E4 sting evolution

E4 sting evolution

>> Loads of "white nights" with loads of thought in the head, that 80% disappears forever in the morning

>> Constant interrogation of friends about ideas

>> Sketches everywhere i go in my minds, public toilets lol ( not really )

.....LOoooooooNG THINKING...THINKING...thinking...thinkinininig...

So finally considering my tinny expierence as a I‘ve gave up on all my "titanic" ideas and came up with the one described bellow in the " Goodies bag" That I liked , most of the people I asked liked it, hope the rest of the world will like it too:) Hope i managed to embody it.

I've never took so many pictures of the hands in my entire life.

Was much harder than I thought. As to perform 24 frame action per 1sec using photo camera was impossible. Finally 12 f/sec was a solution. So Big Thank you for Ian Sanders help in taking pic. and Andrew Love for amazing 10 MEGA PIXEL camera- yahooo!!! Even I took a mln of pictures for my animation (as I never was satisfied with a ones i took before), i left only with 72, (12f/s). So i had a real good practise using this fantastic camera:) Sure later I found out I could go easier way, just film the opening hands action and import it in Adobe after Effects as stills, remove the ones i don't need to create the "chop" effect on animation to make it look more abstract and surreal. Well, we all learning, finally I still got the same effect .

It's a first short test of the idea. The music has been made myself on Ejay dance 3. I like the effect of calm "growing" atmosphere on it, but i'm not sure if it's a right one to use. So I'm gonna get some more versions of Ejay, hopefully it will have more options of the sounds I could use to create the right tone.

Ok, here is an animation made . The process:

• Imported all the pictures into Photoshop and resize to 720x576, cut the bits of every single picture I don't want to be seen.
• Imported into Adobe Premier Pro and make a avi. movie

I had to change the background as I didn't have the copyrights for rose image. I'm not really good in drawing so I just played around with it in the photoshop, using different effects.Finally I stoped with a liquify effect as Ifound it easy to play around and, also I could changed it every frame so than playing back it looked like it's moving. Hopefully it is still possible get the idea that's it a flower. The colours are related to the main color at the E4 channel at the moment -purple, also made it look more retro style. The communication between animation and audience is quite clear, as it send various messages:giving (then e4 releases from a hands), keeping,teasing...

Trying diferent effects for background:

The shorter version of animation was made for idea of using it for more expensier time of the day and longer version for cheaper time of day on tv, in terms of saving money.

Problems:

• I haven't saved single pictures as layers (psd.files) after working with them. So it was impossible to go back and correct it if i have to.
• The first "test" animation I made using flash and i found out that it's really takes much longer time than using premier.
• After importing stills in Premier, the animation would be very long ( 4min ), so it took me long time to learn that i had to export it as a movie than change a duration speed and render it again. Don't know if it was a correct solution, but it did work for me.
• Have a visible flickers, that i want to reduce.