27/05/10

The research I done for my Stirling castle film was looking on several websites such as the Stirling castle website www.stirlingcastle.gov.uk and looked up the information about the chapel royal.

3 different documentary makers

Ken Burns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns

Michael Moore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_moore

Eric Manes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Manes

3 methods of storing digital media are

Hard Drive.

Memory Sticks.

CD’s.

3 methods of displaying digital media are

TV Screens.

Ipod’s .

Computer Monitors.

Three Video Artists

David Hall (born 1937) is a British video artist, whose pioneering work did much to establish video as an art form.

Lisa Steele (b. 1947 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a Canadian artist, a pioneer in video art, educator, curator and co-founder of V tape in Toronto.

Danny Matthys (Zottegem 1947) is a Flemish - Belgian visual artist, which was originally known as conceptual artist of international reputation. In the beginning of his career in the sixties of the 20th century, he was a pioneer in Polaroid art and Video art.

I started of the process of creating my video clip by doing research on my chosen area witch was the chapel royal, I then drew a story board and wrote out my script. We went to the castle and filmed, we captured the video, edited it and outputted it.

13/05/10

Today I Made My Podcast About Being Human And Done Some Editing Of My Stirling Castle Video.

11/05/10

today i put my film on the computer and started editing my work i got most of it done.

29/04/10

today we done filming at Stirling castle for about 4 hours we got all of the filming done i done my area witch was the chapel royal it took awhile to do it because there were alot of groups on tours so it was hard to concentrate.

Stirling Castle Documentary

for our next project we are going to be making a documentary about stirling castle after easter we each decided which part of the castle we will be presenting. i chose an overview but have since changed my mind and i am now going to do mines about the chapel royal.

http://www.stirlingcastle.gov.uk/home/story/royalcastle/chapelroyal.htm

9/03/10

In Brians class i finished off my being human article and started making an inside cover.

23/02/10

today in brians class i was given a hand out about using scribus and made a magazine pge about andy worhol following the instrusctions on the hand out. after i compleated this i started to type up my article for my double page in the magazine.

09/02/10

We started with a group meeting and discussed what we would do today then went to gather as much information for our articles as possible i collected lots of information about being human and collected pictures and reworded some information about the characters and uploaded it to moodle for brian to give me some feedback on what i wrote.

iWeb

iWeb is software used to create websites.
You choose a template to follow, then with the templates it has several different pages Such as a welcome page and a page for photo's, Blogs And Podcasts.
When you are making the page you just remove the text that is already there and add your own you can change the font, the colours and the size.
You can add pictures to your pages.

GrageBand!

GarageBand is a piece of software that allows you to make music and make podcasts.

Making the music is simple and the software comes with lots of different instruments such as Drums, Guitars, And Keyboards.
All you have to do is look through all the different instruments and click and drag the one you want on to the track.

To make a podcast all you have to do is open up a new podcast episode from there you can add photo's from iphoto and you can add your own voice talking, you can also put movies on it.

iPhoto!

iPhoto is a bit of software used for storing photo's.
You import your pictures onto iPhoto and on there you can Edit them and make things with them like sideshows and calenders.
With edit tool you can Enhance the colour, Add effects, Adjust the colour and Crop.

01/02/10

Today i learned about Andy Warhol and found out we were going to make Andy Warhol type pictures, so i did some research and found some of his pictures that really caught my eye, then i got my picture taken and traced over it onto thin plastic and put it on to a projector and drew it on to paper then copied over it on black pen.

28/01/10

Today we finished our animations and sent them off to the competition.

26/01/10

Today I Learned About The Anatomy Of A Page Of A Magazine.
We Learned The Names Of Different Things On A Page.
Then We Traced A Double Page Of A Magazine And Lined It And Named All The Different Sections On The Double Page Such As A Gutter, Word Wrap, Headings And Sub-headings.

Group Story Board!!

Report

Through the years there have been many different forms of animation one of the earliest types of animation was a zoetrope this is simply a cylinder with vertical slits, inside the cylinder there are a series of pictures that are similar but slightly different, the cylinder is spun around and when you look into the slits it gives the illusion of motion.








Another early example of animation is a thaumatrope, this is simply a piece of card with different pictures on each side, witch is attached to a piece of string, the string is twirled quickly and the pictures on the card appear to combine and make one picture.

Other forms of early animation are Flip Books And The Magic Lantern

Now a days animation is more complex, Stop motion is used very offten this is were an object will be photographed, moved slightly, and then photographed again. When the pictures are played back in normal speed the object will appear to move by itself.

There is also CGI or computer generated imagery this is when 2D images are put together and make a 3D image witch a moved to make a animation

The History Of Animation

The Magic Lantern
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgHdX0mhyy4
A Thaumatrope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UVbL-sDGFA
A Zoetrope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3yarT_h2ws
A Praxinoscope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGqYRGnUnGs A Flip Book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AslYxmU8xlc
Stop Motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZkd0G_SZLk
CGI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoABLqn8rK0