knew footage


Here's what some of the footage I shot. As you can see it's a low down a jerky shot . I am pleased to sdee that using the skateboard paid off. You can also see a couple of elements from the storyboard, like the dog walking past the camera. This took wuite a few takes as it wasn't easy to get the dog to walk the past the camera as it did. I had to use a treat to tempt it past. I think the lighting in the room is bright and works well with the piece itself. I think the dog is cute and will interest the younger ages of the audience.

There's now another problem though, that is that the scene is too long, I only included half of it in this movie and thats 35 seconds ( the adverts only supposed to be 45 seconds long) and this exluded the intro and the logo at the end.

Solution...

Me and Ash came up with the bright idea of speding the scene up and then slowing it down at relevant bits (eg when the sensors are shown for instance: the dog, the human interaction etcet).

Time remapping

I've researched into an effect called time remapping, this you can do in after effects. I'l be back soon with an time remapped version, so you can know how I get on.

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Story board

Please click to enlarge and read the text ! :]

N knew view... NXT research

Here's a game that both me and Ash have recently enjoyed. We found this particular theme in the game rather inspiring. The fact that using a computer - your character can slow time right down and analyze each enemy. We think that this would be a good effect to base our project around. We've decided now that in are advert, the robot will build itself up and then you will go into a first person view from the robot itself in a family environment. This will fit well with the brief, as we will be able to show its interactive capabilities as it goes round the room. It will see/feel things and process them as it goes through the room, and that of course is one of the main specifications of the brief. I will post the knew storyboard up tomorrow.

Mood board

Here's just a run through of imagery that will may be used as inspiration.

A knew direction-

Due to poor time management and the limited availability of the Lego product we weren't able to prepare a polished piece. With this in mind me and my partner have decided to come up with a knew idea. I decided it would be better for us to have piece which doesn't show the product itself moving. I think it would be better to see things through its own eyes. In many adverts that I see , they try and almost hide the imperfections of there product, and this is something were hoping to achieve.

Good tutorial site,

This site looks really interesting, it is devoted souly to helping students create motion graphics in After Effects. Espeecially as it shows you contemperory themes, such as the day After tomorrow effect and effects similar to adverts, like illustrations following people and such.

Click here to see a tutorial. :]

Heres a video about animating Bruce Lee's statments its simple but nice, I'l try it when I get some free time, but at least it's here for referencing.