Wednesday, 15 January 2014
First Problem Encountered
So on Thursday we met a former employee of Paul Smith to get a feel of how he runs his business and get a bit of an inside to who he is as a person. From the presentation that she gave us we learned that the strips that had become associated with Paul Smith has become outdated and a little bit chavy. So we made the de scion to change the strips we had started using on the posters to make the colours more into block bright colours that we saw on some of his clothes and on his bags. Mary's insight to Paul Smith was great as she gave us some great feedback on the ideas for our work and she also gave us light of what Paul has gave to Nottingham and how he has always been a down to earth guy who cared for all of his staff. From it i found about how it is important to look into the future and what will be popular in two years as we are in an industry which is changing all the time
Monday, 13 January 2014
The Assignment First Week
So this week was the start of the second year of the assignment. The aim this year is a bit different instead of competing just against the other team there is all of Nottingham. The first thing i did on this project was research Paul Smith and get to know who he is as a person. The first thing i found he is a very down to earth person who is very proud of his roots. His clothes are very much respected world wide and he has used Nottingham as a spring step to worldwide fame. This week we will be storyboarding the ideas for the videos.
This year I am hopeful that I am on the winning team. We have got some brilliant ideas floating around and i feel that as a team we have come together well. With in a few days we have managed to come together well as a team and have managed to come up with three ideas. The first idea is based on Paul Smiths first passion cycling and we are going to be using go pros on the bike to film locations around Nottingham. Tomorrow we will be discussing locations we feel that would be right for the video. The aim of the video is to make the audience in gauge in the video they won't know what the video is about really until the end of the video where he cyclist will walk into the Paul Smith shop. Its relating to the BMW advert recently where the advert had nothing to do with the product. In the video we are going to be changing the clothes for each decade.
The second idea is related to the reason we are making the videos 40 years of his work. The people in our group are going to bring in four items each and we are going to use 40 items for 40 years. We are using the items like Paul Smith would use items to inspire his work. The past fifteen years he has got items from someone and he uses these to inspire to his work. We are hoping to have interview with members of his staff playing over the top of these items.
The third idea is to have micro interviews with members of the public and ask them to describe Paul Smith in one word. We are not just aiming at people who know his work its for people who are unaware of him so everyone in Nottingham gets the chance to know about his work.
Image of a few of the object that will be used
This year I am hopeful that I am on the winning team. We have got some brilliant ideas floating around and i feel that as a team we have come together well. With in a few days we have managed to come together well as a team and have managed to come up with three ideas. The first idea is based on Paul Smiths first passion cycling and we are going to be using go pros on the bike to film locations around Nottingham. Tomorrow we will be discussing locations we feel that would be right for the video. The aim of the video is to make the audience in gauge in the video they won't know what the video is about really until the end of the video where he cyclist will walk into the Paul Smith shop. Its relating to the BMW advert recently where the advert had nothing to do with the product. In the video we are going to be changing the clothes for each decade.
The second idea is related to the reason we are making the videos 40 years of his work. The people in our group are going to bring in four items each and we are going to use 40 items for 40 years. We are using the items like Paul Smith would use items to inspire his work. The past fifteen years he has got items from someone and he uses these to inspire to his work. We are hoping to have interview with members of his staff playing over the top of these items.
The third idea is to have micro interviews with members of the public and ask them to describe Paul Smith in one word. We are not just aiming at people who know his work its for people who are unaware of him so everyone in Nottingham gets the chance to know about his work.
Image of a few of the object that will be used
Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Team Roles
So we have discussed everyone's role in the team and wrote down what each person will be doing. This way it gives us a chance to get to know peoples strengths and then it will give me a chance to get to know the first years
Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Happy New Year and The Assignment 2014
So Happy New Year to anyone who reads my blog. I am now back in Nottingham and have started the competition. Last year was a useful experience for myself as our lecturers threw us in at the deep end with it to see how we would cope with a pressure situations as we had three weeks to come up with an ident, logo, marketing campaign for Notts TV. For me personally i embraced it and though in the end other people let the team down i was proud of our teams effort. This year we have been given the task to produce a similar concept except this time it is celebrating the life of Paul Smith. Also this year it is up to me take more responsibility being second year and as i know what the competition holds and I hope to help the first years out.
This year i feel we have a good team which can produce a better campaign. I will be working on the production side of things and have been given the responsibility of being in charge of things. As well as working on the video production i will help with pre-production making some idea of who Paul Smith is and then creating a template for the video with things such as risk assessments, story boarding. Our aim is to create three different videos with each one not making it obvious we are talking about Paul Smith and let Nottingham talk about one of their most famous people. This was only day though and there is still three weeks to go. Tomorrow we are meeting Sean Macaskill at The Hive which will be good to hopefully make a few ideas of how we can go forward.
