Blog Entry 12 - Green Screen Session

On the day of recording our tutor Chetna came down to help out. I discussed further our plan with her and she made me aware of the impossibility of completing the amount of work I set myself. I agreed and we worked out the kinks, I set it to one introduction each and several idle chatter videos. As well as Chetna making me aware that I didn't have to program the player, which was a huge sigh of relief!

We also worked out Katies script as she didn't fully understand the concept of having two avatars on at a time, and the possibility of three or even four glitching over the original two. Also because of the change in the workload some of the script became redundant, so we pulled the best bits from the script and used it as a guideline for us to improvise - under Katies directing.

We compromised and tweaked everything. Ready before the technician came and opened up. They were twenty minutes late. I think this was a mix up in booking time, because we turned up at 10:00am but they claimed we didn't turn up on the scheduled time.

Mekalia never turned up to document our group work or take photo's, as previously arranged.

On the day of recording our group formed a hierarchy and we established the peak of our group working abilities. We all took on responsibilities, all had a say and we functioned well as a group.

Andrea and Katie were both in charge of directing the proceedings, they did an excellent job of organising us and discussing how things should be done. Sandy was in charge of the sound and we all acted.

Chetna helped us capture the footage as well as share an input.

This is the point where I realised we moved past the storming stage, because we worked hard and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves in the process, this reflects our attitudes in the recordings!

The day went well, however we had to miss out a few groups, but we booked out the sound studio and I said I would make that script and get the information, the idea is to make their introductions as a glitchy one. We also forgot to do our own introduction...so the same had to be done for our group.

Although Katie wrote the characters up; loosely based on our own characteristics. We still had to present our avatars in the same way we would have represented ourselves as an avatar on an online game for instance.

So for my Avatar I carefully planned how I would do this.

I picked an outfit and a username for my avatar to express my personality to the viewers, I’m a comic geek and superman is one of my favourite superheroes. As well as this most people relate me to superman because of my interest in comics and I quite often wear superman based t-shirts. So to portray my personality as an avatar I chose to wear a superman t-shirt. My username is the same username I use for everything, you can search it on google and find most of my profiles or work based on my username, it’s my first two initials, my surname and the year of my birth, again this is an expression of who I am.

On the day it took six hours to record everything. Then because they were recorded on a Mac, my hard drive wasn't compatible and formatting it at that point in time wasn't an option. We worked around it by using Sandy's macbook to collect the 72gb folder. We then spent two hours manually transferring them on to the uni computers: 4gb's at a time and then transferring them in to my hard drive. This took a further two hours to transfer and check.

In this time I worked on a prototype:

First attempt