Block2

Brian's class - he gave us magazines to look through and we were to trace a double page. we were to outline the invisible columns and was given a piece of paper with all the different names that are used in magazines e.g Heading, footer, margin, recto etc. 

Angie's class - went to the learning zone and printed off pictures that Andy Warhol produced.

Gavin's class - We went over what we would be doing in this block which is media analysis ( non-fiction) 

The restaurant

Fiona brought in plastic chairs, tables, sofas etc. We covered them in plasticine and this was what they looked like after everything was covered.

animation backdrop

This is our backdrop for both the living room and the restaurant, I brought in the black and silver wallpaper and an empty ice cream tub for the reception table. 

animation models

 These are the models that were involved in our animation. I made the asylum seeker on the left in the blue outfit. 

report on animation!

Animation has changed a lot since it was first invented in the 19th century, the first types of animation was the thaumatrope, flipbook, rotoscoping and painting pictures onto a backdrop then moving pictures by hand in each frame to make an animation. Some old types of animation is still used in schools such as the flip book and by using cameras by taking a picture then moving the characters slightly frame by frame to make an animation, this is called stop motion. one example that still uses this technique is the simpsons. Over the years/century's animation has become a bit more technical but easier and todays way of making most animations is to use a computer, some CGI is so good that in some films it can make characters look like real life people for example the film The Polar Express has characters in it that you wouldn't believe they were only cartoon, below is one of the characters from the film.

12/01/10 - 15/01/10

John's class - we put the pictures into different folders as some of them had bad lighting and were a bit too jumpy, we also shortened the frames in each picture.

We finished the last scene and put all the scenes together, Adam and john did the sound, we have finished. =)

Angie's class - we finished our sketch books and any paper work that needed done.

7/01/10 - 8/01/10

Gavin's class - We done our assessment on Michael Jackson's music video black or white.

Ewan's class - We continued with our animation, just need to sort it on the computer and add a soundtrack.

Cut out animation

this involves moving cut out shapes a little at a time and taking a picture every time to make an animation.