Monday 29th March 2010 post 2

Okay this afternoon I have been working on my unit 6 animation work.

I have been working on Flash with my animation work and unforuntatly I had to start over and get my images back again because of problems of saving.
I overcame this and am on track now, On Wednesday I shall carry on with my animation work and shall hopefully have it done for Thursday.

It has been a fairly easy day, I am a little down because my TSA who is Mel has now left and she has been a good help and great support to me since I joined in septemember, I shall miss her and am thankful for all her help.

29/3/10- Monday

This morning I came in and started at 10:30 as I have finished Key Skills.
We watched a small YouTube video that was not really funny to be honest.

Today I started off going over and checking my research and which I am still in the process of.
Also I showed Melanie my Animatic on Flash.

Later Today I shall carry on with animation which I started on last Thursday.
Hopefully my animation should work out to how I want it.

Monday 22nd March 2010

Today we yet again carried on researching, I have nearly finished and am currently working on part two's task. I have one more slide to write up and will double check it all on wednesday to see if everything is in a good order and that I have no spelling mistakes.

However it has been a good and easy day, I have managed well to concentrate and will stay on task in order to complete the task.

I cannot think of what else to say and shall keep to my task and stay concentrated throughout this week.

Thursday 18th March 2010

Today we carried on doing more work on Unit 6 animation.

We did storyboards and also some work on research for a little while, we also watched some videos on animation to get us an idea through the day.

I cannot think of much more to say as it's been a long day.

Luke

Wednesday 17th March 2010

Today we had a new teacher who is Sarah, she introduced us to some animation videos to start off.
We were then tasked to make a Thaumotropes, these were simple to make but mine didn't work out how I wanted it to unfortunately.

I am still working on the research and have a page or two to go.
Later today I shall see if i can finish the research and move onto the next task.

Luke

Monday 15th March 2010

In Key skills today I have now finished all my portfolio work, everything is now correct and completed.
Unfortunatly I do not need to attend the lessons anymore as I have finished everything.


Today we have been working our current new unit 6 which is on Animation.

We looked at lots of different clips of examples to do with animation.

Jason and the Argounauts

Fantasia

Steamboat Wilie

And more.

I have enjoyed learning about the different ways of animation.
We have been researching on different aspects such as Zoetrope, Cel Animation, Stopframe and 3D animation.

I am still in the process on researching 3-D animation and then must choose of one the above to work on 6 pages of.

This unit should be exciting and I am looking foward to seeing what we do after the research.

Unit 6 animation notes

Work on a drawing and animate it, physically moving it, stopping frame animation.
Take a shot, move it, take a shot, move it etc.
Edward Muybridge- worked on stop emotion photos and studied animal movement. E.g Birds, Monkeys.

Zoetrope- When it spins it looks like a strobe light, the characters move when it is spinning (in a revolving drum)

Cel Animation technique by mid 1910's animation- Disney.
Watched a Disney cartoon on Mickey on a steam ship.

Watched Fantasia clips about Mickey doing Magic, this is cel animation.

Claymation- Jan Svankmajer

Watched clips on Jason and the Argonauts (Skeleton battle)

Thursday 11th Mach 2010

Today we finished everything from unit 2 Audio Production.
It has been a good unit and it has been good working with my team mates which were Jason Buss, Jason Cheeseman and Sean Ryan.
It was fun podcasting and planning out our ideas with my team.

Next week we are starting a new unit which has something to do with Animation.

Have a nice weekend all.

Wednesday 10th March 2010

So today we I have been working hard to get more of my research done, it has been a little stressful but I have managed and kept myself on task.
I am now getting somewhere and starting to understand better, sometimes it seems a little complicating for me, but recently I have been getting a better understanding for what I am instructed and prompted to do.

I am feeling more confident now and I know that tommorow is going to be a busy day of research and evaulation. Then in the afternoon we are going to listen to our podcasts in the class.

I am really hoping I can get all the work done by tommorow lunch time.

Monday 8th March 2010

Today I have been VERY busy with podcasting, researching, printscreening and planning.
It has been a long and difficult day but I have managed to keep up with everything and keep on track.
The most hardest thing today was the research, unfortunatly I have only done nearly 2pages, I am really hoping I can get it done by wednesday or maybe thursday morning as a little more help is required as I don't quite understand some of the information on my sheets.

The podcasting has been fun and I am hoping that it all works out well.
It will be presented on thursday morning/afternoon.

I shall see what I can do over tuesday and have a look into my work and be ready for wednesday.

Luke

4th march Thursday 2010

Today we have been working more on Podcasts, we finished writting out the script and rehearsed in the afternoon.
The podcast we are working on is on Modern Warfare 2 (Call of Duty 6)
I am working with Jason Buss, Jason Cheeseman and Sean.
Our ideas are working well and so far everything is okay.

Afterwards we searched for a jingle and found one on Requiem for a Dream which Jason Buss came up for the idea of, it sounded great and works out well.

We will do more Podcasting on Monday and hopefully have it all finished by then. We are hoping so anyways.
Also this Unit has been quite exciting so far and I am enjoying it.

Have a nice weekend all!

Luke :)

Wednesday 3rd March 2010

Today I have had some issues with my stupid password :(
I need to change it, it is very annoying that the college changes your password every half term and that my blogger password is the same as my old current password due to me forgetting :(

Anyway, today we dissucssed in group about our podcasts and stuff, and then we scrateched down ideas and are going to start scripting it.
Before that though we were mixed in groups about the homework we had.

I cannot think of much more to say as my mind has gone blank as I have been attempting to log in!!! :(

Luke