POST-PRODUCTION PROCESSES

As always Jools had prepared us another surprise, this time we had 45 minutes to create a 30 sec PowerPoint presentation, that consists a series of images. The aim is that the presentation tells the story and should not need any verbal accompaniment from the team who have created the presentation. It was a life and death task..…
The following scheme suppose us to help:

Collate - Correct - Divide - Decide
Collate- Gathering the original source material. Forming some sort of administrative order.

Correct- amending the original material in some way that makes it relevant to the desired purpose.

Divide- ruthlessly eliminate any original or amended source material that will no longer fit the purpose.

Decide- Shape the material that made the cut so that this material will be affect the intended audience .

Me and Ian used websites bellow to track images and sounds.
Image library
http://www.pics4learning.com

Sound library
http://www.freeaudioclips.com/

To make it faster we saved loads of images on desktop and later chose the best ones to create a our story. After we finished, I understood how important is always to check your projects on the machine it's gonna be presented and make sure it does work the same way as on yours.
Because after we delivered to Jools and he put it on his computer it didn't work the same anda lott of effects were missing:( So at the end me and Ian didn't survive! Well, most of us "died"
I try to apload the presentation we have done into this journal..if I be succsessful.

>>My First Video Reply Publishing<<

Raccoon Rant - Climate Change!!!


Handizo zong!!!!



As you can see it's a short abit weird video reply..
I wasn't feeling very happy ...because of this I didn't want to speak on a camera...and really I haven't enjoy it at all, while I was working with it ..I think it was just an impact of my mood that day...
I was thinking I will remake it ,but the next day it made me laugh, so I kept it...even I still think it's silly!
It's hard to believe that i start making this video like 8pm and finished 12am, the original idea was diferent, but as i was struggling to embody it, I end up with this wierd Handizo type of thing...
I thought i can easy make it, but i was so wrong, as i hardly used camera before I came with so many problems, beginning with basic problems like: switching the camera on, cheking the time, acting, turning the sound on, at last switching it off,,,if i only knew about Adobe Premier before and video editing I wouldn't have these problems,,, as using A.Premier you can edit videos after,,,
So as purport of my video is not the best, I think this task was more useful of helping to understand the whole procedure!
Quick review:
Make a 30 sec video reply to video blog
- Import it into Adobe Priemier 6.5
- Set up the right settings
- Do the nessesary editing
- Choose the size and save it as avi file.
- Create an You Tube account
- Apload it into You Tube as video reply
- Apload to Online journal

By the way I just got a reply from My Dear Raccoon,saying:

" Thankyou! I'm so glad someone heard my plee! I'm going to be saved!

Yours,

Raccoon R."

>> ART WALK <<

Two weeks ago...

One very cold Tuesday afternoon.....

The big five - Hannah, Paul, Sukhdeep, Aaron and me, for Dominic Shaw's request, were acting as Archaeologists from the future researching the present days..
"ART WALK"
www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/www/pressreleases/view_article.asp?ReleaseID=4223

We had to wear a "real" archeologist coats, goggles and carry shovels for better effect.
Part of the team were all given mobile phones and they went through events to take pictures of certain things; like people with body piercing,tattooss, glasses some other things that might not be exist in the future anymore.
I've stayed at the base camp with Dominic and I was trying to learn working with apple computers as i never used it before. I found it quite easy to use and I really liked the design ( I want one now!!!) As others came back with some pictures, we uploadad them on to PC via Bluetooth.Because of mobile phone's cameras, quality of the pictures wasn't perfect, but I think guys really managed to get some nice ones.I've played with some image effects functions, brightening, contrasting and made images look even better. Set up pictures in order with PowerPoint for final presentation and job was done..sadly not many people saw it.
Genuine talking, despite 6 hours of freez and spent long weekendand in bed with tea because of cold I got after, I still had a good experiencence and interesting time with my team and Dominic. I think it's interesting to work with him, he is very free person and like do things his own way, somehow getting a good results at the end.LOL

Narrative Continues...

Interactive Narrative Project

My Place - idea

As this is the second month I live in Nottingham, there are only two places I spend the most of my time-University and My Home! Despite the fact I love it so much I've decided not to involve them in to this project.. This special "gift" I want to dedicate for my little spear time i spent in town center. LOL. There is a little pathway (between Victoria and broadmarsh center) where i go for shopping, walking, or just chilling…(it's the only space I know I won't lose;)..I enjoy it specially at evening time, because of shop's and house's lightening, the streets, people and places looks different than on day time. My idea is to make a playfull journey, there user follows "my pathway" and suddenly the day changes into night and back again (places might switch also). My aim is to confuse the viewer and make him smile than they realise they are in a wrong place..
I believe it will be quite problematic to take pictures on night time, but I hope with Help of PhotoShop I will create an effect I want ..

