Here are my 5 compositions for class...
The main goal I wanted to get across for these compositions was dizziness. I am still pretty lost for this project.
I am having issues converting to JPG, and linking my PDFs of these...here is the link to my directory and you can just click the Vertigo 1-5 PDFs.
http://oregonstate.edu/~bristowk
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Creative Brief - YEAH!
PROJECT DETAILS
Date: October 19th, 2008
Prepared by: Karissa Bristow
Project name: Vertigo Title Sequence
Design Lead: Karissa Bristow
Hand-off to Production: (10/15/08) Product Release: (11/??/08)
PROJECT CONCEPT
The purpose of this project is to create a title sequence for my movie Vertigo using After Effects that is one minute long. The title sequence needs to qualities or themes from the movie to create an overall mood to set the tone of the movie.
OBJECTIVES
The object of this title sequence is to set the tone for the movie so the viewer knows what they are getting themselves into. I would like to fear, anticipation, and mystery to be the main theme.
AUDIENCE
The audience would be a wide variety of people, mainly those interested in classic movies and thrillers, so age varies for that.
PERCEPTION/TONE
I would like to focus on a darker serious tone of the film which is fear. Also I would like to portray the feelings of vertigo, which are a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings. This also ties to the fear that the main character has which is acrophobia (fear of heights). I would like to focus in on sharp graphics.
COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
I was thinking along the lines of using stairs and line as the main element in this because they are a key role in the film and they can portray feelings of dizziness and a loss of balance. I am still in the process of trying to think of something not so obvious, but it definitely would get the job done.
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
Alfred Hitchcock’s Classics all deal with the same kind of feeling…
Psycho
The Birds
Rear Window
Rebecca
SINGLE-MINDED MESSAGE
Anxiety
Date: October 19th, 2008
Prepared by: Karissa Bristow
Project name: Vertigo Title Sequence
Design Lead: Karissa Bristow
Hand-off to Production: (10/15/08) Product Release: (11/??/08)
PROJECT CONCEPT
The purpose of this project is to create a title sequence for my movie Vertigo using After Effects that is one minute long. The title sequence needs to qualities or themes from the movie to create an overall mood to set the tone of the movie.
OBJECTIVES
The object of this title sequence is to set the tone for the movie so the viewer knows what they are getting themselves into. I would like to fear, anticipation, and mystery to be the main theme.
AUDIENCE
The audience would be a wide variety of people, mainly those interested in classic movies and thrillers, so age varies for that.
PERCEPTION/TONE
I would like to focus on a darker serious tone of the film which is fear. Also I would like to portray the feelings of vertigo, which are a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings. This also ties to the fear that the main character has which is acrophobia (fear of heights). I would like to focus in on sharp graphics.
COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
I was thinking along the lines of using stairs and line as the main element in this because they are a key role in the film and they can portray feelings of dizziness and a loss of balance. I am still in the process of trying to think of something not so obvious, but it definitely would get the job done.
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
Alfred Hitchcock’s Classics all deal with the same kind of feeling…
Psycho
The Birds
Rear Window
Rebecca
SINGLE-MINDED MESSAGE
Anxiety
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
MOVIE SEQUENCE!
For this I watched Vertigo - I am a huge Alfred Hitchcock fan. I actually had not seen Vertigo, but I enjoyed it watching it. It was sort of a slow movie until everything made sense in the very last minute - that was great!
Also Vertigo's title sequence was very plan but had these cool graphics in it that seemed a little futuristic...
I am not really sure what I am going to do yet, but I want to find the music first before all else.
Also Vertigo's title sequence was very plan but had these cool graphics in it that seemed a little futuristic...
I am not really sure what I am going to do yet, but I want to find the music first before all else.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Text Animation!
Hallelujah!! Their all done! The picture next to this is me done with the flash file...as you can see, the last one I completed was the text animation - my restriction was that I could only use black and white, which I was inspired by a newspaper. For this I also edited my sounds so it would be shorter...
Here is the new SOUND!
Everything went pretty smoothly, except in the beginning I was confused on graphics again (well changing colors), but then I worked through it and remembered how to change it. Here is the link to the actual flash file....the only thing is the link makes the screen bigger than what I was working with...so some of the text you see at the side isn't suppose to be there...but enjoy anyways!
Text Animation!
Abstract Animation...
Wow! This feels like it took forever! Each frame had to be created my hand...but its done! Along with my first project I completed, I changed the length of the sound to be around 16ish seconds...and I made it so the swf will not loop.Here is the new SOUND!
For this I wanted to use the restriction of 1 found object to base the whole visual language off of - I chose some yarn I have. Its very fluid and and constantly changing just like the wind chimes. I tried to keep the pallet in the same colors of the yarn as well.
This project kind of turned out to be a combination of all my sketches for it. My main battle with this was trying to line up the lines with the sounds, I think it turn out well. What do you think?
