Exhibition was on wednesday night… There didn’t seem to be many people from “the industry” there, but then i guess we were meant to have invited people if we wanted them there. Everyone was very professional none the less. Exhibition gave a sense of final accomplishment for the semester. judith.pdf poster.pdfduane.pdf
These were the posters i made for the night…
Ok, so I’m doing this blog, as a way of getting out of tracing over frames… this task is so tedious… I would like to smash something. The stuff that I’m doing is really easy to do, but it’s just so…repetetive. The frames move so much each time that I am unable to simply copy the lines from the one I did before hand. This makes me sad and angry at the same time. We’re running out of time to be doing more of the inbetween frames now, and I have a growing fear that because of the way I’ve done it, the animation is going to be very jumpy. I guess time will tell.
So far, I’ve come to the conclusion that a project of this caliber cannot be finished to a high standard in such a short time.
we decided that I would do the tracing now… instead of pete.. (he even bought a graphics pad too :S) Reason for this is that what we chose to do suits my style better. or at least it seems to.
current status:
trying to get everything organised – have tested out some different styles, I’m pretty set on the one i want to do though. It looks like a scanner darkly. 
here’s the link: a scanner darkly
so we were given the idea to use an existing film for the project… and just rotoscope over that… so we decided to have a look at the site www.archive.org and came up with night of the living dead.
This idea seems to work for us as creating our own video would take ages…. plus tracing over EVERY frame????
reasons for NotLD: it’s semi scary 
, it has great facial expressions, it’s out of copyright, and the fact that it’s black and white means we can spruce it up a lot in the rotoscoping style. Things are falling into shape now.
rotoscoping. the idea we’d been talking about and i dont think i even mentioned it yet.
we’re going to try our hand at rotoscoping
Peter and I decided to join forces in the fight that is studio. His ideas were similar in style to my own, so it seemed to be a logical partnership.
VIDEO!! seems to be the way to go. Pete seemed to like the idea of not just making a stand alone movie.. so the CYOA – choose your own adventure, seems to be a winner atm. If we were to do this idea however, we really need to think about concepts for the story lines. As yet, we are looking up/researching existing CYOA’s for ideas.
I’ve been brainstorming a little more into this at work – ideas just fly at you when you’re filling milk in the fridge (possibly not such a good thing to inhale fridge fumes for too long?)
Maybe, it would be more useful for us as a portfolio tool if we were to display more of our skills that have been accumulated over the 3 year period. So, i started to think about using technology a little more.
We could create: a movie quiz game
options for the game include things like: guessing where quotes came from, creating alternate endings for movies, and people have to guess what movie it’s for, film reinactments of popular movie scenes in an original way, and people have to guess what movie it was. Another play around idea, was creating a documentary take off. This could be made into some kind of trivia game where people guess facts.
priority: come up with story line for CYOA.
Well we’re 4 weeks into the semester, I believed from the start to have my idea all sorted, apart from the finer details… like an actual story.
The idea I had originally planned to run with from the start, was to create a “choose your own adventure” style short movie, made for dvd. However, some problems arose when i started to really think deeper into the idea; like a basic story to film. After talking this problem through with some of my peers, I was given the idea to create a movie version of one of the already existing book stories. Great idea. Still, that would mean a whole lot of work for one person, not to mention the copyright issues involved with this idea considering that I would like to be able to use this piece in a portfolio when Uni is over. SO… solution to these problems, is to find a partner (which, most people are already partnered up or wanting to go it solo), or change my idea… possibly some other options could be thrown in there, like giving it a go and either failing or doing a half-arsed attempt at it.
If I were to choose the second option, and change my idea, there are a couple of things i am thinking about. The most probable of these is to do an online animation style version of the “choose your own adventure” story. HOWEVER, I am of the belief that this could be just as hard 
IMPASS.
Other possible ideas:
- Multimedia package templates for clients requiring portfolios or the likes.
- An advertising campaign for an imaginary company/existing company/UQ Multimedia design degree.
- A movie trailer.
I need more ideas, and a solution FAST.
For assignment 1 “quick and dirty presentation”, the group that I worked in, included David Whipps, Kevin Colombu and myself. Each of us had our own sections to work on while working as a team to complete the task before us. My individual section was the half page flyer detailing what our project consisted of for potential clients.
