen if I have actually done something. This I have to get better at doing for most of my subjects also.

Reflection 31/10/12

In today's lesson we went over all the things in photoshop again so we could all remember how to use it. I am starting to work on my poster in photo shop for my film :)

Poster

This was an activity that we did last week, we had to make a poster :)
We got given a website onto wikipedia that gave off random articles which we had to choose one that sounded intriguing. I chose the article called 'Boy From School', once this was chosen we had to go to the website where there were alot of quotes throughout the page. We had to choose the last 4 or 5 words from the end of the quote, my quote said 'Don't screw around and don't smoke'. When i had both of these things, i went onto google to find pictures that would relate to my title and quote so i got a picture of a school, and emblem of a random school and a picture of boys. i took all of these photos and my title + my quote and edited them on Photoshop to make them blend together.

Essay

Factory 

The film, 'Factory' was created by an animation artist called Miwa Matreyek in 2004. This film deals with a lot of different textures and lines to draw attention to various objects. The meaning behind this film is still indescribable, but stills draw a lot of the attention from the viewer.

This film, Factory, is a very dull film. Throughout the whole animation, there the only colours that were used were black and white. There was little emotion in this film but was still very intriguing and interesting. The animation started off with a lot of men piling into the factory in the morning to start work, this then led onto the showing of the outside and eventually the inside of the factory. What was so different and intriguing about the factory was that instead of big machines moving things around, they were abnormally large hands that would do the job of what a normal machine would usually do.  I realized that it was daytime in the film because of all the men walking into the factory, meaning they were just starting their days work. There are some objects that do stand out in the animation and draw my attention straight away. Some objects were the big factory pipes blowing smoke out, blimps flying in the sky, the massive hand being used instead of a person, machines and of course, the factory itself. The massive hand confused me a lot at the start and I didn’t know what to think or feel.

The animation shows a lot of different texture, shapes and lines. In one part of the film inside the factory, it has lines on the roof which are concaved downwards. Those lines being concaved downwards draws the attention downwards to what is happening on the floor, which shows all the machines and what they are all doing. There is a lot of different texture throughout this film also, showing lots of shades of darkness or lightness in the parts where it is necessary. I found that it showed more shades of darkness throughout the animation meaning that the creator of the film is trying to give off a dull and weary vibe. I thought that the animation throughout the film was very well done and did draw my attention to the screen with the use of the factory in its creativeness.

This film really confused me at the start and I didn’t get any of it, but after a while I realized the bigger picture to it. The film is saying that technology is taking over our world we live in today, its replacing lots of things we had in our lives. It’s also showing that people are forced to do work they don’t want to do or are not comfortable in doing and are bored but have no other choice. This is a world we live in today, Miwa Matreyek has shown that very well through creative animation.

Creative Media Evaluation

Montana Leskiw

Creative Media Evaluation

1.    I am quite satisfied with the end result. I think the animation turned out really well in the end after we put all the parts of grace and mine together.

2.    My project took up more time than I intended on having. This was because I had a few technically difficulties with some of the laptops I had and also with saving my animations.

3.    If I could change any aspects of my animation I would put a more appropriate song along the lines of the animation. We didn't have enough time so we just put a song in there, but if we did have enough time we would of made sounds to go with the animation and different things not just one huge song.

4.    If I could start the project again I would defiantly not put that much time into the opening of the book. The opening of the book took me so much time that I didn't have and took up so much more time than I would of liked. I would spread out my time spam evenly so I know how much time I have to put into each scene.

I imagined the final animation much differently to what it came out as. I pictured it to be much different on the lines of the actual animation and all of it put together. I’m happy with our final animation but I did picture it a lot differently.

We had to change a lot of things with our original plan because it was going to take up to much time or was going to be to difficult to do in the time frame that we had. I had to make a bit of a scene different to what we first imagined because it was going to be to difficult and the scene itself already took up a lot of time.

I think during my project that my animation skills did improve. I think the start and the finish of my animation are different in their way that they improved more on the technique and the structure of how I did the animation and what I chose to do about things.

I had a few technical difficulties along the way of my project, which didn't help speed up things but slow me down a lot. I made one of my scenes at least three times before it actually saved onto a USB. This took up so much time that could have gone into other animations and scenes for my project instead of redoing a scene over and over again. I didn't really have many difficulties with the actual animation part but mostly the saving part.

I think the storyboards could have been used more regularly to see if we were on the right track. I did check in every once in a while to see if I was doing the same thing the storyboard said to do but not as much as I would of liked to do.

I think the planning ahead really did help speed things along in the animation project. F I didn't plan ahead I think I would have been lost at some parts of the project and not knowing what to do with myself. The planning was good because I always knew what to do and if I forgot my USB one day or my scene deleted on me, then I knew other scenes because I planned so I just did them instead of just sitting there doing nothing.

I do think our project was a little rushed near the end of it. I think it was difficult for Grace and I because we were in different classes and it was hard for us to see each other’s work and to discuss what we did in class that day. I think near the end of the project we were stressing over putting it all together into one whole movie and then we stressing over a song hen it was nearly due so we just put a random song in there. I think if we had more time it would have been cleaner and smoother.

I think I am very lazy when it comes to blogs and I need to put more reflections up and the parts of my scenes up that I get done in class. I did do some along the way of this animation project but not enough to fully show what I’ve been doing. I need to use my blog more and should be putting up reflections and blog entries after every lesson.

I did learn a few new things along the way of my animation project. I never knew how to copy, paste and undo on the animation application so I was also using my mouse to go over it and do it, which took up an annoying amount of time. I soon figured out that you only had to click command + C, command + V and comma