June 2009
14 posts
WatchThis is our finla clip. The idea is that I take a picture of the Cuba St fountain with a virtual pen which I fold into a dart and send to my friend in England. On route it travels around the world. I think this is a nice way of putting a tangible form to something like emailing, social networking or blogging. -modern communication. Of course paper planes dont fly around the world, this just gives...
cool. everything cool.
so far Dan has been working on Google Earth and from what Ive seen look really great.
I have taken the photos neccessary for th Clip. now the labourious process of photoshopping out the BG out. hmm. late nite me thinks..
new day. new idea.
okay 1 more day till the 101 th’ Clip project is due. its painting it thin but we have taken a new idea on our clip.
we will still go with the idea of paper planes. which was what was going best for the project. what we are omitting is the concept of the plane and its POV. this is what made the aesthetic quality weak. also gone is the ‘Im leaving you’ message. again very weak....
14/6
so today reshot some of my scenes. reshot the first scene in the kitchen at my house in Newtown. thankyou Hayley for being such a great help and hand model.
I also shoot the last secne of the clip. I have changed the idea. Instead of a slap in the face the guy opens the dart and the words appear. in sucession. Im. Leaving. You.
I felt that this was more closer to th clip idea. The idea of a hand...
my enemy
Procrastination is a behavior which is characterized by deferment of actions or tasks to a later time. Psychologists often cite procrastination as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision.
new day. new shoot.
beautiful Saturday morning. Dan and I are going to reshoot some the Cuba St scene (as I write he is constructing a new plane).
As mentioned in the last blog we hope to gain more continuity with the planes flying. also we will add more details. I mentioned in the last blog about the plane crashing and someone picking it up and re throwing it.
where we at..
yesterday Daniel and I went and shot a new sequence for th’ clip. we discussed with our tutor, Daniel, our progress. we agreed that our planes action in the clip needed something more. as you can see when the plane flies through Cuba St it remains quite static. the plane needs character in its movements. you can see in the scene we we shot on Thursday that the plane expresses more of this...
Watchhere is the rig in action. it came about differently from the sketch that I posted yesterday. the original rig gave me grief. this rig is simply just wire that runs down the base crease of the plane with a molded grip so you can direct the planes movements.
May 2009
18 posts
Watchshort still frame clip that was made in a group excercise on day one for project 2, ‘th’ clip’ DSDN 101.
shot with digital point and shoot cameras and edited with Windows Movie Maker. shot just off the Left Bank down a heavily graffitied alleyway.
test shoot today
today Dan and I will run a test shoot of the paper plane. just to see what works and what doesnt. test the angles and explore teh software,
just an idea for a song. its paper planes by MIA....
28 May
slightly refined idea. still going with the paper plane idea, just toning it down a small bit. less on the idea of personalising it, more on the idea of objectyfying it.
so we will not have the plane going for a coffee etc but have the plane have its character from which it is sent.
aka some mail from a girlfriend could have a loveheart. some spam email could be made out of junk mail. a business...
'the idea'
after some thinking and refining. I think I now have a solid idea. here it is:
with keeping with the theme of ‘connecting people’ I wanted to express the idea of communication. what is a communication? what is a email? we write something on a keyboard press send and then what? I guess it goes to satellites through processing systems and a whole lot of complicated processes. blah!
I...
Connecting People
how do we communicate? we communicate through many mediums -these days mostly through technology. are the days of personal exchange over?
I’m interested in the ways that we communicate. the personal subconscious exchange of body language. of flirting. of ignoring. of listening. of hating and of loving.
Is this a lost art? are we housed in a world of text messages and small little white...
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love the glitch..