Blog Entry 21 - Bibliography

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TV Static effect - YouTube . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E-MtJBAZvw. [Accessed 08 May 2012].

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Green screen recordings, done at the university of hertfordshire 18th April between 10 & 5
Script by Katie Smith

Sound Studio recordings done at the University of Hertfordshire 30th April between 10 & 11:30
Script by Toby Cooper

Blog Entry 20 - Everything completed

Total of 75 Hours work.

2 Hours visual.
3 Hours written work.
15 Hours Animating & Special effects.
50 Hours editing and Finalising.
4 Hours finishing last videos. (outtakes & showreel)
1 Hour Making the Poster.

Blog Entry 19 - Poster & Outtakes

For the exhibition I took the liberty of designing a poster. 

I used QR codes so that people at the exhibition can check out individual portfolios and the outtakes.

Because the outtakes aren't censored and they are 8 minutes long, they will not feature at the exhibition, so as an added bonus I added a QR code to link people to the youtube video of the outtakes.

QR Code 1: (My portfolio: http://www.tobyjamescooper.co.uk/)

QR Code 2: (Katie's Blog: http://theperfectwomanwmp.blogspot.co.uk/)

QR Code 3: (Sandy's Portfolio: http://www.sahandofficial.com/)

QR Code 4: (Andrea's favourite Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzqrXHELMGA&feature=g-upl)

QR Code 5: (The outtakes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS81YgFRtg4&feature=g-upl)

Poster

My Poster Design

The Outtakes

Blog Entry 18 - Video Commitment - Just awaiting sounds to be edited

I am almost finished, just waiting on Sandy to send me the last of the edited sounds.

So far I have spent the last two and a half weeks up until 3:00am getting these videos finished. In total I have worked out I have spent roughly 50 hours finilising and editing the footage. I spent 15 hours getting the template and animation done.

In total I have done 65 hours of editing on this entire project. 

As previously discussed I have used photoshop, illutrator, flash & After Effects.

In Photoshop I made the filters and photo manipulated designs.

In Illustrator I made the typography and odd little things.

In Flash to make the electric currents I used a motion guide line and designed a voltage to follow it.

The typography is animated via stop frame animation.

The green screen I added a shadow.

Keyed out the green using several tools to perfect it.

I adjusted the curves.

I edited the brightness and contrast.

I edited the hue and saturation.

I edited the exposure.

I masked the avatar footage as well to seperate the two avatars from being so close to each other.

I animated some effects on After Effects and at some points had to animated the masks.

I also added the special sound effects - knocking, censor beep, glitch sounds, computer voice and computer effects.

To get the sounds to Sandy I exported each video as a .WAV without the soundscape but with the sound effects, for him to manipulate and add a reverb to the sounds.

Video playlist:

Blog Entry 17 - The Sound Studio & Progress

Today we had our sound studio session to attend to, I wrote up the scripts for the group:
Sandy couldn't make it in today, but he used his own facilities to record his sounds and sent it to us.

Group Introductions

Loading Screen

The sound session went well, we got done quite promptly, allowing us time to finishing other deadlines. We still hadn't heard anything from Group 5 so I worked the script around it.


I have completed almost all the videos now, the only ones that are left are the ones that require these sound recordings also on the 25th April – I  fixed the idle chatter bugs (censorship and out of sync knocks).

Blog Entry 16 - Advertisement

On the 23rd of April we came in to be interviewed about the exhibition and our project as a team to advertise the sensations exhibition. The video is now up on youtube.

Blog Entry 15 - Tutorial

In this tutorial, we discussed and previewed our work to the tutors they were impressed and happy with the progress, Andrea also previewed her logo design that our tutors asked from us.

Non contributing members
Mekalia turned up today (the second time we have seen her in this project) to ask us on what we had done, we updated her and heard why she hasn't had any input. She stated that she has had other projects on.

I bit my tongue to save conflicts and demotivating our group; but after discussion it turned out I in fact had more deadlines than Mekalia, also Andrea has the same work she has (being on the same course), but we all have been capable of managing our time and working hard on this project and more importantly working hard as a team. Her lack of effort couldn't be justified.

I left the decision to Andrea and Katie to co-ordinate her and set work.

Updating this particular blog, this work that was set was not acknowledged again, delaying our group a bit because we had to catch up on the delegated work.

Advert
After talking to our tutors about our work, we were asked to feature in an advertisement scheme for the exhibition. This would mean as a group turning up and getting interviewed by other University students and then that video would be edited and put on youtube. We agreed on doing this.


Research
Group research (my research on 1, 4 & 5)
I enquired with the groups we did not have work for about their projects so we could piece together a new script for their "glitchy" introductions.

I spoke to Tom from Group 1 about their project, and discovered they are re-creating a piece done by Stelarc.

I also spoke to Matthew from Group 4:


I tried emailing members from Group 5, I think they were worried that we were trying to plagiarise their work or something because they ignored my emails.