Romain Gavras:
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Week 2 Tuesday 27th April
Today was the first day of the video workshops, there will be five sessions- one every week. It was quite constructive and i'm sure ill learn more over the course.
My main interest is in steeing up the shots, and i would like to learn about lighting and angles... basically get any tips from someone who is obviously experienced at all of this.... So will update with work done with video.
Regarding classroom work that was done today, i carried on with the Rorschach idea by drawing on the walls (amazing i'm allowed to draw on walls without being told off), and this is what i done... innit.
I will carry on with this more tomorrow... or whenever the OHP gets sorted, as i have the acetate print out to trace around.
I also made, in the same style, a face (meant to represent a homeless man) although iit does look more like a transformer... the idea of this being 'What do you see now' is illustrated below.... as a homeless transformer... although technically all transformers ARE homeless (as kindly pointed out to me by Damba. Thanks.)
I also messed about with some shapes inspired by the polystyrene chairs and tables i once made:
My next Idea was the dead to society image:
Safe.
My main interest is in steeing up the shots, and i would like to learn about lighting and angles... basically get any tips from someone who is obviously experienced at all of this.... So will update with work done with video.
Regarding classroom work that was done today, i carried on with the Rorschach idea by drawing on the walls (amazing i'm allowed to draw on walls without being told off), and this is what i done... innit.
I will carry on with this more tomorrow... or whenever the OHP gets sorted, as i have the acetate print out to trace around.
I also made, in the same style, a face (meant to represent a homeless man) although iit does look more like a transformer... the idea of this being 'What do you see now' is illustrated below.... as a homeless transformer... although technically all transformers ARE homeless (as kindly pointed out to me by Damba. Thanks.)
I also messed about with some shapes inspired by the polystyrene chairs and tables i once made:
My next Idea was the dead to society image:
Monday, 26 April 2010
Week 2 FMP - Monday 26th April
After a week of not really getting anywhere with my project i've finally been experimenting with a few things and this is what ive come up with today.
My initial inspiration came from the idea of the Rorschach Aka. Ink Blot test, as 'hidden' shapes/things that have more than meets the eye. I was going to translate this idea onto the 'hidden' lives of the homeless, that they are essentially part of any city, but when you look closer: whats really there? who are these people? etc etc.... you get the idea.
Anyway, here are my attempts at using the Rorschach shapes: not to show homelessness neccescarily, more experimentation in creating some shapes:
I also used a pen to make the outlines of the shapes stronger:
I then scanned these images into Photoshop and messed around with a few blends, filters, and adjusted colour, contrast and brightness.
I was starting to get some really interesting images that wouldn't look bad as band art (that last one is maybe too much of an acid trip)... i went with this feel and started to simplify the image. First by removing colour:
and then adjusting the contrast:
And finally coming up with a distressed-looking Rorschach print that is clear and simple (and possibly quite spooky?):
NOW, I think that there are some usefull things here, and tomorrow i would like to develop these images, possibly by tracing the simple shapes and loading them onto an OHP and drawing large versions of them on the walls and see what insiration comes from that... Camera is finally charging, so hopefully ill be more consistent in uploading photos of my progress.
l8r,
Charlie.
My initial inspiration came from the idea of the Rorschach Aka. Ink Blot test, as 'hidden' shapes/things that have more than meets the eye. I was going to translate this idea onto the 'hidden' lives of the homeless, that they are essentially part of any city, but when you look closer: whats really there? who are these people? etc etc.... you get the idea.
Anyway, here are my attempts at using the Rorschach shapes: not to show homelessness neccescarily, more experimentation in creating some shapes:
I also used a pen to make the outlines of the shapes stronger:
I then scanned these images into Photoshop and messed around with a few blends, filters, and adjusted colour, contrast and brightness.
I was starting to get some really interesting images that wouldn't look bad as band art (that last one is maybe too much of an acid trip)... i went with this feel and started to simplify the image. First by removing colour:
and then adjusting the contrast:
And finally coming up with a distressed-looking Rorschach print that is clear and simple (and possibly quite spooky?):
l8r,
Charlie.
Saturday, 10 April 2010
Still Waiting
Still waiting to hear back from Brighton. Been a week now and am expecting they'll send the letter when term starts again on the 19th.
Aside from that, I spent Friday making IKEA furniture. Complete man day, and even made myself useful by making an animation that ill put up (hopefully) later today.
Also invented a tool.
Aside from that, I spent Friday making IKEA furniture. Complete man day, and even made myself useful by making an animation that ill put up (hopefully) later today.
Also invented a tool.
Thursday, 8 April 2010
Saturday, 3 April 2010
Friday, 2 April 2010
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Final Images 30th March
FINISHED the whole thing... blood, guts and all! Will put photos on soon.
For now though, here are the finished flyer jpegs...
Brighton Interview tomorrow. very nervous and excited. been working as hard as humanly possible all day every day. fingers crossed!
For now though, here are the finished flyer jpegs...
Brighton Interview tomorrow. very nervous and excited. been working as hard as humanly possible all day every day. fingers crossed!
Sunday, 28 March 2010
Need Feeback
Just quickly, i need feeback on which to go for.
Option 1 is:
and Option 2 is:
The copy (yes, i did just use the word copy to describe writing!) is going to say: "Now look at me, i'm beautiful!", or something along those lines....
Thankyou.
x
Option 1 is:
The copy (yes, i did just use the word copy to describe writing!) is going to say: "Now look at me, i'm beautiful!", or something along those lines....
Thankyou.
x
Friday, 26 March 2010
Thursday, 25 March 2010
UPDATE Thursday 25th March
Here's an update of my FATKINS diet!
Shown is the WIP of the poster side of the flyer that is going into my box of body parts (for starving kids...it will make sense when it's finished).... [click image to enlarge]
I drew the image in pencil, then went over in pen... it did take all day, and am now colouring unsing Photoshop...
And here's the colouring process... laying the colours over the areas (I use a pink mask to make it easy to see) and then erasing, or if clear, magic wanding the needed areas... its a long process but im happy with the results: [click image to enlarge]
Saturday, 20 March 2010
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Friday, 5 March 2010
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Saturday, 20 February 2010
Shackleton's Voyage
This is a short experimental film I have made on foundation. I have painted ~200 frames, which are more like moods to reflect Shackleton's experience in the Antarctic. I also faintly drew in the story of the ship breaking up and sinking so that the story was subliminally told to the viewer along with the obvious story from the text. The speed and rhythm of the text is as it is to reflect the cold temperature of the antarctic.
FTV151 Experimental Film
This is the film i made on the UCLA experimental filmmaking course.
I wanted to make something quite surreal and abstract rather than a strange film with actors and fancy shots.
It was a good opportunity to go 'all-out' and push what I could do in an editing suite. It was my first time using Final Cut Pro so was an invaluable learning experience as well.
For some reason the video is quite buggy so its best to let it load all the way before playing.
I also made the music for this.
I wanted to make something quite surreal and abstract rather than a strange film with actors and fancy shots.
It was a good opportunity to go 'all-out' and push what I could do in an editing suite. It was my first time using Final Cut Pro so was an invaluable learning experience as well.
For some reason the video is quite buggy so its best to let it load all the way before playing.
I also made the music for this.
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Live Video 1
This is a live video I did for the band shown in the video. It was just me running around the venue, caputuring the show from as many angles as possible and then editing together to make it look like the audio is in sync. Unfortunately I edited with awful cyberlink, which dislocated to audio from the video, so syncing became near impossible. Im happy with how its come out though...
Monday, 15 February 2010
Sunday, 14 February 2010
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