Wooo! You're back again. I know my last post was only an hour ago... but lets pretend it was a week later haha. Let's just say I need to learn some time management...
So today was our first full lesson with our new lecturer John! And today he taught us how to animate our Flash animation to crash into a wall, and to add sound and a background.
I rebuilt my road, and added in my old Nigh Sky to add a background.
I drew a white line in the middle of the road, and added a city background with a night starry sky.
Once I animated the car to run into a wall, I made an 'explosion'
and then I made the explosion expand
Once that was all animated, I added a crashing noise. We had to add a new layer, and make it a keyframe. (The shortcut for a keyframe is F6! fyi :) )
When we previewed our animation, it kept repeating. So to make it only play once we added an Action Script. This goes into a keyframe and the layer is named "Action". The code snip-it we used was "Stop();"
FUN FACTS I LEARNT TODAY!
Sound if flash can be an MP3, AIF (which is used in macs) and a WAV (used in pc's)
Flash convert all audio in MP3's
Time for goodbye once again, and this time I promise you I wont be posting again in the next hour! because next week is uni and school holiday (wehooo!) so you can get a break from me for a week or two. Talk to you guys then! goodbye and thankyou!
In Flash, with our animated cars we moved the wheels and constructed a wall for the car to crash into!
This is the car that I drew! I un-fortunently had to re-draw the car because I couldn't find my original file on the computer, and hence had to start all over. I drew my wheels as an oval so when they rotated they didn't fit properly haha. It kind of looks like a Flinstones car!
... And this is the wall I made for the animation! We made a 2D brick wall, and then with using the Free Transform Tool to distort the wall to make it look as if it was along a road (as you can tell I didn't do a very realistic job haha)
Thats all we worked on this week in Flash :) it doesn't look like much, buy my oh my it took a long time!
For the ABC open project, I uploaded all of my videos onto iMovie
and then, I listened back to my audio and timed how long I talked about on each subject, therefore trimming the separate video clips to match up with what I was speaking about.
Once completed, I exported the video and uploaded onto VIMEO!
And once that was uploaded, I added the necessary tags for it to be uploaded onto ABC Open Video Postcards.
As that was uploaded, I got an email from ABC Open telling me that they saw and liked my video and it is now available to be viewed on the ABC open website!
Thankyou so much for viewing my blog once again on another week! I hope you enjoyed my video, and that it gives you a little inside of what my university experience is like :) I will write to you again soon, lots of love, Courtney :)
Hello! Good-morning (it's still morning where I am right now, and good-afternoon if you're reading this in the afternoon!) In this week we worked a little on Flash, and we started to structure our first project!
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In the first half of the lesson, we were learning how to trace, symbolise, and move objects using Flash! We traced a car (this is the car I traced)
Once we got the full body of the car, including the windows and doors, we excluded the wheels as we included it in later. We then started to fill the car with our preferred colour (I made my car pink!) First making large rectangles to cover the main body, then using the pain brush to fill in all the places that the squares couldn't. By having the guide outline if I painted over it, the line would still show and not be painted over.
Once the car body was completed, I filled in the windows using a gradient colour of black and white (to add dimension and the effect of light hitting the windows) and made a new layer for the first wheel. After I completed the first wheel, and made it a symbol, I copied the wheel, created another layer and placed the second wheel in place.
-and thats all we got up to so far, next week we will be adding frames and making the car and tires move. The more experienced Flash users will be adding a background street moving alongside with the car!
In the second half of the lesson, our lecturer told us that we will be working on and creating our own 'postcard' to send in to the ABC OPEN website! A virtual postcard is where you have short clips and films, where you narrate over and explain what and where each clip is.
ABC OPEN showcases clips made by independent film producers over Australia! The video post cards are usually very casual, friendly chat video about their topic. Exactly like a real postcard, minus the video!
The twist our lecturer gave us was that our place that we're talking about, has to be Charles Darwin University! We have to make a short film about something to do with our connection with the university!
