GET THE CAKE FINISHED

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INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE

Intial Ideas
-Quiz
Steven Seagal quiz
-Maze
type game user would click which direction to go very simple try and find the centre etc
-Get the cake
fun game where the user tries to get the cake

My first orginal idea was to go with my first idea which was the Quiz, so i thought up of quite a few things of how i would like it to look and made a background. Then i found a problem with it because i wanted to be able to keep track of the score & which questions the user had got right, but being the first time i'm using flash i don't know the code so i kind of gave up on that idea.
here is one of the backgrounds i designed for the quiz.





So after rejecting my first idea i thought i would try one of my other ideas "Get the Cake" in this idea the user has to try and get the cake and every time the user does they progress to the next level. each level will have a menu of 3 options which are all different animations but only 1 will be correct and progress the user back to the next level, if the user picks the wrong one then they will go back to the level screen and be able to try again.





Here is the first level of the "Get The Cake game, it isn't finshed yet there are still a few things i would like to change minor things which will be comppleted in the final version.
Please ignore the sound as i just left it on from the action script, (it will repeat itself if you rewind it & start again, like i said one of the things i will be changing)



GET THE CAKE by ~crow063 on deviantART






Here is the Narratives structure for the Get the Cake game.




Things needed
I'm planning on making 2 more levels and having 3 levels as a minimum
add a music track to the flash movie
make a new page for "try agian" so rather than try again just come up have a generic page which shows up instead and bit more of delay on the last part of the animations

One shot 1 Film production

StoryBoard

Here is the storyBoard
For the sleep walking idea, also i'm probably going to invest in a sketch book next time rather than do it on lined paper.
(click to enlarge)








Location Shots
The film is planned to be set in me kitchen at the Maltings, where i'm staying :) only problem we have is that it may not look too much like night because there is a window futher on the right just out of the camera shot, however there is a big metal shutter we can close to block the light out

Day 2 Night

Well i had this idea in my head for a while, of Day changeing into Night. I set up by camera looking out my window and took a picture every 5 minutes for about an hour, 12 pictures in total and then stuck it in windows movie maker made the transitions for each picture as small as it would go. Then imported the movie into Photoshop and saved it as a .gif file. I felt it wasn't long enough to upload it on youtube and it only plays once, where as now it being a .gif file it which just play forever & repeat.

for a first attempt i think it looks good but i want to re do it again mainly because i didn't realise how short it was going to be, so next time i'm going to take more pictures and will upload a higher quality version for YouTube maybe even add some sound. And next time i will have a more stable base for the camera.

well here it is might take a while to load...
(click on the picture to see the full picture, blogger decided to cut some of it out...)

One Shot, One Film

Group Meeting, Ideas

Here are the notes we`ve taken on Monday with regards the ideas for the one-shot film:

1. Split-screens : 4 different stories played out on a split-screen

2. Circular story on adjacent laptops (though the stories that are played out are different, there is a continuity of action from a sequence shown on one screen to the other)

3. Adbusters (street art, advertising subversion, night scene....more details)

4. Police station interrogation (maybe try to film it from different perspectives...again, can make use of split-screens)

5. Waist-bellow shot (we have to find a narrative idea for this one)

6. Again, split-screen. Only this time, one story from different angles (not perspectives, just angles)

7. Something along the lines of the introduction to the movie Snatch

8. Big Brother rooms.
-House mates talking to the camera each house mate comes into shot then leaves and the next one follows, or just a random scene in the Big Brother house

9. First Person Movie,
- think the Nrowich advert is a good example of the idea (only ours would be without the cuts just always stay first person)
mmm biscuits, make first person film in a metting.

10. Sleep/drunk Making food
- fun idea everyone gets hungry in the night just who knows what you make when your asleep?

Glass Of MILK

Fridays editing seminar
Film "The Autopsy"

all she wanted was a quiet drink, i'm pretty pleased with it because it made me laugh so thats always good i think.

Complementary Colours

Complementary colours are, two colours on opposite sides of the color wheel, which when placed next to each other make both appear brighter.

In the first 2 images i changed the colour of the sky to Red (and in some parts pink), i did this to show how the green and the red contrast each other and both make each colour stand out. The building was originally green so i didn't change the colour of that.









In the next two images i changed the blues in the picture to oranges and the green dark colours to purple to show how orange and purple contrast each other, this makes the picture look kind of surreal but i think it shows well how complemtary colours work because in the first picture you have to look harder to see the blue van, but then when i changed it to orange it clearly stands out in front of the purple tree line.







Both pictures were taken at the Colour and light exibition just outside around the grounds.

