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.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
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.
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.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
(MA) progress..
Well, the trip is done, and a week of massive workload is finally came to a stop thanks to the weekend.
Which brings us to...more MA stuff! yay!
So basically, me and serkan finally got the project running online, and we did a mockup run with QR tags last weekend, recorded it as video to show a short movie at the end of the year show.
I did about 4-5 drawings over the weekend to go on the websites for the project. I'll explain how it works.
The background//story, the first thing the players see:
The players see a QR tag, availible to both factions, click on it and read the storyline. They pick a faction, either choose to hide the "truth" or to spread it. Then they find more QR tags, scattered around with clues where to find them. Which leads them deeper into the layers of the story, with more artworks and fun! - well hopefully
Some of the artworks I've done, they're quick jobs, as we were pushed by the time limit (I had to get back to work - thus London) but if the project continues, I can make more detailed ones.
Before you ask, the writings are just gibberish, I've looked at several oriental and non-latin alphabets and just drew similar images.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse
So what will happen now? Tomorrow and next weekend I'll make the small video. I need to make some pages and some explanation writings for the video, edit it and render it afterwards. I'm not very experienced in the subject but hopefully all will go well =)
See you later!
Which brings us to...more MA stuff! yay!
So basically, me and serkan finally got the project running online, and we did a mockup run with QR tags last weekend, recorded it as video to show a short movie at the end of the year show.
I did about 4-5 drawings over the weekend to go on the websites for the project. I'll explain how it works.
The background//story, the first thing the players see:
The players see a QR tag, availible to both factions, click on it and read the storyline. They pick a faction, either choose to hide the "truth" or to spread it. Then they find more QR tags, scattered around with clues where to find them. Which leads them deeper into the layers of the story, with more artworks and fun! - well hopefully
Some of the artworks I've done, they're quick jobs, as we were pushed by the time limit (I had to get back to work - thus London) but if the project continues, I can make more detailed ones.
Before you ask, the writings are just gibberish, I've looked at several oriental and non-latin alphabets and just drew similar images.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse
So what will happen now? Tomorrow and next weekend I'll make the small video. I need to make some pages and some explanation writings for the video, edit it and render it afterwards. I'm not very experienced in the subject but hopefully all will go well =)
See you later!
Sunday, July 17, 2011
(MA) part2
Well, some advances today, we seem to be making some advances. We'll do some tryout videos tomorrow if the weather holds. Its been raining like hell lately.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
(MA) Some advances
Some ideas!
a- The design aspect of the game changed a bit when we realised we wanted to use hidden signs on the photographs. The cellphone screens are quite small to see photo manupilation on a detailed scale, and giving massive glowing signs on the buildings seems like a better idea.
The game will have a webpage where we can hopefully get people logged in via facebook. There, when they click on the QR tags on the specific zones, they will get a small "scenario" and a photo, moving their "account" or the player into the next layer of "reality"
It kinda sounds confusing, but bear with me. Also I have found out by accident that you can insert other imagery into QR tags up to 15% of the whole image(Although you have to avoid touching the squares on the corners) and get away with it. The phone still reads, although you have to try several positions. This could be a nice idea to make the QR tags more of our own. I will practice with them a bit more.
The glowing signs I'm talking about are going to be something similar like these;
Something like this.
Meanwhile, I did more drawings, in a dark mood lately, it's raining mad here in Edinburgh.
While I'm working on these ideas, Serkan is trying to get the website running now.
a- The design aspect of the game changed a bit when we realised we wanted to use hidden signs on the photographs. The cellphone screens are quite small to see photo manupilation on a detailed scale, and giving massive glowing signs on the buildings seems like a better idea.
The game will have a webpage where we can hopefully get people logged in via facebook. There, when they click on the QR tags on the specific zones, they will get a small "scenario" and a photo, moving their "account" or the player into the next layer of "reality"
It kinda sounds confusing, but bear with me. Also I have found out by accident that you can insert other imagery into QR tags up to 15% of the whole image(Although you have to avoid touching the squares on the corners) and get away with it. The phone still reads, although you have to try several positions. This could be a nice idea to make the QR tags more of our own. I will practice with them a bit more.
The glowing signs I'm talking about are going to be something similar like these;
Something like this.
Meanwhile, I did more drawings, in a dark mood lately, it's raining mad here in Edinburgh.
While I'm working on these ideas, Serkan is trying to get the website running now.
Friday, July 15, 2011
(MA) Edinburgh trip part 1
Hello all,
Today I've arrived to edinburgh to finally finish our project, or atleast take giant steps forwards. I will be uploading the blog everyday. So....lets begin!
Today I've arrived to edinburgh to finally finish our project, or atleast take giant steps forwards. I will be uploading the blog everyday. So....lets begin!
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
(MA) Update
Hey everyone,
The project is going well. In about 2 weeks I will head to edinburgh to finally finish up everything and record the documentary for the final show.
Busy with the art side of the project these days, trying to get the design ready. I will hopefully post some pictures soon with some of the 'layers' I'm preparing for it.
The project is going well. In about 2 weeks I will head to edinburgh to finally finish up everything and record the documentary for the final show.
Busy with the art side of the project these days, trying to get the design ready. I will hopefully post some pictures soon with some of the 'layers' I'm preparing for it.
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