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