Assessment 1: Temporal identity

This is our assessment project to develop temporal identity. I have chosen to tell about myself or "Pieces of me".. Just have a look and give comments about it.. Thanx

WEEK 7 : 3D COMPOSITION

In this week 7 tutorial, i learnt about constructing a 3D temporal composition which develops a temporal and spatial dialogue within 3Dspace. Basically its quite similar with the video i develop on week 6 but here, i have created video which explore places and scenery. I made a lot of masking to achieve 3D composition and zooming in/out into the image itself so that camera acts as birds eye to the viewers. Okay hopefully u enjoy viewing this part... :)

WEEK 6: PHYSICAL GRAFFITI

Exercise 1: Stylize and adjust the image towards a darker, sinister tone as seen in the movie Sin City.

By using Adobe PhotoShop i developed this by using my own picture. I make used of tool such as adjustment level to change any color picture to become black with a texture look like ink and layering all pictures taken. For more information how to make, you can go to this website http://www.tutorialseeker.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2279.

Exercise 2: Create a temporal composition which shows 3 pieces of graffiti being revealed by an animating mask.



The above video shows the composition which contain pictures of graffitis' zooming in and out utilizing the camera tool available in after effect by making it into a layer and manipulating the properties within this layer to allow it magnifies smoothly and panning across the page possible. The camera is one way for making animation easy to develop. By having the composition into a 3D dimension (after we add camera layer), each layered image can be made in such a way that they look like to pop up from the screen by changing the value of the position within their properties. Ok hope you like this video.

WEEK 5: CLIENT BRIEF

Aims and objectives of this week tutorial is to develop a temporal and spatial composition within the constraints of a client brief. a major retailer needs a 20 second retailer for their television campaign. The client stresses that the motion must be CRAZY! CRAZY! CRAZY! The client has certain specific requirements: 3 items with prices need to be promoted within this 20 second spot: Hair dryer $24.99; a Blender $19.99 and a toaster $14.99.

I used scale, rotations and some effect/animation preset to develop the above video and make the colour, fonts and Style to be consistent to show their brand identity. I also added wiggler so that the audience feel the impact how prices has going down crazily and to attract people to come to MAD MACK's store.

WEEK 4: TEMPORAL IDENTITY

Learn Masking Object

In tutorial 4, Our tutor, Keke Robertson taught us how to make masking in After Effect. This involve cutting part of an image by using Pen tool (available tool in After Effect) by tracing the outline of that particular object.

Activity: Temporal identity of a place we have a strong connection with

We were asked to construct a temporal identity for a physical location with which we have a strong connection to. I was doing narrative about Queensland where i stay now which include the brisbane city, the bridge and the beach at Surfer Paradise,Gold Coast. So i combined all these ideas to make footage. I gathered some pictures which are related to Queensland, masked parts of the original pictures by using Pen tool. After masking, then the pictures were layered as well as there're being arranged according to their appropriate position and sequence of images for ease to make transition.

The narrative starts with aeroplane fly over the surfer paradise beach at Gold Coast. When you see the plane closely, It is actually a Brunei plane, a country where i lived before i came to Australia. The first place i went to in Australia was at the surfer paradise beach. The boy appears jumping over the rock represents a local people. which can be seen either at Gold Coast and Brisbane. Thats part of the reason i make the boy figure as a transition. Behind him, you can see a bridge situated above the Brisbane river and then transition move to Brisbane city where i lived. But however the main point for developing this video is to give audiences an idea what is in Queensland. Therefore the target audiences are tourists or travellers.

My tagline is "Queensland, A place to be" . It is fairly short and memorable. It gives the audience a decision that Queensland is a right place to stay and for leisure.

WEEK 3: TYPE IN MOTION

During the week 3 tutorial, we were asked to construct a 2D Composition which develops a temporal and spatial dialogue between animated type and audio. This is to show the relationship between 2D text and digital audio. With reference to the video shown above, i have construct a 30 seconds composition in After Effects and i had animated the text in conjunction to the audio taken from ccmizter done by eight prime, from the creativecommon website (http://www.search.creativecommons.org/).

The composition is 512 width x 288 pixels height with 25 frames per second. The duration is 750 frames equivalent to 30 seconds. The text was animated using the animation presets available in after effect cs3 or cs4. It is simply drag and drop onto the text layer and the properties of this text effects (on the timeline) also allow us to change its durations. .

The narrative of which relationship between the fonts and the audio refered to the detail of the audio itself such as who created the eight prime, when it was published, and it was taken from the creative commons. The rhythm and timing of the audio becomes a guide for the pace of the above animation. Since the dialogue was rehearsed in fast pace, the motions of the texts have been treated in the same way to have a sense of synchronisation between them. I have used simple san serif font which can increase its legibility on the screen but however it doesn't really matter to have any types of fonts for the above footage since the fonts are scale to larger size to fit the composition. After rendering the composition, i just realized some parts are slightly disconnected but however, it is not so obvious. Overall, it is a good start for me as a beginner to do a good job in synchronising and producing relationship between text and audio successfully.

WEEK 2: TIME, SPACE AND FORM

PART A: Quick intro to Photoshop

In this tutorial exercise, i learnt about layering two or more pictures by using Adobe PhotoShop. The version i used for this program is Photoshop CS3. From the above picture, it was made of from 5 supplied still images where i cut them off by using magnetic lasso tool, one of the tool which ease the process of cutting by tracing the layout of the wanted object from the original picture and then layer them on top of each other. The arrangement of these layers can be done by using the layer panel (on the menu bar, Window > Toolbar) .

Part B: Constructing Temporal Montage from the supplied image

Using the after effect software, i have construct the temporal montage from the suppiled images. The version i used was after effect cs4 but it doesnt really matter if we used CS3 or CS4 since we're not concerned about the "aep" file, instead we will be rendering the movie into many video fomats to choose from. In this case i am using Quicktime movie (.mov) file. In this exercise, i have learnt about using the timeline where i imported about 5 images provided taken from the QUT blackboard. Its quite similar to the photoshop where we did some layering of pictures but here we are doing the dynamic version of the still images. From the timeline, each element i.e picture has its own properties which allow us to change such as position, scale, rotation, etc. With reference to the above footage, i have changed the position, scale and rotation of each picture to create the animation as shown. This is just a basic way of animating object. We can used the preset animation provided by after effect cs3 or cs4 to enhance the animation performance.

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