Abstract Animation!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Referential Animation
Oh Boy! Its finally done! But it was a definitely a challenge, I learned so much doing this first animation. My
idea was to switch my sounds so that the drill would be my referential piece. Then I came up with the sound representing something just as cringing as the drill - nails on a chalk board! I decided to have my restriction be only still photographs - so I rented a camera from the library and got my beautiful friend Siri to come with my to Fairbanks and photograph her hands running down a chalk board. Next I went back uploaded and edit the pictures in Aperture then imported them to my flash piece.
Only five pictures in the the swf froze one me! This happened in class too! Luckly I wasn't too far in so I just reopened and started working again. I realized it froze because the images were too big - so I went back in Aperture and resized them and reuploaded. Figuring out how to resize in Aperture was not easy, but I figured it out thanks to google. :^D
Then I noticed my sound was too long, so I had a fisaco in trying to figure it out in Flash on how to cut it down. I got help from a variety of people but no one could figure it out. Eventually I took it to Garage Band, lol, and cut out the sound I didnt need. Then figuring out how to export it to something I could add back into Flash was another ordeal - but I worked through it and found out you have to export to a CD then you can have it save as an aif file.
Click to here to hear the edited SOUND!
Then everything started going to plan and I made it to the end. I got some help from the upper classmen on how to make it stop looping, except they forgot you need a space in the action script, so I figured that part out. The whole process too much longer than what I explained but it was a great learning experience and I feel more confindent in my skills now.
Click here to see the final ANIMATION!
idea was to switch my sounds so that the drill would be my referential piece. Then I came up with the sound representing something just as cringing as the drill - nails on a chalk board! I decided to have my restriction be only still photographs - so I rented a camera from the library and got my beautiful friend Siri to come with my to Fairbanks and photograph her hands running down a chalk board. Next I went back uploaded and edit the pictures in Aperture then imported them to my flash piece.Only five pictures in the the swf froze one me! This happened in class too! Luckly I wasn't too far in so I just reopened and started working again. I realized it froze because the images were too big - so I went back in Aperture and resized them and reuploaded. Figuring out how to resize in Aperture was not easy, but I figured it out thanks to google. :^D
Then I noticed my sound was too long, so I had a fisaco in trying to figure it out in Flash on how to cut it down. I got help from a variety of people but no one could figure it out. Eventually I took it to Garage Band, lol, and cut out the sound I didnt need. Then figuring out how to export it to something I could add back into Flash was another ordeal - but I worked through it and found out you have to export to a CD then you can have it save as an aif file.
Click to here to hear the edited SOUND!
Then everything started going to plan and I made it to the end. I got some help from the upper classmen on how to make it stop looping, except they forgot you need a space in the action script, so I figured that part out. The whole process too much longer than what I explained but it was a great learning experience and I feel more confindent in my skills now.
Click here to see the final ANIMATION!
Monday, October 6, 2008
SKETCHES! and such...
So, the Flash tutorials took forever to watch! But I am done with them and up to speed on where I am suppose to be at! Yay! ... but now for business -
ABSTRACT ANIMATION - the wind chimes have been chosen for this animation! My idea for this was to have it make a lot of ripples like its calling out to someone. I find the sound of wind chimes reminds me of my childhood, but it also reminds of being alone and calling out to someone.
TEXTUAL ANIMATION - dentist drill sound!! I was thinking of just using one sharp letter form for the whole thing - and there would be a lot of fast sharp repeating parts, but I am not sure if I am getting myself in over my head for this.
REFERENTIAL ANIMATION - this would be the elevator sound, I am not sure what to have it refer back to...in my sketchs I have stairs, windshield wipers, and balloons. I was trying to think of objects that were similar to an elevator's function or movement. I think this animation I am going to have the hardest time with designing and coming up with more ideas for because I am not really set on any of them.
This is what I have working thus far...but nothing is set and is subject to change a great deal...
ABSTRACT ANIMATION - the wind chimes have been chosen for this animation! My idea for this was to have it make a lot of ripples like its calling out to someone. I find the sound of wind chimes reminds me of my childhood, but it also reminds of being alone and calling out to someone.
TEXTUAL ANIMATION - dentist drill sound!! I was thinking of just using one sharp letter form for the whole thing - and there would be a lot of fast sharp repeating parts, but I am not sure if I am getting myself in over my head for this.
REFERENTIAL ANIMATION - this would be the elevator sound, I am not sure what to have it refer back to...in my sketchs I have stairs, windshield wipers, and balloons. I was trying to think of objects that were similar to an elevator's function or movement. I think this animation I am going to have the hardest time with designing and coming up with more ideas for because I am not really set on any of them.
This is what I have working thus far...but nothing is set and is subject to change a great deal...
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
5 Obstructions
Today in class we watched the movie 5 Obstructions - it was really interesting semidocumentary on a film maker remaking a previous project, but with a set of rules. I thought it was interesting and what he shot was really beautiful, but for some reason I don't know if the experiment was "successful" - which I don't even know what the goal of the experiment was, but I just got a feeling of him learning, but not taking the lesson to heart...
Oh- for something random! I have sounds for the project!
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 3
Sound 4
Sound 5
Sound 6
The first three are the ones I am going with... :^D
Oh- for something random! I have sounds for the project!
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 3
Sound 4
Sound 5
Sound 6
The first three are the ones I am going with... :^D
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