Business Cards

Well, I've been doing a lot of thinking about the exposition recently, and I noticed everyone else business card designs and saw them putting their work on them. Dont get me wrong they look amazing but it got me thinking, how can I make a good first impression and make me stand out! I cant exactly put a video on paper!! So I started thinking along the lines of holographic and lenticular...after doing a few days of research, I started to notice something missing...THE PRICE! I could not for the life of me find a price for say 100 lenticular business cards, all websites said to give them a call. So I started doing the rounds and calling, after a few unsuccessful calls, I phone this company called 3d images and I spoke to the owner, David. at first I asked how much would 100 lenticular business cards would cost...to which he replied, 2-3 pounds EACH, so that would be around 300 quid...so I told him about me and that im a student trying to stand out and lo behold, he said that he always tries to help students out and that he would do me 10 for £25. Now I know 10 isnt a lot so my plan is to only give these ones out to potential employers who actually seem interested. I will print simple business cards too. He told me to send him two images. Here are the original ones that I sent him.

He then emailed me back saying the second image, the parts were too small for lenticular printing so below are the final copy.

Second TV testing

Well today was a lot more successful than last week. We didnt use the laptop as Raz had an idea of using a DVD splitter that can send the DVD signal out to two of the TVs that are going to be the same. We didnt get the timing exactly right but it was less than a second out. What we are going to try next is using the same DVD players because the load/play times were slightly different because of the different makes/ages of the DVD players.

1st Complete edit

Ok so here it is, the first complete edit. I so glad to have it full all the way through, but it is nowhere near finished yet. I am really not too keen on the middle section but I will wait and see what David has to say and get him opinion on it.

Film day take TWO

After re-evaluating my work, I realized that I needed more footage. so today I went and did some more testing. This time, I wanted to get some different angles and I took in lots of little LED lights to experiment with on the hammers and strings. As I really like the accidental light video that I took and wanted to make more!

Meeting with Daivd

Didnt have a meeting with Daivd last week as I wanted to keep working on my final video and get more done for him to look at. So far I have 1:30 completed of all 3 videos. As I had a media tests on monday. He said it is improving, but I think I need to wow him with the final thing!

Testing on the TV's!!!!!

Today is TV testing day! Well it was a bit of a disaster. But its best to try these things out before the showcase or it would have went very wrong. We used 3 different tvs attached to 3 different DVD players, complete chaos!!! The timing were completely off  So after discussing, for next week we are going to test them out on a laptop and hopefully get some sort of software that can play all 3 videos at the same time.

Middle tests

Tests for the middle part of the song that is quite abstract.

So far..1:30

Ok, so far I have to 1:30 of my video, this is so I can test out the multiple screens on Monday, I am not sure, there obviously still needs a lot of work done to the final video, but I will just keep on chipping away and will get there :)

Testing effects

I just wanted to play around with settings and see if I could alter the look of the video! These tests/effects were dismissed as I felt it took away from the over all aesthetic by over complication and making the footage look tacky

Playing around with Colour

Well at my last meeting David mentioned to me about implementing colour so here are some tests to experiment with the level of colour that should be seen ... The colour has been taken from Louis Castle's colour theory, I did a media test about a month ago on Fur Elise and I really like it!

After testing I think the lowest colour test works best as I dont want it to look like just filters layered on top of the footage


The block colours on their own

More glitch testing with piano footage

The main glitch-Partical shower

This is the main glitch that will happen on the side tvs, I am really happy with how it turned out..well in comparison to the particle tests, they look really good!

Interactive music video

http://donottouch.org/?fb_action_ids=10152758234215230&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582


This is something, everyone should have a look at. Basically, it is an interactive music video in which your cursor movements are recorded. I know its not exactly visualising music, but I could help but post it on my blog because its video ideas like this that turn viral and get a lot of attention so its a video to learn from!

P.S 80% of people did touch the model!

First wee test of the 3 tvs

This is just a wee test to see how the videos look together. It is really hard to work on videos when you can see what is on the other screen at the same time. So it is important to keep on doing tests like this to make sure the footage works well together.

Natural piano effect test

This is a test to try out my idea of using the piano footage for the effects instead of making computerized ones. I LOVE how it turned out. This footage used was actually taken while I was moving the camera into a different position and I loved how the light look like it was "licking" (like the sound at that time). I think aesthetically it is a million times better that the particle effects I did a few days ago

Particle Testing

well today I have testing out more particle and glitch effect tests. I really dont like them. No matter how much I tried they looked awful and didnt compliment the aesthetic of the piano footage. So what I have decided that would look better and would work a lot better with the old textural aesthetic of the pianos, is to use...the piano footage with some clever editing!

Meeting with Daivd

Well today Daivd got to see the first part of my final video, the first 30 seconds. On first watch he wasnt sure, but he watched it another 3 times and then decided that the more times he watched it the more he liked it. I also sent the link to Belinda and she said she loved it, so I guess it is just a matter of opinion but i'll keep working on it and hopefully he will start to like it!

Real Ones - Separation Blues

So I came across this music video recently and I think it is just fantastic. I love there are just little hints of visualising the actual song ie the cd racks moving up and down and the milk moving up and down for example. But what its fantastic is how they have visualised the words. Yes the have to the exact word but they have done it such a fun and creative way that it that it is not boring. Lets not forget that one of the first music videos of Bob Dylan holding up cards with the words on it, and look what happened to that! what I think this video shows is that visualising music doesnt have to be every beat has a visual equivalent, they have done it very subtly, its not the main focus but it adds character and light heartedness!  

Updated version

Well after having a night to sleep on it I decided the ending was too quick. I couldnt lengthen the song anymore as I am already a few seconds over the 30 sec limit, but the visuals just snapped off too quickly and I wanted the hands to come away and completely off the piano so added a new clip in that was a bit long in length.

30 sec clip for showreel video

Well we were all told to create a 30 sec clip for the showreel by the 8th and I finished mines last night. This has also been a really good experience to see how my final video might work out. I have learned a lot about what I think works and what doesnt. One thing that Belinda pointed out that all the videos I have been recently been making are exactly to the beat and everything is exactly on point. So what I wanted to do with this video is to create a fun and playful feeling with the piano footage. Empathising that when you play piano it is in the view of the player and it sometimes doesnt have to be exact.Where as the computerised glitchy parts in the video are exactly time and exactly on point which is coherent with the formal computer, gets nothing wrong feeling. This idea of having two contrasting sets of timing came from watching the ipod "bounce" advert which you can look at a few blog posts down. What I really liked about the video was that the ipods bounced to the bass of the beat but everything else in the song was free? the visuals only followed one element of the song and it worked really well, so thats where the idea came from.

NEON

Well I have some exciting news! I have been asked to help out with the organisation of neon this year. As you saw from my blog at the beginning of fourth year I went to most of last years events as they related to my project. So I am really excited to be involved this year round. I will probably be involved with the promotional videos and advertising....exciting :D

Meeting with David

Todays meeting was more of me telling David what I was doing and his with a big grin on his face eager to see my videos.... I dont really know what else to say? He really likes the work that I am doing and really excited to see what my final outcome will be! Next week I defiently need to get my learning contract and get my diary sheets signed off

Film day!

Well after a lot of phoning around and asking numerous amounts of people, I finally got a hold of pianos to film. The lovely lady at Vintage strings along perth road let me film in her shop. She had a hug amount of pianos and even took the entire front of the piano off so I could see all the working parts fully. I also filmed the grand piano but even though it looked really good there wasnt as many moving parts in comparison to the stand up piano