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At the beginning of this digital media production course i was really into maya, found my transition from college to AUCB quit easy as my college course (interactive media) is very similar, one of the main reasons why i choose to join the Digital media production course was mainly to expand on my own skills, and for the work placements
the maya lessons at the beginning was easy as i had two year experience the the interface how ever, we started using mental ray and making realistic maya models after the first term, I could not keep up with mental ray of rendering. the thing about maya is its such a huge program that its rare to find someone who know everything about it, thats because in the industry you would only really be doing one job e.g one person to do the rigging and one person to do the rendering. this is why animation are generally done by companies such as pixair as animation isn’t very cost affective.
Principles for Computer Graphics was my first project and we had to do a motion graphics piece using after affects, allot of people were doing pieces based round drinking i really wanted to do something outside the box, i started by looking thought my face book photos from the beginning of uni and i found a few photos from when me and some new friends went to a field and had a camp fire. i really wanted to recreate the feeling of socialism around a fire. there is something really tribal about fire and the union of people huddled in the cold around a camp fire. I wanted to do this using after affect and green screen, I would make an environment in maya and composite the environment around the people would give a se-real experience, At the beginning i was interested in doing the (northern lights) but i thought i would look like a cheesy video of a bunch of stoners. so i decided to focus on narrative and speech, this would lead me to the pub. At the pub i sat down with friends and began to write down what people were saying, i then used my notes to make the worse conversation i could. the idea was to make it sound as if the conversation was all natural, the script was about people talking rubbish.when it came to green screening i had a rough idea of how it worked, but didn’t realize how mini dv cams compress information, so when i started editing my footage in after affect i had trouble keying the green from the green screen. i should have used a HD camera and i should have used a directional mic or boom mic. i think my goal was a bit ambitious for a first project but i feel as if i learnt allot and if i had to do it again it would be of much better quality.
Principals of Sound and Video
We had to work as a group for this project in which we had to make a viral video. we were given leachers about the types of cameras and how they work. we also had to define what viral video actually means. A viral video is a video clip that gains popularity through the process of internet sharing and social network sites, we came up with the idea of a stop motion music piece. my group pulled together very well however At first the filming was slightly unorganized as we didn’t know what to film first so when we were first supposed to be filming we decided to sit down together and plan it so that it would make it easier and everybody knew exactly what they were doing.We decided to film each instrument separately so we started off with the keyboard. This was filmed at one of the group members house as there was a lot of space and she had access to some of the instruments we required. We first filmed each group member playing the set notes on the keyboard. At first we did not know what was really happening so we quickly wrote out a storyboard in order for us to visulise they angles and positions to film in. As our idea was for each member to play each instrument but one of the members would be a main participant for one instrument we first filmed Myself. I was going to be the main body for the keyboard sequence. I play the different notes but to get a cool stop motion effect we I had to play each note in different body positions. The keyboard being an instrument that is compact, we had to make shore who ever was playing it had to move about a bit more than you would normally. After I had been filmed the others in the group all took our turn in playing this instrument and moving in different positions. im really happy how our video trued out, but i didn’t get a chance to do any editing
halfway thought (Principles for Computer Graphics) and (Principals of Sound and Video) we were introduce to anther project called (computer graphics for animation and film) For this everyone had to make a 3D animation to go with some sound. i found it had to come up with an idea at the time, now when i look back its obvious i should have done a mind map to work out my idea. i chose to do a a small family of robots dancing in a bedroom. The software we had to use was, Maya. I wasn’t nervous about using Maya at all, maya has a steep learning curve which puts people off using it. that and the fact you have to teach yourself it using videos online as there is hundreds of way to approach a task. I’ve done maya modeling before, texturing, lighting, and animating however rigging is new to me, i had no problems with this project except the textures disappeared when i moved some file but it was a quick fix, Im quit happy the way it worked out.
