Today we finally exported our video. It took two days to get the audio done, after re-exporting all our files due to a formatting problem of the originals. The originals were 5k and far too big to edit, export or play on the macs we were using to edit. The title of our video is 'Where Alice Went'. It is a combination of...

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Altough the script has never really been finished, there is a shot list which can be found below. It came out of all the shots we had taking around london and in Kingston in combination with the characters we were most interested in during our research. The highlight colour indicate who is animating the shot, the strip-through shows if the shot is done...

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The story that was written for the video, contained more scenes and more quotes than were used in the end. This has to do with the amount of footage we have as well as the amount of time it would have taken to animate certain scenes, such as the card queen scene. As stated in our pitch and treatment, we have only used...

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Next to making working on my own project, I'm also helping out others. In this case, a project Amanda and Rosie are working on about international students and as an international student myself I've been helping them out. Past Sunday we filmed several scenes at my flat, to be used in their video. Before the filming, however, I wrote a short piece about...

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Program Idea: A stop-motion/Digital ink and paint animation based on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, using only Alice’s dialogue as a guide through Wonderland. We will be using photos of London as our Wonderland and aim to emphasis the themes of identity, the subjectivity of reality and growing up. Genre: Fantasy/Animation/Surrealism Title: Where Alice Went Synopsis: In our short film we will be showing...

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While this might be a video project, mostly still images are being used. This is to make the backgrounds of our video stop motion but also to animate drawn (still) characters. To make any of it move, the pictures need to be brought together in a pleasing way as to create movement. For the background, Teresa worked in Premiere Pro. It should be noted...

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Adobe relatively recently allowed Creative cloud users to use the preview version of Character Animator. This program is specifically made to animate photoshop puppets in a fluent manner. For this is uses a webcam and a multitude of layers and maps in photoshop. Now, the use of layers is always useful, but in character animator there are certain requirements that were asked of the layers that seemed strange to someone who has rarely drawn characters in...

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The last project of this module is a group project, meaning that I need to have a group. Last year my group project was not the best experience I've ever had, as the other members of my group did very little and I carried most of the work of the project, by both writing, directing and editing the video.  Luckily Teresa and Rita...

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In our case, animation comes down to making puppets and moving them in After Effects. To create the puppets I used references and mostly traced the outlines of the figures. Part of these figures we photographed while in London shooting on location while others come from stock pictures.  The puppets are part of the environment in that some of them came out of the...

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For many years I've loved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. Many adaptations have been made and they all take a different perspective on the story. Click on the pictures for more information. The Book The first Alice in Wonderland book I ever read was illustrated by Lisbeth Zweger. Unlike the Disney version of Alice, here she was a normal...

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For the final video, we need to work with a crew and we are free to do whatever we want.Over the past 3 weeks my ideas have evolved from a cooking show to an animation. My original plan was a cooking show for students, but this quickly turned out not to be something I would have enjoyed making. In every new project I...

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Over the past few months I've been making videos almost every day and I've called them #TinyAdventures due to them only being parts of everyday life. As part of the practical module I decided I wanted to get better at editing, especially when it involves music. The idea of using the walking feet to introduce the audience to the videos comes from the...

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