#chris work

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Me wondering if I should drop the first chapter of the Chris work 🤔😏

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Film Trailer: Specimen 87

Finished film trailer!

Pros: I really like the music choices and how well I managed to sync each clip with the music- I think those bits came out really well! I see it a lot in horror trailers where they’ll sync fast clips with loud beats and whilst it’s cheesy it’s very fun to edit. I like how most of the clips were shot as well as the lighting placements in each one (especially the short clips in the shed & my garden at night) I also really like how I managed to edit the music so it jumped from the start of the song to the end- it’s not super abrupt and I’m very pleased with that.

Cons (& how to improve): I should’ve checked the footage at the start before night fell as one of the shots was very blurry and I didn’t notice until editing. I think the one clip of me walking away in the beginning of the trailer went on for just a bit too long- I could’ve taken a few more shots to fix this. I also could’ve raised the volume of any speaking parts as they were pretty quiet and hard to hear.

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Movie logo and final compilations

Logo: The movie logo I chose was going to be the word ‘specimen’ being drawn through the 87 like a pen, as the idea of the films is to do with lads and testing in a way. But in the end I managed to get it so the word would fade in with the numbers and a black line would go through it so you could read it properly. It’s very simple but I sort of like it that way.

Audio: The second half of the trailer consists of lots of short fast takes and photos- this time I used the song ‘Run!’, again by myuuji. I used the first 12 seconds of the song- and jumped to around 2:10 in the song and played til the end. This part of the song had hard beats that I timed with showing pictures and short clips of more ‘action-y’ shots for suspense building. Then on the last beat i showed the title of the film. I also recorded some ‘monster sounds’ at home with audacity by just making weird groaning/growling sounds and playing around with the speed and the pitch. I think they sound good!

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Compiling Footage:

All the footage in these screenshots were shot with proper photography cameras, however I muted most of the audio as the voices can’t be heard over the music (and due to distance.) The only clip with audio is near the end of the first section (so, the middle) right before the audio stops. I also placed the two gifs of my pretend movie companies at the beginning, which last about 3 seconds long.

Audio: The music I used here was a piece by piano composer myuuji called The Mystery, which I used about 50 seconds of until i cut it out in sections (to imitate a video glitch) and placed some white noise in its place (that I had to lower the volume of- as it was ear splitting.)

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Landscape art, moved to Illustrator.

I moved all my Photoshop documents that I will be using for laser cutting into Illustrator, as that’s the program the cutter reads from. I traced it so it became an Illustrator image, which also made it smooth out the lines, instead of being shaded pixels.

I expanded the image and selected the white, inverted it, changed the line width to 0.025mm (proper size for later cutter), changed it to red (ff0000) as that is the colour that the cutter will pick up to be cute (and black to be engraved) 

18th-oct-’17

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Landscape laser preparation art, done in photoshop/moved to illustrator

First image was me coming up with some concepts, I wanted to do something coming out of the water, but then I saw this piece by Hari and Deepti and decided to do something underwater with a creature of some kind.  I drew the first few layers to be a cave wall with corals and seaweeds in the foreground, then I had a merperson and a sea monster in the middle layers so they’re both somewhat obscured, then i put more cave walls into the background.

I changed the opacity of each layer to simulate what the lighting will do to it once its laser cut. I didn’t change the colour because I had to move it to Illustrator and that only picks up black colours. 

11th-oct-’17

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Consequences game, played with class via the college art server.

Created 3 new documents of the same size

One to draw the ‘top’ of something, then the ‘middle’ and the ‘end’

For the head that i drew I felt like drawing a weird gross monster head, the whole thing would end up being a monster when combined, but I just liked drawing it.  The body that i drew was initially the underside of a cockroach, then i made it so its stomach was open, just for extra disturbing points. 

I chose the Crash head that my friend drew and the body and legs that I just chose at random. I resized them so the lines matched up to look like one creature. I coloured it all in flats to start, then i shaded it a little and found a cool brush to make some effects with. And i quickly painted a sky background to place it on and scribbled on some additions. 

4th-oct-’17

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Illustrator vs Photoshop

I tried out both Photoshop and illustrator, I much preferred photoshop as colouring in illustrator is more confusing and I already prefer lining with pen on paper in the first place.

20th-sept-’17