Colour and The Intangible Exhibition at Djanogly Art Gallery, Lakeside

So Sometime last week, Friday I think went on a cool trip to the Colour and The Intangible Exhibition at Djanogly Art Gallery, Lakeside. Got a few pictures 007 style (they didn't like people taking pictures) so I'm going to write about one picture which I could get a decent picture of, which is the one which looks like its of a old BT advert...

So what was the Artist thinking about when he/she Designed the spinning vortex of colour? Well one possibility is that they had seen a BT commercial from a while back which looks very similar to the Artists work, so that could be one of the things which influenced them. The Artist was trying to make the colours stand out from the background making it a more striking image, attracting the viewer into the picture. The artist has initially only used the 3 primary colours and as the specks of light cross then you see the other colours made by mixing of 2 primary colours. If you were to interpret the image I think a good way to describe it would be to say that if you have these these things were are fine by themselves but then bring them together and mix them up to get something new and maybe even better.

Rule of Thirds

Rule of thirds is a rule in film & photography where the picture is divided up into thirds by a grid. The object in the picture has to be where the grid interersects are and this is supposed to create more tension and energy in the picture! check the examples below to see what i mean,

Pixelation Project

final edited movie, qualitys abit poor but i blame youtube for that.

Why design?

Why Design?
Ok looking around my room for something to write about nearest thing too me my Nintendo DS, that's a pretty neat bit of design. Its says here “why is it we want our belongings to do more for us than function well?” Personally I'm happy with my Nintendo DS the way it works and looks, but I suppose other people will want them to look good at the same time. They can show it off to all there friends, work colleges etc.

The latest version is cool therefore I'm now cool for having it and everyone will be not as cool as me because they don't have the new version they've all got the older versions which aren't as cool any more. I believe it works something like that if you have the latest version of something you are cool until a new one comes out.

“Why are we willing as soon as we can afford it to pay extra for things with appealing forms”, easy answer because it probably looks better. It will do the same thing as the old version, just it will look better. I can use the Nintendo DS as a great example because I still have the original when it came out never really cared for the Nintendo DS lite. (soon to be replaced with the Nintendo DSI third in the Nintendo DS generation) The Nintendo DS lite looks better but I don't feel I have to buy a Nintendo DS lite just because it looks better because my Nintendo DS does all the same things as a Nintendo DS lite would do, only extra features I can think of are it has a bigger stylus, cover for the GBA slot and a adjustable brighter screen. Maybe when it breaks I'll consider getting a Nintendo DS lite, but it hasn't broken yet. Other people may want to upgrade as soon as a new one comes out and they'll probably will be cool for doing so.

Pic Related: my DS

Multimedia Technology - Fiber Optics

Multimedia Technology

“There are 2 types main types of Broadband in the UK, one use copper wire, one use strands of glass” quote Samuel L Jackson. Fiber optics is the future of broadband in the UK and probably the world. Fiber optic lines are strands of optically pure glass as thin as a human hair that carry digital information over long distances.

Fiber optics are revolutionising the way we send and receive informations in business and in our everyday lives, however main homes in the UK may still be using conventional copper wires. Homes using fiber optics have plenty of advantages over conventional copper wires. Some of the main advantages of using fiber optics are fiber optics higher carrying capacity, because optical fibers are thinner than copper wires, more fibers can be bundled a cable more than copper wires. This allows more phone lines to go over the same cable or more channels to come through the cable into your cable TV box. Another advantage is the way the data is transmitted though light signals rather than electrical signals this is a big advantage because it uses far less power than a electrical signal in a copper wire saving money at the same time with the use of less power to transmit the data. Optical fiber also has less signal degradation so there is no need for signal repeaters, unlike copper wires. Those are just some of the advantages.

The Impact on society say if everyone had access to fiber optics cables would be great no longer waiting for downloads, instant streaming off websites, no lag on games and that's just things I can think of for broadband. Fiber optics has more uses than just broadband though data storage, telecommunications, networking and Broadcast/CATV. With a good network of fiber optics everyone will be able to access information from around the world, kind of like we have now but faster and using light instead of electrical signals.

“BT has unveiled plans for a £1.5 billion fibre roll out across Britain. The company claims that as many as 10 million homes will have access to the fibre network by 2012.” quote http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/212199/bt-announces-fibre-rollout.html

My view on this as the biggest telecommunications company in the UK its a start but still leaves 5/6^th of the UK population on copper wires with an up to 8mb high speed. It's a start but 20 years from now I hope we'll all be on fiber optics and enjoying the advantages of the paragraph above this one.

Samuel L Jackson believes in fiber optics and so do I.

Links

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/fiber-optic4.htm

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/212199/bt-announces-fibre-rollout.html

Questions

what do i want to get out of the course? well i want to have fun and enjoy what i'm doing want to get in to tv/film, film making side of it learn some 3d animation skillz


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