Tuesday 1 March 2011

Evaluation + Final Piece- Broken Promises.


Final- Critical Role - Broken Promises from Harry on Vimeo.

Evaluation


This project we had to pick a point from three option i choose Student Fees, i started with ideas, with a picture sequence and then quickly moved onto the Super Mario idea, this idea was that Super Mario (David Cameron) and Luigi (Nick Clegg) went around the kindom collecting money (student money) and crushing university along the way, this proved impractical because i needed an animator to achieve this to the level i wanted, i then researched into several video clips and i found one called 'the girl effect' this inspired me greatly, i was so captivated throughout the whole video that i felt typography would be strong enough to base my whole animation around.
I researched into the pledges and promises that Nick Clegg said before the election i wanted to find out what he exactly said so i would be able to portray a accurate view, i found this shocking as i kept researching and the promises got bigger, i then gathered enough information to collect a script, my script was about how Nick Clegg started off promising us these policies and how every other politician promised policies but always broke the promises and how every liberal democrat supported his promise to scrap tuition fees but when it was in power with the conservative, this then all of a sudden became unfeasible and just like every other politician broke his promise.
The reason for this script is that i feel every student is aware of the situation however, from all the riot and violence that has been going on the general public is either not understanding fully why the students are so angry and why they are reacting like this, so i feel my video will be aimed at the general public to make them aware of the pledges we were promised and how Nick Clegg broke them like he said he wouldn't, so that the general public can back the universities and maybe make a change.
Instead of making a story board i made a script with annotation of effects i wanted, my script and effects i feel was placed out like a story with a beginning, middle and end, i did this with colours, the beginning starting a black background then moving to white then different colours at the end, i felt like made the viewer know that different things were happening and to break the piece up. I used one font through out this was because with my research i found that a lot of strong view where shown with one font so that the emphasis is on the point being portrayed however i do want my font to be noticed as i feel it is a powerful and bold font which reflects to my view and point in my animation.
I used after effects with my project which i found very time consuming especially having a large script, i wanted several different effects throughout my piece so it flowed well and kept the audiences attention, i used scale, rotation, opacity, position, pace and source text change, this gave my piece a depth to it, and i feel by each movement the next part flowed on so the viewer wanted more, i used words against each other or with other to create meaning, i also felt that music would be a huge part of my piece to give it the right atmosphere, and convey the right emotion throughout, i felt the piece of music i choose 'Almost Home' soundtrack to Social Network worked the best with my animation i felt as the animation grew so did the music, so the rhythm of the piece built to create an atmosphere, it pulled the animation and the music together to portray the point i wanted to convey, i felt that it made the type easier to read as the music flows throughout. I added sound the after effects by converting it to a wav. file which was readable for after effects.
I wanted my piece to be shown in a public place like at the beginning of a cinema film or projected in a shopping center so that the general public will either have to watch it say at the cinema or to catch the attention of the public in a shopping center being projected either way i want the public to be aware of the situation and i feel if this video if shown they may get a better understanding of how the students feel.
I felt that having a flow chart managed my time a lot easier as i knew what technology i needed to use and at what stage i needed to use it at.
My development for this project involved going back over the movie and making small editing changes just so that when the viewer watches the video it flows and doesn't make a sudden flicker etc, as shown in my processes some things i changed were only little but made a bit difference. I felt this made me very picky on the small details however i feel the small detail is everything in an animation and it is what makes certain animation work successfully or not.
I feel my animation does portray the point i wanted to show and does make people aware of how students feel, however if i had more time i may have used more effects and made it more detailed with higher level of skill and maybe try new fonts, just to see if different fonts gave it different angles, so that the viewer knew that different people were talking, or having a point of view.

Pace of some parts need changing

Critical Roles- Final- Broken Promises from Harry on Vimeo.

Places that i want my animation to be shown




Proof Reading and Mistakes Changed

Critical Roles Final Piece- Broken Promises from rebecca woodcock on Vimeo.

3rd Draft

Broken Promises Final from rebecca woodcock on Vimeo.

Timeline with Music

Social Network- Almost Home

Music 3 from rebecca woodcock on Vimeo.

2nd Draft of Final Movie

Broken Promises 2nd Draft from rebecca woodcock on Vimeo.

