Thursday, 23 June 2011
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Video Profile Evaluation
When choosing what to do as my video profile I thought about myself and what makes me unique and what is close to my heart. I choose to do my video profile about how Poland and its film industry is influenced by its history and how all that has influenced my understanding of how I would like to make films in a future career in the film and television industry. As a British born Pole I can see Poland somewhat as an outsider, which helps me be more analytical and critical of what goes on in the country, which enables me to also look at the films made their in a different way.
When I making this video, I had decided early on that the music I will use for the background will be, ‘Farewell to the Fatherland’, by Michał Kleofas Ogiński, which reflects how much Polish people during its years under occupation longed for a free and independant Poland and it represents Poles who left due to historical events. The clips I used in it were all symbolic of the Polish success. The first clip from, Ashes and Diamonds (Popioł i Diament) by Andrzej Wajda, shows how happy the Poles were when the Second World War had ended. The film itself is about a Home Army (Armia Krajowa) soldier and how he realised they will have to eradicate the Polish Communists, who want to hand over Poland to the Soviet Communists. The other two clips are from, Pirates of the Caribbean, and, Saving Private Ryan. Both of which have Polish contributions in the making of them.
Through this video I would like to show that Poland, though a small country in Europe, is a very strong and powerful country, when its comes to its film industry, most Polish filmmakers are now more influencing in the European Film Industry and Hollywood. I hope that my video helps show how Polish people can contribute to the worldwide industry.
I think that if I was to improve the video, I would do all the parts that I appear in each in a different location, and use more short clips rather than the longer ones. I would also try to get a more analytical approach to it and with more of my own opinion.
Overall I think my video gives a general overview of what Polish people have gone through to help contribute to the film history of Hollywood and Britain.
When I making this video, I had decided early on that the music I will use for the background will be, ‘Farewell to the Fatherland’, by Michał Kleofas Ogiński, which reflects how much Polish people during its years under occupation longed for a free and independant Poland and it represents Poles who left due to historical events. The clips I used in it were all symbolic of the Polish success. The first clip from, Ashes and Diamonds (Popioł i Diament) by Andrzej Wajda, shows how happy the Poles were when the Second World War had ended. The film itself is about a Home Army (Armia Krajowa) soldier and how he realised they will have to eradicate the Polish Communists, who want to hand over Poland to the Soviet Communists. The other two clips are from, Pirates of the Caribbean, and, Saving Private Ryan. Both of which have Polish contributions in the making of them.
Through this video I would like to show that Poland, though a small country in Europe, is a very strong and powerful country, when its comes to its film industry, most Polish filmmakers are now more influencing in the European Film Industry and Hollywood. I hope that my video helps show how Polish people can contribute to the worldwide industry.
I think that if I was to improve the video, I would do all the parts that I appear in each in a different location, and use more short clips rather than the longer ones. I would also try to get a more analytical approach to it and with more of my own opinion.
Overall I think my video gives a general overview of what Polish people have gone through to help contribute to the film history of Hollywood and Britain.
Self Evaluation: Review of Work
Name: Bartosz Malarski
How well do you think you have managed your time?
1 2 3 4 5
Give examples of where you managed you time effectively or where you could have improved your time management.
Made sure that it was completed on a deadline. Completed all pre-production early.
How well did you fulfil your role on this project?
1 2 3 4 5
How did you fulfil your role? Give examples to justify your score.
I think I fulfilled my role as I had to make it on my own and though it took time to complete I think overall it looks better than it would have.
How well do you think your animation answered the creative brief?
1 2 3 4 5
What aspects of the brief did you manage to fulfil? Give examples.
There may not be a lot of animation in it but I fulfilled the brief to make an E4 ident.
What areas of the project didn’t work well? In future what you differently?
The original idea to add animate the mouths of the characters. I would have done something a bit more original and funky.
What areas of the project are you most proud of?
The way I edited it, along with the way the E4 logo was cropping up every so often.
Name: Bartosz Malarski
How well do you think you have managed your time?
1 2 3 4 5
Give examples of where you managed you time effectively or where you could have improved your time management.
Made sure that it was completed on a deadline. Completed all pre-production early.
How well did you fulfil your role on this project?
1 2 3 4 5
How did you fulfil your role? Give examples to justify your score.
I think I fulfilled my role as I had to make it on my own and though it took time to complete I think overall it looks better than it would have.
How well do you think your animation answered the creative brief?
1 2 3 4 5
What aspects of the brief did you manage to fulfil? Give examples.
