tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73616519773682214302024-02-07T16:14:15.753-08:00Callum McHugh 2370Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-70826210631146067702012-03-23T02:17:00.000-07:002012-04-27T02:31:40.347-07:0020th-23rd March: Editing<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spent the majority of this week finalizing the editing for my film. As most of the more advanced editing, such as the actual titles, were already finished, I only had to put the actual film next to the titles, and make the transition between the black screen and the animated scene flow seamlessly. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-14003218700873765032012-03-19T03:24:00.000-07:002012-04-27T02:02:43.855-07:0019th March: Filming<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the weekend I completed the main body of the filming for my title sequence. I think that it went pretty successfully as I got all of my required film and a variety of shots and angles. In hindsight, i do think that I should have used the tripod less, and used more exciting angles. However, i still think that it came out very well. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-46588589647464682172012-03-16T03:15:00.001-07:002012-03-16T03:18:11.387-07:0016th March: Camera Booking and Blog Update<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I went to book my camera to film the introduction to my Title Sequence over the weekend. This involved leaving a deposit to be able to take the camera outside of the school grounds. This is required as my setting is in a different location. I also spent the remainder of the lesson updating my blog, as i found that there were a few missing posts here and there. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-32894879616690670252012-03-15T03:14:00.000-07:002012-03-16T03:21:35.177-07:0015th March: More Titles<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today i carried on working on my actual titles. I found a way around the problem of their lack of depth. By placing the exact same title with the same motion, underneath the normal title, but making it white and placing it ever so slightly to the bottom right of the previous title, i created an opposite shadow effect over the black background, making the titles feel overall less 2 dimensional. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-46287112163825467292012-03-14T03:14:00.000-07:002012-04-24T02:35:33.525-07:0014th March: Still Titles<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still working on the title animation, and editing it into my background. As I have said, I want the first bulk of my titles to be much simpler than the error messages that will appear later on, and this involves creating simple scrolling titles to fall from the screen. However I have encountered a variety of problems linked to this, for example, the fact that I already have a black background with white text means that I cannot use black or white text, nor can I have the titles scroll anywhere that already has scrolling text. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-23125639064852813792012-03-13T03:13:00.000-07:002012-04-24T02:38:29.801-07:0013th March: Titles; Last Touches<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All that needs to be done now is to add these titles straight into my background animation. This shouldn't prove to be too difficult, however i may have to edit some of the titles in Final Cut in order to make them fully compatible with my background and the slight animation that is already in my title sequence. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-74496004342415781052012-03-12T03:13:00.000-07:002012-04-24T02:30:10.846-07:0012th March: LiveType Titles<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have now figured out how to effectively make use of LiveType, the software that is used to create animated titles and text for film. I have made a good selection of default titles, which can be easily edited to incorporate different pieces of text. I just need to add these into my animated background and then i will be very near to completing my animated half of the titles. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-82633224934690317312012-03-09T03:12:00.000-08:002012-04-20T01:00:10.102-07:009th March: LiveType<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have now grasped an average understanding of how to use LiveType, and the skills needed to use it and create more advanced titles. I have used a simple motion, just scrolling, rather than a fancier transition. I think that this makes it more simplistic, and stops it looking too tacky. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-76731843991860963682012-03-08T03:12:00.000-08:002012-04-20T00:55:34.988-07:008th March: New Titles<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After finishing these improvised titles, I tested them and found out that they did not actually come out to a good standard, and were quite glitchy at some parts. To fix this i chose to create a new set of titles, by using a completeley different piece of software, called 'LiveType'. This a programme made entirely to create titles, which means that I was able to use a much more varied palette of titles and transitions. I will play around with this programme and hopefully create some much better titles. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-50043222653834114942012-03-07T03:12:00.000-08:002012-04-16T08:48:54.825-07:007th March: Work on Scrolling Titles<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started making a series of titles that scroll down from the top of the screen for the main bulk of the titles, as i do not have the time to make photoshopped images for every title in the production. This involved using software on Final Cut to make the titles scroll. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-87136696563122228622012-03-06T03:11:00.000-08:002012-04-16T06:22:57.202-07:006th March: Piecing Together<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today i used my time to add my transitioned titles into my background screen. This took a lot of work however the final piece looks very good in my opinion. This involved adding the two components of my non live action part and ensuring that they were well in sync. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-38386699953865566232012-03-05T03:11:00.000-08:002012-04-16T06:17:33.066-07:005th March: Title Animation<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have spent the lesson collecting the various titles that i have, and editing them into my background sequence. This involves using a variety of effects to create customized transitions in ways that look like error messages being strewn across a screen. