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iteration 5

the final iteration a hand-made animation which is created by turning the pages where I drew continual images on in a rapid frequency. It is another example of using the trick of vision persistence. Also this is a primitive way of how animators make their works.

Just like iteration1 which is a stop motion, this iteration adds on sense of movement which does not exist in Still images.

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iteration 4

As have been shown above, there are two photos I took on chips. They were taken in a studio where I have all the lights set up and put the chips on a exhibiting surface with reflection. Tried to make it looks like one on a commercial adv. For the second one I edited it by adjusting brightness, explore and shadow level to fix the color, in order to make it more smoothly appearing. You can also notice I removed a black spot from the chips.

As if you see the chips by eyes, they are too ordinary to find its essence, but by looking at the photos, you can be advised how beautiful it is. Therefore, this iteration shows how editing can do to create new feelings on everyday objects.

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iteration 3

This is a sound piece I created with pro tools. I used the material of ping pong bouncing sound downloaded from internet, and edited by repeating them in different audio tracks within protools. The reason why I choose ping pong is because its sounds are clear and recognisable. That way its easy to listen through it as an original sound and the sound piece it integrated. Check it at the link below:

https://soundcloud.com/sghll/cofa1001_sghll_iteration3

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iteration 2

For this iteration I made two stop motions. My experiments in week 6 and week 10 are also stop motions. They are very simple but obvious to add on sense of movement which does not exist in Still images (and for the second one especially, there's some annoying flash I put, brand new 'meanings'). The way this happens is through the phenomenon of persistence of vision.

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iteration 1

My first iteration is to do with sound. As we all know, the difference between speaking and singing is the tune. When people speaking, they naturally say words and integrate them into sentence. However, if the same sentence is singed, the pitches of each word will be arranged to fit the tune.

What I tried to do is collect voice of an actor, and categorize them into the 50 basic Japanese pronunciations (its hard to do that in English). As shown below:

Then, I used the software called UTAU to shift their pitch. Before that they have been put by the order of the lyrics of a Japanese song "sweet duet". Curves of the following picture shows pitches on a piano keyboard. I adjusted all the pitches to fit the tune of that song.

By exporting this, one piece of lyric is done. I've also put a zip of my originally collected voice beside it for the purpose of comparing.They can be listened here:

original voice

pitched

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Assessment 3: understanding of experiment

First of all, I chose to experiment on the course concept "editing". Editing is a process of discarding elements which detract from the intended meaning, it can editing elements together, and bringing together material which would not otherwise be seen together. sometimes it may also creating new meaning b conceptually arranging texts.

In my opinion, the term "experiment" seems to be unclear by first glance. How could an experiment be? What is an experiment like? Is the experiment only restricted on one aspect?I ask these questions to myself frequently while looking on the phrase. Therefore the assessment requirement confused my at the beginning.

But now, I find a valid way to conduct the experiment. For this assessment, I will experiment on "media". To relate with the theme "editing", experimenting on media may be a effective way. As we already know the presence of film editing, book editing etc., mine could be in some way similar but different: new meanings of retouched things could be conveyed. I will explore the new elements and compare them with unedited ones by experimenting on sound, still image, motion image (video) and other media forms. these will be included in the 5 iterations.

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week 10 experiment

make a stick structure and then remove the sticks one by one while taking photos, then make a stop motions of all photos to show the whole process of erasure. and another stop motion showing the experiment. another stop motion showing the experiment.

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A1 documentation6

The last 3 images

①：symbol of Los Santos police department, the vertical police force in gta5, which plays a significant role in the chasing.This image is found online

②：a Voltic in the game. It is the type of car used in this escaping. The image dose not show exact the same one I used but is found on internet.

③：a wanted level indicator which uses stars to show how much forces police put in the game. A 4 stars wanted level is what I get in the end. The image is created by constructing shapes with After Effects and Photoshop.

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Two of my 5 images.

①：Trevor Philips, our hero in the escaping, a image of whom I searched on google.

②：a symbol of stick bomb, which is the weapon I used most frequently during the escaping. I create this by constructing shapes using After Effects and Photoshop.

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This is the video I recorded. Or it may be called my experiment.

Now,it may be clearer to understand how my random generating machine works.

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The site is decided!!

I may call it "escaping route".

Now, its time to think about my marks.

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Some screenshots

the recording is exciting. Serious of gameplays have been done today, among which I chose one timed 4:37. hope that an overt site for proceeding from recording can be done.

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First of all, I will talk about my site.

As you may have known, the site chosen of my project is from another one. A site 2 from site 1. As for the site 1, I’m going to use the map of Los Santos in gta5, its a game map however, the place is as large enough to discover freely as a real city.

So this is my site 1, it also serve as a random generating machine which could be used to create site 2.

The original idea of my group about the way to randomly generate our final site is, to pretend ourselves as blind people,walk around within the range of a site and take photos. Put dropped pins of where we have been on a map of the site, connect each of which to construct a shape, finally the shape which represents the blind person’s sight will be our site 2.

My idea, to compare with the idea of “creating site from sight”, is something different but similar, it will also show some of the game’s features significantly.

Instead of becoming blind myself, I will push the controllable character in the game to be chasing by police (which means increasing wanted stars), a camera will be used to record the whole escaping until the hero flees successfully or be wasted. And the recorded video will be my experiment. Because the randomness of in-game AI determines my escaping strategy, the whole progress can be regarded as a random generating machine. In that case, by reexamining the video recorded by camera which shows the escaping route, my site 2 can be decided.

still, a simplified explanation of our process.

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