short form video The aim for this project was to write, film and produce a short film with a duration of 10 minutes approx. The plot was already written for us and split into the perspectives of six groups of characters. Our class has been split into six groups and each group has been assigned one perspective to write from. These groups consisted of Documentary, Lecturer, Police, TV News, Students and Terrorists. my group was given the role of the Terrorists. We decide rather than do your every day muslim or irish terrorist that we would be cyber terrorists like the people who attacked Estonia (estonian cyberwar) Refers to a series of cyber attacks that began in april 2007 and bombarded the small countries Websites e.g Banks, Ministries, newspapers and broadcasters bringing the country to its knees. Estonia had to cut themselves off, i came up with the idea from something that i had seen on bbc iplayer the week before.the story line follow terrorist called The Leet Haxors, which are the cyber-terrorist group have had one of the members deported to the states after being caught computer hacking to access top confidential government information. The whole terrorist group were involved in getting access to the information but unfortunately one of them was traced. They themselves, abduct a lecture and hold him hostage in order for the release of their member. We based this concept on a similar story that is happening in real life of a computer hacker facing US trail after being accused of braking into US military computers. i got really stressed with project as we had to rewrite script and change our finale location which mad it harder to film our other senses.
Post production The aim is to create a piece that utilizes the skills we have learned in post production. For this project I was going to produce an animation or object that can be layered over live footage. To do this I would have had to use Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere. my idea was to go try and Create a flying car, I hoped to place the car into footage of a road or in a car park. i probably had to of learnt learn about time-code to achieve this affect. halfway thought my project i changed my mind to an old idea, i wanted to try and convey a human emotion using post production, The idea is that i will place a subject in front of a green screen and ask them to look sad and alone. composites behind them will be a busy high street, but the the footage of the high street will be done on SLR camera (1 frame every 5 seconds) This give the effect that time is moving on fast (time lapse) while the subject in the fore ground is left behind, however before half term i realized that i wouldn’t have time so i went for an adapted idea, i got my friend to sit on one side of a picnic table and sit quietly the filmed him again on the other side talk a load of rubbish. the idea was that he was having a convocation with his twin brother and that there personalities were opacities i found this quit easy to do however i did this outside and the sun kept disappearing and reappearing which make spilt screening hard to do.
I learnt quit a bit about equipment this year and hope to become more and more familiar with editing software as well as doing some more project on film
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Name: Daniel Vincent Sullivan
Address: 47 west house, Wallisdown, Poole, Dorset BH12 5HH
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Email: 0602560@googlemail.com
Last Employer: 2007-Sep 09
Mothercare World Kew Unit 1a Bessant Drive, Mortlake Rd, Kew, Richmond - Surry, TW9
Position sale adviser (Customer service)
Duties
I am till trained on customer service tills, doing refunds/sales, web orders, spares/repairs and baby plan orders. I have been trained to fit car seats and demonstrate push chairs, as well as giving product advice. I deal promptly with the delivery, making sure that the stock room is in good order. Replenishment, updating POSs, promoting and opening Mothercare store cards, and data captures. Handling phone enquires while delivering a high standard of customer care.
Previous Employment (Voluntary) 2006-July 09
St. Johns Ambulance
Position First Aider
Duties
Volunteered for St Johns Ambulance Teddington Devision. I worked with the public at events and was trained in dealing with conflicts as well as how to assess and diffuse difficult situations, I am also trained in First Aid at Work and AED’s (Automatic Electronic Defoliators)
Education and Qualifications 2001-06 Orleans Park School
(GCSE)
Science Biology C - Science Chemistry C – English C - SAT’s C – Geography C – Art C – Design Tech D - ICT C - Maths D
2006-09 Richmond upon Thames College
(B-tech)
Interactive Media – Double Merit
Sept 2009 Art University College of Bournemouth
(BA hons)
Digital Media Production – (Currently Studying)
Profile
I am enthusiastic, reliable, friendly, trustworthy and eager to learn new things. I have excellent customer service skills, and have worked for two years in a customer focused environment, I have excellent communication skills. I am able to use my own initiative and also work well as part of a team. I am able to take direction from others and adapt to what’s needed of me. My Hobbies are Socializing, Art, computer animations, Heritage, Culture also Cycling and Reading.
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