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Adobe Flash! A powerful web innovation, with a lot of hard work put into it! Doing this assignment really makes me appreciate all the work flash programmers do. It looks simple, but it's harder than it looks. Behind these animations are a lot of code, stressful hours and sleepless nights. If you know how to use this program, it could prove handy and easy for web innovation! After seeing some work my peers created in Flash, I figured that you could tell who has a lot of experience with flash, and who is new to it. I find that Flash is an experience you must keep building in order to really good at it, almost like anything else. But this program, takes time and patience. You can practically create movies and very hilarious stories through the use of Flash. It just takes time...
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Music Video Budgets (Week 8)
Music video budgets started not too long ago. Anything fairly new at the time, no matter how cheap or expensive, how beautiful or ugly, if it was something that nobody has experienced before, it would earn a "wow." Back in the days of when music videos emerged, such as Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", it was something new and exciting, just like when radio emerged. It wasn't about the quality back then, it was the experience.
After the who phenomenon of music videos emerging with music, it demanded more sophisticated, creative ways to make music videos which had a huge impact on record sales. It had to be made in such a way that it would now appeal to the largest possible audience. This is when music videos started becoming mainstream and expensive videos started emerging, such as "Video Killed The Radio Star" on MTV. The further we advanced, the more money we spent in order to make the impossible, possible. Until......
Youtube.
Advancing from television, to the internet and now to the current "Web 2.0" there is much more input and interactivity between the internet and normal users such as you and me. You can now make people celebrities and with the input of a true audience instead of a select powerful few. Homemade video productions are now the star of YouTube and all you need is a camera, computer and internet connection. Compare this, to the costs of making a professional music video such as Plain White T's video "Hey There Delilah" which was released in the same year as OK Go's music video "Here it Goes Again." The production differences between these two videos is enormous, yet OK Go's music video has about 7 million more views than the Plain White T's.
It just goes to show us that now with YouTube, homemade productions are cheap, and can get you as much attention as mainstream media would.
After the who phenomenon of music videos emerging with music, it demanded more sophisticated, creative ways to make music videos which had a huge impact on record sales. It had to be made in such a way that it would now appeal to the largest possible audience. This is when music videos started becoming mainstream and expensive videos started emerging, such as "Video Killed The Radio Star" on MTV. The further we advanced, the more money we spent in order to make the impossible, possible. Until......
Youtube.
Advancing from television, to the internet and now to the current "Web 2.0" there is much more input and interactivity between the internet and normal users such as you and me. You can now make people celebrities and with the input of a true audience instead of a select powerful few. Homemade video productions are now the star of YouTube and all you need is a camera, computer and internet connection. Compare this, to the costs of making a professional music video such as Plain White T's video "Hey There Delilah" which was released in the same year as OK Go's music video "Here it Goes Again." The production differences between these two videos is enormous, yet OK Go's music video has about 7 million more views than the Plain White T's.
It just goes to show us that now with YouTube, homemade productions are cheap, and can get you as much attention as mainstream media would.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Open Blog (Week 7)
Okay, so there's no topic for this week, which leaves this blog wide open for some ideas and discussion. Although I'd like to thank Lori for that extra hour of sleep! :) - You wouldn't believe how much easier to commute for a 10am lecture than for a 9am lecture.
Anyways, back on topic. We had a guest lecturer this week and we were talking about animations. Very interesting how some of these animations come about and people don't realize the little things, such as opening credits of a movie. We say "That's cool. Although I'm just here to watch the movie." It looks like it takes a lot of work, and is unappreciated and doesn't get the same attention as the actual movie would.
Well, maybe except the James Bond ones. Those have been evolving for a long time now, it's almost like tradition to have animated opening credits to a 007 movie.
It's must have been a real hassle to be drawing animations by hand before modern technology took over. Although, it still is a lot of work for animators to create animations using tools such as Flash. The countless hours that is put into animations is remarkable and really has me appreciating those individuals a lot more than before. All we see is a simple animation, and what they see is a bunch of complex code.
Anyways, back on topic. We had a guest lecturer this week and we were talking about animations. Very interesting how some of these animations come about and people don't realize the little things, such as opening credits of a movie. We say "That's cool. Although I'm just here to watch the movie." It looks like it takes a lot of work, and is unappreciated and doesn't get the same attention as the actual movie would.
Well, maybe except the James Bond ones. Those have been evolving for a long time now, it's almost like tradition to have animated opening credits to a 007 movie.
It's must have been a real hassle to be drawing animations by hand before modern technology took over. Although, it still is a lot of work for animators to create animations using tools such as Flash. The countless hours that is put into animations is remarkable and really has me appreciating those individuals a lot more than before. All we see is a simple animation, and what they see is a bunch of complex code.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Flash Assignment (Week 6)
What I was planning to do for my assignment definitely includes stick figures. I was pretty impressed by what you could do with Flash through some of the flash assignments, and examples that Lori showed us. The only problem is, I've never used flash in my life. But the inspiration of the Animation vs. Animator in a violent struggle made me want to play with stick figures.
There are also other inspirations on the web, most of them are stick figures involved with violence, but that's what makes it so funny and interesting, with the stuff you can do in flash.
Xiao Xiao: http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/xiaoxiao.html
Xiao Xiao was created by a man named Zhu who was one of the first people I've seen come up with the originality of the stick figure violence. He has created many episodes and even developed an interactive version of his stick figure to play within the story.
Stick Figure Ninja: http://www.stickfigureninja.com/gallery.php?galtype=3&page=1
Stick Figure Ninja is a more simplistic way of showing me what you could do with stick figures in flash. It was more of a less professional way to show that with stick figures, it is possible to make a story out of something so simple and basic.
To do this in flash, you got to have basic stick figure and animate them frame by frame, if it means if they're walking, you swing their legs and arms back and forth to create a walking motion, and just loop the frames while moving it through my movie. I just need to figure out a story and what I will need my stick figure to do in the movie than just walking.
There are also other inspirations on the web, most of them are stick figures involved with violence, but that's what makes it so funny and interesting, with the stuff you can do in flash.
Xiao Xiao: http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/xiaoxiao.html
Xiao Xiao was created by a man named Zhu who was one of the first people I've seen come up with the originality of the stick figure violence. He has created many episodes and even developed an interactive version of his stick figure to play within the story.
Stick Figure Ninja: http://www.stickfigureninja.com/gallery.php?galtype=3&page=1
Stick Figure Ninja is a more simplistic way of showing me what you could do with stick figures in flash. It was more of a less professional way to show that with stick figures, it is possible to make a story out of something so simple and basic.
To do this in flash, you got to have basic stick figure and animate them frame by frame, if it means if they're walking, you swing their legs and arms back and forth to create a walking motion, and just loop the frames while moving it through my movie. I just need to figure out a story and what I will need my stick figure to do in the movie than just walking.
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