1st Draft of final movie

Broken Promises Draft 1 from rebecca woodcock on Vimeo.

Timeline, Pace


Aint no other man, Timing with the typography

First Part to my Short Movie

Short Clip Broken Promises from Harry on Vimeo.

Monday 28 February 2011

Synchronizing Movement, Falling Effect

Lib Dem + Conservatives Colours, Position

Rotation, Background, and Source Text Change

Word Stretching Illusion

Image and Text

Word Rotation Sequence

Source Text Change

Scale and Position

Rotation

Bazooka Fight Instrumental

Music 1 from rebecca woodcock on Vimeo.

Aint no other man (instrumental)

Music 2 from rebecca woodcock on Vimeo.

Follow Through- Anticipation- 360 Loop

Effects AE from rebecca woodcock on Vimeo.

Adding Effects in AE


Mask in Flash and AE

Flash Mask from rebecca woodcock on Vimeo.

Creating animated mask in Flash


Font Geneva

Adding the script to after effects

Flow Chart

Script 2


Black background white type
Remember the general elections
?
Students do

Nick Clegg’s Pledge to us…
“Broken Promises
There have been too many in the last few years
Too many in the last 30 years
Count up to 30
In fact our nation has been littered with them
Littered with font
A trail of broken promises
Trail the word off
(You remember them )
Fairer taxes
Line through the words
A promise broken
Better schools for everyone
Line through the words
A promise broken
Cleaner politics
Line through the words
A promise broken
I believe its time to do things differently
Flip the words round
I believe its time for fairness in Britain
Flag
I believe its time for promises to be kept
Empty the word kept

I pledge to vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative”…

WE ALL LIKE KEPT PROMISES        
And one by one every liberal democrat promised to vote against any increase in tuitions fees
Photos of each of them turns to dots (of just dots)

Blue and yellow background white writing
Box round the votes collision
BUT once a collision government was formed
Blue and yellow screen fit against each other until the blue wins
The policies the liberal democrats “Promised” then became unfeasible!?

White background black writing
A PROMISE WAS MADE
MADE.

“As leader I will define party policy as it is, which is to scrap tuitions fees”
Pile up scrap tuitions fees

A Promise Broken


Dub screens of kinetic typography process


Tutorial on moving typography

Kinetic Typography Tutorial from Elrond Hubbard on Vimeo.

New images for script



Script 1

REMEMBER THE GENERAL ELECTIONS
?
STUDENTS DO

NICK CLEGG’S PLEDGE TO US…
“BROKEN PROMISES
THERE HAVE BEEN TOO MANY IN THE LAST FEW YEARS
TOO MANY IN THE LAST 30 YEARS
IN FACT OUR NATION HAS BEEN LITTERED WITH THEM
A TRAIL OF BROKEN PROMISES
FAIRER TAXES
A BROKEN PROMISE
BETTER SCHOOLS
A PROMISE BROKEN
CLEANER POLITICS
A PROMISE BROKEN
I BELIEVE ITS TIME TO DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY
I BELIEVE ITS TIME FOR FAIRNESS IN BRITAIN

I BELIEVE ITS TIME FOR PROMISES TO BE KEPT

I PLEDGE TO VOTE AGAINST ANY INCREASE IN FEES IN THE NEXT PARLIAMENT AND PRESSURE THE GOVERNMENT TO INTRODUCE A FAIRER ALTERNATIVE”

WE ALL LIKE KEPT PROMISES
AND ONE BY ONE EVERY LIBERAL DEMOCRAT PROMISED TO VOTE AGAINST TO VOTE AGAINST ANY INCREASE IN TUITION FEES

BUT ONCE A COLLISION GOVERNMENT WAS FORMED
THE POLICIES THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS “PROMISED” THEN BECAME UNFEASIBLE!?

A PROMISE WAS MADE
MADE.

“AS LEADER I WILL DEFINE PARTY POLICY AS IT IS, WHICH IS TO SCRAP TUITION FEES”
SCRAP TUITION FEES
SCRAP TUITION FEES
SCRAP TUITION FEES

A PROMISE BROKEN

Images for Movie




Banksy





Activist Artwork





Virtual Typography, Matthias Hillner





Watching Words Move, Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar