3rd December (Gavin's class)

Today i done my talk, I passed.

Last week of November

Gavin's class - we continued to prepare our talks, 

Ewan's class - we continued with the project, discussing ideas and made a start on our storyboard. Making a rough draft.

weeks beginning...

2nd Nov - we continued discussing our new project and done a little bit research about it, looked at design briefs and watched a documentary about plasticine.

9th Nov - We made plasticine models on Tuesday and flip books on Friday, my flip book was a UFO landing on the moon, after we finished the flip book we put them onto imovie and made them into an animation. 

16th Nov - We practised still motion, my group made a backdrop and made our figures dance and get eaten by a shark, we then transfered our pictures onto the mac.

Gavin's class -  we prepared for our presentations, I'm doing mines on UFO's :-)

on Friday we finished off our storyboard so we can make an animation.

26th October

John's class - we discussed what our new project was going to be about ( give racism the red card ) 

Gavin's class - we got split up into our groups and went to film our short movie called 'The Chase'  it was fun.

Ewan's class - we looked into animation and its history, starting a flip book with no more than 40 frames that we are going to produce.

Final week of project 1

Brian's class - We finished off our websites, included the podcast we done in john's class about our given dance group. We got sent home on thursday because Gavin wasn't in but we managed to keep everything up to scratch.

9th October

John's class - made our group podcast about our topic we were given, this involved gathering pictures and describing them, we each took a turn at talking.. It was a good laugh. 

Brian's class - we continued with our product making ( I'm making a poster informing people about the dance show bounce performing at the MacRobert centre in Stirling. We also followed up on last weeks html class and designed the web page that will front our web page.

Gavin's class - we finished off our reports that Gavin gave us to do about Linkin Park's music video, then discussed media language ( camera angles, lighting etc ) and made a storyboard about a short film we will be doing in our groups called The Chase. 

15th december

Today we continued to make our set for our show racism the red card animation. We have covered all our props and  finished the characters, I measured all the props so now we are ready to film, me and Abbie made the backdrop by wetting 2 pieces of A2 paper and dotting different colours all over to make it look like a crowd at a football game. 

8th December (Johns class)

Today we continued to make our set for our show racism the red card animation. We have covered all our props and  finished the characters, I measured all the props so now we are ready to film :-) 

model animation

model animation is a form of stop motion designed to merge with live action footage to create the illusion of real-world fantasy sequence. 

rotoscoping

Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame. for use in animated films.