15/12/09

Update on project.

We are currently working on the project on a day to day basis. We're planning to film on 17/12/09 in big johns class and get dialog and sound. Hopefully we can get some stuff done. We are currently working towards finishing off our background today and then we will be ready for big johns class on thursday.

1/12/09

The group and myself have decided on a final idea for our stop motion and have got to work with working on storyboards. On mondays we will be making our models for our animation. While on tuesdays,thursdays and fridays we will be working with story boards and looking for research. Into what the people will be wearing and what kinda background we will prepare for the animation.

Homeage Edting Sites (I can't mind what there called)

Both these sites allow you to move around the widgets. They both have dead similar sites. Apart from bbc's website looks much better. But you can argue that igoogle is better with the community aspect.

Blogging Sites

Blogger- Blogger is a text editing site. That started in San Francisco in August 1999. They are not a Vc funded. Blogger are three friends that are funded by working for big companies. They are trying to break away from the companies they work for. Blogger gradually got bigger over the years. But when all went bust then blogger just survived. And it slowly started to get back on track. In 2002 blogger started to get over hundreds and thousands of users. Then google wanted to buy them. Which they agreed. So they are owned by google now.

Tumblr- Tumblr don't really tell you much about there history. But tumblr are a site who let you share blogs, photos, qoutes, sites and are highly regarded by the press in the world.

Types Of Animations (Examples)

Drawn Animation-Snow white http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN1BegE3QR0
I know this is drawn animation because majority of classic disney films is drawn animation.

Cut Out Animation-South Park http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbv8ECWEsu0
South park is one of the most well known animation serises of cartoons that use cut out animation of the modern times.

Model Animation-Chicken Run http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVdlxwX6A7g
I know chicken run is model animation because it uses clay models.

Computer Animation-Toy Story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB2gPZRsz0Q
Toy story is made up of computer animation because you can tell it is not drawn or cut out.

Rotoscoping-Sin City http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKFLrTYKIXk
Part of the film uses this technique and it is starting to make a comeback.

The History Of Animation

Magic Lantern 1671- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzCNB6z4PUc

Thaumatrope 1824- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dol1xOW_Qzk

Zoetrope 1834- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKEM5sYnOjE

Praxinoscope 1877- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez_UJAafRMs

Flip Book 1868- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AslYxmU8xlc

Stop Motion- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywu1DeqXTg4&feature=fvst

Computer Generate Imagery- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Uvl9qKF5E

Video Sharing Websites

Youtube- It was founded in 2005 and has become the worlds biggest video sharing website. It was funded Sequoia Capitial in November 2005. In 2006 youtube struck a deal with Google Inc. It was one of the biggest deals to date. YouTube has struck numerous partnership deals with content providers such as CBS, BBC, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, NBA, The Sundance.

Kewego- A video sharing website in Paris France. It was established in 2003 and has offices in London, Munich, Oslo, Madrid and Genoble and is also presented in more than 25 other countries. It has over 55 employees all over there offices all over the world. The staff of the website is audio visual professionals, digital signage experts and internet pioneers.

Epk Project

Our project is to create an Electronic Press Kit (EPK) for the show:
INSANE IN THE BRAIN - BOUNCE.

Useful Links:
Tour Website - www.insanetour.co.uk
Event listing on the Macrobert website -www.macrobert.stir.ac.uk/MACROBERT/Index.html
Event listing at Sadler's Wells Theatre -www.sadlerswells.com/show/Insane-in-the-Brain-Bounce
Facebook Group Page - www.facebook.com/insanetour
Article from the London Evening Standard -www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/show-23382729-details/Bounce:InsaneInTheBrain/showReview.do?reviewid=23444566
Youtube videos - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptP5jqTBgd4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E10cUMFURqU
Article from The Independent - www.independant.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/preview-insane-in-the-brain-sadlers-wells-london-786672.html
Article from The Guardian -www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/feb/29/theatre.musicals

What information will we need for our EPK?
We will need to gather a lot of resources for this EPK, including:

• Images
• Show Information
• Reviews
• Videos
• Dancers
• Tour dates
• Links
• History of the group/previous shows/experience
• Influences

Roles
Designer - David
Editor - Reece
Researcher/Sources - James

Everyone will help each other out with the project, these roles are just primary roles, they don't define that is what you will only do.

Photo Sharing Sites

Comparison Of Flickr And Woophy

When you open Flickr's site it greets you with more of a friendly site. On the home page it shows what the site has to offer you. You can take a tour of the site that can help you to use the site. You don't have to sign up to have a gander of other peoples photos on the side. While Woophy greets you with a map that shows where all the members of the site from the countries they come from. It doesn't have a tour option. And makes it look more complex site

 which doesn't seem to user friendly unless you're experienced at using photo sharing websites. But it shows you the latest blog spot on the site, latest comment and city of the day. But Flickr has a video option as well. So it means you can do more on the site than you can on Woophy.