Vine Evaluation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70KLOdrExeA&feature=youtu.be



When I showed my vine to a group of 5 people the feedback that I got rather positive and they all had the same feedback from each person.

In my first question I asked them what they thought of the colours that I used for my vine, the feedback I got was that they liked how I used three main colours for the whole of the vine, also they liked how that the colours that I used are the college colours and how it  represents the College brands image, another person said they feel that the colours suited the feel that the vine was making and also they said how that the colours were more appealing for my target audience.

After watching the vine I wanted to know what the audience thought the message behind the vine was one person said how they thought it was showing how the college is welcoming place and that it is easy for people to make friends at the college. Someone else said how the vine is trying to highlight different aspects of the college, showing how the students are hard working, welcoming and also how they enjoy being at the college. They felt that the message of the vine message to come to the college and enjoy all the different aspects at the college.

When it came to what people did not like about the vine they all agreed on how the felt the vine did not flow that well and you did not understand the narrative from watching the vine one time. They all also said if I got to make the vine again that I should try and make it flow more but also try and make it easier to understand the narrative from watching one time.

When it came to seeing what they did like about the vine I made 3/5 agreed that they like how I did the rotoscoping. The other two agreed on that they liked how the vine showed more then one aspect about the college and how they were all positive.

When it came to see if they thought if the vine worked people said how they felt that it worked to a good extent.

When seeing if the vine represented the college well people said I represented many aspects of the college well and that it showed positive vibes about the college.

From the people I asked there was three females and 2 males and all were between the age of 16-17.
They all said that they enjoyed my vine.

What I feel went well with making my vine is that the filming of the scenes for the vine went well because the people that who I was feeling did what they were meant to, also I feel that the

Vine productions

I made a vine using flash, final cut pro and garage band for college.

First I planned out what I will use in my vine, how many people, which people, what they are going to do, how I am going to animate it and what type of music I was going to use, Once I had that all planned out, I was going to use 4 people, 3 of them was going to welcome someone new in to their group and I used calming music for it.

When it came for me to start film each part of the vine I had it in mind that I was going to make 4 different scenes that focus on the sane person in each of the scenes but it two of the scenes there was going to be three other people in it. When I started filming the first scene where I had Jack walking over to Alfie, Sophia and Ethan  I wanted to show how the college  is welcoming and that the students at the college are really friendly. While I was filming this i realized that there is another part of the vine that is the same to this part so I decided to get rid of the part where we see Jack walking over to the same group of people again but in a different area because I felt that the vine would not be as good with it having the same scene in the vine, so getting rid of the other scene improved the vine.

After I had filmed the other two scenes for the vine I put the three clips together and started to animate them. The animation that I used for the vine was rotoscoping, when I was planning the vine I was going to rotoscope the background and not the people and the reason that I was going to do this was because I felt that it would make the vine look better and also I believe that it will help the vine standout more. With rotoscoping the background I was going to use a varity of colours to help it standout and make it look more bold. When I started animating the background I didn't like the way that it was looking so I decided to make it look better I was going to just out line the people and part of the background in parts on the vine, Also when I started outlining the people I didn't like using all the different colours so i decided that in each part of the vine I would use only one colour for it and to help it look more interesting i decided i would use the college colours to help represent the college more in it.

Famous Animators

The Warner Brothers:
- The purpose of the Warner Brothers was to make money but also to make funny animations for children
- They are one of the most creative, flexible, innovative, diverse and global entertainment companies today.
- The founders of the Warner Brothers were Albert, Harry, Sam and Jack Warner.
- They are an American producer of film, television and music entertainment.
- One of the techniques that they used was Rotoscoping and this what when they would record footage but then they would trace over it frame by frame.
- One the big shows the Warner Brothers are known for making is Scooby Doo.


