Monday, 31 October 2011

Our Thriller Opening Song Idea

We are looking for something that isn't necessarily scary but that builds tension in the video. We found a song called 'Through The Looking Glass'

http://freeplaymusic.com/search/category_search.php?sindex=41&i=4&t=f

It is number 42 on this page.

EDIT: Jack has created his own thriller music which we are going to use for our opening, the music spikes and drops in tempo and volume at appropriate times for our thriller's crucial moments.

Sunday, 9 October 2011

Preliminary Task Write-up.

"Confusion" Pre-lim task.

For our preliminary task we decided to basically incorporate a lot of movement into our video which would allow us to use as many different camera shot as possible which obviously would allow us to show off some of the skills that we possess.

When it came to filming our video we found that sometimes it was trick to get the correct shots because Emily couldn't help from laughing a lot but we saw this coming so therefore planned a lot of time for the amount we actually had to film. Apart from this the first day of filming went all to plan.

The next day of filming though we realised that as Emily wasn't wearing the same clothes we couldn't continue filming, so at first we thought we could just re-film what we started the day before but we realise it wouldn't be worth un-doing all the work that we had started already, so we waited until the last filming day and then completed our filming without any problems.

Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Plasticine Sculpture Writeup

This is a sculpture of what I believe to be a good representation of me as my personality but also incorporating physical qualities into it to give it a multi-dimensional feel.


The first part I will discuss is the fact that everywhere I would usually be wearing clothes (excluding feet) is grey. This is because I'm not very interesting when it comes to brands or styles so I feel it shows how I might as well feel on a regular basis compared to how some people are always worrying about what they're wearing and how they look.


Similarly with my hair I have kept it large and orange as this in my opinion is my most defining feature as it is probably one of the first things you would notice if you saw me. It's an extension of the clothes idea in that I don't use styling products or even a brushes so it's almost giving it a feel of running wild. It also links to one of my main needs which is to make people laugh which I usually do with self-deprecation and having awkward and large hair is another way of  doing that.


My hands and feet on this model are both green as these are also two of my slightly larger features which I feel are out of proportion with the rest of my body and alienates them from the rest of it.


The positioning of the body is supposed to be pulling off a dance move, this was planned as a continuation of wanting to make people laugh as one of the ways I do this is with the basic idea of looking stupid which generally makes people laugh.


This is the same principle as Gauntlett's Theory Of Representation in which he used LEGO to asked people to try and represent themselves in a model which would represent their identity using the colours and shapes to represent their own identities.