Billboard adverts for "80's Youth Culture"

I designed these two billboard adverts to "advertise" the fictional documentary that we made the intro for; "80's Youth Culture". The Rubik's Cube one is my favourite because it's simple and eye catching. People from the era will know what it represents. The ET parody is still good, but I think it sends mixed messages. It could be mistaken for an ET spoof movie if someone saw it but didn't read it properly.

80's Youth Culture

Our group of four was given 7 weeks to make a short video representing any decade, so we chose to make an introduction to a fictional documentary called "80's Youth Culture". We edited it so that it looked like some footage that had come straight out of the 80's, hence the colour desaturation, blurriness and cheesy special effects. We're very pleased with the results and I think we worked well as a team.

Click here to watch it.

Field recording and sharing

Using a Flash microphone I recorded the ambience of a university hallway. Then, in Soundtrack Pro, I cut out parts that didn't suit the sound loop. Afterwards I uploaded it to Flashkit.com for their free sound effect library. This allows anyone to download my sound effect and use it for their own work free of charge.

Stop Motion Experimentation

To showcase my understanding of the concepts behind stop motion animation, integrating audio, and adding motion graphics, I made this short experimental video.

Click here to watch it.

Basic video editing

We were given a vast list of video clips with brief descriptions of each. From these we had to choose around ten of them that we thought would go well together to tell a story (bear in mind we had not seen the clips at all). Once chosen, we opened them all up in Final Cut Pro and edited them together to see if they worked. The point of this task was to introduce us to how we'd need to have good skills in picturing scenes from descriptions and coherently putting them together.

See the video here.

Storyboarding

To learn the importance of accurate storyboarding, my class worked in groups to make a storyboard then swapped it with another groups, and attempted to recreate the storyboard using photographs. The one my group was given had a few elements we couldn't implement in the short time we had, but we did manage to photoshop a picture of a 'flying dog'.

JPEG Compression

These pictures are identical, however the one on the left is saved at maximum quality JPEG compression, and the one on the right is saved at minimum quality. It is possible to see the difference between the two, such as the 'blocky' nature of the lower quality picture, with noticeably less detail.

3D Modelling using Sketch-Up

To learn the basic concepts of 3D modelling, I used software called Sketch-Up to make a picture of the skate park from home. It's not to scale and there are a few aspects missing I know, but it's from memory!

Physical Identity

Thinking about the way businesses and artists represent themselves graphically (such as having a certain style that they use in all their work) I had to change my own physical appearance in two different ways. The first was using Photoshop. I used the Clone tool to give myself a third eye on my forehead, then made my hoodie entirely monotone by selecting it and brushing it with a single colour picked directly from it. I then used a darker shade to draw a few lines where the creases were.













The second was made by making a pattern on a transparent projector sheet with ink and pens, then projecting it directly on to my face.














Both of these identity change methods have drawbacks. They are both 2D changes, so if I were to pose in a different direction, the changes would have to be made again from scratch in order for the identity to maintain its appearance. Also, the projector method doesn't allow for any physical changes to be made to my body, only for patterns and colour to be added.

Edited video beatbox

Using iMovie, we were given two hours to film ourselves making various sounds, then editing them together to give a musical effect. The timing is a little off, and there could be some better variations of sound, but considering we only had a short amount of time to learn the software and put it all together it's not a bad start. Click the link below to watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzYkWRQ4WWU

Vector Drawing

This was made by taking a photo of myself in Photo Booth, then tracing it in Adobe Illustrator. It was drawn to learn how to create vector-based graphics.