Photography Evaluation

final product

I took Rosie's advice to just have the images with a white background, I think it works a lot better this way

This photography project has been a great experience for me, it has shown and helped me explore the many ways in which you can creatively express your ideas and also how you present them. At the beginning of the project It did take me a while to get in to my stride and decide on a solid idea to work on as I found it quite difficult to decide on a good idea, but as I conducted some more research in to the theme and explored the ways in which existing artist conveyed there ideas it definitely provided me with a lot of inspiration. With my idea I had to spend a lot of time on adobe Photoshop trying to perfect my idea, I believe the outcome of my images turned out well however I really do need to improve my ability on Photoshop, I did struggle for while as I was editing my pictures on there, and I think If giving the opportunity to do this project again I would definitely try to improve the quality of the images to deliver a more professional standard, I really am trying to push myself to improve my standard of work. Overall I am happy with the end result.     

Reflections Film Review

The Idea

When hearing about the project at first I was quite excited, the aspect of experimentation for this project really fascinated me, so for my idea I really wanted to attack it in a non conventional manner and try and make it unique and powerful, after watching many films I came to the conclusion that I wanted to create a film that was told through the use of sounds and typography. Using text has always been difficult and is not my strong suite so I wanted this to be the perfect opportunity to help develop that weakness. 

My Role

For this project I was the Director, this in actual fact was my first opportunity being a Director and managing a team of people, so it was quite exiting for me. I think the communication between my and my team could of been a lot better, as the Director I need to ensure that my vision is clearly communicated across to my team. I wanted to ensure that as a team we all stay informed and everyone is in the know and most importantly everyone contributed. It was a quite interesting experience working with friends, I learned that it is very important trying to establish a working and professional environment when filming and keeping that separate from your friendships, because it can be difficult to work with a friend who isn't performing. But it definitely is a great experience that I have learned from, I think I can only go up from here.   

Pre production

With the pre production process I wanted give everyone there own job which they can work on just to make things move a lot more efficiently. Everything done was then uploaded on to a group facebook page which I created so that everyone knows exactly whats going and what is happening next. One thing I can say is that we definitely underestimated how realistic our shooting schedule would be, when filming we done quite a few re shoots due to some technical issues. However apart from that we kept to our pre production schedule quite well, everyone had a job to do and stuck to it.

Conclusion 

This have definitely been marked as a learning experience, this film had a lot of potential to be something great, however due to poor planning and lack of communication during the post production stage of making the film, the outcome does not reflect the initial idea at all, which really is a shame. I have learned that being critical when planning is crucial and can make or break a film, also ensuring that communication is consistently maintained throughout all stages of the film, this was my vision my idea and as my role as the Director I have failed to get that vision across, but like I said before this is a learning experience so I need to take from I experienced here and improve from it.  

key points to learn from

• Improve verbal communications 
• be more critical and pay more attention to detail when planning 
• Be more assertive and also flexible 

Reflections Film making the film / Evaluation

The Idea

When hearing about the project at first I was quite excited, the aspect of experimentation for this project really fascinated me, so for my idea I really wanted to attack it in a non conventional manner and try and make it unique and powerful, after watching many films I came to the conclusion that I wanted to create a film that was told through the use of sounds and typography. Using text has always been difficult and is not my strong suite so I wanted this to be the perfect opportunity to help develop that weakness. 

My Role

For this project I was the Director, this in actual fact was my first opportunity being a Director and managing a team of people, so it was quite exiting for me. I think the communication between my and my team could of been a lot better, as the Director I need to ensure that my vision is clearly communicated across to my team. I wanted to ensure that as a team we all stay informed and everyone is in the know and most importantly everyone contributed. It was a quite interesting experience working with friends, I learned that it is very important trying to establish a working and professional environment when filming and keeping that separate from your friendships, because it can be difficult to work with a friend who isn't performing. But it definitely is a great experience that I have learned from, I think I can only go up from here.   

Pre production

With the pre production process I wanted give everyone there own job which they can work on just to make things move a lot more efficiently. Everything done was then uploaded on to a group facebook page which I created so that everyone knows exactly whats going and what is happening next. One thing I can say is that we definitely underestimated how realistic our shooting schedule would be, when filming we done quite a few re shoots due to some technical issues. However apart from that we kept to our pre production schedule quite well, everyone had a job to do and stuck to it.

Conclusion 

This have definitely been marked as a learning experience, this film had a lot of potential to be something great, however due to poor planning and lack of communication during the post production stage of making the film, the outcome does not reflect the initial idea at all, which really is a shame. I have learned that being critical when planning is crucial and can make or break a film, also ensuring that communication is consistently maintained throughout all stages of the film, this was my vision my idea and as my role as the Director I have failed to get that vision across, but like I said before this is a learning experience so I need to take from I experienced here and improve from it.  

key points to learn from

• Improve verbal communications 
• be more critical and pay more attention to detail when planning 
• Be more assertive and also flexible 

Experimental sound Completed

Experimental sound Completed

Evaluation

Here is my final sound recording, I believe I have successfully created and merged the right sounds together that reflect the type of mood and atmosphere you would expect when looking at this image. I have considered time and space and attempted to recreate a quite surreal atmosphere inside and outside. If given the opportunity to do this again I probably would try and create a lot emotion through dialogue during inside the diner, also consider life in 1942 a lot more. Through the tutorials I can honestly say that I have learned a whole lot about sound, its such a remarkable element with boundless opportunities, its something that I definitely need to improve upon and perfect.  

Time Art Finished / Evaluation

Time Art Finished / Evaluation 

For my idea I wanted to keep it simple, I wanted to show the viewer a little more of who I am and what i'm interested in, I believe I have achieved this goal and demonstrated various techniques that I have learned and obtained through tutorials and my own research. If given the opportunity to do this again I probably would try and utilize the empty space a bit more and perhaps make the video a lot more interactive and also experiment with different font styles. In terms of color that is one thing that I have considered and applied to my work as well as typography to make up for the loss of sound which is something I think I successfully achieved. Although at times it was quite difficult at time with trying to fill each screen with content that would perfectly reflect each activity.   

Time Art -Effects used

Time Art Progress - Effects used

With a little help from the tutorials I watched and also the tutorials we learned with Simon in previous lessons I really wanted to try apply the skills that I learned towards the Time Art video .

http://atomlintimeart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/after-effects-introduction.html

 

For example using the image above for the middle screen showing me listening to music I wanted to display musical notes that will appear, just to make the visuals look a lot more genuine and believable. In order to do this I made multiple copies of musical notes and then placed key frames on each layer and adjusted the scale for each music note. So as it appears multiple musical notes will appear in different sizes moving around the screen. 

(Musical notes- key framing)

I made a late change to my idea and how it would end and decided to include a little more humor and comedy to the video. Similar to the tutorial given to us by Simone about manipulating objects using key framing, I wanted to attempt to do the same

  

Tutorial we did 

http://atomlintimeart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/after-effects-introduction.html

Furthermore by right clicking key frames I then selected the easy ease option to make each movement a lot smoother 

Editing in Audition

Editing in Audition

When layering different sounds together I wanted to make sure that they can smoothly transition in and out to to the point where you don't even realize the transition, because at first the way I layered the sounds 

What my final multitrack looked like