FMP

Saturday, 14 January 2012

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

Thursday, 5 January 2012

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.

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

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.