http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBgbvv6De3I&feature=bf_next&list=HL1335622537

I'd like to use a similar style in my film to this GO! team one for Lady Flash. And this CSS one Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUn1TrjMm3s

Stephen Irwin's The Black Dog's Progress. This Animate Project commissioned animation is very simple in it's a message- a poor dog suffering, but it has different scenes present on the screen at one moment, like Nandita Jain has with her film (Labyrinth)

http://vimeo.com/22882006

Grading and grains

Animatic 7

Ok, so this all looks a bit too green I think- but at least it looks like it's all going on in the same place. 

I need to get the music done, finish martin walking, figure out how to make the background look better....

Exploding Cinema

I have had an email from Exploding Cinema, a group who puts on independently -made films in London.

http://www.explodingcinema.org/

They started in 1991. Disillusioned by the fact you  were either in the commercial film industry, or constantly applying for funding from the arts council, they set up Exploding Cinema as a non-profit platform for films to be seen. Absolutely anyone can a show a film and they will show any film. Even if it is bad in many ways, so the audience must be active and critical.

Because it does not rely on funding it must rely completely on ticket sales at each show. This also means that it an only continue if people want to see what is on offer.

They need new members- I would really like to join the group. I can help them put on nights and I can propose projects that they can get involved with.

This Saturday there is a free show from local young artists of VHS tape work in an old Blockbusters in Catford that was looted in the riots.

I think this interesting as another film screening programme in London, Future Shorts, is showing "la Haine' (for free) at a Housing estate in Totenham, where the 2011 London riots first erupted. The show will be free, and employ people from the estate to help set it up. Also, a real life cow will be present.

I think it is really important to engage with the issues around cuts in public spending and the fact that the government haven't really acknowledged that as a major factor in the build up to the riots.

Freakaholics Anonymous

With my boyfreind I have been putting together a blog of silly 80's music videos of Italo Disco, Electro and Funk tunes, into a blog...

http://freakaholicsanonymous.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=27

We decided to put on a night, to share these funny videos with others. However, we also made a facebook page here people can upload their own favourite freaky videos, to make the whole thing more participatory.

http://www.facebook.com/events/298958993503673/

Tonight is the night of the show... We have already checked that the projector and sound files work- but I hope it goes well!

Making the video look consistent

I've just asked my tutor about making the ilm look consistent- making all the colours and the style look the same all the way through, to make it look more professional etc.

Apparently this is called Grading. Similar to how use use the curves of colour in photoshop or something. I need a programme, magic bullet looks, which is a plug in for final Cut Pro or After Effects.

Renata Salecl -Over Choice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bqMY82xzWo&feature=relmfu

Renata Salecl puts forward the idea that more choice paralyses people and prevents social change




http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ftHRiJHFyr0C&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=Renata+Salecl&ots=I4SvZRkdAm&sig=G0IcF-fybQqm8Tjh21vxZL5v2fQ#v=onepage&q=Renata%20Salecl&f=false

Kath's Breakdown + Martin's adventure

Maybe it's better to put both stories together- show martin's adventure into apple farms and transportation and Kath's over choice-breakdown and rise to s grocery priestess. 

Marin and the supermarket animatic 4

Greggs Pasty Debacle

So one Food related item in the news right now is the rise in VAT tax to hot take away pasties and sausage rolls. It's being interpreted as an attack on normal people who are already finding their belts tightened.

I would like to include something more topical into my project but I think it's a bit late now there's only 1 month left.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/apr/02/blogpost-pasty-greggs-vat-cameron-osborne?INTCMP=SRCH

Martin and the Supermarket Animatic 2

So here's the 2nd Animatic. I think the part with the video game is a bit sudden, and it's strange how we go from there to the apple farm. I think I need to build up the perculiarness of the supermarket from martin's perspective a bit more slowly.


I also think Kath needs to keep talking through the apple aisle bit and talk to martin more... Maybe if we zoom into martin's face after scene 2, before the apple aisle scene.

Also South American music for the farm bits isn't really appropriate.

I need to find a way to make the farm scene look exciting and Brandi Strickland-y

To do list-

Sketch slidey doors opening and closing

Traces more supermarket scenes. Trace up and over down and around scene changes. 

Apple

Martin and the supermarket Scene Changes etc.

Scene 1-

Intro- Supermarkets pop up trolleys wiggle about

Scene change

Crowds fill the screen, then slidey doors slide open to reveal the supermarket.  

Scene 2 

Kath and Martin wander the aisle. Kath needs to buy some things. Supermarket products bob about. Maybe the floor and shelves move like an escalator. Has to look really good like nandita Jain's film. 

Then close up to Martin's cute blinking face.

Scene Change- We flip up, down or around to see the other end of the supermarket aisle. 

Scene 3

Apples zoom towards martin. all ker-razy. Maybe Kath walks toward them.

Scene Change (Just boring cut)

Scene 4 Martin blinks more curiously

Scene 5 

Beam rider apples as kath talks about what apples she needs.

Scene Change 

Airplane hovers for a bit. Beam rider morphs maybe airplane hovers in a nice way that it moves about in the sky but its a cut out and there's scribbling inside the cut out. 

Background of beamrider morphs into the apple farm. 

Scene 6 

then it's the packing apple factory

Back to the airplane soaring into the sky.

Scene Change.

Kath pops into view "c'mone poppet we can go now"

Scene 7. Kath in supermarket.

Scene change (boring cut)

Scene 8

Leaving supermarket freaking out behind them "maybe we could make a crumble at the weekend, martin"

Martin and the Supermarket Animatic 1

BBC food miles

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bloom/guides/foodmiles.shtml#quickjump1