Evaluation for design for digital media.

1. What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you applied them?

Within this module I have developed skills mainly in after effects, as I have never used this piece of software before. I feel I have developed valuable skills within this area and especially to be very organized with every file you save. I will remember this for future projects.

2. What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?

Within this module I found story boarding most useful for getting my ideas across for what i wanted to create and i feel that this is a valuable skill to have. But story boarding is only the first bit as when it comes to creating the animation on a mac this is where the problems start to arise.

3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?

I feel that creating the storyboards was one of my strengths I preferred to do this than actually animating it on screen. 

4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how could you exploit these more fully?

I feel that my main weakness within this was that I have never designed for animation before and have never used after effects before either. So I found that fairly difficult when creating my animation and I spent a lot of my time trying to learn how to use the software.

5. Identify five things that you will do differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?

• be more organized with file sizes and formats so theres no problems when it gets nearer to a deadline.
• never expect everything to work as technology lets you down so makes sure everything works ahead of a deadline.
•  when submitting work digitally always scan paper work as your doing them so that there's not problems towards the end.
• be more organized with everything.
• check that my storyboards are correct before going on to mac to animate them.

Attendance - 5

Punctuality - 5

Motivation - 3

Commitment - 3

Quantity of work produced - 3

Quality of work produced - 3

Contribution to the group - 3

close crawl.

In this little clip I'm trying to create the effect that the character is slowly creeping forward toward the screen. This image technique is similar to how the character moves in the original film.It still needs a bit of adjusting but you kind of get the idea?!?

Adding abit of sound to the chase.

Thinking along the lines of.....

80's Matchbox B-line Disaster - Mister Mental (this one seems to be more suited to a chase scene)
The Blue Wrath - i monster
The Smiths - Panic
The Specials - Ghost Town.

iweb enter page.

E4 logo exp.

The video above shows an experiment i did using the E4 logo. It just simply moves slowly on to the screen and I'v only used red, white and black in my colour scheme.

But the video below shows the same again but using only a black and red colour scheme (I think I prefer this one)

Hands Up.

The zombie Chase!!!

Here is a test of my idea for a zombie chase sequence.This composition is just simply the frame zooming out to reveal the scenario. For the development of this I need to animate the guy to resemble him running away from the zombies and for the hands to also move to make the zombies look like there running after him.

I have also decided to keep the colour scheme down to shades of red, white and black. For now anyways.

testing out my idea...

This is one of my ideas that i have taken in to after effects.What i was going for was to show the character as if she was coming out of the TV screen imitating what happens in the movie.This is quite a simple way of showing this so i feel more work is needed to give this sequence a better effect.

Friday the 13th.

The new trailer for the new friday the 13th movie contains a great count down sequence. I like how the numbers just appear for about half a second and with the added sound creates a really jumpy effect.This count down appears at about 1:37.

Pulse.

This is the site for the movie pulse. I don't rate the movie and the site isn't much better either. But it is easy to navigate and the only thing of interest to me is the white noise they use on the site. As this is what the movies about ghosts coming through wi-fi ?!?!?but I'm wanting to use the white noise sounds and graphics within my animation.well more like the ring when the character comes out of the TV, but this is similar stuff...

zombieee

This is the vector image I created to eventually get animated. Hopefully this will include some kind of chase sequence to make it look like he is running away from the zombieee hands.

White noise!!!

The above images are stills from the ring website. Before you enter the site it plays an intro which contains these images.Im thinking of including white noise to my animation.

The video below is a clip from the film: