Semester B Project Style Ideas

Just researching and taking a look at other people's work and trying to get a good idea on what i could do for my side of the project. First i am taking a look at the animations on Vimeo and seeing what they have to offer, first i am taking a look at the 2D section of animation first i took a look at a animation called 5 second Project - Made of Paper it was exactly 5 Seconds and i thought it looked pretty cool, and me personally i am not the worlds greatest artist when it comes to drawing i thought something like this would work nicely but it all depends on when i hear the audio.

5 second Project - Made of Paper from Rickard Bengtsson on Vimeo.

and something else on relation to this i also found a nice animation called Swing it's about a little girl who goes on a adventure on a swing, it is quite different to the 5 Second Project, i feel that this animation has more of a storybook feel to it.

Swing from Aya Zakaria on Vimeo.

Cellegratonia is another animation i found yet it is extremely different to the two previous projects i have posted, i have always wanted to start a stop-start animation, it may take time but it would be really cool to start something like this, i have no idea if i would need to build anything exactly but drawing, yes. I can pull something like this off.

Cellegratonia from NEWWORDS on Vimeo.

That's just three style ideas that i would like to try out for this project.

Update On Project-Digital Media

From since i have last posted there has been change to my image, i am slightly puzzled on what to add..there is only so much you can do with a short space of time. At first i wanted to add a bit more of the castle behind but after a few adding and removing having a bit of the castle through the windows felt a bit more better but also i wanted to add a forest in the background, in the day there wouldn't be or not as many houses or other buildings as there are today, also i had a go at smudging the trees it did take a while to do but i do think it looks pretty nice, again i added more greenery around the trent and fenced off the rest of the field and added a bit of cobblestone since from another recreated image i saw that was the area where the cannons and other weapons and machinery was left to defend. This is my image in question.

I did try to make the castle look a bit more brighter and i tried to clean it up a bit and it was a struggle, also i made the top smooth/flat or somewhat flat because during the time it was flat but the battles did cause it to crumble up. I honestly don't know what else i could possible add. Here is the original image i took.

The Growth of my Digital Media Idea

As you may of noticed from a post or two ago that i wanted to work on Lincoln Castle, i wanted to create a series of photographs and record sounds around the area of the castle, as a example i created my idea around Newark Castle. On the day that we talked about how out ideas developed i was told that Newark would be more interesting to do a project on, that confused me at first because i never heard anyone telling me that Newark is interesting but however i understood the point, Many students do work on projects around Lincoln and also i liked the idea of being different. That week i went and visited the castle again to take another selection of photographs, different shots and angles. The idea of recreating the castle to what i think it looked like 900 years ago before William the conqueror destroyed it. I am in between that fine line of struggling what to add and knowing what to do. What i am planning on doing next is trying to make the castle bricks slightly more lighter, just to say and imagine that it's a new castle, also i would like to try and add parts of the castle in the windows, for example i want to look through the windows and see the other side. Also i plan on adding a gate along side the Trent and on the field that i was standing on, i am sure back in the day they would need a bit of extra space to add a few weapons. This is what i have came up within the workshop, notice that the top, trees, small bridge and colour of the wall has changed

Due to the white sky it's already a blank canvas, i could remove the little sign and the steps that lead into the river and maybe add a few trees behind the castle, i am sure back in the day there was a lot more greenery than there is now.

Due to my Grandad passing away on Wednesday afternoon, it may take a day or two for me to continue with this project, but i will try and get everything up to speed before and on the day of the 29th. That's if the funeral isn't planned on the day. 

Thoughts on the short film "The Lift"

At first I didn't really know what to think about it, I didn't know how someone could make a Documentary about a lift somewhat interesting but I did get on the wrong end of the stick with this. It's apparently it's about people taking the lift and noting down how many times they use that lift everyday, some people use it once others use it more than three times a day and something along those lines. I really have to hand it to the production team who pulled this off, this is something I couldn't do, I personally don't like taking the lift it's small, cramped and can break down at any minute I just don't like them at all. But what I found interesting was what the people had to say, some was sad, some was funny and others where strange though what i found amusing in the documentary was the lady and the drunk man in the lift he left and she turned to the camera and pull quite a funny face as she was about to say "That man was weird!" Quite a interesting documentary, something I wasn't really expecting!

My Idea For Digital Media

What I would like to do for the Digital Media project is take a series of photographs of historical architecture and also record a bit of audio of the surrounding area of the historical building, I have created a example of what I would like to do but for the main project I think searching around Lincoln would be a lot more better than adventuring around Newark just for the basic fact that Lincoln has a lot more to offer in historical value and the castle still looks like a..castle. So to demonstrate my point  here is a quick example of what I would like to do for the project.

What triggered this idea was from the last project where we all went to the Arboretum, I liked what I did but i really want to step up another level

A Low-down On What's Happening with my Projects

I just wanted to write a short paragraph on what's happening with my projects right now, for my Radio Documentary on the Marshall Tractors I am still currently trying to get people to interview, I have already sent an email to a new contact at the Gainsborough Museum, I sent an email yesterday, I am still waiting. As for the volunteers at the Lincolnshire Life Museum I have just contacted him (again I just got a email today about who I can talk to, the man is named Derek and he says he is more than happy to have a chat with me, I am just waiting to see what time and day fits him best, i am hoping to meet him next Monday during the 4 hour break. Now as for the Digital Media project, I still want to work around history and culture so I kinda want to work around Newark Castle and take photographs of the Castle grounds and record some audio along with. How I am seeing this is that I want a series of photos to show and audio with the photos, so a two in one. Newark Castle isn't much of a Castle any more but it does look interesting. I plan on doing this Wednesday afternoon of this week. 

Videos and Photos from my solo trip to Lincolnshire Life

The main tractor i shall be working on Marshall 1983

Marshall Tractor 1950

Some other tractors in the museum which i found interesting

Also this video was playing, i would of recorded more but there was a group of school children creating loads of noise