22.03.10

This morning in Key Skills I continued with my research on Studio Ghibli. Having completed the first part last week i.e. copying 1000 words relating to Ghibli of off the Internet and pasting them into a Word document, today I had to put what I had learned into 300 of my own words, which I am half way through.
This afternoon John helped me with my website, specifically with Roll Over Buttons, the difference between Vectors and Bitmaps - solid colours and continuous tone respectively.
I have also been working on the Power Point research.

21.03.10

This weekend I have been finishing my Storyboard as I was finding it difficult to do what I wanted using Photoshop.
I have also been creating some images for my portfolio.

17.03.10

This morning we had a bit of a presentation on some different types of animation, including kinetiscopes, mutoscopes. Also our tutor told us about some of the things that she has worked on inculding 2D TV, music videos and childrens cartoons.

We then set about making a Thaumatrope, a simple kind of animation made up of two images sketched onto two discs placed back to back with a piece of string in between, which when wound up makes the discs spin round creating the effect of animation.

15.03.10 P.M.

This afternoon has been spent working on the Power Point part of the animation unit.
This has included alot of research on all the different kinds of animation that are out there, the history of the whole of animation in general including stop frame, cell, and going as far back as kinetoscope's and phenakitstoscope's.

15.03.10 Key Skills

This morning I have started my research on a type of animation - Studio Ghibli - and have found some information on the studio on-line, form two different sites which I have pasted into a word document.

15.03.10

Animation - a range of images and or physical objects arranged and recorded in a sequence.
Edweard Muybridge ‘Humans in Motion’ – Stop Motion Photos studied animal motion including horses and proved that when at full gallop their legs do not all leave the ground
· Bullet Time major new style on the first Matrix film
· Zoetrope – sequential images in a revolving drum
· Phenakistoscope – A disc with pictures drawn on and slits
· Cell and Paper Animation Technique – mid 1910 – Disney. Animation 18 – 36 frames per second where as film has 18 frames
· Disney’s Steamboat Willy, first animation with synchronised sound
· Disney’s Fantasia., cartoon musical in colour – based on the sorcerers apprentice
· Jan Svankmajer – exponent of surreal Claymation while Wallace and Grommet more main stream
· Animatronics – Jason and the Argonauts, Sinbad etc
· CGI – Pixar, Industrial Light and Magic

10.03.10 P.M.

This evening I have been working on the pages of research needed for our podcast assignment, this has mainly been researching the two games I chose for my podcast, and the schedule that I did my tasks in.
I am happy with the work that I have done both at college this week and at home but am worried if it will be enough as I was off last week and have been playing catch up to the best of my ability all this week.
At the end of the day I will just have to do my best tomorrow to get the necessary work in as fast as I can without letting it effect the quality to much.

10.03.10

This morning I have been editing the podcasts that we recorded yesterday, this has included splicing the intros together with the actual reading of everybodys reviews and trying to clean up the sound quality as much as possible.
I have been taken screenshots as I have been going along to go towards the written part.
I have not had any time to catch up with the written part of the assignment today but will be doing this tomorrow morning.

08.03.10

This morning we finished of any work needed for our Key Skills portfolio.
This afternoon we have been working on our Podcasts, luckily for me I was able to join the PODCATS and I have done a monologue on Modern Warfare 2 and Halo, also I have done some research on Podcasts in general.