Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Monday, 18 October 2010
Saturday, 16 October 2010
James Ward's Special Effects Workshop: Part 1
We had a guest come in called James Ward who does special effects masks.
We had a volunteer from the class (Alexi) to have a mask made on him and James started by putting on a bald cap over Alexi's hair and sticking down contact glue so it stayed on. The next bit was when James put a blue mixture all over Alexi's face but to make sure he could still breathe he put to pipes in his nostrils. When Alexi's face was completely covered Amber helped James put bandages on Alexi's face and sticking them down with water. After this James mixed together some powder to make it into a paste which went onto Alexi's face. Once this was done James took the mask off Alexi and passed it round the class. It surprised me that the mask was so warm. I thought it would be cold because the mixture had been mixed with water. I enjoyed it when james was talking to Alexi and because Alexi couldn't move his mouth he couldn't reply properly. I learnt to always make sure there is no air bubbles when putting on the paste because otherwise that will make lumps on the mask when you get to the finished product.
We had a volunteer from the class (Alexi) to have a mask made on him and James started by putting on a bald cap over Alexi's hair and sticking down contact glue so it stayed on. The next bit was when James put a blue mixture all over Alexi's face but to make sure he could still breathe he put to pipes in his nostrils. When Alexi's face was completely covered Amber helped James put bandages on Alexi's face and sticking them down with water. After this James mixed together some powder to make it into a paste which went onto Alexi's face. Once this was done James took the mask off Alexi and passed it round the class. It surprised me that the mask was so warm. I thought it would be cold because the mixture had been mixed with water. I enjoyed it when james was talking to Alexi and because Alexi couldn't move his mouth he couldn't reply properly. I learnt to always make sure there is no air bubbles when putting on the paste because otherwise that will make lumps on the mask when you get to the finished product.
Friday, 1 October 2010
New York Sequence
On Final Cut we did an opening credits sequence that showed New York City when it's really busy. We used Final cut and learnt about different Transitions. We learnt how to put text from Photoshop into Final Cut. We put a soundtrack to it that we had created in Garageband. I put a Jazz piece to go with the opening credits.
We did overlapping of different videos and made them fade in and fade out to make them look professional.
We did overlapping of different videos and made them fade in and fade out to make them look professional.
Logo
We created Logo's using Photoshop and Final Cut. With Photoshop we learnt how to use the brush tool and how to download brushes from the internet. I downloaded brushes that looked like Speakers for my logo. I put some multicoloured lightning bolts around the side of the speaker so it looked like it was playing music.
On final cut we had to put our logo into animation. For mine I made it so that the lightning bolts fade in and then fade out again.
It turned out like this..
On final cut we had to put our logo into animation. For mine I made it so that the lightning bolts fade in and then fade out again.
It turned out like this..
Opie style Photoshop
To do this we had to use the pen tool on Photoshop which I found really difficult. The pen tool can be very hard to control and so we were taught a tip to press Alt and Click on the vector to have more control.
We were also taught the importance of using different layers. It's important to use different layers so that you can change different bits without changing the whole picture.
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