Friday 24 September 2010

middle plate

to make things moor interesting i wonted to animate the middle plate so i began to look in to illusions to get an idea on what images look like before and during the spin ''it quite interesting how a still image turns in to a animation when it turns constant speed ''

Thursday 23 September 2010

angles 2

Flatpack Festival

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By Tessa Burwood

Spooky films and weird inventions celebrate Birmingham's movie going history as part of Flatpack Festival 2009.

Just off New Street, there’s a long dead couple dancing in the moonlight, amongst crumbling ruins, in a sports shop window. Around the corner, two tragic stars of Vaudeville attempt to saw a piece of wood in half, and on Smallbrook Queensway the shower scene from Psycho plays with text message subtitles.

All this is in homage to Mr. Waller Jeffs- the ‘patron saint’ of Flatpack Festival 2009, who is credited with bringing movies to wide audiences in Birmingham at the beginning of the 20th century.

Waller Jeffs in action

Exploring cinema

To commemorate Mr. Jeffs, and the movie going traditions of old, the festival has collaborated with Birmingham and Black Country based artists to explore the mechanics of cinema, its history and how humans interact with the moving image.

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From bicycle powered animations to an old style variety performance, via an audience with Birmingham’s oldest lovers and a record deck zoetrope, festival organisers 7 Inch Cinema promise surprises around every corner.

The Great Rob Ring

Films on the street

To mark the run up to this year’s festival, shop windows across the city will be turned into film installations by students of Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.

The trail opens on March 5th in Corporation Street, and there are five installations in all, starting with a piece entitled The Great Rob Ring.

Two artists calling themselves simply Chris and Keir came up with the film, which pays homage to one of Canada’s great Vaudeville stuntmen, who died tragically young onstage in a failed attempt to balance on a piece of wood from a great height and saw it in half.

Strange lovers

A little further along the trail, shoppers may be confused by The Cabinet of Curiosity. In the film, two long dead Brummies, known as The City’s Sinister Sweethearts, dance in the window of Up and Running in Temple Street.

Still from The Cabinet of Curiosity

BIAD undergraduates Alec Chalmers and Rose Knowles are behind this strange homage to romance from beyond the grave. Alec explains that the scenery is based on local landmarks, including Warstone Cemetery: “We wanted to make use of some of the interesting areas around Birmingham.”

Pedal power!

Imagine paying your entry fee to the cinema, only to find that if you wanted to watch the film, you’d have to cycle for it! An art student from Wolverhampton University has invented a strange movie making contraption that requires just that.

Kevin Timmins’ phenakistoscope is inspired by an early 19th century invention, which allowed viewers to watch an animation by projecting a spinning wheel of images through slits onto a mirror.

Kevin Timmin's phenakistoscope

Whereas the original contraption was powered by hand, Kevin's version is rigged up to a bicycle.

The art student came up with the idea while researching the history of cinema: “I just loved all these little pre-cinema devices- they illustrate wonderfully our thresholds of visual perception.”

The phenakistoscope will be on display and ready for use at Floodgate Kino in Digbeth, as part of a free event throughout the festival.

Outside the box

For the serious projector heads, Un Packed at Digbeth’s Fazeley Studios on March 13th could be just what the director ordered. The day long event provides an insight into the minds of those working in the film industry, through talks and workshops.

Phenakistoscope wheel

Un Packed also explores what organisers call “pre-cinema technologies”, like flip books and zoetropes. Director Jim Le Fevre makes adverts and music videos for a living, but in his spare time he turns record turntables into zoetropes- one of the earliest means of animating still images. Le Fevre calls his invention the phonographantasmascope.

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They have been wowing audiences across the country for some time, including an exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Visitors to Un Packed can see these machines in action.

A sense of occasion

So why all this in memory of a long dead movie showing Brummie? It seems that for organisers 7 Inch Cinema, Mr. Waller Jeffs symbolises the joy and spectacle of the moving image, and that’s something to be celebrated.

Still from The Great Rob Ring

Flatpack Festival started with film screenings in pubs, in the same way that Mr Jeffs hired out local venues across Birmingham to screen his films, before moving his show permanently to Curzon Hall, where it stayed for over a decade.

Festival organiser Ian Francis explains, “What we love about Jeffs is his willingness to try out different things to create a sense of occasion. We hope that if he were still around, he would recognise Flatpack as a scruffy great-grandchild of sorts.”

Flatpack Festival runs from March 11th to 16th in venues across Birmingham. Click the link below for ticket prices and more details.

angles

i found a great short example on what i am trying to get a cross in my final peace i am quite interested in the angles that are used like the extreme close ups that reveal the hole object

Tuesday 21 September 2010

start

this was my first go at creating my animation to get my head around the tequnics in a away it worked i think with some tweaking and adjustments it could be much better. as i watched that video in the last blog it mentions some thing about a high shutting speed so i am going to look into that

Phonographantasmascope

as i began to look into starting my project i found a great example of a

Phonographantasmascope witched can help me get my project started using this method i can

create one of my own

Monday 20 September 2010

kaleidoscope

to get my head around a kaleidoscope i made one with 3 sheet of mirror it was quit trick to constructed but i managed to do it i no have a moor understanding of how a kaleidoscope works and how it creates the illusion of multiple images

i was experimenting and i was trying to test out the my paper mine idea it was a good short success but the probe i had it was quite time consuming and teddies

Friday 17 September 2010

after affect

the way i was going to present my worl was using paper like in the video my paper mine as i was thinking about it moor i was thinking it might take moor time then i regionally intended i realised that the same method could be achieved on affter affect i found a really use full tutorial but unfortunately it is in french i all so found an english one but it wasn't that in depth

Wednesday 15 September 2010

day one

as the first day came to an end after meeting the illustrators i was tad confused and left in the dark as they didn't bring eny work to the table and i had to do some research from what they described about there image. i understood what they was trying to say but it would of bin help full if i could see the image, over all the team wasn't that ban i got on with them and each of use came up with some interesting ideas.

videos

here are two videos the illustrators sent me to look in to i can see whey they looked at these videos they are both quite hypnotic and groovy and they could be quite useful in the way they both use symmetry in the videos and using symmetry could be a us full method

illustrations

here are the two illustrations the the illustrator e-mald me they are quite crazy and funny i think i am going to have a lot of fun working with a kaleidoscope theme

Tuesday 14 September 2010

paper idea

i am not that sure on what method i am going to use just

yet i was thinking of using paper as the mane material as i

have never focused my ideas on paper before and it could be

quite interesting to use i was think of using this method in this

paper animation called ( my paper mined ) at the bottom of this blog

as the mane focus in the story evolves around kaleidoscope i began to look on the internet for ideas of different kaleidoscope

all tho this is no a kaleidoscope i thought that the use of the colours could be quite interesting

Monday 13 September 2010

ice breaker

in this project applied design 2 it involves calibrating with other people
and working together to create a team unfortunately meeting people for
the first time can be awkward and uncomfortably fortunately there are methods to create a better

environment for the team like an icebreaker an activity that involves
everyone in the team

like pub, theme park, meal or even an indoor game that will get people

involved and get to no each other

like this crazy cool game