Camera shake.

Getting this result in your photo is very easy and simple. you don’t need a tripod so this is one of the easier methods to do. There are 3 different types of shake, There’s up and down, side to side and around . both give the same effect but some will better with particular images than some. We did some today in the studio, here’s an example of the shake. mise-en-san. in this piece shows the pastel colours blending in nicely with the centenary, especially the flowers on the side making the thin trees pop with detail.This whole piece is all bright and vagrant with nothing hiding in the dark.

Abstract motion blur.

To create a abstract motion blur you need the shutter speed to be at least 1/500+ to see what shutter speed is suiting for your picture. A blur is a chance to explore colour, pattern and forget about the picky detail- even though it is nice- It’s a fun way to experiment with your camera and get the results to be very cool.

Another way to do a motion abstract monitor  blur is to tilt your camera clockwise and anti clockwise. With this you can easily get a spiral like effect to your picture.

here’s an example

mise-en-san. In this image there’s only colours that  blend and match well, the blue and brown shades compliment each over well to make it almost smooth like its been painted. It feels like as if you’re on a roller coaster ride going around and all you can see if the blur of the outside.

Ghosting

Ghosting is caused is caused when moving objects across multiple images are combined into one image. you’ll need to have a low light so you know it’s a low shutter speed. you’ll need to remind the model so when they hear the first click they don’t move in blur. Depending on your camera sometimes it’s a beep that goes off. you’ll need a low shutter speed of 1/8 seconds so you can get the ghosting effect you want. Here is an example of ghosting .

mise-en-san. This Image does have a very dark theme to it, however it can mean a lot of things, but the main one is that he jumped and this is his ghost visiting. The suspense and dark theme of this ghosting method is very effective. The majorette of  ghosting has a dark element to them but some can grab your attention in a positive light.

Facial Blur

For this technique you’ll need a tripod. Use a long shutter speed and get your model to to move their face during the shot. You can use any body part to use this but it’s more effective on trying to show two emotions within one picture. The ending result can look real nice once the end result has been edited with colour balance. here’s an example of the facial blur.

mise-en-san. Even though this image is showing both facial features the same emotion you cant help but to feel there’s a lot more emotion to it than normal, the image is in black and white something that stands out a lot more than it would have in colour as it gives suspense in the picture.

Today we did a little animation test with a ball and the squash and stretch technique. we all took turns drawing the balls and taking the photos. the end result ended up looking like this:

The only thing i wan to improve about this piece is that the other balls were rubbed out properly, otherwise it turned out really well.

1. Squash and stretch- gives illusion of weight and volume to a subject, and is often used for comical effect.
2. Anticipation- prepares the audiences for action, and increases the realism of action. Sometimes used to heighten the suspense of a scene.
3. Arcs- Humans and animals always move in arcs. Arcs increases the realism of the subject’s action.
4. Ease in & ease out- The subject needs time to slow down – and speed up. Drawings between two extreme poses provide the subject with greater realistic movement.
5. Appeal- Animated characters need to captivate audiences. Complicated character faces and lack of symmetry often make it difficult for audiences to connect.
6. Timing- More frames create slower action, whilst fewer frames create faster action.
7. Solid Drawing- Adds weight, volume and 3D illusion to the subject
8. Exaggeration- Presents the physical features or elements of a character in an exaggerated form.
9. Pose to pose- Works for highly emotional and dramatised scenes. Involved drawing a few key frames for each action, followed by filling the intervals.
10. Staging- Communicates the primary mood, action or idea of a scene. Animators, Johnston and Thomas defined it as “The presentation of any idea so that it is completely and unmistakably clear.”
11. Secondary action- Emphasises and supports the primary action of the subject, whilst providing scenes with greater life.
12. Follow Through- Refers to parts of the subject that continues to move after a completed action. For example, the movement of a hand after an object has been thrown.

Our idea is to use photographic animation to piece together an animation to raise awareness for suicide. Our group (me, Alfie and Izzy) have decided to use the awareness of suicide as it’s something that is looked over in the country. We have a lot to do for the next couple days, we will be reading a ‘suicide note’ over some music that we may compose or get some instrumental music. yesterday and some of today i managed to draw the story board step by step on how we’re going to plan out our steps.

we’ve booked the music room all week next week so we can plan what we’re going to do. We will also need to book the studio for an hour or two so we can do the first couple of scenes, otherwise it’s just outside for the rest of the day, we will be doing the writing outside as we need to keep it in the same area.

