Week 4: Outside of Class - Quote Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSZxl8rAAyk&feature=youtu.be

Here is my finished phrase video. I am overall pleased with how it came out. I think I conveyed the emotion of the phrase successfully. As I mentioned in my previous post, I was trying to employ a dreamy effect, because this quote is speaking about the past and it is also about love. I did this by using the opacity effect, and having the words fade in and out. I also used a dreamy background, and a more playful font, since this is a kid speaking. I am curious to see what others will say.

Week 4b

Today in class we discussed examples of how to achieve our next exercise, which was to display a phrase meaningfully through timing. We could not use audio and were limited to black and white for colors. I decided I didn't want to do the Hobbit quote, since I misunderstood that we didn't necessarily need audio. Instead, I am doing a quote from one of my favorite movies, Moonrise Kingdom. Here is the quote:

"We knew people would be worried, and we still ran away, anyway. But something also happened, which we didn't do on purpose. When we first met each other, something happened to us."

I really want to try to capture the emotion behind this quote, so I think I will employ a dreamy sort of atmosphere when creating the video.

Week 4a

We did not have class on Monday, so we were asked to find a phrase to animate in the next class. I had a couple of potential phrase ideas, but they were very short and so I didn't think I could use them. Ultimately I decided to pick a scene from the Hobbit. Here is my phrase video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG4Ua70mJvw

My particular phrase will be from 1:19 onward.

Week 3b

In today's class we were able to redo our sound rhythm project. I was pretty happy with mine, and was even used as an example in class. However, I decided to play around with the different transform options and key frames. I did not finish mine so I did not upload it. It definitely was not as successful as my first one. I was trying to put more and more effects on so it would be more complex, however, I think that simpler was ultimately better. The next thing we did was learn about and begin our next exercise, which is to represent the word rhythm through type and movement. I started thinking about a good way to show this, and I figured that a song which had a very repetitive beat would be a good inspiration. I tried to make a pretty fast rhythm, however, it was too fast and almost painful to look at. I ended up scrapping that one, however it did give me a better idea of what direction to take. I think that I will develop a better one outside of class.

Week 3: Outside of Class - Rhythm Exercise

YouTube link:

https://youtu.be/WQD4OXBMnCc

Infinite Looper link:

http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=WQD4OXBMnCc&p=n

For this week's assignment we had to create a video that would loop and describe the word rhythm strictly through movement. This was a very difficult assignment, not so much in how it was done, but rather in the concept behind it. Since we could not use music, we essentially had to make up a rhythm in our heads, which wouldn't necessarily work in real life, or even sound good. I was trying to imagine a techno song, or other type of song with a consistent bass beat that was very repetitive. I remade mine two times, as I just couldn't seem to get it right. I think this is the most successful out of my attempts. 

Week 3a: Shape Rhythm exercise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3AmKgGmfp4&feature=youtu.be

For today's class we did another exercise. For this one we had to take a song and then use shapes to go along with the rhythm. I chose the more techno beat and tried to pick colors for my shapes that I felt went along with the song. I was kind of imagining those laser pianos, see below:

This was the primary inspiration for how I went about this and I think it was successful overall.

Week 2: Outside of Class, Sequential Dreamscape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AhqfArVa1I&feature=youtu.be

Here is my sequential dreamscape. I actually liked how it turned out and I think you can gather the warmth and happiness that was in the dream. I wonder how it will be received by my class. I know for the last project, there were many interpretations and I would not be surprised to see the same here. Hopefully a majority of the class can understand the main thing that happened in this dream, but it will also be cool to see what other people think and how far off or close they may be overall.