Animation

For my animation I had originally decided to remake a song that I really liked but it turned into something a little different since the song would take to long and only doing a portion of it would make it seem incomplete. I decided to make the animation set around a morning sunrise setting in a city. I wanted the city to only be a shadow outline so that is why i made the graphic of just the outline of the city. I wanted birds to fly over briefly so I created a movie clip and and had the wings look up and down and had 3 layers for each of the birds. Then i also wanted stars because is tarted wanting the animation to look somewhat surreal, i thought it would be really cool to see stars in the morning during sunrise so i created another movie clip and had a small star shape tween into a larger star to give the appearance of a twinkle. I also had a really brief shadow of a creature lurking over the city which as very simple to create using the line tool and the pointer to cure along with the paint bucket to fill it in with black. Then i had to moon appear at the very end of the animation instead of the sun to be unexpected, to replay the animation I had a small bird appear similar to the flying birds before. I thought it would make a great replay button because when you click it the wings flap making it look like its flying. I enjoyed making it and i think it came out wonderfully.

Film Projects

I enjoyed shooting and coming up with the idea to do a film on the budget cuts with my partner Christina. We decided the film on budget cuts because it effects people so much now adays. I really wish we could have extended our film a little longer so we could go into depth about how everyone really felt and were effected by it. I felt like there could have been a lot more b-role but I was very focused on getting more testimonials so show how intense it was effecting students. I enjoyed it because it was something that I was passionate about and I was also able to lighten the mood at the end by having a funny fake interview with Justin Bieber. I also really enjoy using final cut pro but I wish I would have had a little more experience with transitions. Overall it was a great experience.

All I want is you

For my assignment I decided to use the music video by Miguel and J.Cole called "All I Want is You". The video opens up with a pan shot of the the top of the city at night which gave the feel of the video a gloomy, sad feeling which portrays the song very well. Then it goes to some very well placed cut scenes between the rapper and candids of the singer which to me shows the switch between the two and the coalition between the rap and song part of the music video. It also has a few sneak cut scenes to a girl off centered in the shot which to me is like a foreshadow of the song itself. The video itself it mostly cut scenes but i feel for this video ti was placed very appropriately to show the emotion of the singer and who he is talking about. Also the video had shits in different weather and different lighting or a darker filter to give a gloomy video> It was a wonfderful video and was shot to fit the song well

What I Hear Around Me

For my media 160 class i'm writing a blog about the sounds I hear around me. as of right now im currently in my room writing this blog and the predominate noise seems to be the keys on my keyboard clicking away and also the occasional pause to start a different type of clicking on the keyboard of my phone to text a few people. Besides that I hear a man speaking on the TV from the movie Cloverfield which I wasn't particularly fond of due to the filming technique(Camera was way to shakey.). I also hear a really loud buzzing from my AC which tends to override my TV at night which gets a little frustrating on top of the loud creaking my old house and bed tend to make with every move. This is about the same thing i hear every night I decide to sleep at home instead of my boyfriends, it's a lot quieter there.

Editing

I was very happy with the end result of our movie. The movie came very easily to me and my partner lee so we really didn't have a hard time planning and shooting the short that we did. We both had the same idea around the way the film should look and feel. While editing the movie we agreed that the film should have no background nose only music from Buckethead to set the change in feel and pace of the movie. Editing, looking back now, the only thing I would maybe even consider changing about the film is the time we had in it, We made certain cut in the final a little too long making the viewer kind of loose the hecticness of the sot before it, also some of the special effects were a little too dramatic causing the view to losse importantness of the shot before as well and maybe toward the end of the film add a small amount of dialect. The movie itself though i am more then satisified with the way that we decided to end our film.

Incubus Warning video analysis

I think the Warning video for the band Incubus was wonderfully constructed. The video begins with a wide-shot of a city with the label of day one from that shot its jump shots into the building to Brandon Boyd *the lead singer* begnining the song, then jumps back out the the city and to different parts of the band such has the dj table of the guitar giving a sense of simultaneous actions, and a the story of another person. After the city shot it jumps to a girl in a building waking up, there is no dialogue in this movie which kinda adds to the story telling feel to this movie. This whole video really relys on the jump shots and the zooming in after the jump shot to add to the intensity and also show the story of different people happening simultaneously. The video is also shot in a sort of blue saturated color which also adds kind of a gloomy feel to the video which was the purpose. The meaning of the song and the way the video was shot made good harmony feeling wise and i really appreciate this style of video

Incubus-Warning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvZY3-y4l8Q

lecture 1

The first lecture in media 160 covered a couple key factors in the web. It spoke of modularity which is plug in capability. This allows media to be viewed by many over the internet. Reproducibility which is being able to reproduce the media product more then once or twice in a different location on the web. We also discussed interactivity which is the ability for the user or of the site to interact with the media on the site. It also spoke about what the internet and media means to todays society, media is a huge structure of society it brings new and information to a wide range of people from all over the world, it also allows free speech and the ability for people to bring up pressing issues such as the dafur is dying web[age we were shown in class. The website was an interactive flash site that allowed users to play as a dafur person and simulated what their life is like bringing up pressing issues. The lecture also covered virtual reality which is the realm of the internet, also interoperability which allows different systems and softwares to interact. The whole lecture was very interesting.