There may not be a lot of animation in it but I fulfilled the brief to make an E4 ident.
What areas of the project didn’t work well? In future what you differently?
The original idea to add animate the mouths of the characters. I would have done something a bit more original and funky.
What areas of the project are you most proud of?
The way I edited it, along with the way the E4 logo was cropping up every so often.
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Saturday, 4 June 2011
Thursday, 7 April 2011
Character sketches
This is the first drawing of the characters I intend to use. From here I recoloured most of the the green and replaced it with the colours that the needed to be.
Thursday, 31 March 2011
E4 Ident Script
Will (Simon Bird), Jay (James Buckley), Neil (Blake Harrison) and Simon (Joe Thomas)
Hello E4!
Jay:
I miss E4, home sweet home!
Simon:
You don't have to wait long to see us!
Will:
Yes! We are back! [quick pause]
In the summertime fun that is Malia.
[quick pause] On the colossal screen!
Neil:
What on the big TV?
Jay:
No!
Will:
Well, eventually! First it will be in
the cinemas!
Proposal.
A
19ninetyone
Production
Presents
The Four Amigos
In
Animation Domination
E4 Channel
Ident and Sting
Proposal
The ident will be the Inbetweeners cast in cartoon form talking to camera, effectively breaking the fourth wall, telling the audience about their movie and how they miss E4. Breaking the fourth wall convention is good because it fits with the anarchic feel of both animation and the channel.
The appeal of the characters of the Inbetweeners is that they are popular among the target audience of the channel so they will be right for the ident. E4 has a young adult target audience and I feel that this ident will appeal to them.
To produce the ident and sting animations, I will be using my camera, the Canon Powershot SX30 IS, to take shots of outline drawings, on top of a single colour background, drawn on A4 OHP film. Each shot will be put into Adobe Photoshop to add colour to complete the image. From there the shots will be put in the order in Final Cut Pro to be animated. Once it’s fully animated and completed on there, I will record the voices of characters while watching the animation. Then I will import the audio into Final Cut Pro, to piece it together into a complete ident. For the E4 sting, I will use a shorter fragment of the ident. The E4 logo will fall onto the video and the character heads will appear around it.
Schedule: This will be completed by Thursday 7th April 2011.
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Riddle!
A man walks into a bar, asks for a glass of water, the barman pulls out a shotgun, fires a blast just missing the man, man says thank you and puts a tip on the bar and exits. Why the thank you and the tip?
Thursday, 16 December 2010
ClayMation
Producing a stop-motion animation using clay is extremely laborious. Normal film runs at 24 fps. With the standard practice of exposing 2 frames for each shot, 12 changes are usually made for one second of film movement. For a 30-minute movie, there would be approximately 21,600 stops to change the figures for the frames. For a full-length (90-minute) movie, there would be approximately 64,800 stops, and possibly far more if parts were shot with single frame exposed for each shot.
Clay animation can take several forms:
Freeform clay animation is an informal term referring to the process in which the shape of the clay changes radically as the animation progresses, such as in the work of Ivan Stang's animated films.
Strata-cut, an animation, in which a long breadlike loaf of clay, internally packed tight and loaded with varying imagery, is sliced into thin sheets, with the camera taking a frame of the end of the loaf for each cut, eventually revealing the movement of the internal images within. Pioneered in both clay and blocks of wax by German animator Oskar Fischinger during the 1920s and '30s, the technique was revivied and highly refined in the mid-'90s by David Daniels, an associate of Will Vinton, in his 16-minute short film Buzz Box.
Another clay-animation technique, one that blurs the distinction between stop motion and traditional flat animation, is called clay painting (also a variation of the direct manipulation animation process), wherein clay is placed on a flat surface and moved like wet oil paints (as on a traditional artist's canvas) to produce any style of images, but with a clay look to them.
Clay animation can take several forms:
Freeform clay animation is an informal term referring to the process in which the shape of the clay changes radically as the animation progresses, such as in the work of Ivan Stang's animated films.
Strata-cut, an animation, in which a long breadlike loaf of clay, internally packed tight and loaded with varying imagery, is sliced into thin sheets, with the camera taking a frame of the end of the loaf for each cut, eventually revealing the movement of the internal images within. Pioneered in both clay and blocks of wax by German animator Oskar Fischinger during the 1920s and '30s, the technique was revivied and highly refined in the mid-'90s by David Daniels, an associate of Will Vinton, in his 16-minute short film Buzz Box.