I will be keeping an update of the progress of how it goes and hopefully Team B will be winners
This year i feel we have a good team which can produce a better campaign. I will be working on the production side of things and have been given the responsibility of being in charge of things. As well as working on the video production i will help with pre-production making some idea of who Paul Smith is and then creating a template for the video with things such as risk assessments, story boarding. Our aim is to create three different videos with each one not making it obvious we are talking about Paul Smith and let Nottingham talk about one of their most famous people. This was only day though and there is still three weeks to go. Tomorrow we are meeting Sean Macaskill at The Hive which will be good to hopefully make a few ideas of how we can go forward.
I will be keeping an update of the progress of how it goes and hopefully Team B will be winners
Friday, 6 December 2013
Critical Thinking Research.
So today i found out i should of being blogging all the information that i have been looking at too help with my work with this flash project(sorry Ben) but for me this project has come together a bit for me as in terms of actually making something that could work and considering the stress i have had on this module i am relived it is coming to an end. Once i realised what would be required of me during this I was a bit worried due to not being used to working on flash before.
When I started on this project I had a look at a few examples of flash websites to get a better idea of how i wanted to set out my site. I took notice of how these sites used pre-loaders and that is when I made the decision to make one of my own. I then had a look at what kind of content was on these pages. Highlighting use in particular of having a good first page and how easy it is to connect to each page.
http://mono-1.com/monoface/main.html This was one of the most creative flash websites I looked at during my research. But I knew I didn't have the skills to make something as flashy as this so I went with keeping the flash stuff simple and the content better.
The next part of my plan to make sure there going to be some decent content to put on to my flash site. I made the choice i was going to be writing about video production and this is what I have gained experience in working with camera and sound as well as helping with editing of videos. So the aim of my site was to help someone who is looking to get in this line of work could sit down look at my flash site and get an idea of what would be required of them and the skill set that is needed for this particular work.
Once this was worked out it was just a case of making sure that everything looked good. The first thing I knew I was going to be doing was my Pre-Loader so I watched a few videos on YouTube to help me do this. Then with further discussions with Ben and a bit of help the homepage was made. Then it was making pages to go on the flash site. I thought the obvious choices would be what is video production? So i will write about the different parts of video production and what is involved with each section. Next i will write down a few key skill sets that will be required to help working in the video production. The last part was the interview with a practitioner which i have had some difficulty with so i will be looking at trying to get a practitioners tips online and putting some key points on to my page.
So this was the easy bit planning everything i was going to put on my page was done. But i still face the challenge of making the site. The key to this is working out the different action scripts on flash to help my work flow. I decided to make buttons that would skip back and forward on each page and the buttons are in the shape of buttons you would find on a camera.With some guidance from Ben i managed to get my pages together so then it is all down to me to add the content that will be needed
When I started on this project I had a look at a few examples of flash websites to get a better idea of how i wanted to set out my site. I took notice of how these sites used pre-loaders and that is when I made the decision to make one of my own. I then had a look at what kind of content was on these pages. Highlighting use in particular of having a good first page and how easy it is to connect to each page.
http://mono-1.com/monoface/main.html This was one of the most creative flash websites I looked at during my research. But I knew I didn't have the skills to make something as flashy as this so I went with keeping the flash stuff simple and the content better.
The next part of my plan to make sure there going to be some decent content to put on to my flash site. I made the choice i was going to be writing about video production and this is what I have gained experience in working with camera and sound as well as helping with editing of videos. So the aim of my site was to help someone who is looking to get in this line of work could sit down look at my flash site and get an idea of what would be required of them and the skill set that is needed for this particular work.
Once this was worked out it was just a case of making sure that everything looked good. The first thing I knew I was going to be doing was my Pre-Loader so I watched a few videos on YouTube to help me do this. Then with further discussions with Ben and a bit of help the homepage was made. Then it was making pages to go on the flash site. I thought the obvious choices would be what is video production? So i will write about the different parts of video production and what is involved with each section. Next i will write down a few key skill sets that will be required to help working in the video production. The last part was the interview with a practitioner which i have had some difficulty with so i will be looking at trying to get a practitioners tips online and putting some key points on to my page.
