Monday, March 21, 2011
Bendito Machine
Jossie Malis, Spain, 2007
Animation portrayed like this tend to draw me into its story. It uses a variation of close ups at certain parts and then lets the viewer visualize a wider view of the story. Simple use of colors, black and orange silhouettes, but the sounds and music are well synced along with the story. This video encapsulates numerous themes from wars, god worship, money, greed, and the fragility of people. The fragility part being shown through the collapsible buildings and deities was a nice touch from the author. I like watching some flash animations from Newgrounds.com and this reminds me of some of the better ones.
After thoughts on project 2
I decided to add music into this piece as a way of engaging the audience and making a queue for a beginning and ending of the project. Syncing the pictures to the sound was one of the most labor intensive process in the project, especially during the hitting of the punching bag. I mostly used repetition of pictures on purpose during the action scenes and tried to vary it by changing around some of the pictures. I actually took a lot of pictures when it came to the bag interaction, around 30 or so pictures for that part, but I decided to use certain pictures to convey that part of the story. I also differentiated my voice as the narrator as was advised by my peers. I think it was a successful project in that it didn't become boring and was also funny, so my intentions were met.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Bag of Reminisce: Reminiscing on the Creation
Time, positioning, and try try again.
Creating this project, sound and visual project definitely consumes time that needed to be planned to reach completion.
I had to remake the sound piece so I that I can have a stable foundation to work from. As I stitched the sounds together I had to keep a visualization of the visual half of the project as to not stray from the whole narration. There were parts where I had to re-record, and added extra recordings just to make sure I have back up, sounds for certain scenes. I also had to time the sound recordings where the environmental ambiance didn't overpower the main sound pieces since my project was created outdoors. I had a combination of a full action sound recording and mini sound clips for some sound effects. A bit of some voice acting was used to bring some emotion to the piece from the narration to the breathing.
The visual part was the most time intensive. Positioning of the camera was one of the main obstacles especially since I was photographing myself while performing actions. Timing the shots with my 10 second timer camera, rechecking the picture, and then adjusting the shot again was done numerous times. Angles of the pictures and the time of day was also prevalent with this outdoor project. Always thinking of how my pictures would fit with the sound was always in my mind when I was creating the project.
Creating this project, sound and visual project definitely consumes time that needed to be planned to reach completion.
I had to remake the sound piece so I that I can have a stable foundation to work from. As I stitched the sounds together I had to keep a visualization of the visual half of the project as to not stray from the whole narration. There were parts where I had to re-record, and added extra recordings just to make sure I have back up, sounds for certain scenes. I also had to time the sound recordings where the environmental ambiance didn't overpower the main sound pieces since my project was created outdoors. I had a combination of a full action sound recording and mini sound clips for some sound effects. A bit of some voice acting was used to bring some emotion to the piece from the narration to the breathing.
The visual part was the most time intensive. Positioning of the camera was one of the main obstacles especially since I was photographing myself while performing actions. Timing the shots with my 10 second timer camera, rechecking the picture, and then adjusting the shot again was done numerous times. Angles of the pictures and the time of day was also prevalent with this outdoor project. Always thinking of how my pictures would fit with the sound was always in my mind when I was creating the project.
Anthony, Ryan, Kyle, Kara
Anthony
Good use on differentiation of your voice as a narrator against the ambient background sounds. The footsteps and opening of doors pushes the story forward after each narration of an area; indoors to outdoors. A nonchalant memory retracing of your camera aside from the excited voices during the intro and when you, as the narrator, finally found it at the end.
Ryan
Quite layered with a recording of a song in the background along with your own guitar playing alternating in the increase of volumes; the guitar playing goes from slow to loud along with the other recording of the song. Some of the voices are muffled within the middle of the piece. The guitar playing ties the entire piece together. Good use on some reverberations of your voice such as when you counted, "one, two, three, four..." Memories and songs discussion.
Kyle
Multiple sound samplings from video games, songs, tv, and probably your own recording. Intermittent sounds from a harmonica and drum beat sound clips to quieter ambient background sounds of miscellaneous tv/movie dialogue. I think your piece is about trying to get a report done, through the keyboard typing sounds, but are hindered by various procrastinating obstacles like tv, movie, video games, and playing music, or maybe these are the sounds in your head when you are focused on your work (my take on it).
Kara
I thought there were two voices until I talked to you, good use of differentiation on voices. Eerie. The distorted sound effects of the supposed psychiatrist is disturbing. The unnatural "remembering back to the incident" part with the harsh breathing adds more to the anxious atmosphere. Sudden abrupt ending cuts off the fast paced anxious feel that I think maybe would have escalated further.
Good use on differentiation of your voice as a narrator against the ambient background sounds. The footsteps and opening of doors pushes the story forward after each narration of an area; indoors to outdoors. A nonchalant memory retracing of your camera aside from the excited voices during the intro and when you, as the narrator, finally found it at the end.
Ryan
Quite layered with a recording of a song in the background along with your own guitar playing alternating in the increase of volumes; the guitar playing goes from slow to loud along with the other recording of the song. Some of the voices are muffled within the middle of the piece. The guitar playing ties the entire piece together. Good use on some reverberations of your voice such as when you counted, "one, two, three, four..." Memories and songs discussion.
Kyle
Multiple sound samplings from video games, songs, tv, and probably your own recording. Intermittent sounds from a harmonica and drum beat sound clips to quieter ambient background sounds of miscellaneous tv/movie dialogue. I think your piece is about trying to get a report done, through the keyboard typing sounds, but are hindered by various procrastinating obstacles like tv, movie, video games, and playing music, or maybe these are the sounds in your head when you are focused on your work (my take on it).
Kara
I thought there were two voices until I talked to you, good use of differentiation on voices. Eerie. The distorted sound effects of the supposed psychiatrist is disturbing. The unnatural "remembering back to the incident" part with the harsh breathing adds more to the anxious atmosphere. Sudden abrupt ending cuts off the fast paced anxious feel that I think maybe would have escalated further.
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