29.04.10

Today, as a group, we did a spot of loction finding were we went into town, found a couple of empty buildings (one of which used to be a squat), took photos of them for our research. We also paid a visit to the Community Gardens on Lewes Road and spoke to a couple of Squatters who said they would be more than happy to speak on camera about some of their experiances.
Personaly I have also been working on the 20 frame Story Board and a up to frame 9.
I have also written out a Personal Planner detailing my tasks for this assgnment -
MY PERSONAL TASKS
I am going to be researching into the homeless issue by visiting The Big Issue Office, The Un-Employment Centre, Brighton Town Hall and speaking to squatters and homeless people in the hope of getting any relevant facts we can use in our documentary.
I am also creating the twenty frame storyboard as a guide for the direction we want our documentary to go in, including annotations on camera angles, specific questions we want to ask. I will be drawing this by hand and scanning it into a computer to be made into our Animatic.
Obviously I will also be lending a hand were necessary, and will be going out in the search of suitable locations for when we begin filming.

26.04.10

Today me Rob and Luke have started the Video Production unit. We have decided to base our ideas on Homelessness and Squatting. We have all finished our Proposals and have had thrown around a lot of ideas between ourselves. I am concentrating on the Research and the Storyboard. I have high hopes for the group I have been put in ('The Unit') as everyone seems to be up for putting in all necessary work.

22.04.10

I have managed to finish my first ever animation today! It is not exactly Pixar but its a start. I have just got to finish the evaluation over the weekend. All in all this has been one of my favorite units and I feel like I have learnt a great deal.

19.04.10

Today I have been finishing of my final animation and I have managed to pretty much finish it although it does still need a bit of touching up here and there. Also I need to add some sound effects. Even when finished my animation is still going to be a bit rough around the edges but for a first try I don't think that will be to bad.
I have created all the images in my animation using the Flash program itself, the tools being very similar to Photoshop and there for easy to pick up.

01.04.10

Today I have been working on my animation using Flash, this is really, really frustrating as every image needs to be a separate Symbol, saying this though it is a really, really good bit of software.
We also had a demo on importing sound into our animation and how to create decent backrounds.