So this was the easy bit planning everything i was going to put on my page was done. But i still face the challenge of making the site. The key to this is working out the different action scripts on flash to help my work flow. I decided to make buttons that would skip back and forward on each page and the buttons are in the shape of buttons you would find on a camera.With some guidance from Ben i managed to get my pages together so then it is all down to me to add the content that will be needed
Monday, 25 November 2013
Last Two Weeks
So this is a quick update of how my work is coming along and what i expect to happen in the last two weeks of term. Since i last updated my blog I have had a lot of improvement in terms of my work at NCN after finally being able to get a successful code together this has now enabled me to improve on my work and since i have linked up the pages to my flash site and all i have to do now is get the work put on to the page and i will be happy with actually handing something in. This will be getting some images together, finding some relevant videos and making a few paragraphs about my line of production. Even though this isn't over complicated i am happy to get some work together to hand in as this is one module i have not enjoyed and as soon as this is done i will be happy to never use flash again.
In terms of my industry futures module i have now had a better explanation of what is required of us and now it will just be about taking the work done earlier in the term and making a lot of improvements to this. I have decided to change the product to the lynx product and discuss how the successful adverts that it has had have also caused a lot of problems for the company in terms of sexism. I will keep the practitioner as Edgar Wright and discuss his films but also in terms of hybrid film genres on the influence his work has had on films in the past decade. Then I will write about my personal skills and how the placements at university and also my problems and how i will go about improving them. This work will be done in terms of a 2000 word report as well as a presentation. Even though this might be a lot of rushed work i think it will be do able.
In terms of placements for next term i had an interview last week but this is for a project i have had to turn down as there in not enough time in terms of filming and editing. I have updated my CV so i am hoping by the end of term to have something ready for when i come back after Christmas.
In terms of my industry futures module i have now had a better explanation of what is required of us and now it will just be about taking the work done earlier in the term and making a lot of improvements to this. I have decided to change the product to the lynx product and discuss how the successful adverts that it has had have also caused a lot of problems for the company in terms of sexism. I will keep the practitioner as Edgar Wright and discuss his films but also in terms of hybrid film genres on the influence his work has had on films in the past decade. Then I will write about my personal skills and how the placements at university and also my problems and how i will go about improving them. This work will be done in terms of a 2000 word report as well as a presentation. Even though this might be a lot of rushed work i think it will be do able.
In terms of placements for next term i had an interview last week but this is for a project i have had to turn down as there in not enough time in terms of filming and editing. I have updated my CV so i am hoping by the end of term to have something ready for when i come back after Christmas.
Monday, 11 November 2013
Critical Thinking Update
So its been a few weeks since i last put any update on my flash project and its because there is not a lot to update. I still don't have much clue on flash and it is something i have had a lot of difficulty with and it is fair to say it is something i will try to avoid after this module is out the way. I am also having a lot of trouble getting any replies from practitioners I have emailed a lot of people but have had no reply which has also got me pretty down as well about this project.
But I'm struggling to get a start with the whole thing. I have been watching videos on flash I get some things but there is other things such as the writing of making the flash that is confusing me. I am hoping once i have managed to get a hang on things i will make something that is ok. But as things stand this is a little while off but i have managed to start to build up the image i want to use for this project and have played around with these on photoshop which has been helpful. The only thing i have managed to do is my pre-loader but i might not even use it depending on how big my work is.
Ben has gave me a lot of advice but for some reason nothing seems to be sticking in my head at the moment. I have got an idea of what i want to do. I am looking to make a blurry image which includes a shutter camera lense which will be then clicked and enter into the next scene which will have some interactive boxes which will included the footage of my interview and then hopefully scrolling images but i need to spend a good few hours sitting down and researching a lot more about the flash. I did chat to Ben last week about my problems and he tried to assure me but I still don't understand which is frustrating for me right now. He showed me something to do and i will have a try at doing this.
I am counting the days till this project is over and at this time i'm currently not trying to get stressed over it right now. But this is going to be a long month ahead for me.
But I'm struggling to get a start with the whole thing. I have been watching videos on flash I get some things but there is other things such as the writing of making the flash that is confusing me. I am hoping once i have managed to get a hang on things i will make something that is ok. But as things stand this is a little while off but i have managed to start to build up the image i want to use for this project and have played around with these on photoshop which has been helpful. The only thing i have managed to do is my pre-loader but i might not even use it depending on how big my work is.
Ben has gave me a lot of advice but for some reason nothing seems to be sticking in my head at the moment. I have got an idea of what i want to do. I am looking to make a blurry image which includes a shutter camera lense which will be then clicked and enter into the next scene which will have some interactive boxes which will included the footage of my interview and then hopefully scrolling images but i need to spend a good few hours sitting down and researching a lot more about the flash. I did chat to Ben last week about my problems and he tried to assure me but I still don't understand which is frustrating for me right now. He showed me something to do and i will have a try at doing this.
I am counting the days till this project is over and at this time i'm currently not trying to get stressed over it right now. But this is going to be a long month ahead for me.
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