I already have a lot of plans on what I am doing, but that will be kept a secret until next week! I'll defiantly show you guys the video once I finish it :) Have a lovely week! See you then.
This image about is an example of gradient. as the blue is fading into white.
It gives images the effect of dimensional, almost as if a light is hitting a certain part of the object.
Flash
Path: by creating a 'path' as a guide in Flash, it will not be seen on the final movie but will act as a path for the made symbol to move along in the animation.
As shown in this image above, the yellow line is acting as a guide for the green monster to move along.
Tweaking: In the image used for path there is a larger circle on the beginning and ending of the line by selecting them both, the symbol will move from one point to the another, along the path.
Frames: the more the frames, the slower the animation vice verser.
The internet uses "hyperlinks" to link things together, as in on the internet you click on one thing to get to another, and this is used by hyperlinks.
example: by clicking on blogger, and clicking on my blog in has linked you to this post! Hehe and here you are thanks to hyperlinking!
All media has particular content classification depending on the content it contains and what age group it is aimed towards and suitable for. This helps us distinguish what is suitable for children and what is suitable for adults. It is an agreement and a contract that gives the TV networks permission to air Tv's and movies.
RC= restricted classification, may not be legal in some countries
Talent Release Form
A talent release form is used for actors, it contains all information about what is needed for the shoot and asks for permission to use their image for their filming.
This websitide is a local industry, which is associated with the Film and Television Association of the Northern Territory. It's combined with Screen Territory, which is a local legalities which helps with funding for local film makers and movies, as they provide some money to help develop the movies/films.
Copy Right
Copy right is used so that it is illegal for other people to use your work, without referring to the person who filed for copy right. There is no registration for copy right in Australia.
"Copy right applies to the author or originator of certain literary or artistic productions for a certain amount of time with exclusive privilege to that person, to decide who has the copies of the same publications and sale. They have the right to control the distribution of their work. Violation of copyright is called infringement." - Peter Houtmeyers.
IP = Intellectual Property
Patent
Only applies to the country.
Title Search
A talent search is where you are able to see if the title you are hoping to use for your film, has already been used or copyrighted.
Creative commons is made to be able for everyone to use your work without having the hassle of asking the creator for permission. It is a place to share your work, views and ideas to get your point across and available for everyone.
Make sure the client and team understand each other. Clarify and define.
Place a fee for any additions or changes that are beyond the original price.
Plan, plan, plan.
Testing your equipment prior
Test a small selection of each stage of production to make sure it will work as you intended, use prototypes.
-Peter Houtmeyers.
Linear
These are things that can not be changed or altered.
Movies
Video tape
Tv
Non Linear
Things that are changeable.
PVR/recorded Television
youtube
a website.
So that is everything we learnt in those lessons! This has got to be my biggest blog post yet and I apologise for any boring-ness you may have experienced.
I'll be back next week, once again! See you then :)
As this is my first week combined with the other classes, it was a lot like revision. Although a lot more in depth.
This week we briefly went over what we where going to cover during the course, shown some videos (like Charlie The Unicorn). And other short videos which demonstrated animation. charlieunicorn.jpg
We then had to make a picture using Flash. Which we were taught how to use layers and effects to create a night sky with skyscrapers.
We were informed of the film festival held in Darwin called the "Fist Full Of Films Festival" Where local film makers can submit their own short films to win money, we where recommended that if we where serious about film making to enter this competition as it is a great way to meet other film makers.
We where also shown runners up and the winner of a film festival, which were very creative, and one made right in the uni was in there! It was about an email virus that haunted a uni student for not sending before 12:00am, Hilarious!
The class was also brainstorming roles and jobs used in the film production (the three events of production, Pre Production, Production, Post production) industry.
Here is a list of all the jobs that we discussed:
phew thats a lot of jobs!
So that all we learnt about that on that week01! (wasn't that a LOT!!!!) Hope you enjoyed this because like I said before, there will be a fair bit more coming along! Tata for now! See you next week!
