Making the invisible visible....

Found this through a friend, it's to raise awareness of a prisoner who's been on Death Row for 19 years, even though the system is unsure of his conviction.

Such a great idea, works well, too. I'd love to have a go at something like this.

http://vimeo.com/17296374

P.S. Embed codes hate me, so I'm sticking with the faithful Hyperlink to get me by!

My One Shot edit

Here is my finished One Shot edit. I went for an eerie theme to go with the strange concept. It works well, the music really adds atmosphere. The guy walking 'forwards' sometimes gets lost in the shadows though, I think I may have got a little trigger happy with the brightness and contrast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66abiBg1AKQ

Embedding doesn't work with me, for some reason.

Finished my Ident!

Here it is! Found some good SFX after much searching. Premiere Pro was on my side, too :)

Our final One Shot

Heeeere she be. A good idea done well! We're all happy with how it came out :)

http://vimeo.com/16696582

Urghh.

Not been on in a long time, again. Two jobs and Uni = me being tired and taken all the time.
Anyway, here are some shots from last weeks filming doody. We went for a silent film, based on CCTV footage. It was just a simple film, consisting of two guys (Me and Mark) exchanging money for drugs while an innocent bystander (Najhet) looked on, trying not to get seen/get involved. Here are some pictures of the day, mainly me looking for suitable points for the camera to go. Also got a couple of the others standing around the camera looking busy :)

Here's Mark's edit of the footage:

http://vimeo.com/16387487

And the original footage:

http://vimeo.com/16341115

Today....

We talked about Design and how we perceive it. It's all very clever. For example, take the Swastika. You will automatically think 'Aha! Nazis.'. No! It's been around for well over a thousand years and actually means 'peace'.
Example of mind-fudgery:

René Magritte's "Not To Be Reproduced" 

It was all about how our brain tries to make sense of everything, like everything has a solution and a logical outcome. I think next week we're learning about the The Golden Section/The Divine Proportion and the Gestalt Theory (The sum of the whole is greater than its parts).

We also showed our personal Design Process Powerpoint presentations to the whole class. This was about how we go about designing and working our ideas, but we could only illustrate it and not explain it. 20 slides, the presentation must last exactly a minute. As each presentation was shown, we were given tailored questions about that certain presentation and had to note them down. After all were finished, we put our notes on a table so we could walk round a read what people have said about us. I was described as 'believeable' and 'powerful'. Powerful! I love it!

And then me and Sam went to the Noodle Bar.

It was pure win, Relentless in a glass bottle! A GLASS BOTTLE, I SAY!

My Ident!

Finally, after much swearing and squinting, my Ident is nearly done!
No sound as of yet, but I will edit it when I get back in Uni.
It will be edited in Adobe Premiere Pro, and will feature many fancy sound effects :)