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-79706434442974902272012-03-02T03:10:00.000-08:002012-04-16T03:44:19.710-07:002nd March: Background Complete/Work on Titles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have completed the background scrolling text, and it has worked to good effect. I think that it really adds to the technological genre of my title sequence, and looks quite professional. I have also started work on my main titles, which are made up of photoshopped images, which have had the information for each title added onto them. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-8107075235330374542012-03-01T03:10:00.000-08:002012-04-16T03:39:34.880-07:001st March: Further Work on Background<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have spent today working on the background scrolling text, which needs a bit of small editing to be perfected. I think that once it is fully completed it will turn out to be very good. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-47282902728543078132012-02-29T03:09:00.000-08:002012-04-16T03:34:43.035-07:0029th February: Further Work on Scrolling Text<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have successfully captured the scrolling text on film, and i think i has worked to a good extent. However, i have found out that the text only lasts a couple of seconds, and then fades away. To counter this, i have cut parts of it, shrunk it, and repeated it, so that it is sped up, and on a much longer loop, without any obvious cuts. This has worked well, so i will definitely be using it as the backdrop to my titles. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-80764651707058923502012-02-28T03:09:00.000-08:002012-04-16T03:26:45.033-07:0028th February: Scrolling Text Solution<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have figured out a way to imitate the scrolling text that i wanted to use for my background during the non-filmed part of my film. There are a set of commands that activate an error type text during the start up process of a mac, and if I can capture it on film, i think that it would make a perfect background for my titles. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-66853778412646689792012-02-27T03:09:00.000-08:002012-04-16T03:15:11.390-07:0027th February: Titles<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have decided on a way to integrate my titles into my animated part of the sequence. I am going to use things like error messages and pop-ups to show the most important titles, in a similar fashion to this example title sequence from 'The IT Crowd' <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9QbwiQUXpw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9QbwiQUXpw</a></span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-8550461279641258862012-02-24T03:08:00.000-08:002012-04-15T09:05:00.088-07:0024th February: Call Sheet<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As i have only one character in my project, my call sheet is less than what it would be for most call sheets, however i still scheduled that characters work and also what i would have to do in order to make the film better. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-32724187928058543472012-02-23T03:06:00.000-08:002012-04-15T08:50:57.945-07:0023rd February: Scrolling Text<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to achieve the scrolling coding in the 'Matrix video that i linked in my previous post, I will need to find some kind of way to mock scrolling code. The only thoughts i have are the black or blue command messages that come up when computers are sometimes activated. I will make it my priority to find a way of recreating or generating this for the background to my titles. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-38055106378859946242012-02-22T03:06:00.000-08:002012-04-15T08:44:33.949-07:0022nd February: Animation<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the weeks i have been trying out different pieces of software with which to make the animated part of my title sequence, and i have finally decided to keep it simple and just go with Final Cut express. The style of titles i am going to try to achieve are similar to this scene in 'The Matrix'. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rnWSLqV3R0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rnWSLqV3R0</a></span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-86535235503226942762012-02-21T03:06:00.000-08:002012-04-15T08:35:05.844-07:0021st February: Relocation<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After trying a variety of areas with different camera placements, i have finally come up with a suitable place to film my title sequence. With a desk, chair, and white backdrop-style wallpaper, i can fit i tripod and camera with plenty of room for an actor and maneuverable shots. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-7683352927587452022012-02-20T03:01:00.000-08:002012-04-15T08:31:55.294-07:0020th February: Location Recce- Relocation<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had originally planned to film my piece in a small room in my house, but having tested the tripod setup and placement of the actor, i have come to realize that this is not a possibility, as i do not have nearly enough room. I am going to have to completely rethink my location and edit my recce. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-26193794048993793272012-02-17T03:01:00.000-08:002012-04-15T08:24:25.466-07:0017th February: Risk Assessment<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today i started work on my risk assessment. This involved looking at all of the possible risks that could be involved in my filming, or preparatory work. As the only filming being done was in one location, indoors, this meant i didn't have that much to be worried about. However as i am working with computers, and electrical equipment, i must ensure that this be taken into account where safety is concerned. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-48472906730676491422012-02-16T03:01:00.000-08:002012-04-15T06:51:45.262-07:0016th February: Location Recce<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used today to do my location recce. This involves going to the location that I will use for my filming, photographing the area and ensuring that it is fit to film there. In doing so i will be more certain that my filming will be successful. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361651977368221430.post-78252475147720923462012-02-15T03:00:00.000-08:002012-04-15T06:36:34.128-07:0015th February: Photo Story Board<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have spent the day completing the photo storyboard for my project. This involves creating a storyboard version of my script, using screen shots and/or sketches of scenes in my film, and then annotate these stills. </span>Callum McHugh 2370http://www.blogger.com/profile/03732205028645099087noreply@blogger.com0