Ideas!

i have been thinking more about my ideas and what i want to photograph, as i already know my outcome.
i had been coming up with the idea of text in my video clip:
photography: what do you see?     then i could include lots off different peoples eyes.
dates: monday-sunday?     i could take the same pictures on different days, (dont let life pass you bye)
months?   a photograph of each day in the month?
time?        time captions underneath the photograph or in between each slide?

500 days of summer

500 days of summer opening scene starts with the main actor and actress shown as children growing up, the reason i have chosen this movie in my research is that i like the way in which the images have been video/photographed. i like the variety of the close ups and long shots, with images of objects and people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTP51-tfEHE&feature=related

Making My Movie

So today i wanted to get on with attempting the new software of Imovie on the Mac's, as i searched for it on several Macs and couldnt find it i went to the technicians and the explained that the software in no longer free with the software upgrade for the new Macs, so i was faced with a slight problem as there is nothing on the Macs at university that are capable of creating a video clip. After disscussing this with the techinicians they then told me about Windows Movie Maker for the PC.
I tried this straight away and it was really easy to use, with a quick look at the tabs at the top of the page i soon found my way around the software, it allows me to enter selected pictures into the time line of the movie and choose how long i want to image to be displayed for, i knew i wanted it to be a quick clip and started with each image being shown for one second, but this was far to long and so i reduced it to 0.25 seconds.this then made the video appear how i wanted and then i was able to add in some sound that i had recorded, thias is when i faced yet another problem, the file type that my phone saves to is AMR this fil type is not supported by Movie Maker. i then had to see the technicians again to ask if they were able to download a converter, which they did but at first it didnt work, so they then contiued to find one that did, in the end they found me an online converter to use that would chang my AMR file to a MP3 file so that it was suitable to use in the Movie Maker.

for my first attempt and using photographs from a previous project i feel the movie i created gave me a better understanding of the software so i now know were to start when i next produce some images for my FMP.

test run.

Before i visit Amsterdam i plan on doing a test shoot in and around middlesbrough, taking snap shots photographs of things in my home, friends, people and transport on the streets ect.

having successfully completed the photographs i will then produce a short video using Imovie on the Macs. 

Amsterdam

John Lewis Music: TV Advert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC07KCeVITs

2for1 Cruises
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HmMDxDa9N8

Panasonic Lumiz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVgFZnMo5oQ&feature=related

Tate- the art of noises
http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue3/theartofnoise.htm

Wired
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/20/wellcome-trust-urban-seascape

Imovie

To create movies in iMovie, you must first import your video footage from your camera to your computer.

To use your video footage to make a movie, you must first create a video project

You build a movie project by adding video clips to it from your Event Library

After you’ve created a project and added video to it, you can embellish it in a number of ways with both audio and visual enhancements

Tutorial

Today i had my tutorial with Antony, it went really well and i was able to explain my ideas to photograph in Amsterdam and look more into documentary photography, and how i want to document my time there.
i explained where my initially ideas came from, the Olympus advert, other projects and travelling.

after showing Antony the video he gave me the idea of a video as my outcome, with sound just like the advert i had seen, so i am now thinking of recording sound in places where i take photographs or adding necessary music to play along side my short video.

i plan on researching how to make the short video with sound within the next week to get use to the software and how it works so i am able to produce my final successfully, possibly using Mac software Imovie.

http://www.harry-weber.com/

Paul Politis

http://www.paulpolitis.com/bwgallery/urban/