Friendships, Boys and Train Rides

Friendships, Boys and Train Rides 

First post of 2016 and it's a dark,cold evening in November. Going to be completely honest i have got out of my Pj's since Saturday evening, what a great way to start off the blog. 

But this is the reason why i am here now. I started thinking,. ( i don't do it a lot!) When i am bored or have a spare five minutes i liked to read blog posts - shocker every blogs now! and while on  the way home from a trip  to London with my two best friends, one of them started talking about a blogger she loves, and  her contact is all about her relationships and dating. especially  her tinder dates. 

Don't worry this blog won't be full of Boys and heart ache.. blah, blah blah. but it had me thinking, everyone experiences life different. And everyone has friends or friendship group and you always have different type of people with in them. 

You have the friend who is more 'more mature for her age'

The one who ' just gets on with it.' 

The friend who 'always seems to be one step ahead of you' 

The other friend who 'thinks they are better then the rest.'

The Friend who is 'Best person you will ever met, who is always your partner in crime.' 

And then there is you ' the joker/ the fail of the group.'

And Yep you guessed correct, that type is me. By now your wondering what is this blog going to be all about? Well it's going to be about the all times in my life that I've tried to get my shit together,the times were i laughed with my friend and travelled. Found times tough with friendship and work. This is the balancing act of one 21 year.

There is always times in your life were you come to a stop at a cross road. Not knowing for to think or how to act. And for me and my friendship group we hit that hit 2 months ago. 

And the cross road subject is 'friend's boy friends'

I am now the only single friend for our group, correction i have the only single person i know from any of my friends. 

And it's become a little tricky for me, it was hard enough having three friends with boyfriend's.  but now all of them do and not that i don't think they are great and all but i don't go and meet up with my friends that i haven't seen in weeks to talk about their boyfriends! and yes a little gossip now and then is great but i am talking 24 hours of texting and moaning or discussing subject about being in a relationship. 

For me the best part of my life is my family and friends, and when i haven't my friends is ages all i want to do is have a laugh and catch up for these days there are difficult lets just say. 

I try and make plans and they always back fire in my face. and even if they are free, they just sit there on their phones texting their bloody boyfriends its so frustrating to get a good conversation out of any of them now really. 

Some people might think i am a complete bitch for saying this but i feel like it happens to everyone who has friends. and it might sound selfish for me to say this but i feel like they don't really care. 

and no i am not crying into my pillow munching on bars of chocolate like i do most days. i just feel like there is more to life then boys! 

I guess i just want them to notice me a little bit more and when we do meet up they stay off the phones and enjoy the conversation.

Till next time (Drops the laptop looking epic but breaks some keys.)

Improved final animation.

THE FINAL FINAL SMOOTHIE ADVERT!!

  After writing about my final animation and commenting on what improvements i could do to my final advert. I decided that i had left over time to go back and modify my work.

There was quit a lot of changes i wanted to make to my work but the first one i wanted to do was to change the time length. It was around about 5 minutes long and to me i thought that was too long for a advert as if you watch tv normally you have short advert which last about 2-3 minutes so i had to change the speed on the video clips.

I changed the speed to around 4 minutes which i think is alright better then it was.

The next thing i changed was the music in the background i had to change the music because i had changed the speed of the clips so the music was out of sync. I also decided to change the music around so at the end of the advert were the clip rewind i had the 'Rewind' sound effect. 
Which i think fits quit nicely with each other. 
The last part i changed was the end titles i decided to delete my name from it and i thought it was about the smoothie advert and the meaning and not about who created it. I Also changed some of the effects at the end titles to. So they fade in and out and flip around. Which i think really does add to the advert making it more creative and fun. 
Over all the changes i made were small changes but i think it helped my work in the long run, As it improved my work and made it better. 

Improved video.

My final animation video ad.

This is my final animation Advert for FOOD!

This sort video is about the theme food (Healthy Eating)

The reason why i chose the topic food was because i wanted my ad to have a meaning behind it. The meaning i wanted to have in my video was healthy eating for children. 

I wanted kids aged 3-18 year old, to see that having fruit isn't just a bad thing and that you can eat healthy food in any different ways just as smoothie.

But I also knew not everyone will be willing to make fresh smoothies every time someone wanted a drink. 

