Inspiration for One Shot

This One Shot by Adam Berg is one of the most amazing piece of filming combined with special effects that i have ever seen. It takes you through a large scale robbery all the way back to where you started. A classic one shot, words can't describe how unreal this film is. No surprise it one numerous adverts of the year. It's a commercial for Phillips of what im not sure but it's called 'Carousel' and it's by director Adam Berg, what a hero!

One Shot Film

I forgot to post last terms final rotation piece which was my one shot film. My feedback was good although we kind of bended the rules dramatically. What was a very strong idea was damaged by the heavy amount of snow, making it unable to create one constant pan, which Debra agreed would be acceptable and a very good idea. We also struggled with numbers in our group, only myself and Naomi were there to film with 10mins of help from some others. This final product is my final edit. I created the sounded and did the whole edit. In terms of a one shot it is very strong i feel and my best piece of work. The idea of one pan could not become effective due to the inability to create a stable platform for the camera in the snow. I feel the sound editing and the idea itself though make it a pretty good first one shot! It documents the first person view of a dog reacting with everyday situations in a park.

One Shot Film - DOG! from Myles Harvey on Vimeo.

My Station Ident

For our Animation rotation we were asked to make a 'station ident' as our final product. The brief stated imagine your facebook, hobbies, interests etc were all rolled into one and turned into an ident. Such examples that we researched were the infamous BBC idents that cover all their channels.
Our first week consisted of animating text as you can see from below, the jelly word. In this seminar, i struggled for the first hour but it became a lot easier by the end, eventually completing a jelly word that i was very happy with. Week two seminar was a different story. I spent 3 hours pretty much with my head in my hands pulling my hair out trying to make the jelly man. I did alot of work out of class time completing it  the main struggle being how to make it move with the 'pick form scene' action, once i had this it was all pretty straight forward. Whilst I got there in the end, I found 3ds max very hard to use and it proved a bit to stressful for me. I'm sure though if you know how, it's easy like I find photoshop easy for example. Some things you just don't stick too.

My TV Ident - Myles Harvey from Myles Harvey on Vimeo.

Sticking to my strengths, my ident consisted of a combined animation of both the text and the jelly man. Obviously i couldn't just do andrews animation just put together so I with the brief in mind, i thought i'd bring my music into it. Doing so i added the Deadmau5 track 'Ghosts N' Stuff' to the animation and got the jelly to sing and dance to it. With the text, i changed it to my name and got it to act like a credit for a film, moving to the front of the screen at the end. The main problem i had was that when i rendered it, i lost around 2 seconds of film, making my jelly out of time with the music. With a bit more time next time i will try and find methods to prevent this as i really liked the idea. Although i feel the effect is still the same and it is also quite similar to the Daft Punk video in 'my multimedia' how the characters mouths are out of sync with the music. The video itself is still as powerful and meaningful.

C.R.A.P Website Design

C.R.A.P - Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity.


After our C.R.A.P lecture we were asked to edit a website that had all the bad features of C.R.A.P and turn it into a functional, and exciting one. The image below represents the website i chose. It is a website for 'Blues Ski Shop' who sell ski equipment and clothing and provide useful links to ski information.

The reasons for picking this and categorising it under C.R.A.P are....

Contrast: First of all the colour scheme of the website is awful, its dull and boring and everything is pretty much the same blue, there is now big colour clashes to draw you to it. There is large and small type in the main page. The text is your standard base font, nothing exciting or edgy. The icons that take you round the site are surrounded by big and small lines. The random box at the bottom uses warm colours for the text on a warm background completely drowning it out. The images are compressed and therefore look really un-professional. Lastly the graphics of the whole site are very dated.

Repitition: There is repitition as the home page holds information that you would find on other pages of the site.

Alignment: On the main page and others there is no alignment whatsoever, everything is just scattered across the page.

Proximity: Again due to the alignment, the whole proximity is off creating a very confusing site and a lack of group related items being together.

Here is my newly designed website for Blues Ski Shop....

Improvements....

Contrast: I changed the colour scheme to a deep hard hitting royal blue that contrasts highly to the black making it edgy and more modern, this is heightened also by the sort of street white spray can effect. I created better graphics, the title is more up to date and the fonts of the page are more exciting and the same size. The icons now all fit equally into exact sized skis that i made more dense for the writing to stand out. I created images that aren't compressed to look more professional. The main thing was that i tidied all the confusing writing into the icons and created a simple working site and that the graphics of the site were more up to date and extremely appealing.

Repetition: I fixed the repetition by erasing all the unnecessary writing from the main page, leaving it in its separate pages.

Alignment: I fixed the alignment by creating a symmetrical site and placing the un-aligned writing in their actual pages under the icons (the skis).

Proximity: The site now looks like a professional site, rather than a messy splatter of all sorts of different words and graphics.

All in all the big change was re-vamping the site as it was very dated. I changed it to a professional, modern, more appealing site to the skiers of today. Something you'd go on and want to use not fall asleep at the computer, or move away from.

My 1st Animation

For our first task in animation we were asked to create a text animation of the word 'Jelly'. The creation would be made in such a way that it actually looks as if it is made by jelly! Here was mine....

Jelly from Myles Harvey on Vimeo.

Starting Animation

Going into Animation, something i have never done before, i was very excited about trying new things and had millions of ideas. In particular referring back to 'My Multimedia' and combining music with animation/illustration. Below is the video of 'Watch The Sun Come Up' by Example. This again combines illustrative animation with music. In this video though, the animation is combined with film. I am pretty set on choosing film as my pathway and i would love to combine that with illustration/animation and music. This video shows very illustrative animation, like drawings, the type i would love to pursue, again combining it to the film and music composition aspect.

Rule Of Thirds

Following todays lecture on image and composition, i took away a lot of interest as one of my main hobbies (also a freelance job) is photography. One main idea i had not known before was the 'rule of thirds'. Jools asked us to state a definition of the practice for our blogs in order to help with ideas in image and composition and to help with our practice, in my case photography.

The rule of thirds takes in image and splits it into 9 equal parts by using 2 parallel vertical and 2 parallel horizontal lines. The idea is that key elements of the image should be placed on these lines to create more tension, energy and interest in the composition, rather than just focusing on image as a whole.

Here is my own image, i added the thirds lines in photoshop. Here you can see how the lines can be effective. One example is the centre part, it creates more energy and focus on where the smoke hits the light, the middle left emphasises the result of the combination. Another example of the photo is the bottom middle part. It singles out the chimney, creating focus and knowledge of the source of the smoke.