a working progress

this is my pixilation at the end of the 3 weeks. it seems to work quite well together although i am going to improve it. i am going a sepia effect to the images to give it a silent movie feel to it and also add the piano music to go with it. i haven't included a chunk of photos in this initial videos as it wouldn't work without me editing the photos first. these will be in the final edit though. by the end of all 9 weeks, the video will look completely different and hopefully much better.

influences on pixilation

after being given the project brief i started to think of ideas immediately. most of these came from videos i had watched recently. i watched a few music videos from the maccabbees after seeing them at Leeds festival and found the backbone of my ideas from here,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0QgGS5FK7w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5i3-8RWvFA&feature=fvst
i liked the idea of having objects transforming and also changing people's faces and portraying emotion by adding things over them. this idea was also in the music video Andy showed us on the first animation seminar but i can't remember what it was. i also liked some effects used in the film Donnie Darko which i may bring into the video. i also highly recommend this film to anybody who has not seen it.
all photos have gone well and have editing has finished for most of them apart from some that need special attention. so by friday the video should be on youtube but the completed version will need a little more time.

the future of storytelling panel

i've just watched the conference from X06. thought that it was interesting having peter jackson commenting on the subject as well coming from a film background and not that of gaming. to me it seems as though the future of storytelling lies in almost a completely new kind of category with the ciematics of film, interaction of gaming and imagination and creativity from reading. this of course would mean that all kinds of different experiences would have to be created to suit different people.the problem though with having interactive experince where you start at A and have to get to B, and you can get there however you please, is that the adventure is resting completely on your shoulders. this means that you won't be put in these memorable situations that film, books and games do. you will have to find them yourself.

After reading the task for the first essay i've tried to think of an initial plan of the structure. So far i am thinking:
1) introduction - explaining what design methods are and which 3 i will focus on
2) paragraph on each explaining what they are, pros/cons etc
3) compare all three. which one is better than the others?
4) conclusion - briefly go into everything i have mentioned and round the essay off.