Creative Media Practice - Not as easy as I thought

Drawing seems and looks easy but it isnt. All the drawings were recoreded over a period of 4 nights due to both of us having a busy schedule we were not able to start recording till 9:30 each night. My boyfriend kindly agreed to be the artist of my project he isnt exactly picasso but he did manage to get the basics across. Here are a few images of the late night shooting we did to create my final piece.

After Effects is not the quickest way to make this video clearly! I have had so many complications with after effects now, well my 1st problem came with after effects not downloading on my laptop no matter how many websites I tried it just wasnt working. Then I finally managed to download after effects on my boyfriends laptop, I began editing had a finished piece to realise there is no option to make this into a quicktime movie. I came into an editing room the next day early morning to realise all the work I had done was pointless due to the after effects being a different version on my boyfriends laptop than the version there is in the editing room. Editing this video really hasnt been easy but I am glad that its nearly over.

Finally I finished using after effects, my video has been rendered and is now on youtube. I used the annotations on youtube to create the story for each charater.

Creative Media Practise - Evaluation

I think what worked well for the final piece was the story of characters getting to a destination. I think my idea worked well although it didn't finish the way I had planned. The characters worked well for the journey, also using  most of these characters made the video realistic. I also think the hole piece sped up made it look more effective. 

I had many problems with creating this final piece. To begin with my first problem came with filming the drawings, originally I planned to do a Birdseye view of this but had difficulty getting the camera to stay in the same place so I ended up filming this all hand held. This was not easy filming for hours trying to keep my hand in the same place. The next problem came with keeping track of the drawings which ones had been drawn and which were yet to be drawn. Due to bad time keeping I had to cut out a few of the transport options out, the first was not drawing the escalators, the second was to not draw the bus, the third was to not draw the train and then I finally took out the three options of the final destination and replaced this with a drawing of a sunny beach with all 3 characters. Then I had a problem editing the video I should of used premier to edit this piece but as I am not familiar with premier I thought it would be easier to use a software which I am familiar with, this being after effects cause me many problems. I did not manage to edit the piece how I wanted. Whilst planning I thought it would be much easier to make this into one long video and then just add the annotations in the right places and like to the same video. So I made the video into one long piece adding sound effects into the correct places to make this one long video for YouTube. Once I finished the final piece  I had many problems trying to render this on after effects, the first came when I didn't have enough space on the PC to render the file, I then borrowed a hard drive from a lecturer so I had enough space and then this failed half way through rendering, then I eventually managed to get hold of a hard drive from the technicians and I finally managed to render it although it took an hour. Once the video had finished I then had to upload it onto YouTube which took another half an hour. Once the video had finished I finally had the last bit of time to put the annotations in, unfortunately I only had enough time to put in all the cats journeys annotations before the presentation.

For possible future developments on the project I would re shoot a couple of the scenes so I could make the story a lot easier and create the correct annotations I set out to create. I would also change the camera angle whilst re shooting so it is more stable at a birds eye view.

Creative Media Practise - Final Project

 To present my final presenation I used prezi, below is a screen shot of my final presentation. I began talking about the planning of my project, then moved onto the final piece and all the problems I had and finally the evaluation.

Here is a link to my presentation I made using prezi...

http://prezi.com/1ohbjttvk2kf/present/?auth_key=vxi8d4o&follow=t6db2aa-nbl8&kw=present-1ohbjttvk2kf&rc=ref-10934622

And here it is my final project...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjxtbKyxBZQ

Creative Media Practise - Proposal

For my final project I am considering a interactive YouTube video. I have researched through many different interactive videos and this particular one interested me the most...

http://mashable.com/2011/01/30/interactive-youtube-videos/#gallery/interactive-youtube-videos/50bddfac97b2f819e1000065

The video gave me the idea to do something similar, the video will first explain what the video is about and what you have to do. The video will begin with a hand and a pencil drawing a line, the first set of options will be to either next draw a man, woman or dog. Each option will then lead the user through different activities that the character has to get past to get to the top of the what they want. The first options will be 1) Door 2) Stairs 3) Escalator and the options will then continue as followed...
- 1) Car 2) Bus 3) Bike
- 1) Train 2) Airplane 3) Ferry
- 1) House 2) Hotel 3) Villa
- 1) Person 2) Cat 3) Swing


Here is an example in a story board...

 

Creative Media Practise - Isadora

In our 2nd lecture we were introduced to Isadora, this is a software that creates different interactions on a video for the user. We looked at many examples during the lecture.

We were then put into groups of 4, in this group we began with no clue on what to do for this project. So we did some research, listened to other peoples ideas and then came up with the idea to have a female miss her train and have to choose many options whilst trying to make her way home. The woman began with 2 different options of whom she wanted to call either her mother or friend, then many options followed depending on which option the user chose. Whilst planning we watched many Youtube videos on how to use Isadora. Here are the planning notes we made for our story... 

Due to a family issue I was not able to be a part of the editing and final project. 

Creative Media Practise - QR Codes

In our second lecture we looked at QR codes. We looked at many different examples of QR code interactive stories. We were shown this website http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/7700-eight-creative-uses-of-qr-codes which gave me many ideas for my own QR code project.

