Trial Pixilation

My first Design Practice group is Pixilation

The first seminar we worked in groups of 5 and went outside the Waveley building to take a sequence of photos for a frame rate of 12 per second for a 30 second piece.We first discussed as a group what kind of ideas each of us have and had an overall idea what to do together. Then we just basically came up with new ideas as we go along and do it. We went down to town to take photos. We went to McDonald's to capture the eating too.

• It was fun but its kind of tiring too cos we needed to take a lot of photos in order to make a long enough video. We also needed to make sure every move was well-planned and well-done. Our group didn't have much trouble of taking the photos. It was nice and smooth as we talked and came to compromises at each stage, like capturing in turns etc

The second seminar on Pixilation was learning how to resized and edited the photos we took using Photoshop. I am quite keen on PS but I have never used this record button before. So it was sort of new to me.

• But it was a quick and easy process because once we have known how to use the record button on PS we are sorted. We don't have to do the same thing for hundreds of photos.

We had our last seminar on Pixilation this week and we finally got to know to how to put our photos together to be a real video. We use Adobe Premier Pro to edit our photos, we can also add sound effects, add titles, subtitles, fading effects, cutting bits off and adding more in and all sort of things which Andy had shown us.

• It is a very fun process from what I have seen. But when I had a go in class, it wasn't as smooth as I thought it would be. But I believe once I have the hang of it and with a few more practices I should be capable of it just like how I taught myself into PS :P

Multimedia Competitions

We've been asked to search for any multimedia-linked competitions
and I found some recent interesting multimedia competitions:

The 6th Annual Citizens for Global Solutions Multimedia Contest
"CHOOSE YOUR GLOBAL SOLUTION"

http://multimedia.globalsolutions.org/2009-multimedia-contest

The Piano

A very beautiful story with excellent animation.

NYC Poster

Photography by Mitchell Funk. Image@Getty Images Design@ Pyramid Posters 2008

I bought this poster at the poster sale in uni last week.
To be honest, I love everything in this poster :)
I love the angle of the photo
I love that it's fish-eyed and
I love it's in black and white except the yellow taxis which,
is a very representative image of New York City.

Pinhole Photo

my pinhole camera photo

I love the effect of it, it's like fish-eye, which I didn't know it would have this effect before.
And I love the atmosphere of it too I think it's because it's in black and white.
I didn't think making a photograph could be this easy just using a can.
It was a fun process. The first time I get to use the dark room and going through all the different liquid.
My photo was taken on the ground floor in the Waverley Building facing the road.
It isn't the best photo but it's actually better than I thought.
I have seen other people's photos in our group, some of them are really nice.
I think mine will get better by making more attempt.

2009 WhiteBoard Induction

My group is at about 1.08-1.15
Although it was fun, the process of taking photos at each move is tiring.
As a group, each one of us drew a little bit in turns and giving different ideas as we go along.
Surprisingly, what I like the most is the end bit where one of our group member turn the "page" over. I think it work quite well although it didn't look good at the time.
It's very nice to see other people's work too.
Some of them are just amazing. Some of the ideas are really creative which I wouldn't think of.
I like the group at about 0.49-0.59
I like the idea of a real person involved in it by holding the little bit of paper and putting "on" the board and I just love that little black person :)

first post

starting the first lecture tomorrow :)

06/10
made a pinhole camera

07/10
created this blog
made a short video using whiteboard