WWW.NADAVKANDER.COM

Last week I found this playful website, that I really like, because it gives you nice experience, and it's very easy to get around without having a screen full of menus. It's easy to go through artist works and it loodifferentent wioriginalnal music, exhibitions, galleries. I hope I can use some ideas of it on my own project too..

>>IMAGE MEANING<<

n' composition

...I was sitting near my PC and thinking what objects has a value to me in terms of both fine and applied (design)...My eyes were "running" through the things in my room, suddenly it stopped to the folding fan i have hanged on the wall that I use time from time to cool down LOL..For some reason I keep staring at it and the memories come back from the past, as my friend and me used to play a princess with her grandmother's folding fans... isn't true, everytime you have a chance to hold a folding fan somehow you feeling different, a bit special (as a princess maybe:)), it feels like a history is touching you...??

It's hard to believe that fan history took back thousand of years..

• Functionality .Personally i'm using fan for cooling and as my wall decoration. Also fan can be used as a ceremoniaentertainmentnt device, as a fashion accessory throughout the world from ancient times or a use for advertising.
• Fans history,functionality, intimacy, general look, shape, patterns, meanincolorsurs it all speaks about it's Aesthetic Beauty.
• Communication .From the sixteenth century the fan was used in fashionable society as a means of communication. Fan was used as a secret language between lovers...Both men and women carried fans and understood the different messages.
  Some of the most common are listed below.
  Placing your fan near your heart = I love you
  A half closed fan pressed to the lips = You may kiss me
  Touching the tip of the fan with a finger = I wish to speak to you
  Letting the fan rest on the right cheek = Yes
  Letting the fan rest on the left cheek = No
  Fanning slowly = I am married
  Fanning quickly = I am engaged
  Twirling the fan in the right hand = I love another
  Twirling the fan in the left hand = We are being watched
  To open a fan wide = Wait for me
  
• Decorative/entertainment value:
  Fans are still using in our days even is some of media: movies, theatres, photography, fashion etc...If you ever seen a movie "Memories of Geisha" you should remember Sayuri's (main heroin perfoming "Tachicata" dance with fans to entertain the guests. So it's always useful to have one folding fan at home, if not for decoration than for cooling or maybe for entertainment...
• http://www.victoriana.com/Fans/historyofthefan.html
• http://www.uoregon.edu/~hdulong/japan/geishahistory.htm

>>In My First Month<<

Well, October is going to the end !!!Amazing!!! Time is running soooo quick. Everyday is caring something new-studies are getting more intens:

"-Today we will speak about Java script", said mr.Perkins... and I'm thinking "-Who is Java?" it was just name for me an hour ago - not anymore though -now i know! JAVAscript - Island in HTML world! LOL


Here some good website allows you to play more with Javascript:)It gives some good examples. LOL tough thing! Speaking about tough things Narrative is on my way-Here i have some serious assignments:

• 2min linear story-sounds simple, it just another story, but then so many questions need to answer: what is the structure of the story? Classical?Hero?Conflict? How well balanced is the structure?Plot?Who is the main "hero" or maybe there isn't one? HELP!!! I've got my help - this is my team! We had a lot of thinking, had some ideas! Finally picked one (unfortunately not mine), fingers crossed we gonna embody it. Some more weeks to go..
• Interactive Narrative project "My Place": I still haven't got good understanding about this project, but i have start do some research. Digital storytelling may be use for a wide variety of purpose ranging from business communication and presentation, to personal expression to interactive narrative. Narrative is interactive when the story contours to the user, based on his/her own personal preferences and input. Bellow is some examples of Interactive Narrative website. First one is the personal interactive narrative website. The Thirteen year-old Mouchette gives users and opportunity on each page to share their impressions of the site. http://www.mouchette.org/
  Second one is an interactive animation "A story machine". It's a comic strip with a very annoying audio. http://www.abc.net.au/arts/strange/workshop/flash.htm
  I think one of the important aspects in this project will be understanding image processing. Analyzing and manipulating images with a computer, understanding it's digital features. Last week I've done my first work with Adobe Photoshop.7 (no.3 below) at R.Patel seminar. It was very interesting play with diferent pictures by changing images resolution and adding some other effects like colour, lightening and etc. You can change the original picture beyond recognition. Fantastic!!

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"Seeing comes before words.."(John Berger "Ways 3.of seeing")