new blog

samwsmith — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:44:24 +0000

badmpsamwsmith.wordpress.com

intro dusk side projEKT

samwsmith — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:12:06 +0000

dusk till dawn motion graph i found out that dusk till dawn was looking for an intro because they have started filming there nights so i said to the manager there i would put something together, it basically just involves the righting which is on fire within the actual text fading in and eventually exploding and then the name of the club night taking its place. I want to get this done relatively quickly as its only done for free and hopefully once i send it there wont be to late.

discontinued video intro

samwsmith — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:35:24 +0000

yeah so i started a video intro but had to stop it because of a disagreement with a promoter and another artist who made it impossible for me to follow the brand so F**K you i will blog about it.

Starting point thoughts for third year…… typography/information technology

samwsmith — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:16:01 +0000

I thought i would start looking at different examples over the summer of what I would like to do for my third year and have found something that looks brilliant and right along the lines that I would consider myself.

Why I want to do my third year

samwsmith — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:45:17 +0000

Sam Wallace-Smith

Why I want to do my third year

I’ve thought a lot about why I want to do my third year and which direction I would like to take. I feel that from all that I’ve learnt on my two year foundation degree is the third year would give me the opportunity to study an area which I am more interested in and believe would help me in the future and that is 3d graphics. I want to study this not just because of the satisfaction you get from creating something visually appealing but because I feel that it would be the most useful and applicable in a working environment. This is because the professional skills developed in the third year would give me clear guidance and more transferable skills in software’s that can be used in many different areas in the creative industry.

I would like to advance my skills in after effects and typography because they will be incredibly helpful skills in the industry that I enjoy doing and will be appealing to an employer/client. For my specialist project, I want to incorporate all elements of effects and other programs for post production, mainly looking at areas of work that I haven’t focused on before, whether it’s been planning or the post-production itself. My aim is to create something that I can be happy about putting my name on and start of my portfolio with.

In addition to these things I have really enjoyed the course so far and felt that I have met some interesting people and learnt a lot of new skills. Also with the experiences that I have had in my first and second years I am still eager to learn more about the digital world and hopefully be given a truly in depth insight in the third year and the digitally working world. I hope that in my third year I will get to meet many more industry professionals and get to hear and learn what they have to say also the opportunity to work with some of these people would be brilliant and get the chance to build up my name as a reliable, helpful and creative digital media ‘professional’.

In order to help me develop my career path when the course is over, I want to travel to make myself more aware of the world around me. Creative digital imagery is influenced by culture and setting and I am keen to develop my appreciation of different cultural imagery internationally. Through doing this I believe I will become more appreciative of the ideas that others have and hopefully get to experience a variety of cultures and get round to seeing some interesting digital media related things along the way. So the plan that I have for my third year is to extend my skills in post production and editing and create a portfolio that I will be proud of and employers will find interesting and innovative.

video professional project development

samwsmith — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:30:59 +0000

I have started a motion graphic introduction for the video for packed house using after effects and particles which works really well I’m working on the 3d text at the moment and think I will use the same text that’s on the website (www.packed-house.co.uk)

After messing around with a few different design ideas I feel like I have found one which I can comftorbly show to my client I will upload later on today.

Processes :)

samwsmith — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:51:27 +0000

i have always been interested in drums i dont know why the kick the snare all these noises have always been delightful for me to hear so im going to incorporate some into the project know for this to work i have had to learn some basic max msp which to be fair was alot harder than i was expecting. I have been experimenting with different games console pads also and have been pretty successful with the ps3 controller and i am seriously considering using this for the rest of my project as the staple backbone as it has motion sensing technology (not the best) but being able to incorporate the motion sensing into my laptop to effect audio in someway would be a serious breakthrough!!

What i now feel that will be possible for me is to set up my ps3 controller to control sounds on logic pro by having a utility software called gamepad companion that i downloaded that commands the hot keys that i have reset on logic pro (this process was incredibly tricky for some reason as the process of changing the hot keys on logic 7 changed when converting to logic 8 which was thoroughly confusing.

After getting past the hot key functions it occurred to me that logic may not be the best software to use……(for functionality!) so i thought if i could find other dj software that would enable me to use some hot keys to make the ps3 pad an efficient midi control. A problem i found when using virtual dj was that the hot keys on the software were slightly limited leaving me with fairly little in the way of functionality for my pad.

An idea that i was thinking about now developing is creating a game pad band by having different game controllers that will be connected to one laptop which will be controlling different instruments this is a concept that i do not think has been attempted before i am not sure how many inputs can be used for one laptop as one software that i am mainly using at the moment can only run one pad but another software i am using still can control the same pad in the background this leaves me thinking that i may be able to control different sounds effects with different remotes (pads) using different softwares.

my first idea

samwsmith — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:11:07 +0000

My idea is to have a pre recorded peice of music which can be affected or adapted dependent on the movement of the viewer using max msp and some sort of remote (wii) or simply a keyboard i think this would be entertaining and interesting to use a foreign object of some sort to develop some cool midi sounds within the song which could be changed.

A good example was this guy who created raw sound and developed a tune which i thought was really cool this is along my sort of idea and i would like to be able to develop this.

future cinema project evaluation

samwsmith — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:29:21 +0000

I thought that the future cinema project went relatively well within our group because we had a clear idea that was then followed through with some precise planning and development the only problem that i feel we actually had was with implementation as our shot lists and ideas were quite far fetched and resulted in us having too many shots that we didn’t need and not enough shots that we did, but this was a lesson well learnt about filming etc.

