Saturday, August 13, 2011

(MA) Roundup of the presentation in April

Forgot to add this to the blog, but its still quite funny how many things changed during all that time inbetween.

Unfortunatly I don't have the presentation in written form, I like to show pictures while doing a presentation and speak while doing it, explaining the facts, which I believe does make a difference, compared to reading it from a paper.

During the presentation I spoke about the map of Edinburgh and how I could find some imagery looking at the streets layout of the map.

Well, that didn't work quite well as I hoped.

The two factions we talked about in the presentation were witch-hunters and cultists, both trying to control the city by laying down symbols and such around. That changed as well. I will explain a bit more later.

The symbolism and the style approach of my style is still the same though.

That's about it really, I will explain what changed into what later on.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

(MA) The final push!

Last night with a final push I finished editing the movie and rendering it.

I ran into several problems, apparently my camera records in quicktime and the movie editing program I use couldn't work with it. I tried several converters to turn it into .mpeg but they didn't work on several clips for some reason. Strange.

Anyways, I dodged that problem by taking screenshots from the movies and putting them together. In a way its much better since it was raining the day of our shooting (and every other day) and the videos were kinda hard to see, so picking out each better scene as a screenshot is quicker to understand for the viewer.

The video is about 3 minutes long now, but I'm planning on adding some more stuff, maybe 1 more minute of explanations as I think it covers the whole project in a very fast way. Considering how we are graded by the explanation of our work, I believe I need to add more details.

Apart from that, I think I'm about done now and prepped for the final show and the assessments. We'll see how it goes.