This morning we did some ink work. We had a variety of  of ink colours to choose from, instead of just putting ink on my paper, i decided to draw a sketch of a leopard with horns. I was going to drip the ink from the eyes but then i just decided to put the ink at the top so that the ink will run down past and onto my sketch so that when you look at it you’ll see the image when you really focus. We were given a variety of materials to make the ink run, we could just put the ink at the top of the page and make it run by tipping it, but we had pipette, wooden sticks and straws to blow into to make it more concentrated. The only colour ink i used was black as it fitted the whole aesthetic that i was going for, but there was yellow, green, orange, blue and red. It was fun seeing how these artists do ink manipulation, I can say it does take a steady hand and free time.

Ink manipulation is commonly used in cartoons and anime to get a stretched out effect of a particular scene. In photography it could be used to portray different feelings to make us feel a different  way, an example i have of this is by a user on pinterest that is by a french artist that name i cannot find.

The multiple exposure is more of a soft and elegant type of form thats effective to use and easy to create once you know what is needed. this is done by photographer Sara

Fragmentation is an odd way to do an image. its not known as much in the photography industry to do something as creative as this. this photographer Giulia Leggieri has really caught my eye because of how all her works seem to fall off the page

we are in a group of 3 and have decided to do stop motion animation using photographs that we will take later on during the time we have. I wrote a plan before we edited most of it.

• Hand drawn
• CGI ( computer generated imagery)
• Stop motion
• Cut out animation
• Live-action

Frames: FPS, different image per frame

Rotoscoping: animators trace live action movement, frame by frame.

Cel animation: a cel, short for celluloid is transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or printed for traditional, hand-drawn animated.

Limited Animation: Limited animation is a process of making animated cartoons that does not redraw entire frames but variability reuses common parts between frames. Examples of this is manga and the Hannah Barbra animation.

Paper cut out animation.

Strengths: cut-out animation provides a really effective feel

Limitations: time consuming and it can be limiting.

Silhouette animation

Definition: a variant of cutout animation in which the characters are blacklist and only visible silhouettes

Fact: The game Limbo closely mirrors the effect of the silhouette / cutout animation and mirrors its slow movements and stylistic qualities. This form of animation also compliments its dark storyline.

Live action with animation

Strengths: makes films more accessible for families and adds a humorous tone.

Limitations: Expensive to make, as requires both animators and the cost hiring the cast.

Stop motion – animation

Strengths: Animators look really effective and stop motion has man sub-genres that each create really unique animations.

Limitations: it can be very time consuming and takes lots of planning.

CGI animation

Strengths: It allows people that are not good at art to become animators and is more accessible to everyday people.

Limitations: Software suits and computers can be expensive and some suggest CGI does not produce such authentic characters.

CGI has revolutionized animation and the techniques available to animations.

At the beginning it was a muddle on what we all wanted to do, we knew that the topic was food, we had one set straight and that was the chicken nuggets but nothing else. we were torn between pancakes, curry buns and cakes  / donuts, we settled on donuts in the end. That day i found pictures for inspiration for the mood board that turns out to be similar to one of our final projects. We had our rick assessments done and our plans for our day out the next day. we booked the studio for 11-1, we had more than enough time to get prepared. The next day we did indeed get what we needed, it was a long trip but it was worth it, the results were absolutely amazing. I enjoyed making my scene look as blended and aesthetic as possible as i had a vision from one of the mood board picture i saw. As this took us 2 days (+1 for the editing of them) it was fairly easy and something that i enjoyed, we all had roles to do and those roles we all enjoyed. no one was left doing nothing we were all doing something and communicating. This is so far my favourite project, really anything with aesthetics is my favourite as its so nice to blend and the food photography with it really topped it off.

After reading the feed back the one thing that was bugging everyone was the mug, it didn’t have anything in it, so i quickly went into Photoshop and added some. from a far it looks fine its only when you zoom in it doesn’t. this is one of my goals this year, become better at Photoshop.