Important exam coming up.

I currently have a important maths exam at the begining of next month.
The post number will go down abit but work will still be ongoing in the practical and theroy.

Phillip Toledano, The gamer portrait.

Quoting from his website :
"I’ve never been very interested in straightforward portrait photography. I often feel that it reveals nothing other than the photographer’s intentions, and a topographic record of the effects of time.

But what of hidden emotions and feelings? Characteristics that are usually secreted from the world? How do we record those?

I wondered if there was a way to unconsciously tease out aspects of people’s personality, and capture it on film. So I had them play video games.

2002"

He has taken the concept of "the gamer face" and exploded it into a portrait shot. He has taken the game away so the face is the only clue to what they could be playing or watching. Some of them are really in depth expressions that are immersed in the game.



http://www.mrtoledano.com/Gamers/01-Gamers

Photography, Location and light trail tests.

Had a visit down to mousehold to take some location shots. Here are the result:
All the shots of the woodland area are of the height the 3rd person view would be. I will go down again to get the view of 1st person and what they would see.

I took this shot to resemble speed, as the edges are blurred, this was done by zooming in while the shutter speed was at 1.5 seconds. The trees frame the image to make it look enclosed and emphases speed

This Shows a possible area for stunt runs or multiple paths in a map.

Along speed straight, designed for speed but with a sharp turn at the end for braking skill.

The muddy section will test the type for car you choose.

So this is based on the skill level and experience you have had with the cars.

Also had a test at light trails with increasing the shutter speed to 2 seconds. I'm happy with the results but they are blurry, next time I'm bring a tripod. Also tested many frames at slow shutter speed to create a video.

Here's where I got the inspiration from: http://a2mediadanielknights.blogspot.com/2010/11/light-trails-in-video.html

Tony Hawk shred advert.

This advert uses the fact and the motion of what you could experience with the board in real life as it shows the house moving though the front windows.
This makes you duck and move about on your seat as you think the house is moving.

Using Tony Hawks at the end will give you the feel of being Hawk's and at his skill level of skate-boarding.
This also boosts his game, as all of his previous games has featured him in the advert. This show that he is the star of the game, he has made the game, not a company behind doors.

The target audience would be boarders or people that can't skate but would want to. Also people that inspire to be tony to see his moves.

Presentation

Light trails in video

I liked the technique of light trails in pictures and how it shows life in the darkest of places, so I wanted to see if I could use this in my film but with videos instead. I found this video on Flickr which uses this technique. Its not exactly what I'm looking for as I just wanted the lights but I can still use this.



After looking at comments, he achieved this by taking photos at the rate of 5fps, for a long time. I will be using this technique for my film or adverts.
This was done in a mid to dark location on the top of a bridge. This is how the light trails have been produced as the camera picks up the light. You would struggle to get anything in the light.
I really like the idea of how this is done, I have tried it out but with out a tripod, This is one thing I will bring to produce one of the adverts.

Monster 2010

http://www.monstersthemovie.com/


Entire film made from a handful of people and one camera. Director Gareth Edwards Started with no backing from a big Hollywood budged, just the money he got from working with the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00c74sl
This interview Edward's takes about his start up.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w5kt4
Take a look at the full story at 25:25 on how he made it. He also takes about lens and how he thinks that focusing on one part of the screen is better than all in focus.

I like his view on how the audience should be attracted to a spot in the shot, He uses the evidence that a fully clear background and shot with confuse the audience and with miss curtain parts. So he uses a lens on this camera to make curtain parts of the shot in focus and out of focus. He shows how he made this effect in the interview.

He was able to produce the Qulity of the CGI becuase he worked int eh BBC's CGI department, This set him up with the very basic's needed for the film.