Animation Advanced

Main 3 ideas

Idea One
Two Main characters guy with dog, girl on phone (Cutout) walking animation in park two bump into each other giggle heart pops up girl turns and walks with guy laughing with block squares to make it shown.

Environments:
Foreground 1: Path , grasss
Foreground 2 Tree

Background Permanent Blue based sky

Motion :
Man: Head Torso Legs x 2 Arms x 2 dog on leash

Girl Head Torso legs x 2 arms x 2 phone

Sun

Light clouds

Audio
Ambient park

Dog walking / panting

Footsteps on gravel

phone sounds light giggle

Idea Two:

Music video adaptation of creepy Doll Lyric breakdown animation Using the lyrics make visual cutouts of the doll house money ect and play out the song as a visual medium

Environments:
Foreground 1 : Doll close up
Foreground 2: Box close up
Foreground 3: Money bag up close

Background 1: Market
Background 2: Inside house
Background 3 inside kitchen

Motion:
Doll

Fire

Honey

Door

Box

Audio
Fire

Door creek

Song track
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Idea Three:

Cutout Impersonation of Weiss Shnee Fencing fight from the opening mirror mirror

Environments:
Background 1: Stage Weiss is singing on
Background 2: Silhouette Castle

Motion
Armour guard Head :sword 4 part legs (Knees) 2 4 part arms (Elbows)

Weiss shnee Body Head for first part

Weiss Shnee

Pre -Production My own animation: Ideas stage

Assignment 2 My own animation ideas

My base of idea is that i want to make a form of animated music video for one of these songs.

Ideas - Based off the fan animation prodcue a set piece animation of it.

ideas- Mechanical organ looking cut out animation with bloodstained  Rainbow colors.

Ideas -Visual literal interpretation of the lyrics .

Ideas- Lyric breakdown into visual metaphors

Early animation 1930s-1960s

Early animation 1930s-1960s

Disney and cel 1930

Disney was one of the first mainstream animation companies that popularised celluloid animation from the 1930s with their first major hit snow white the process is shown below.

Comps to dirty grandpa

Dirty Grandpa produced by lionsgate studios is planned to be released in early 2016 and is a comedy similar to the likes of:
1) Bad neighbours
2)American pie
3)Meet the Fockers

1. Bad neighbours 

Assignment 2 for Clive Davies-Frayne: Editing Theory

Editing Theory

What is it to edit? 

To edit at its base is to change something such as video, audio and writing.In our case Video/Film Editing it is used to create styles atmospheres and tell the audience what is happening visually through effect.

Editing the eraly days

Georges Méliès - 1895

In 1985 the lumiere brothers had a screening of the first film "workers leaving the lumiere factory" of which the technology impressed audiences but George's saw potential and decided he wanted to amke films, he first attempted buy a cinematography off the lumiere brothers of which he was declined as they wanted a monopoly on the film industry and so Gorges went to the uk and purchased an animatograph of which he reversed engineered into his own form of camera. Whilst using his new camera he discovered one of ,if not the first editing technique was first discovered when gorges was recording a street of traffic and whilst recording a bus passing his camera jammed and when he fixed it another car was there , upon development he noticed the car mysteriously appeared where the bus was, this was the first instance of the now commonly know, jump cut.

Over time Gorges used this technique to create his new films and shows an developed more editing types such as fade in and outs, overlapping dissolves and Stop motion photography.   

Edwin Porter - 1903

 Unlike Mellies tablo style of filming whereas it was in the style of the theatre, Edwin porter, originally a vitoscope projectionist until around 1900 where he joined Eddison manufacturing company and became head of production for skylight studio in 1901. From 1901 until 1906 Edwin served as Eddisons go to director and cameraman. Having a background in film and a great interest in Mellies work Edwin porter decided to try creating his own piece with 1903's "life of a fireman" But apart form the norm of setting up a shot and making it he mixed it with sock footage with stages scenes to make a fictional narrative sadly Porter was stuck in the each shot has to be a complete scene mentality leading to time overlays where you would see the same shot from two angle which nowadays looks like bad time cutting in and out. and whilst to us it seems clunky to the viewers back then it was still the amazement of the technology that impressed them so they allowed such time overlap's to slip by. Eventually the freshness of the film industry would wear off and Porter had to push the film style forward with his most famous piece the great train robbery. in this porter is more decisive with his cutting and although each scene is still one master take. He cuts between each scene without fades or dissolves and most importantly not letting the scene reach its logical end. Edwin porter was one of the pioneers of compression of time, and was one of the first developers of continuity editing and based his work less on the scene,but on the shot.  but this is as far as porter got taking editing forward in time.


David Wark Griifith - 1908
In 1908 Edwin Porter hired a young actor to be the lead part in rescued from an eagles nest this started the 40 year long career  for David Wark Griffith. After having little to no success in any other career routes D.W Griffith took this opportunity and this gave him contact with Edwin porter. D.W Griffith always wanted to be a writer and worked under the production name Lawrence Griffith submitted many plays and scripts but were uninteresting under advice of a friend made senarios for films after submitting one to Edwin porter,which was rejected due to having to many scenes he hired Griffith to act in one of his films. After this D.W Griifith was picked up by bio-graph a failing production company that was looking for directors and after producing "The Adventures of Dollie " in 2 days he was hired and wen ton to produce 450 films from 1908 -1911 and pushed it out of the tablo mentality and into the multi shot style we would now recognize.


Editing the purpose?
The most powerful message in the world world is only powerful when directed to the right people through the right channels in the right way ,when projects dont have the impact the creator wants its usually because the message is misunderstood or not actively shaped. Through correct video editing Technics a messege can be passed on visually rather than through a narrative. for example if you wanted to demonstrate someone getting older through a visual medium you could ahve a left seep to them being older at the current moment. if you wanted time compression you could change the shot before the current one end to just after the beginning of another (see The great train robbery for examples of this)
So TL;DR We edit to tell a story in a more complex way and it invests the audience through them working out its message or meaning.

Editing Conventions/ Where we are today?
As film making went on the techniques evolved with it.Such as we noted before there were such conventions as the jump cute,the fade in,dissolves and the 180' rule . all of which we use today, all be it in more advanced ways, These techniques were transferred  to our technological style of editing and are used in modern movies to create the effects mentioned in the previous section. and many more atmospheric reasons such as to create suspense, mystery, a sense of completeion.

Timelapse

Time-lapse is a method of condensing time using sped up content by taking images every other frame the more amount of frames between each shot the faster it goes.

Timelapse art

Another example of timelapse is in gaming to demonstrate a passing of an event that would take a while made faster

Pixilation

Aims and Objectives Planner

Title of Today's Lesson:

My Aims and Objectives for Today are:

How to Stretch and Challenge Myself

For Today's Lesson this will mean:

Remembering:	I remembered how Kevin taught us
Understanding:	I understand its stylistic choice ,similar but different to filming.
Applying:	I applied it by creating my piece
Analysing:	could've been more consistent and filled with more visual stimulus.
Evaluating:	7/10 for effort 4/10 for end result
Creating:	see below.

Reflection during lesson

How am I doing so far:
I accomplished the goal of creating a smallPixilation clip


Reflection at end of lesson:
Good lesson although i wish i coudlve had time to plan a concept for the production


What have I achieved?