Another clay-animation technique, one that blurs the distinction between stop motion and traditional flat animation, is called clay painting (also a variation of the direct manipulation animation process), wherein clay is placed on a flat surface and moved like wet oil paints (as on a traditional artist's canvas) to produce any style of images, but with a clay look to them.
Thursday, 25 November 2010
Pixilation
Pixilation is a stop motion technique where live actors are used as a frame-by-frame subject in an animated film, by repeatedly posing while one or more frame is taken and changing pose slightly before the next frame or frames. The actor becomes a kind of living stop motion puppet. This technique is often used as a way to blend live actors with animated ones in a film, such as in The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb by the Bolex Brothers, which used the technique to compelling and eerie effect.
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Drawn Animation
Drawn animation is the longest process to use to make any length of video.
Its been used by Walt Disney to make all his animation shorts and films. He used it to make:
-Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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Cut Out Animation
Cutout animation is a technique for producing animations using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs.
Terry Gilliam is a famous user of this technique. He used it to mock famous artworks.
Thursday, 23 September 2010
Early Animation: Zoetropes, Phi phenomenon and Persistance of vision!
A zoetrope is a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures. The term zoetrope is from the Greek words ζωή - zoe, "life" and τρόπος - tropos, "turn". It may be taken to mean "wheel of life".
It consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. Beneath the slits on the inner surface of the cylinder is a band which has either individual frames from a video/film or images from a set of sequenced drawings or photographs. As the cylinder spins the user looks through the slits at the pictures on the opposite side of the cylinder's interior. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together so that the user sees a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, the equivalent of a motion picture. Cylindrical zoetropes have the property of causing the images to appear thinner than their actual sizes when viewed in motion through the slits.
The phi phenomenon is a perceptual illusion described by Max Wertheimer in his 1912 Experimental Studies on the Seeing of Motion, in which a disembodied perception of motion is produced by a succession of still images. In discussions of the perception of film and video it is often confused with beta movement, but it is a distinct phenomenon not directly involved in the perception of motion pictures.
The classic phi phenomenon experiment involves a viewer or audience watching a screen, upon which the experimenter projects two images in succession. The first image depicts a line on the left side of the frame. The second image depicts a line on the right side of the frame. The images may be shown quickly, in rapid succession, or each frame may be given several seconds of viewing time. Once both images have been projected, the experimenter asks the viewer or audience to describe what they saw.
At certain combinations of spacing and timing of the two images, a viewer will report a sensation of motion in the space between and around the two lines, even though the viewer also perceives two distinct lines and not the continuous motion of objects referred to as Beta movement. The phi phenomenon looks like a moving zone or cloud of background color surrounding the flashing objects. The discovery of the phi phenomenon was a significant milestone in Gestalt psychology.
Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second on the retina.
It consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. Beneath the slits on the inner surface of the cylinder is a band which has either individual frames from a video/film or images from a set of sequenced drawings or photographs. As the cylinder spins the user looks through the slits at the pictures on the opposite side of the cylinder's interior. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together so that the user sees a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, the equivalent of a motion picture. Cylindrical zoetropes have the property of causing the images to appear thinner than their actual sizes when viewed in motion through the slits.
The phi phenomenon is a perceptual illusion described by Max Wertheimer in his 1912 Experimental Studies on the Seeing of Motion, in which a disembodied perception of motion is produced by a succession of still images. In discussions of the perception of film and video it is often confused with beta movement, but it is a distinct phenomenon not directly involved in the perception of motion pictures.
The classic phi phenomenon experiment involves a viewer or audience watching a screen, upon which the experimenter projects two images in succession. The first image depicts a line on the left side of the frame. The second image depicts a line on the right side of the frame. The images may be shown quickly, in rapid succession, or each frame may be given several seconds of viewing time. Once both images have been projected, the experimenter asks the viewer or audience to describe what they saw.
At certain combinations of spacing and timing of the two images, a viewer will report a sensation of motion in the space between and around the two lines, even though the viewer also perceives two distinct lines and not the continuous motion of objects referred to as Beta movement. The phi phenomenon looks like a moving zone or cloud of background color surrounding the flashing objects. The discovery of the phi phenomenon was a significant milestone in Gestalt psychology.
Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second on the retina.
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Doctor Who
Doctor Who Proms 2010 - This Is Gallifrey/Vale Decem
This piece of music is one of the most amazing music scores ever!
Doctor Who Proms 2010 - I Am The Doctor
This piece really dives into the way the current Doctor is!
This piece of music is one of the most amazing music scores ever!
Doctor Who Proms 2010 - I Am The Doctor
This piece really dives into the way the current Doctor is!
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