Beautiful

What a lovely hypergraph... need more be said?

Depth Of Field Testers + Camera Craziness

Need to do more experimentation with Cameras and what focal length... and what VERSION of camera we are using - making sure this is the same style all the way through is important within our film - so that we as directors and script writers can make the audience feel what we want to feel - push them into certain areas of emotion that we want them to access at the right times. Hopefully this will be done with sound as well as the pacing of the film itself and COLOUR.

Anyway... there are a few images to keep some peeps happy. Pretty much finished the room now - had a few days off just getting my head around a few things - I know we don't have a great deal of time however I REALLY needed a few days off - the stress was getting quite unbearable - and it was my birthday. :) Anyway - I'm back on it now... and am very determined!!!

PS - need to alter a few textures as some are duplicates of others around the room - would look a bit better if the picture wasn't the same pic - DUhhh! and a few other things I need to change too.

Spoke to STL man

Ok - the guy down in the 3D bit of Rave was telling Lewis and I that:

we should have a TINY amount of distance between objects and possibly put holes in them (eg like being put into a kilm) Z-Printer was the one we wanted - would cost around 10-20 quid I think in total... Eye sockets are ok - as long as Mesh doesn't break Mesh. If thats cool we're cool. Didn't actually ask about textures.

You can add the job submission via the Wiki on Rave Page intranet and then the Fac of Design - and job submission area.

U printer is more expensive - and we didn't see a version of that either.... so stick with Oooold Zzzzz ... hmmm sleep... it IS my birthday now... lol and I'm still up working. Bah. Good job I'm busy tomorrow :)

Yet Another E-mail

Someone was trying to track me down a few days back regarding a Musion Eyeliner for the Rave Live show.... if we can get it done I think it would be AWESOME - and really work well as a promo for our film. Lets see if it happens or not. Rig has to be done first!!!! Hope Stu is doing well with it...

- Simon I know your a regular to my blog... if your reading this it applies to Splay and PO- would be very good if you guys could get something together for it.

Lewis same to you... if you can do a trailer.... on top of EVERYTHING else we got.

Hello,  It wasn't too important i just wanted to talk to you about musion eyeliner. They want to be involved this year and we have about 1 hour of time to fill using they're software so wanted to check whether or not you wanted to do anything for it? Maybe adapt your trailer for you film? If you did the animation would have to shot on a black background with strong lighting for it to look like it's on stage, as well as the camera perspective being that of the perspective of the audience. Just thought i'd let you know.  Thanks, Emily

Cinesite Lecture

Was really nice to speak to the guys from Cinesite prior to their lecture. Was good to hear their points of view. For this reason they brought up a number of points we had not yet considered such as the line of action. We had tip toed around the subject I believe and now due to the latest animatic we were unsure if it still made any sense. I hope it does. Still I am going to go back to basics of film making and look at the line of action and check the shots don't go over the centre line.

Chat with Dan Dalli

So today I grabbed Double D and went through the website quickly. At this point I also realised how much I've been doing on it - including setting up everyones individual profiles and uploading images. Checking their names... speaking to Max - becoming an admin. That and all my Rave Live bits and bobs I am doing as well doesn't ease the pressure at all. Its a one stop work load-a-thon with me lol. I'm also attempting to collect the cash - 50 pound per head, for the degree show, along with the 100 words describing their role this year for the website and their pieces of work they want to upload to the site with the description.

Too much to do in too little time. As well as being a swim teacher for the lil ones - and seeing my girlfriend.... and having a social life (which isn't too social with this going on) I'm getting more and more exhausted....and my birthday tomorrow... yay lol

Update

Texturing is almost done but Sam and I now face slightly bigger problems of line of action. We should have spotted it before however I think we were being slightly naive. I'm going to go through the animatic Sam has recently posted and figure out where each shot is being shot from and where the line of action is.... and hopefully we don't cross it.... but I think we DOOoooo! :s