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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Plot ideas

  • use toys
  • re-enactments
  • going to another world
  • having a dream
  • starts with the truth
  • quests
  • mystery - something goes missing
Plot 1:

  • having a dream
  • wake up
  • dream happens in reality
Plot 2: 


  • Stealing Scene greyscale.
  • Protagonist talking/narrating
  • Finds out the possession is missing
  • tries to find out who stole it
  • finds the culprit
  • court scene
  • sent to broccoli land
  • antagonist at broccoli land screaming


Effects

telling a story from the past (grey scale)
having a dream (blurry, hazy)
scene to scene (cut, wipe, fade in/out)
green screen for background

introduction

  • Using stop motion animation for title using Lego blocks 
  • Adding title in as video progresses

Friday, May 6, 2011

Inspirational Ideas.

We were finding inspirational videos and the following video insipired us to use the technique "stop motion" in our video.

Video Ideas

We were researching creative ideas the we could include in our project and we found this video through YouTube to assist us.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Audio Bit Depth Sample Size and Sampling Rate

1. Sound moves through what medium?
Sound travels in mechanical waves. A mechanical wave is a disturbance that moves and transports energy from one place to another through a medium that can be solid liquid or gas. In sound, the disturbance is a vibrating object. And the medium can be any series of interconnected and interactive particles. This means that sound can travel through gases, liquids and solids.

Let's take a look at an example. Imagine a church bell. When a bell rings, it vibrates, which means the bell itself flexes inward and outward very rapidly. As the bell moves outward, it pushes against particles of air. Those air particles then push against other adjacent air particles, and so on. As the bell flexes inward, it pulls against the adjacent air particles, and they, in turn, pull against other air particles. This push and pull pattern is a sound wave. The vibrating bell is the original disturbance, and the air particles are the medium.


















2. What unit is used to measure sample size?
Essentially this is the number of digits in the digital representation of each sample. Think of the sample rate as the horizontal precision of the digital waveform, and the sample format as the vertical precision which is measured usinh Hz


3.  What unit is used to measure sampling rate?
The rate at which the samples are captured or played back, measured in Hertz (Hz), or samples per second. 


4.  Compare the quality of AM, FM and Digital radio.
AM radio ranges from 535 to 1705kHz
FM radio band goes from 88 to 108 MHz
Digital radio has frequencies below 30MHz   


Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Difficulties I Encountered

Difficulty: Learning how to use inkscape and getting used to it s functions.
How I overcame it: I watched tutorials in order to learn how to use it, I did practice beforehand, Took assistance from peers and teachers and referred to web to educate myself to successfully make frame for my animation through inkscape.  

Difficulty: Not make frames Jerky 
How I overcame it: I practiced and from experience I learnt the technique which was to make an export every small move I make. This was time consuming but it prevented the animation sequence from appearing jerky. 







Difficulty: It was time consuming
How I overcame it: I tried to brake up the task in doing a small part everyday because Mercedes my house group has 8 letters in it I did one letter everyday instead of all in one day I did it in just over a week.