#dmfproject2

Straight away our group got on incredibly well and we all had a similar direction that we wanted to go in. We all collaborated really well and had so many ideas then we limited it down to a comedy/horror, a horror that was so low budget and dodgy and lame that it was funny. We had so much fun thinking of comedy elements, and I have to say we were in hysterics just discussing it. We had a few possibilities of how we could incorporate the gum, but in the end we decided that the gum would be the one "scary" thing that our main character would react too and inevitably end out character. Tess did such an amazing job on the set, she made a character out of wire that could have an interchangeable head- we all loved this because it meant we could easily change its expression. We had so much fun choosing the music and Nicks idea for the Knight Rider theme when our character is seemingly driving a car (which is later seen to be a horse) was fantastic! To add to the horror theme I remembered that I had some little lights that were different colours and that was perfect for the "car" headlights and the red and green scary mood lighting. Lauren took the photos for the animation and also did an amazing job on the editing. We all contributed to the music selection and I think the music we chose was perfect, it was hilarious when we sped up the dramatic music and the crickets, and Lauren worked tirelessly to cut different sections of the music for it to flow nicely. We thought it might be clever to instead of having dialogue spoken we have the old fashioned silent movie dialogue screens. Nick took this on and made an amazing title card - the skull looked awesome! We were torn between 2 titles for our animation, "Into the Foam" as our set was made from foam, or "The Ante Room" as we filmed it in an ante room. We chose the latter because we thought it had a bit of a creepy vibe to it, and it was a bit of an inside joke too. I think the story line came across pretty well, especially given the expressions on our wire guy, I still find the unimpressed face hilarious and the crickets sound effect made it even better. In all honesty when we presented it to the class I don't know if anybody else found ours as hilarious as we did, but we know it was hilarious!!! If we could do it again I don't think there is anything we would change, I am so happy with the end result and I absolutely loved the group I was in, we all got along so well and each contributed to the project.

Our attempted stop motion film, influenced by Michael Jacksons 'Thriller' by sonara, belinda and myself

Gum is dreaming about his first day of Digital Media Fundamentals, when he is awakened by a cockerel crowing. Gum is tired, he reluctantly throws back the covers, gets out of bed, stretches and yawns before he realises he is naked. Oh! Gum is embarrassed and runs to the bathroom to get ready and to make himself presentable. Meanwhile we observe his room, the curtains blowing in the breeze, steam and whistling emanating from the bathroom. Gum emerges from the bathroom dressed and ready to go, hoping his day will run smoothly.

Working on our Stop Motion Animation today

Great to see all 4 groups in our DMF class taking photos for their stopmotion animation projects today!

the second one we narrowed it down to. 

the group went searching for some creepy background music we could use for the video, that wouldn't distract too much from the story. this was one of two that we narrowed it down to.

Next we discussed how we would create this story. We decided on a combination of drawn animation and live action footage. Jenna and I filmed Maria for the live action footage, and then I drew the sketches for the animation and Jenna coloured and edited them.  I enjoyed the transition from real life to imagination in our movie, I also like the over-all story and how the drama of the footage and music contrasts with the style of drawings which creates an amusing effect. The group didn’t encounter any particular problems during this project, aside from the fact that none of us had any experience with animation prior to this class. It would have been preferable if we had more time to work on this project, since animation is a complicated and lengthy exercise. If we had more time I think we could have created something better, but considering the time frame we were given I’m quite pleased with the end result.