you tube is wang

i cant get my animation up onto youtube i will have to try saving it in a different format or somthing : ( I have realised i cant just do previs of the cgi and i will have to do some conventional storyboarding, hopefully i can get this done over the weekend so i can do some practice cgi intime for when i start editing which might be as soon as next monday, depending on the thursday shoot. I expect the thursday shoot to be a disaster as i have not done any planning for it, but there is still time, and it think it is important to get raw footage as early as possible, i anticipate needing thee shoot days, and possibly i will need to turn my shed into a set but god knows how i will do this!!

amy found a really beautifull song called falling away with you by muse, gonna use it instead of foo fighters as the concept i want to use is still applicable, as is the narrative of broken down love / isolation : )

random chat

imagine i animate a peice of paper scrumpling up into a ball
								uhuh
		18:13:10						okay, this would be cool if the film suddenly froze and scrumpled up
		18:13:25						but! it would be shit if all you could see was the table
		18:13:30						underneath the paper
		18:13:35						u still follow?
		18:13:41						uhuh
		18:13:44						WOW
		18:13:48						i am doing good!!
		18:13:51						well
		18:14:48						if i scrumple the paper up on top of greenscreen, i can play the next shot, of, say, john drumming, so you wont see a table anymore you will see john scrumpled up and john playing underneath again!!
		18:14:55						but i need to practice
		18:15:06						as i want the paper to scrunch up into a swan
		18:15:15						and then have it turn into a reallife swan
		18:15:19						and things like that
		18:15:29						well, i might find it hard to get a swan
		18:15:29						"john" scrumpled up and john playing underneath again!! lol
		18:15:33						u make perfect sense
		18:15:42						are you being sarcastic?
		18:15:47						if you actually understand
		18:15:52						u are the first person
		18:15:53						lol
		18:15:58						i understand
		18:16:01						WOW!!
		18:16:23						i am putting the transcript of this on my production blog !!

i suck

ive realised my drawing skills are so bad its not worth trying to explain my technique!! i have made an animation and will post a link to it after uploading it to youtube. it demonstrates a transition i can use, only imagine moving images freeze, then that peels away to reveal the greenscreen, only of course the greenscreen will have played on it moving images.

Tomorow i am going to possibly use the green screen for the first time, as i want to try and use 'the technique' on my short film entitled 'ultimate timelord of dance John of Rose vs Led Zepplin', which is intended as a way of experimenting with ideas before i enter the final production.

i filmed the short this morning, and did a small amount of editing, finding that matching the visuals to the beat of the lyric was intricate, but not as hard as i expected. I messed around with some of the visual effects as well, it was great and stuff : P

OMFG

I have a fookin narrative!! it progresses and EVERYTHING haha owned : ) Okay i am trying to storyboard it without it looing gimpish.... but basically, the song is about a relationship breakup and eventually grohl is like fuckit you can have it all back if thats what you actually want. AND SO everytime the green screen effect happens, the paper will fold up into somthing in the next shot, if that makes sense, and then that next shot will fold up into somthing in the next shot... eventaully the screen will be a bit cluttered. But when the lyrics cut in about grohl giving it all back we can start to smash up the stuff occupying the screen.

This sounds quite bland and stuff but there is room to manoevre with cutaways and things i will experiment with the details of angles on the days i film.

Basically i just need to stroyboard the general items the paper will morph into, before worrying about how these will fit into loactions and eventually angle lists

mrs B

had a good old chinwag with mrs B today and decided the green screen is going to save me an amazing amount of time on my concept!! I am still going to try and do my original idea but perhaps only with a very short sequence, the intro or exit, to give it impact.

My original idea, as i realise i havnt explained it, is to take lots of still images, and then stop-gap animate them, doing wierd things to the images as i go! This is why i have cited wolfmother as an influence!!

However if i use greenscreen, i can take one single image, an iconic image like the ones we saw in the Beck video, print it out onto paper and stuff, put the paper on the greenscreen, then animate the paper. In post i can put moving images on the greenscreen, so that the paper being ripped reveals the next part of the movie... bascially a long winded transition shot!!

However i have some ideas about how the old shot will become an object in the new shot, and so on, untill the final shot is just composed of a room full of items made of old shots!! if you can visulaise that??? i will draw up a storyboard dont worry!!

byebye

woohoo

finally found some creative inspiration and thought i would get it down as quickly as possible before my brain loses it all. I saw the weird technique on the wolfmother 'woman' music video and after thinking this would be an interesting technique to develop found further ideas came really easily.

The track i have chosen is foofoofighters 'but,honestly' after being stuck for many weeks considering songs by yeah yeah yeah's, the clash, helloween and enter shikari. Im hoping to cover the track with a female vocalist, but if i cant get a decent sound setup, ie microphone and stuff, i will have to either change my concept slightly or move to the album version of the song and switch to a male to mime davey grohls raspings.

My ideas for narrative arnt very well developed, but as i am switching to performance rather than purely concept, it will be easy to greatly scale down any narrative elements as long as i can get the filming of the performance correct.