The easy and quick way would be to buy them. 

From this advert people get to see how fresh smoothies are made but with the twist.

How i created this advert was quite complex  First i had to start off by researching  different animations adverts such as the innocent smoothies and and stop motion advert as i decided to include stop motion as a technique in my final project.

After i researched many adverts i started to put a together a mind map full of different types and topics that was all based on one subject food.

After i did a quick mind map i started to get different ideas for a smoothie advert and started putting together quick drawings of ideas i had in my head alot with different names for my branded smoothie.  After that i then put together a how to how to diagram. This actually helped alot with the project on a whole as i wrote down question on how i would make different techniques work and then i had to come up with ways to solve them. So very much solving my own problems.

The idea i decided on was a stop motion animation were i would create a fresh smoothie using all brightly colour fruit to try and make it more interesting and after i made it i would drink it all and then rewind the clip so the smoothie was coming out of my mouth, all the fruit would be come solids again so that children and adults could see that this smoothie compared to other smoothies was only made with fresh fruit and had no added sugar or ingredients.

I wanted to have more then one animated technique in my advert just because it wanted it to look more applying to children and adults watching to show all the cool skills and effects  you can use on a computer to put in to a advert. 

The first part of my advert i shoot was the tile (beginning) sequence the text from the name of the smoothie. Which you can see me writing it on a massive paper using stop motion. Taking lots of photos for each frame.

  The reason why i called it  'Juicy Boosty'  was because i wanted it to be catchy so people would remember it, The juice with a Boost!

After i filmed the beginning sequence i then began to shoot the smoothie making part. This part took a while to shoot as you can guess quite alot of photos, but the end result was good i got my photos ready for imovie to create my advert! The one important part of my advert was the whole rewind technique. I needed this in my advert to get the meaning across that this smoothie was better then any other smoothie out there in the supermarkets and that the target audience should buy this one.

But this didn't quite go to plan for the rewind effect on imovie you had to take the front the top on the screen down to the bottom and then lay them out back to front to get the 'rewind' effect. It sounds easy and was in the tester videos but not with over 10000 photo which took 1 hour just to upload to imovie.

 With time running out and the final deadline coming up on the animation project i had to go back to the drawing broad and think about how i could over come this problem. 

After a while of looking around the internet on Google asking question and watching 'how to do' tutorials on youtube i found out that there was a very quick and easy way to do the rewind effect on imovie. And that was to actually film the smoothie making part in my advert not to take photos. Although i had to get rid of the main stop-motion part i really needed the 'rewind' effect in my video so filmed in on my iPhone added to my advert. 

With filming on my phone brought a few more problems such as muting the background noise

to make the film move quicker and added the 'rewind' effect and adding any special effects. 

Luckily I found on youtube a whole load of tutorials so i saved a whole load of time on trying to figure out to do the effects it was there for me to watch and learn.

After editing in the film sequence i added different effects to my advert such as music, text, colour, font, the size of the font and at the end different fading in and out effects.

I finally fished my advert and i think it looks really good i like the meaning behind the smoothie advert. I think it meets the marking criteria and meets the briefs to.

There are a few things i would change in my video such as the timing. I think on a whole the advert needs to be sorter as its five minutes long. I tried to make it sorter but imovie wouldn't let me so that was out of my hands.

The second thing i would change is the music i like the music very much i find it very up beat but in the advert the music keeps cutting out in different frames so i would go back and change that. 

The last thing i would change is the lighting i think on a whole my advert would look more professional in a studio with bright lights.

I enjoyed this animation project very much and would enjoy another one sometime.   

animation experiments

My backwards experiments.

Before i started my final animation i wanted to test out one technique which i would use in my advert.

This technique i wanted to test out is the backwards section. This part of the advert i wanted to rewind the frames at the end of the advert to know the viewers watching that this type of smoothie was made from real fruit. Nothing was added to it in the process so its healthy and natural. 

How i created this technique was to take photos in different stages for example the first tester i did was the white board. For this tester i had drawn out a picture which i then rubbed off. I took the photos from this and then added them to iMovie. I added them in order and after that i knew what photos went where. After i did that i put the photos backwards and then played it to a peer, this was a simple and effect way of the effect 'Rewind'  So when i played it back it looked like i was rubbing the picture on the white board. 

