Tutorial Research

Having looked at the names from the notes taken, the mention of Wallace and Gromit made me think of one of my favourite directors, Tim Burton, who creates characters in a very similar way, using stop motion. This technique was used in the films Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride.

Other names that were associated to Wallace and Gromit were Morph and the original series of Postman Pat in the eighties.

Another program mentioned through the names of Bagpuss and the Clangers was Trumpton, another child series broadcasted in the eighties.

Group Tutorial - May 14th

In order to gain positive feedback and develop initial ideas, each member of the class had to show their blogs and explain their thought process so far. While George and I were at the front, Emily took these notes for us:

Contextual resources were given for the two of us to look into so that we could gain a better understanding on the technique. Looking into the techniques of early animation was also suggested.

Thought - Music

Since I have a collection of classical music, I could go through the collection and try to pick out relevant pieces, such as a slow piece getting faster for the creation and a lively piece for the marching, although, I don't know how to add them to the final piece.

Silent Film Research

I glanced at the website www.silentera.com and found many titles of silent films, as well as the cast and who directed. I was also able to view a still from each film but before looking into any of these names or titles I wanted to look into the first name that came to mind when silent film was mentioned.

And that is Charlie Chaplin. Here are a couple of clips I attained from Youtube:

Unfortunately, I completely forgot about the fact that in the background music is constantly playing to reflect the mood of the scene. Which means that if we want to follow this theme then we will have to find suitable music.

Thought - Silent Film

Neither George nor I thought of music to play in the background, so, I thought that in order to avoid this we could create a silent film effect, having the clip in black and white with frames of text interrupting, showing the ingredients and maybe at the beginning giving the title sequence.

However, I need to look into this a bit more in order to get a better grip on the idea.

Camera Workshop - 14th May

On the fourteenth our tutor gave us a workshop, explaining how we see images and, in particular, how an SLR works, aiding our understanding by drawing images and allowing us to handle the cameras to go through the settings and their effects on the outcomes.

Throughout this workshop I took these notes:

To start the workshop off, our tutor drew these images on the white board to explain how light and refraction works and to show how the cameras differed.

Here, an explanation of the common ISO speed was given, alongside the common Aperture settings and the range of Shutter Speed timings, and how these settings effected the outcome.

Light sources and the colours they show on the camera screen were explained, as well as the variety of modes on the camera.

Trial Day Clips - What We Learnt

George and I analyzed the clips, making these decisions about these particular sections:

We concluded that three of the five clips were fine - the only problems we found were that the swings were too large when making the initial four walk and that when the army were rising they did so too quickly so we need to fix these two problems.