Yellow Submarine:
- The person who was the animator of Yellow Submarine was George Dunning.
- One of his well know pieces of work was The Beetles cartoon series.
- Yellow Submarine was made to help The Beetle be more popular.
- The animation was innovative and it influenced the to become more interested in animation.
- This animation has been said to influence cartoons like the Simpsons, Futurama, Southpark and Toy Story.


Walt Disney:
- He was an American cartoonist, film maker, business magnate, voice actor and philanthropist.
- The main reason the Disney wanted to draw was because he wanted a place for families to go and have fun.
- One of his famous cartoons was Mickey Mouse.
- Walt Disney has been hailed as 'The Father of animation'.

Trey Parker:
 -He was an actor, animator, producer, screen writer and director.
 - When he was in the third grade he was inspired by the comedy Monty Python.
 -When he was 14 he got a video camera from his dad which he made short films on the weekends.
 -When he made South Park he used the traditional cut paper stop motion.
 -What they wanted to do with their work was to show adults and kid that people can learn from real life experiences.

Monty Python:
 -They were a British surreal comedy group.
 -The series was written and performed by the members.
 - Their influence on British comedy has been apparent for years.

Hayao Miyazaki:
 - he was a Japanese film director, animator, manga artist, illustrator, producer and screen writer.
 - He works with Studio Ghibli and he made famous anime films such as Howl's moving castle, Ponyo and Spirited Away.
 - With his work there was always a reoccurring theme which the relationship that was between humanity and nature.
- The main thing he wanted to do was entertain world wide with his work.
- When he makes his animation he still uses storyboards.

Hanna-Barbera:
 - They were a production company who made cartoons.
 -The techniques that they used was limited which was making animations when you do not redraw entire frames just key parts
- Some of the work included Powerpuff girls and scooby doo

Gorillaz:
 - They are a English virtual band who formed in 1998.
 -They used a animation technique called 'Cell Shading' which includes making a 3D model and shading different parts of the  object.
-They used a high frame rate.
- There work influenced other bands like Artic Monkeys and Young Folks

GarageBand

https://soundcloud.com/megan-wyatt-jones-1/my-song-2

What  I did first was put the drum kit sound as the backing track and then started to add more sounds into until I found a combination that I liked

Rotoscoping

How I made my rotoscoping animation was that I started by recording Tom kicking over a chair and then converting the video so that it would work in flash. The way that I made this animation was that I drew other the video frame by frame with the paintbrush tool on flash and did this for the whole of the video. This animation technique is good to use because you can make things look less real and you make things more stretchy and follow the 12 principles of animation.    

Cut Out Animation

In this animation work I took a photo of Jack standing with his legs and arms away from his body and this was because when I came to cutting up his body in different parts on photoshop it was easier to cut around in, the reason I cut up the body in to different parts was because when I used it in the animation I could make the body do movements it normally can't. When it came to cutting out the different body parts I made the background transparent so that when I put the parts on to flash there would not be a white background around it, the first tool I used was the magic wand tool and this was to get rid of the background quickly, the way that this tool got rid of the background quickly was that when you selected one part of the background photoshop would select all parts of the background that are the same colour. After I got rid of the background I used the lasso tool to cut round his arms, thighs, legs, mouth and head so that when it came to the animating I could animate these parts separately. When I cut out each body part I put them on different layer on photoshop.
When it came to making the animation I had to put the body parts on different layers because if they were all on the same layer you would not be albe to move each body part separately and it would not give the animation the full effect. For my animation I had around 11 layers and this was for all the body parts   and one for the background. I made my animation by using the frame by frame instead of the motion tween option and this is because I can make the body parts do more things with frame by frame then using motion tween, with motion tween you give the object one way to move where as frame by frame it can be going from one direction to another.
 This type of animation was inspired by Monty Python and how their opening scenes start.

Flip book

I made a flip book to help show the way that the eye process images. Using a flip book helps show this because the way the eye process it is as an moving image going across the paper and untill the flip book starts to slow down then the eye will see it as different drawings. (A video will be posted with this soon)