We all went to broadmarsh cinema to attend the screening of our very first film that we have produced as a group. I found the response that we got very pleasing. Everyone took there own response to this 2 min narrative film. It was interesting how everyone took either there own personal response to the film and the way that they conveyed there ideas.
I thought the film that was talking about discrimination was a very strong piece of filming. I liked the way that they filmed individuals to get their own response to what discrimination meant to them.
Trainers in love i thought it was an interesting way to convey love through a trainers.
And also the one were they walked through the house with the song Massive Attack 'teardrop' worked really well i liked the way the moved the camera into each room quite slowly which worked with the music, the music also gave the film emotion so that you connect with the person that had been doing drugs.
Post it this film was interesting the way the film was focused on post it notes.
The animation that was in black and white with the figures fitting was really good even though it didn't have any music it still worked but, by not having the music it made you gave it a different perspective in the way music can have a big impression towards a film,it fills in the gaps. You could tell they worked hard on the film/animation.
Mr Pickle this film unusual in the way that the background was like a game and then layered over the top was this character Mr pickle. I thought the background was interesting and the amount of detail in the background was good, it made you travel through each of the chapters.The film reminded me of 'Charlie Chaplin' only because of the way Mr Pickle was moving.
And also the film /documentary about 'chaise long' it was a completely different aspect of telling you information about chairs. I wasn't expecting it , i thought it was going to turn into an animation. I thought it wasn't very multimedia inspired.
The film/animation about a student living in university it was quite like ours. But, i still liked it thr comic strip went throughout the film which made it more appelling to the eye.
The video which was about this character in an office was interesting i thought the credit and the end with the paper strips worked really well.

9 to5
The concept of our 2 minute narrative short film is based around one persons transition into education and university life.
Our character in this film is a young man who has been working in a dead endjob. He has grown bored with his minimum wage income,tired of his repetitive daily routine and he feels like his life is going nowhere fast. Just another cog in the machine.
whilst on his breakat work one day,our character is sat at his desk flicking through a comic book to pass the time. After a short while he slips off to sleep at his desk adn enters into a dream about quitting his job and going to university.
We then enter a comic book style dream witha ll his new found freedom away from working 9 to 5. Our individual turns into a bit of a party animal and doesn't take this new life as serious as he should be. This dream shows us his downfalls and how miss understood the meaning of becoming a student is to him.
He awakes from his dream by his boss,who in turn fires him from his job for sleeping whilst at work. This however doesn't phase our character as he has now made up his mind to go back into education and this time he knows what not to do.
This is our 9 to 5 film

9 to5
The concept of our 2 minute narrative short film is based around one persons transition into education and university life.
Our character in this film is a young man who has been working in a dead endjob. He has grown bored with his minimum wage income,tired of his repetitive daily routine and he feels like his life is going nowhere fast. Just another cog in the machine.
whilst on his breakat work one day,our character is sat at his desk flicking through a comic book to pass the time. After a short while he slips off to sleep at his desk adn enters into a dream about quitting his job and going to university.
We then enter a comic book style dream witha ll his new found freedom away from working 9 to 5. Our individual turns into a bit of a party animal and doesn't take this new life as serious as he should be. This dream shows us his downfalls and how miss understood the meaning of becoming a student is to him.
He awakes from his dream by his boss,who in turn fires him from his job for sleeping whilst at work. This however doesn't phase our character as he has now made up his mind to go back into education and this time he knows what not to do.

Interactive Narrative 'My Place'

Interactive Narrative
'My Place'
We've been asked to design an interactive narrative project called 'my place'.You will have to develope a conceptual design and take a series of digital photographs. You then have to pick your favourite place in Nottingham and photographs of your favourite place and once you have arrange the photographs ,using html image-maps and hypertext links and so through those links the viewer will be linked through 'my place', so they can interactive.
I watched 'Delicatessen' and thats were my idea came from. In the opening scene were you have to click on each of the items and then onced youve done that it will lead you into the appropriate link. So from that i evoloved my idea, i looked around for restaurants and i found a place called 'French Living' which fitted with my initial idea. I took some digital photographs around the shop from different perspectives and i then put them into photoshop changed to image sizes and edited down to the ones that i wanted.
I have learnt through out this interactive narrative, learnt alot of javascript which i have never learnt before and hopefully i will develop a concept of javascript. As i was working through my idea i found out that at the end there were missing pieces. I should of done a rough draft and then i could of got more photographs to lead the viewer through it. I thought 'my place' needs a few alterations to it i.e. put clues or hints of were to go and maybe more links and aswell.What i also wanted to was if the viewer went the wrong way they would have to start again and then start over again. Throught this project i have also been doing a storyboard, so that i can keep up with any of the alterations that i was planning on doing, and so that i knew what each of the images were called so that i can be organised. I incounted alot of technical problems one was not having the knowledge of javascript, but i feel like i gone passednot having the knowledge i have learnt from them.If i had another chance to do this project again i would of gone and got more digital photographs and thought about maybe doing a practise one and if there needed to be any alterations i could of fix them at an earlier stage.I thought the concept of my idea worked well having the digital photographs being colour which i found it to be more interesting in the way it was eye catching and it was a simple layout you didn't have to do alot. But in the case of not it being hard to figure out what to do the viewer might become bored.

image meaning

'The Angel of the North'
Angel of the North has been sculpted by Antony Gormley and is located near Gateshead. The Angel of the North. The Local Council wanted to have a landmark sculpture at the entrance to Tyneside.
Antony Gormley a British sculptor uses the human form to explore man's existence in and relation to the world.Born in London in 1950.
The Angel of the North is based on Antony Gormleys body" The human body espically his own has been a subject in sculpture that explores humanity and community and space". (quote that Antony Gormley said.)
Functionality
Its wide, open arms greet visitors as they reach Gateshead, whether you come by road or rail. Its wings are 54 metres (175 feet) wide 20metres high. Made from weather resistant steel,it also contains copper which gives the angel of the north the warmth.
When you go and see it your first of all struck by is the size.The tourists that go and see it can interact with the Angel of the North because you can either personalise it or get a photograph takin by the sculpture. The Angel of the North has become an iconic image.
Aesthetic beauty
The sculpture is almost the same size as the wingspan of a jumbo jet. Also has a sentimental factor to me it reminds me of holidays that we have had in Northumberland and also it is part of my own heritage in that my mother was born in Tyneside.
The size makes you feel small and insignificant when you touch it was hard and cold. I’m really interested in the human form the way we look, see, touch etc. I think having the colour it gives you warmth .Community it reminds people of the ship building history of the north east. It’s com the beauty of the human form. The space it’s set in means that you can see this angel figure from miles away.