The final outcome that we had i feel was a good representation of our original idea and had good use of QR codes etc here are the codes and then underneath will be the URL links.

part 1: homeless

Part 2: Cash machine

Part 3: Mugging

homeless: http://www.youtube.com/v/iW68DQDWkyk

cash point: http://www.youtube.com/v/e9NWKAp5r9E

mugging: http://www.youtube.com/v/HIKBZpxhct8

completed shot list

samwsmith — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:25:03 +0000

SCENE 1
- MS slightly from left and behind Andrew walking through park – track handheld/skateboard dolly
- CU/ECU of Andrew answering phone and pulling out scratch card
- CU of Andrew putting scratch card back in pocket
- LS from bus stop side – slight pan – loose tripod – long end of lens
- CU from bus stop side of Andrew talking on phone – track handheld/skateboard
- LS cut-aways undecided
- LS cut-away link shot (cutaway object includes Andrew into shot, switch focus)

(Timeline jump past roundabout? dialogue continued through cutaways)
- Multiple MS of crossing roundabout – pan from roundabout/from park entrance
- MS of Andrew from road – track with him
- CU over the shoulder scratching lottery ticket – tilt up to tramp
- LS showing Tramp in alleyway and Andrew walking towards camera – slight pan
- MS of Andrew

- CU of Andrew – static with slight camera shake
- MS of Tramp - static with slight camera shake
- CU of Tramp - static with slight camera shake
- MS of both Tramp and Andrew – static
- CU POV of ATM from perspective of Andrew (allow space for floating text)

QR Option 1
- MS of both Andrew and Tramp (giving Tramp fiver and both walk in different directions)
- CU of Tramp’s face - static with slight camera shake
- MS of both – pan following tramp as he walks away
-MS of cash machine with floating typo
-LS of Andrew crossing road walking to cash machine.

QR Option 2
-CU on Andrew’s face as he declines to give money
-CU on tramp’s face
-MS of both – pan following tramp as he walks away
-MS of typo by cash machine/shop
-LS of Andrew crossing road walking to cash machine/straight to shop?

SCENE 2
-LS Establishing of Andrew entering shop
- (Dependant on permission to film in shop) MS Andrew buying cigarettes
-MS Andrew exiting shop, include youth in shot
-MS oh child asking for a cigarette
-MS of Andrew Reply
-Continued dialogue shots
-MS followed by CU of next floating typo QR points to either give/not give child a cigarette

QR Option 1
-MS of both Andrew and child
-CU of Andrew giving cigarette to child
-CU of child’s face, happy, grateful
-MS of Andrew taking money, shoving into his pocket
-Tracking shot, Andrew hurrying away (Along street)
-MS of split between high street and alley way as Andrew stops to light up a cigarette.
-CU of Andrew’s face as scream is heard.
-MS of Split again, Andrew drops cigarette looks round corner
- same shot, camera moves in on mugging down alleyway.
-CU on Andrew’s face (Panic)
- MS of QR points on posts, two decisions, handheld shaky, with typography added floating above.

QR Option 2 (same shots as before, different dialogue at start)
-MS of both Andrew and child
-CU of Andrew refusing cigarette to child.
-CU of child’s face, happy, grateful
-MS of Andrew taking money, shoving into his pocket
-Tracking shot, Andrew hurrying away (Along street)
-MS of split between high street and alley way as Andrew stops to light up a cigarette.
-CU of Andrew’s face as scream is heard.
-MS of Split again, Andrew drops cigarette looks round corner
- same shot, camera moves in on mugging down alleyway.
-CU on Andrew’s face (Panic)
- MS of QR points on posts, two decisions, handheld shaky, with typography added floating above.

SCENE 3

QR Option 1
-MS of split between high street and alley way with Andrew in shot.
-Handheld tracking shot of Andrew sprinting into alley, natural shake.
-CU on fists clenching
-CU on feet running down hill
-CU on Andrew’s face
-Return to MS Tracking run
- MS of Andrew tackling/pushing homeless man away. Mulit-cut editing, take various shots of tackle, piece together.
-CU tramp on floor
-MS of tramp scrambling away down alley way.
-MS standard dialogue between Andrew and girl.
-MS of Andrew exiting alley way begins to walk across road
-CU of scratch card, moving street underneath.
-Screech of car tyres cut to MS of girl shouting after you
-MS of car coming to abrupt stop
-MS of both car and Andrew
-CU on Andrew’s face (relief)
-MS Andrew crossing road, track walking along pavement
-CU on winning scratch card
-CU on Andrew’s face.

QR Option 2
-MS of split between high street and alley way with Andrew in shot.
-CU on Andrew’s face, panic, turns around.
-MS of andrew hurriedly walking into road
-CU on winning scratch card.
-Screech of car tyres, MS of car coming to abrupt stop.
-MS of Andrew’s body hitting the floor.
- CU of scratch card on floor, feet walk behind, hand picks up card.
-CU on homeless man’s smiling face.

OPTIONAL ENDING

(INT BAR SCENE)
-EST. bar shot
-MS of girlfriend outside cinema,
- Andrew steals into shot with smile on his face.
-MS of girlfriend “Finally! Gunna buy me me some popcorn to make it up to me?”
-MS of Andrew “Sorry love, I’m pretty skint”