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'ByPassenger' TroyBrowne edit1.

Music - CombiChrist - Im Happy Anyway

Well here is my edit of the shots we taken. I called it 'ByPassenger' because 'the office guy'(well played by StevenBaileyLOL!) seemed be a passenger of work, 'bypassing' through his life.

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DAY3 -
...ok, so we all met up again to get the reminder of the scenes shot. We knew where we wanted to get (the graveyard) and improvised with the environments to get there. Because of where we were(in the middle of the impatient Nottingham) we encountered abit of attention from onlookers. Mostly weirdo's thinking we were doing 'weirder' things than them.


... I feel happy with the scenes. We got some good images, however because we were happy with what we saw coming out I feel we may have rushed slightly so that we could see the outcome sooner. Overall I think it may show that we applied thought to our outcome.
Cant wait to start bringing it together via Prem(each of the group are going to have their own edit).

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DAY2 -
...so we got together with all our bits we needed to bring, we met round StevenBaileys apartment for the 'waking' scene. To be honest it seemed abit porno, 4people in a bedroom, 1 lying on the bed, a camera, a tripod?....lol
We planned to film up to where the man is about to leave the underground garage. As we moved from location to location we decided between us the best camera angles, considered mood and improvised with light conditions.
Filming went smooth and turned out to be a laugh actually.
I liked the shots that came out, however I think in the future I'd try and manipulate environmental lighting to coincide with the 'mood' I wanted to express.

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CONCEPT - OFFICE GUY
Man wakes up in his bed. Fully clothed(office attire). Gets up and leaves home. Goes to car park. sits at desk. He carries out paperwork which makes him and the desk moves along through the city ending at the graveyard.... where he dies...

RESEARCH FIELDS -
Thing that come to mind - 'Vordhosbn - AphexTwin'



This music Video has used stop frame animation techniques. Its moody, sketchy and goes perfect with the music even so, towards the end 'hi hat' or 'snare' shows on the screen respectfully with the beats in the music.

Things I found - 'Bolex Brothers - The Saint Inspector'



There were lots of examples of stopmotion, just putting that in the YouTube search brought up hundreds. So I searched theBolexBrothers(ref:'SecretAdveturesOfThumb').What I liked about this is how it relied on good character design, visual details and SFX to set the entire mood of the story. It keeps you guessing what the entire context of the story is.

Things I found - 'Ray of Light' - Madonna



Great example of a stopmotion techniques.

STORYBOARD - OFFICEGUY
I produced a storyboard.
ALLSCENES -

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Task - Using DigitalCamera(CanonPowerShotS3iS) produce 320frame animation. Thinking about mood,framing,timing frames per second,ViewPoint,Content,Narrative,LightConditions.

Group - LaurelPlainJones, Realexis Christofides, StevenBailey, TroyBrowne.

DAY1 -
Got together with the group and brainstormed. Ideas came out to do with Illusions,Fighting,Teleportation.... we tried to develop a reason for the fight... having a reason for a fight then turned into all of us wanting to have some sort of loose story told. We all had a laugh walking around the city centre thinking of crazy plot lines. We were all trying to think of an animation with inanimate objects moving around with living objects. There was a idea involving a man doing magic at a desk which was moving round the town. I liked the idea of the desk moving round with a person stationary behind it which made me come up with the idea of a man at an office desk moving from AtoB. A majorityof the group liked the sound of it and we all pieced together the details.
We all sat down and organised what will happen in the story, what we'll need on the day of filming. We designated what each would bring the following day.

"I liked how we all thought of an idea before jumping into shooting, we planned ahead and even thought of a 'message'. The group is good and are all confident in our abilities, we communicate well and have all had input to the final idea"

WhyMeForMultimedia?

I'd say Ive had a development in 2dimensional work, but have loved all the other forms of expression too... film, music, design etc and have wanted to work on all forms of expression...

MultimediaArts has all my own prospect paths and thats why I chose it, I feel I can combine my 'artist' background with the technical aspects of MultimediaArt/Design and produce some quality work/prospects.

T.

BeerCanPinHoleCamera

One beer can, One hole... and some photo stuff.

Task, to take a picture of something.

Bright day exposure time=4secs.

The pinhole camera we made would expose the photographic paper to a fish-eye lense type image with a gritty, surreal edge.

I taken a picture of a war memorial at the graveyard opposite Waverly.
http://www.esnips.com/doc/0a13daf0-5fbe-4b84-b153-44d4471f3299/tree

The image came out quite well.. looks quite ghosty, which may have something to do with the crusifix silouette and the grainy quality. I like the image, and with digital taking over its good to see traditional methods still have alot to offer.
I combined the first image with something out of my portfolio that (i thought) suited the mood of the original.
http://www.esnips.com/doc/9ebda2f9-05ed-41c9-8039-2e13f4297f40/tree2


... more of my photography can be found at;

T.

WhiteBoardAnimation

One camera on tripod, One whiteboard, One whiteboard marker, Five students.
Task; to get the box over the tree... simple.lol

120-frames=20secs of animation.

This was a basic project but turned out to be quite effective.... we were all having a laugh doing it and the final outcomes were funny too.

I was surprised how good the animations came out considering the lack of organisation involved, this was expressed... but it worked.

Thought that it could work on any wipe-able surface(glass,window,mirror,tiles) ...
tried this;

....dont think it worked that well, but maybe with some different animatable sources(characters,objects)

T.

MyGallery (preUNI)

Ive created an online gallery. Its all the work I done before starting University. I posted an online gallery so that people could view it and hopefully get some exposure (long shot really...) However it has paid off, the website that hosts my work ('enips') is producing a book (like a coffee table art-book) and has asked me feature in it!

...tell me what you think.

Also I posted my work on 'yougofurther' (UCAS-run student website). There was a competetion to have your work exhibited at the 'UCAS Fair' (London 7-11-07 Manchester 27-11-07), with the possibility of winning a MacBook! I entered with;

http://www.yougofurther.co.uk/exposure/gallery/entry/NEW-STUDENTS-MAY-RELATE.aspx

...my work was shortlisted and with that will be exhibited and I find out if I win the MacBook today (fingers-crossed!!!!).

So if anyone reads this who ever thinks about posting their work, I'd say, do it!
.....you ever know what could happen!

T.