FINAL VIDEO

Well it has been a long year but finally here is the final version of the video. The last edit was very close. But there was a few edits I made where I wasnt quite 100% happy with. I edited from 1:10- 1:33 ish as I felt It wasnt as dynamic as the music and it needed something more to make it as dynamic as the music. I added zooms on the accentuated parts! I also added some more small glitches to the end which I had forgot to add it previously

LENTICUAL CARDS ARRIVEDDDD

They arrived, I am SO SO happy with them, they look super awesome!!!!

I also got some cool glasses, they do some weird stuff, think I might mess around with these over my camera and film some stuff after coursework submission ....trippy!

2nd Edit

Well like I said, David didnt like the middle of the video so here is the re-edited 2nd version. Lets hope he likes it a little bit more than last time! I personally really think the middle abstract part looks so so much better than the 1st take. I think it makes the sound more interesting as its the least exciting part of the whole song, So I think the abstract visuals add a more engaging element to it.

Other business cards

Ok so I said I would get other business cards printed, so here is my design, I wanted it to be in keeping with my other ones.

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.

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.

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.

Some inspirational tv installation

Having a look at composition and how I could arrange the tvs

Installation locatoins

Here are some plans for where my installation could go for the exposition.