casting

mini blab

Last week I went to a talk called mini blab at deaf institution in Manchester  this is the first time I have ever bin to one of theses talks what I was expecting was a bunch of designers talking about them self like how they became a designer and were they came from all though it is interesting the best thing about this talk they were given a topic and the topic was “things iv seen” it was nice In a way because each designer described in there own way things they seen in there average life style some of there talks were quite funny one woman was talking about here hatred with brown bananas? But the one I enjoyed the most was a guy hew used to live in the peek districted and has a passion for hiking up and around mountains, now he lives in Manchester but still has a passion for the peek districted scene so he began to take picture of the Manchester land scape to get an sense of the peek district, example was a zoomed in shot of the ground it was a nice green textured almost looks like a over head birds eye shot of field like area with the higher and lower contours but as he began to zoom out, it was a photo of some sick with a bin next to it , but the thing he was trying to say well I hope he was trying to say that there is some thing nice to look at when you look hard enough

portfolio visit

I had a second portfolio visit at a studio called Holden and sons in Manchester in the northern quarter I teamed up with Ashleigh on this, on this visit I decided to take all of my animations/ videos and popped them on my I pad and Im glad I did because first of all I shown peter the boss what I was working on in great detail which was the mayo police idea , but then after he asked me to show him more, and them more so I had the good opportunity to show him more or less all of my work, the one he was interested in and I have had interest in before with other studio was the sonic light drawing brief and I had the opportunity to explain to him on how it was done and he seamed really interested in, he then began to explain when working on a brief always imagine if it was on TV or the internet so always produce it as best quality as possible

Just as we began to leave pete asked us if we can work on a brief from a company called making space company hew help people thru mantel health illnesses, he asked us to create a short 10 second animation , with the logo that is on the website 

team work

I wont to dedicate this post to team work, working with the compotation brief we christened “mayo police” it was interesting and is very different in the way I work,  strait from the start of the project to the very end , at the start of the project when coming up with ideas is normally quite tricky and a bit of a challenge but working with  some one it becomes much easier. So when we had a bit of an idea and bounced it between us both adding more and more layers to become a good idea the best thing about are 2 man team is that we had a mix of different talent for instance jack has a good eye for creating a good narrative with in the story board and I consider my self as a good builder , so really we could be a little ambitious and we settled on creating a stop motion , as time when on and we got the build and the story board nailed and began to stop motioning it was nice in the way when we got to the point were we had to stop motion one at a time when one of use got tired the other carried and it on and vise versa  in a way the momentum stayed at a steady pace so we could work much longer  and the quality of the work was much better

I have definitely learned from this experience and using people that have different strengths in there field makes the over all out come more stronger 

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