Martins-Blog

My Evaluation

2006-05-19T01:49:00.000-07:00

I think this project when really slow at the beginning, I also didn't put much work in at the start and so I had to squeezed all of the project into about two weeks .
my idea was formed in the first lesson, and accepted as a good idea. So I carried on thinking about it and eventurly started taken shots of the sun setting and developing ideas for successfully capturing a sunset, but also keeping the audience interested . My methods were a little slow at first in trying new and different ways of filming what I wanted .
my starting attemps were crude sunsets, slow and boring and I tried to improve them with no success. So I started filming shorter amounts an idea suggested by rob.
I was then going to slice them into small amounts of film and glue them together, on the computer using imovie.
it work better then my other attemps, but still not fast enough, I couldn't see the change in the clouds or the sun so I needed a different way to film it .
I downloaded some software called frame thief from the internet recommended by rob again , the task of this frame thief is to take stills over a specific amount of time and frame amount.
I started with small amounts of stills with 2 seconds gaps which work out brilliantly for the film I was creating, so I just increased the frame amount, again getting amazing results.
I eventually recognized that recording a sunset in bad weather might not work, I started modifying my idea into a day filming using bigger gaps and a lot more frames over all.
I ended up having a 25 second gap over 2600 frames which work out about 17 hours of stills, it worked brilliantly exacly what I wanted. SUCCESS
then the project leveled out a bit and slowly coming to a stop at 10:25 am Friday 19th may .
thanks for reading .

The Methods That I Used To Create My Film. Successes and failures

2006-05-13T03:43:00.000-07:00

My first attempt at creating my film was to use a digital camera on video capture mode from my flat window.
that was not as successful as I planned and the sunset was to small and pixilated, not what I was looking for.
another problem with my first attempt was the sun set to slow and you couldn't see the movement as it set, I tried increasing the speed of the film but the software couldn't accomplish it .
my next attempt was again from my flat window,I was trying to film short sections of film, at about a minute per section as the sun went down,then spicing them together later on the computer.
so far I have far too much data from that experiment and will have to section out what I need, hope fully merging it together and creating a short film.
after that attemp at creating my footage I came home and downloaded software called frame thief,then I shot a timelapse for 2 seconds at 100 frames, which came out at about 8 seconds.
So I tried 500 frames to see want it came out like .
there was only about 4 seconds of sun but the clouds were fantastic.
The clouds even move at enough speed to keep you interested .
my last and final film or experiment was bigger and longer I set a film on at 25 seconds break, the recording started at 4 am though to 9 pm, 17 hours of footage which came out at about 5 mintures 20 second long, once I spliced it all together.
I then bought it in and put it on a computer and added a beginning and an end, and some other clips I had taken from previous sunset and there's my film .
my idea changed from using sunset footage to filming a day, when I was running out of time and the weather was terrible, so I decided to calculate how much time I needed between each frame shot which was about 25 seconds.

The Beginning Of The Film

2006-05-11T03:29:00.000-07:00

In the beginning I chose a still image of one of the sunsets I captured and over laid it with a drawn image.
The image that I drew was a basic sunset, circles and lines scanned and overlaid with photoshop onto an image .
The image was selected for the angle of the setting sun, then cropped and the opacity reduced to blend with each other.

What I want from my sunsets ?

2006-05-11T01:58:00.001-07:00

The type of sunsets I am looking for in my film are the big ones I see from the lake district across the sea .
The best are after a long sunny day and when the clouds swarm the sun, creating all sort of vivid colours.
Then you get the sunset you want , and its worth the wait !

Why I chose this piece?

2006-03-20T01:58:00.000-08:00

Hello,
my ideas started with a piece I chose from a film called "Gattaca" the piece is called "The Arrival" composed by Michael Nymanis.
Michael Nymanis a classical film composer, he also has composed verity of music for many films.
The reason I chose this particular piece was for the emotional content of the type of music Michael nymanis produces , I wanted to use this music for the theme of my music video.