So yeah hi

Hey there, just a quick message to let you know how it’s all going down.
I haven’t recieved my mark back for the Video & BSound elective so no news on that front. But i have begun my next ACTUAL animation project!
For our professional practice class we have to create an ident for MTV2, using a competion they had a few years ago. Basically 15 seconds of music themed animation, which personally i thought sounded amazing. So i immedietley asked Ken Ashcorp if i could use his recent song ‘I wish there were still Dinosaurs’ and he was pretty over the moon about it and gav e me a special 15 second clip of the chorus. After producng an animatic, i thought the idea wasn’t looking very ‘MTV2′, which was unfortunate as i really enjoyed the animatic. So as a back up i created a second idea in case. Luckily for me, they liked the dinosaur ident and so now production has started on it!

You can click the image below to check out the ident (as bad as it is)

Doesn't Kenny just LOOK like he wishes there were more dinosaurs today?

Oh and we have started learning some basic after effects and this is one of my first ventures into it (mixed with the ventures of another two students from my class)

Video & Sound elective

For my second year Elective i chose Video & Sound, and basically what this means is i get to experience another course for 5 weeks or so and create a short film.
For my short film, i decided to go for a simple idea, which is basically an everyday task with bizarre sound effects. After creating this and using weird sound effects it seemed too slapstick and i decided to try a more musical approach to the whole thing:

If i were to attempt this again, i would rather have edited the video to fit the music, instead than editing the music to fit around the video, because as you can hear, in some points the instruments are out of synch of each other. Although, one teacher in the crit session apparently like the fact it wasn’t in synch. They also liked Ross’s acting (the chap in the video) I was quite pleased with the visuals as i don’t always get to direct live footage so it was an intresting change