After i played the tester back and saw that it actually worked really well, i wanted to test different objects and different excises to do for example the 2nd one i tried was eating chips. It didn't really work that well it just looked like i was chewing and then taking the chips out of my month. 

My 3rd tester was the best one i created it. i thought it was really clever and effective. 

How i created this tester was to write a message on a bit of paper and screw it up. And put the paper in my mouth and chew. When i added it to i movie and changed the photos around it looked like i was re-chewing the paper taking it out of my mouth and showing the message to the camera. 

My 4th and last tester was with paint. I took a few photos of me squeezing paint on it a glass pad trying to make a smiley face. But when i changed it on i movie it looked like the paint want being sucked up from the glass pad in to the paint bottle. this tester actually looked really effective and i really liked the way it looked. 

These testers really helped me gain and improve my knowledge of i movie and the 'rewind' effect and how i would put it all together for my advert. If i didn't test this technique out before my final project i think i would of struggled a lot and would of made me stressed out even more because i wouldn't of known how it worked and wouldn't of had a lot of time to try it out. 

What equipment do you need for your final animation?

What equipment do you need for your final animation?

iphone 5

clay 

 fruit

food blender 

ipad 

computer imove 

text

background music

captions 

music in the frames (clapping)

chopping borad

bowl

knife, spoon and folk 

a model 

glasses and straws 

jug

old remote

table cloth

project review

Project Review

2. Use Of Materials 

Project Review

• What materials/techniques have you experimented with during this project?
• adore programes, drawings, ipads,imovie, iphoto, iphone and hd programes,clay motion.

• What skills have you developed during this project?
• how to create animated Gif,food imotion, observational drawing imotion, time lapse animation, stop motion, stop nation music video, shape tween and flash. 

• Discuss your use of materials/techniques - explain what you did, what went well, etc.
• with the Gif it was loads of photos looped to make it move, I really liked using gif and it was a quick but cool animation. The food/observational drawings was alright to do, i don't really like to draw but i found it quit fun to use different pens and watch yourself draw. The stopmation was kind of like a gif but you can add music,text, effects and backgrounds to it. With the shape tween you can to draw a shape in the flash program and make it move/change into different colours and add a face to make it change to different face. And with flash you had to make a person add all the detail in for example the eyes,ears,nose and mouth. 

• Did you experience any problems with the materials/techniques? What were they? How did you overcome them?
• Yes the flash program was the hardest to use and you had to follow a video setup to show how to work it but it was hard to understand and with out someone to actually show you, It was hard to picture and also know was tools to use and what the tools look like. I overcome this problem by asking a class member to help me. 

• You have experimented with a range of different techniques (animated gif, stop-motion, time lapse, claymation, flash) Discuss your use of each and explain which is your preference and why. 
• The techniques i preference was the claymation and the stopmation simply because i like how you can do any ideas you like and put you're own stamp on it. With the clay you can make it look the way you want it to look like. Also i thought they were easier and more effective out of all of them. As you could add music to them in iMovie and also add text and different effects/backgrounds.  

Bob Marley 3 little birds music animation

This is my clay animation

The song i used was Bob Marley 3 little birds 

i used the stop motion technique.

Taking a photo of every movement, to make the clay model walk and move he's feet.

Also in the background the birds fly in the tree.

 I really like this video but i think it could be longer then just 27 seconds.

  The reason I picked  this music/song is because I wanted something tropical and jazzy. I wanted a song that would go with my story line really well. I also wanted to make a man playing a guitar.

How I managed to make this music video is very simple. I first made a background for the music video I made a house and a sun. Then added a clay tree which I made out of tree and brown clay. Using a nail tool to add texture to the top part of the tree. After I made the three birds using orange and blue clay. I used these two colours  because I thought it was eye catching and people would notice them more in the background. After I made the birds I went on to make the two people, I used bright colours for the main person as I wanted him to stand out more. I made the other man with more normal looking colours to make him look like he is wearing clothes. So he would fade into the background so you wouldn't notice him as much. Through out the video I made him move his legs and clapping his hands. The other man who is purple is walking around while he is playing the guitar. And the birds are flying into the tree.