Music Video - Troublemaker by ARASHI

This is a music video called Troublemaker from a Japanese Group ARASHI.
The reason I like it is simply that this is the first music video I've watched which it's a complete pixilated video. And I still think pixilation is very cool.

09/03 DP2 Seminar - Flash Games

Today's seminar was about good and bad flash games.

I have looked at some flash games on http://www.flash-game.net/
and found this game called 'Run Bolt Run' interesting.

http://www.flash-game.net/game/4135/run-bolt-run.html

It's basically a jumping-to-collect-coins and fighting-against-enemy game. It's easy to play, have straight forward instruction and tasks, and also a clear layout to see scores and health.

Another one I tried was called 'Toy Factory'

http://www.flash-game.net/game/2918/toy-factory.html

The quality of the game is quite good as it's 'half 3D'. But the instruction isn't very clear, and it's hard to control with the keyboard arrows. I took a long time to get use to how to play it.

So we have made some conclusions about the important things to remember when making our own quizzes.

• quick and easy to play
• some kind of awards
• music makes it interesting
• easy control and easy to get use to
• clear instruction and layout
• not too easy or simple

Design Practice 2 - flash Quiz

The second session of DP2 is Interactive Media, making a flash quiz.
like this one - http://www.pubsquiz.co.uk/quiz/virtualquiz.asp?quiz=1

This is the very useful website to follow our seminars and learn about flash
http://bit.ly/axOKlz

so we learnt how to make a moving image from a sprite sheet like this.


I have decided to make a quiz about the world's famous countries and cities as I love travelling and have found some places are quite familiar in some way.
and I enjoy doing this so much I am really sure about choosing Interactive media as my pathway.

Mexico Poster Competition

The 10th International Biennial of the poster in Mexico (2008)

Some very inspiring posters of the competition



http://www.bienalcartel.org.mx/indexBak.htm

Music Video - It's You by Super Junior

This is a music video called It's You from a Korean Group Super Junior.
This 4 minutes video is all in one shot, and I really like its way of shooting. I think it's clever how one person goes away and another person comes in the scene in one shot.

Design Practice 2 - Hero Lair

This is my hero for my DP2 project





http://www.yatterman-movie.com/

It was originally a Japanese TV animation and had been made into a movie last year.

I am trying to build a lair that looks like the one shown in the movie.

Music Video - Bandage by LANDS

This is a music video called "Bandage" from a Japanese band LANDS
(from 5:49 is the making of the video)

The reason that I like this video is because the movement of the frame is really cool.
They didn't use one camera to shot it but a lot of digital cameras to make the freeze scene (see 5:53), Just like how we did our pixilation but the other way round.