Hooray! Handed it all in! It's over for this term and what a ride it's been. I've learned more than I could have imagined about theatre lighting, I've blogged, tweeted, made a website, managed to use an ipod with my sausagey fingers to make an animation, been wheeled about on a 20 foot vertical ladder, even sang on my own in a recording studio, and spent a whole term making a film which took more than 20 hours to edit. And here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52F0-HL0x1w&context=C41420eaADvjVQa1PpcFNsK2IZqfAnUZXiz5dTAIcPjzpNJeCTY-U=
Looking forward to decorating my bathroom and gardening for a few weeks. :)
Friday, 23 March 2012
Friday, 16 March 2012
Busy busy busy
With less than a week to go before our first four modules are assessed it's a busy time for us Creative Tech students. My brain is so full of stuff I wake up thinking about what I should be doing to improve my projects and last night I actually awoke in the middle of the night and had to grab a piece of paper and pen and scrawl some ideas down in case I'd forgotten them in the morning.
We had our last theatre project on Thursday which was to choose a piece of music and light it up on stage. I spent a late night getting lost in You Tube and had a bit of a realisation about how it's possible to spend so much time there, and still didn't have a choice, but enjoyed wandering among all that fab music. In the end I went for a Moby track which I'm fond of and could envisage how to light it. Only had half an hour to programme all the different lighting states into the desk, but just about managed it and lit up "Why does my Heart Feel so Bad?" It's true you feel a bit like God as you change the look of the stage at the flick of a switch. Unfortunately didn't have time to film the results. Bummer.
Monday in the recording studio luckily saw a great bunch of musicians coming together and we had the chance to mic them up and record them. After an awfully brave attempt at singing over an excellent recording of 'The House of The Rising Sun', I need to edit it (if I can bear to listen to it again!) and write up my experiences. I do not, however, need to ever sing into a microphone alone again. That personal hurdle is over.
Fantastically I have actually finished my stop motion animation. It took hours and hours of snipping out bits of black paper, photographing with 'I can animate' and editing with 'imovie' on the ipod. Major effort for very short (just over 1 minute in total) unpolished and unprofessional bit of animation. Gives me some idea of the incredible work of real animators and film-makers. Here is the tale of Clarissa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBexAs6FoZs&feature=g-upl&context=G25d3b4dAUAAAAAAABAA
And on to the suspense film project... bit of a disaster unless I can get a bit more footage. Planning to go to my actress and either beg or offer to make her lots of cakes for just a half hour more of filming... This module has been so much more challenging than I had envisaged, which is ok as long as I've learned from it so that next time I choose something achievable.
All in all I'll be glad to be blogging next week when it's all over. :)
We had our last theatre project on Thursday which was to choose a piece of music and light it up on stage. I spent a late night getting lost in You Tube and had a bit of a realisation about how it's possible to spend so much time there, and still didn't have a choice, but enjoyed wandering among all that fab music. In the end I went for a Moby track which I'm fond of and could envisage how to light it. Only had half an hour to programme all the different lighting states into the desk, but just about managed it and lit up "Why does my Heart Feel so Bad?" It's true you feel a bit like God as you change the look of the stage at the flick of a switch. Unfortunately didn't have time to film the results. Bummer.
Monday in the recording studio luckily saw a great bunch of musicians coming together and we had the chance to mic them up and record them. After an awfully brave attempt at singing over an excellent recording of 'The House of The Rising Sun', I need to edit it (if I can bear to listen to it again!) and write up my experiences. I do not, however, need to ever sing into a microphone alone again. That personal hurdle is over.
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| There is... a house.... blah blah blah! |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBexAs6FoZs&feature=g-upl&context=G25d3b4dAUAAAAAAABAA
And on to the suspense film project... bit of a disaster unless I can get a bit more footage. Planning to go to my actress and either beg or offer to make her lots of cakes for just a half hour more of filming... This module has been so much more challenging than I had envisaged, which is ok as long as I've learned from it so that next time I choose something achievable.
All in all I'll be glad to be blogging next week when it's all over. :)
Friday, 9 March 2012
4 Yorkshiremen (with varying regional accents), and a nice stop motion example
An exercise in recording in the studio and editing with Logic software on apple macs. Worra lorra fun it was :-)
http://audioboo.fm/boos/703184-4-yorkshiremen
Starring Phil, Aaron, Owain and myself with sound engineers Sean and Kris, and edited by moi.
Getting on with our film projects... I've hit a bit of a blank wall with mine, after injecting some suspense back into the script and getting fairly inspired, my actress has run out of steam. Can't say I blame her, it has turned into a far bigger, lengthy and more hassley beast than the little favour I originally asked of her. Not sure where things are going on that front at the moment. May have to invent Plan B...
Stop motion animations are becoming fun. Have decided to create a trailer for my my monomyth story using silhouette cut-outs, and have begun messily snipping away at black paper and creating my characters. It's going to be a lengthy process with zillions of pictures to be taken to create even a few minutes of footage.
An nice example of the sort of thing I'd like to create: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYr2WYsSmaI
Been given a lovely practical assignment for the theatre: Choose a piece of music 2 or 3 minutes long, and light it creatively. Decide where the lighting cues will be, write them out with timings, use a basic lighting rig with plenty of colours and plot it into the lighting desk and light up the stage with your chosen tune. How fabulous! Now, what to choose....?
http://audioboo.fm/boos/703184-4-yorkshiremen
Starring Phil, Aaron, Owain and myself with sound engineers Sean and Kris, and edited by moi.
Getting on with our film projects... I've hit a bit of a blank wall with mine, after injecting some suspense back into the script and getting fairly inspired, my actress has run out of steam. Can't say I blame her, it has turned into a far bigger, lengthy and more hassley beast than the little favour I originally asked of her. Not sure where things are going on that front at the moment. May have to invent Plan B...
Stop motion animations are becoming fun. Have decided to create a trailer for my my monomyth story using silhouette cut-outs, and have begun messily snipping away at black paper and creating my characters. It's going to be a lengthy process with zillions of pictures to be taken to create even a few minutes of footage.
An nice example of the sort of thing I'd like to create: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYr2WYsSmaI
Been given a lovely practical assignment for the theatre: Choose a piece of music 2 or 3 minutes long, and light it creatively. Decide where the lighting cues will be, write them out with timings, use a basic lighting rig with plenty of colours and plot it into the lighting desk and light up the stage with your chosen tune. How fabulous! Now, what to choose....?
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