We were then asked to make our own QR code...

In my group we chose to do a story in Liverpool about a female on a night out who ends up being attacked by a man who has fled the country by the time he has found out police were after him. The reason for this was so that any females going on a night out know to be cautious. Here are the QR codes to our story and then a map at the end of where the QR codes would be placed if we had gone through with this idea.

              

                                         

     

We also created a prezi for this story...

http://prezi.com/kabotwiu2hz_/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Creative Media Practise - Interactivity and youtube

For our 3rd project we had to create a interactive YouTube story. As I unfortunately had to miss this lecture due to family situations I joined in with a group who had already filmed their story but were in the process of editing the video and creating the different options on YouTube.

http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/quick-guide-to-interactive-youtube_b334 

The idea for the project was someone pressing different buttons in a Lift, Level 5 would lead Times Square in New York, Level 4 would lead to a cruise ship, Level 3 would lead to a Dessert, Level 2 would lead to a open field and finally Level 1 would lead to a sunny setting. Although this has no story or moral it was great getting used to YouTube and using the annotations on the video.

Creative Media Practise - Triptych

In our first lecture of Creative Media Practice we were introduced to Triptych. Triptych is 3 separate sections that tell separate stories as well as telling a hole story between the 3. Here are some examples that Mark gave us for inspiration... 

We were then given me the task to create our own triptych video. As we had to create our own triptych video, my group began looking at some triptych work on the internet. We searched 'Triptych' on Google and found a few useful website such as...

• http://vimeo.com/channels/24109 
• http://www.trowbridgegallery.com/Triptychs.php 
• http://www.uva.co.uk/work/triptych

This certain picture gave us an idea for our own piece.

We decided to have 3 different people make the same journey but only show either their head, shoulders to hips or legs similar to the picture above. We began with Ceri's head on the top, Sonals top half of her body in the middle and my legs at the bottom on the screen. This then changed when we got to the lift where this then changed to my head on the top, the middle of Ceris body and Sonals legs at the bottom on the screen. This then changed when we all went through a door to Sonals head at the top, the middle of my body and Ceris legs on screen.

Here is a link to the final piece we created...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVsADgbmVMI 

Convergence Media Teamwork

1st lecture we discussed different campaigns and were shown various examples.

2nd lecture we were put into groups, my chosen group is me and Sonal. We chose to do a campaign on alcohol. We began looking at prevouis campaigns there have been for alcohol and what worked and what didnt.

1st team meeting - we searched the web for ideas for our campaign and created a powerpoint presentation on our research

 

 

The week after I created a poster that looks like chalk board showing the drinking specials on photoshop...

 

My Team mate Sonal created these posters with our own slogan on it...

 

 

 

We then created a prezi so we are prepared for the next week to show what progress we have made (http://prezi.com/dokblfxwze1w/present/?auth_key=5qryqsv&follow=t6db2aa-nbl8&kw=present-dokblfxwze1w&rc=ref-10934622)....

 

 

SektionRED

SektionRED are a Music Production Company in Newcastle. Before Christmas I thought it would be best if I get ahead in searching for a placement for Summer 2013.
Originally I had sektionRED on my Facebook page and never really made contact with them other than various likes on their page.
They uploaded a great music video and I commented on it explaining how I would love to be doing what they are doing so I was told to get in contact with one of the founders of the company so we could discuss any positions that may be open. I spoke to one of the founders via skype and spoke about various things I could do to keep contact with her such as keep advertising for them on my facebook showing what new realeses they have.

 In March they are going to do a '1 shoot a day for 5 days'. They will be coming to Manchester March 4th, so I shall be joining them that day for the shoot. (http://www.facebook.com/#!/SektionRed?fref=ts)

ONTECA

Out of the 3 questions I chose to answer question 2, I was then put into a group with Josh and Sam.
When our group 1st came together we looked at ways to research the question.
We decided to brake down the question in to 3 as the question as a hole is made up of 3.

Here are some of the questions we have decided to ask as part of our research...

Q1 Gender -
Male Female

Q2 Which of these do you own?
iPhone Android Blackberry None

Q3 Are you likely to buy an app for your phone or tablet?

Q4 How many apple products do you own (if any)?
1 2 3 or more

Q5 What category are you more likely to choose from in the app world?

Q6 How many apps have you downloaded?
1-10 11-30 31-50 51+

Q7 Have you ever paid more than £3.99 for an app? If yes what app/s was this?

Q8 What is the most you would be willing to pay for an app?
Nothing £0.69 £1.49 £2.49 £2.99 £3.99 or more

Q9 Do you click on adverts?
Yes No Sometimes

Q10 Do you use facebook or twitter more?

Q11 Do you pay for extra content? (more lives etc)


Here is the link to the Prezi my group & I created for the final presentation:
http://prezi.com/k6x3ccmrn9lj/present/?auth_key=1q6hmap&follow=t6db2aa-nbl8&kw=present-k6x3ccmrn9lj&rc=ref-10934622