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I hope you enjoy my thoughts and ideas as I journey into the world of digital design for my Fda and now my Ba
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Wednesday 27 February 2013
Final thoughts
I very much enjoyed this project. A key lesson learned was organization. File structures and notes and conventions became more important as the project progressed. I had to spend time reorganizing my files so I could keep track of my work.
As I edited different version naming and keeping track became very important. I can hear the voice of those more wiser than I ringing in my ears. I think my final thoughts are very important to me. Did I understand what the client wanted from reading the brief. There where many point during this project that elements of self doubt would creep in. Was I making something because it seemed like a good idea and it fitted the brief or was it just a good idea and had nothing to do with what the client wanted but they where going to get it anyway. This is the first project where these ideas have impinged on my thoughts.
Tuesday 26 February 2013
Crit and beyond
I don't know why I say it each time but I do enjoy seeing the work the rest of the group have produced. This project seems to have struck a cord with everybody. They all have picked up the ideas and run with them. Russel has created a slick video for Bacardi, I think he really excelled with his work. I liked Corinne's poster for the forestry commission and as the group suggested a little tweak would improve them. As for my work I happy that Andrew thought the pdf was striking, that it was important to grab the attention of YCN when they view the project. Hayley came up with a suggestion that I make the words look like they are cutout from the pencil. I spent some time trying that but abandon it for a redesign. Andrew had suggested some shadows which I had argued against it saying I like the look as if it had been photographed on a light box. Different coloured leaves were also discussed.
I re-sized the leaves making the green ones smaller and changing others to brown and adding the text to spell out the message. I feel that it has certainly made the poster stronger. I have cut one element from the animation and added my tag line at the end. Chris thought I might be able to have it at the start but I could not make it work, however I did use the few seconds gained to show the text at the end longer.
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Part of the redesign |
Sunday 24 February 2013
Finishing off
Phillip Glass 'Brasil'
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Bottom of poster |
Wednesday 20 February 2013
Dividing my time
We now have a week away from the college this week my time will be divided up between working on video, pdf for submission of work and my tickets and posters. As all of the work for the pdf is interdependent this is the key area for the week.
I have chosen to use the key elements from my videos to use as a style motif for the pdf.
I did all the work for the pdf in Indesign, I have not had a great deal of experience with Indesign but the tutorial attended the week before sent me in the right direction. I chose to use the leaf as part of the back ground and set that in the master page. What I did not do however was to set the leaf and string in the master which would have reproduced it on every page. So I would copy and paste the string and leaves in position on every page. I know some people would rather do everything in Photoshop and make all the pages up into a pdf later. I found the auto guides a great help when laying things out. I was able to give the gab between each window for the story board a great help. The second advantage of using Indesign was the ability to edit the page easier. I could substitute a new image by deleting the old image leaving the box it sat in in place. Then using place a new image could easily take its place.
I saw this image during the week and it had reenforced the idea that I wanted a dappled light effect in the video. I did a search on the internet and the nearest effect that I could find was for light beams underwater. I have adapted this technique to enhance the back ground of the animation.
I have chosen to use the key elements from my videos to use as a style motif for the pdf.
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Page from pdf |
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The forest church |
Note to myself
I made a quick note to myself and left it in the same folder as all the After Effect work so I could call upon it when I wanted to repeat the effect.
Wednesday 13 February 2013
Better understanding of after effects
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Renaming new images |
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Point of interest and parents |
The other key element that helped me was point of interest. This allowed me to control the string and leaves, I could put rotation around the point this gave the feeling of the leaves fly through the air. Using parenting, linked the string with the leaves which was on separate layers. What ever movement or position I put the leaf in the string would follow.
Sunday 10 February 2013
Development ideas
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Collection of idea images. |
My first try out video
It is funny how things stick in your mind. I remember seeing a pencil make from a twig. I tracked down an image and used it to create a new video as prof of concept. I added some music just to help the atmosphere.
Prof of concept video
As you can see the idea is quite well informed I now need to find the real twig pencils to us in my video.
Wednesday 6 February 2013
Pitch
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Key element of my project. |
Friday 1 February 2013
A brief history of The Royal Court Theatre
The Royal Court Theatre is situated on
Sloane Square London. The theatre was acquired in 1956 by the English
stage company. George Devine artistic director produced new British
and foreign plays. It was his aim to create a writers theatre seeking
to discover new writers and produce serious contemporary work. He
produced John Osborne's Look Back in Anger in 1956, the first play
identified as being by one of the angry young men. A phrase
originally coined by The Royal Court Theatre press officer to
publicise John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and then applied to
other young British playwrights and novelist of the time. In 1965
Osborne’s A Patriot for Me and Edwards Bond's Saved both had issues
of censorship, which was still enforce by the Lord Chamberlain
office. This necessitated the theatre turning its self into a private
members club so the productions could be staged. In 1968 theatre
censorship was ended.
Roots by Arnold Wesker, The Knack by Ann Jellicoe, Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman | Ariel Dorfman |
Other noted production under Devine's
directorship, besides Osbourne and Bond, are works by Roots
by Arnold Wesker, Sergeants Musgrave's Dance by John Arden,
The knack by Ann Jellicoe and A
Resounding Tinkle and One way Pendulum by Nf Simpson. Subsequent
artistic director of the royal court premiered work by Christopher
Hampton, The Island by Athol Fugard,
Howard Brenton, The Girls and Cloud Nine by
Caryl Churchill, Hanif Kureishi, Sarah Danniels, Our
Country's Good by Timberlake Wertbaker, Attempts on her life by
Martin Crimp, Blasted by Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Martin Conagh,
MotorTown by Simond Stephens and Leo Butler. Early season included
new international plays by Bertolt Brecht, Eugene Ionesco, Endgames
by Samuel Becket, Jean Paul Sartre, and Marguerite Duras. In addition
to the 400 seat proscenium arch Theatre Downstairs, the studio
theatre up stairs was opened in 1969 at the time 63 seats facility.
The Rocky Horror Show premiered in 1973.
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The Jerwood Theatre upstairs |
Over the last decade the royal court
has placed a renewed emphasis on the development and productions of
international work. From 1993 the british council has begun its
support of the international residency programme ( which started in
1989 as the royal court international summer school) and by early
1996 a department solely dedicated to international work had been
created. A creative dialogue now exists between innovative theatre
writers and practitioners in many different countries including
Brazil, Cuba, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Palestine,
Romania, Russia, Spain, Syria and Uganda. Many of these projects are
supported by the British Council and more recently by the Genesis
Foundation, who also support the production of international plays.
The international Department has been the recipient of a number of
awards including the 1999 International Theatre Institute awards.
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