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Motion Graphics Reactions:

"Do me a favor, and stick your project in a box, and bury it, would you? it's making us look bad."
- Olivia

Yes, the review went really well. Josh was up until 6 editing that morning, and it showed. The piece came out pretty much exactly as we had imagined it. Now we just have to sort out the sounds.

Speaking of sounds, our sound project is getting desperate. Tomorrow is our last day to put something together before the review on Wednesday, and we don't really have any material!
I am meeting Emma at 10 am and trying to get some stuff recorded. Hope it goes well. Just have to re-gain our enthusiasm.

Sounds like a load of crap

I do not like this sound project.

It is very annoying, and I think that I could be putting my efforts into the motion graphics project, and my typography projects, which could be really really amazing if I could focus on them more.

Anyway, after meeting with my group this evening, and trying to build that damn foxhole radio unsuccessfully, I am really down beat.

Instead, we think we should go around on Tuesday, and record people's mobile phone conversations without them knowing. Also, the sounds of their phones ringing. In the background, we can have the mobile interference noise, and maybe keypad noises of people dialing.

We can start out gradually. First a ringing and a hello. Then we build up with more noises/ conversations, until it becomes a really hectic, busy sound representing the fact that everyone on the world is constantly connecting and using their mobile phones.

This covers all three aspects of the project. It explores location, documentary (in that we are recording actual conversations), abstraction (we are creating a piece, overlaying, and meshing sounds), and narrative (telling a story/ making a point by having just one voice, then many voices/ chaos building up).

After getting back to the halls at 10: 30 pm, I finally ate dinner, and started bending wires to make my message for my bubble type. It's 12: 46 am right now, and I have to be at uni at 9:45 for the motion graphics review with a bottle of wine for the banquet. Where does the time go? I think I'm calling it a night.

Bubble Type

Preparing the wire frame letters for my bubble type. Started yesterday, but had to stop until I got a pair of pliers/ wire clippers. I have procured said tools and now I can commence the crafting!

Well, after I spend a good amount of time with my sister and Justin and Jamie while they're in town :)

I have a camera booked (thank you David Barnett!) from Tuesday evening until Friday of next week, so I can film during the night for the lantern type, and during the day for the bubbles.

Thankful Every Day

I decided that last night would be a perfect time to test out the flying lanterns. I had friends and family in town, and was celebrating a Thanksgiving abroad with one of my best friends from New York.

So, what to write as a message on this lone flying lantern?

I thought about writing out what specifically I was thankful for this year, but there were way too many things!

So instead I decided on this message:

..and the story reveals itself

(filming for the motion graphics project continues.)

Film within a film within a film...

Intelligent design storyboard started out looking like this:

But now, we're going with something more like this:

First, Morgan draws Emma. Then, we see that the drawing of Emma comes to life, and Emma is making a model of Morgan, who is still drawing Emma. Then we see that Josh is filming Emma making Morgan, and we see that Morgan is drawing a picture of Josh filming Emma and Morgan...

and if everything goes terrible, it's ok, because according to creationism, it's all been planned out. Everything has already happened, so we can't actually do anything wrong. How convenient!