Character Design: Tattoo Artist
TEST VIDEOS
Friday, February 24, 2012
Possible Outcome of Video Display
This image shows the basic pattern our videos will be following until the last video which will lead to the end.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Status Update - 2/20/12
Interactive Narrative Project Status Update.
Status - Good
Erin and I have cast all of our actors (a total of 6) and have the entire script with every single camera angle for the cooresponding shots. We have everything planned out to where all we have to do is execute. As far as filming goes we are about 40% complete; we have finished everything that could be shot in the dark. We are just waiting for our schedules to comply with eachothers to shoot day-time action shots. After shooting, the difficult task of compiling, editing, and adding effects will take place in the program FLASH. The only trouble we have ran into so far is the fact the both Erin and I have absolutely no experience using the FLASH program. So from here on out its tutorials and more filming.
Stay tuned folks! (:
Status - Good
Erin and I have cast all of our actors (a total of 6) and have the entire script with every single camera angle for the cooresponding shots. We have everything planned out to where all we have to do is execute. As far as filming goes we are about 40% complete; we have finished everything that could be shot in the dark. We are just waiting for our schedules to comply with eachothers to shoot day-time action shots. After shooting, the difficult task of compiling, editing, and adding effects will take place in the program FLASH. The only trouble we have ran into so far is the fact the both Erin and I have absolutely no experience using the FLASH program. So from here on out its tutorials and more filming.
Stay tuned folks! (:
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Interactive Narration - Format Idea
This sketch is a simple idea of how Erin and I would like the interactive narrative to look from the beginning selection screen. Our idea is to have the user click on a person and then the video corresponding to that person will start playing. If at anytime the user wants to click on a different person, the option will be available for them to select another character which will start their video.
Interactve Narration Script
This is a complete outline of the 4 stories thatare going to be intertwined in mine and Erin's interactive narrtion. The 4 strangers will all be drawn towards the same ending.
In a world where strangers are brought together by stranger things: 4 people from different lives are united one afternoon to satisfy a strange fate. These are their stories:
“Life may not always lead you down the same path, but it is the little things that bring us all together.”
1. Sorority Girl (Dorm Style – Ramen Noodle Poor)
· Wakes up to Ipod blaring some Hip Hop (Kesha?)
o Camera Shot of alarm slap, time – 8:35 AM
· Looks at computer, Facebook up, sees notification of profit share Delta 5k fun run at 10am
o Camera Shot with girl typing, focus on computer in background, girl in foreground (blurry)
o Camera pans around to see girls face as she picks up phone
· Stands and Calls Friend: “OMG, LOL, TTYL, Totes Presh…blah blah”
· Hangs up and runs in bathroom
o Camera follow her till door closes, stays looking at closed door
· Comes out immediately with typical outfit on – Large shirt or v neck, norts, high socks, sneakers, and a high ponytail, tons of makeup
o Camera still looking in same spot, does an up/down motion to see whole outfit
o Camera pans as she runs out door, grabs Ipod on way out
· Stretching out on street, Turns Ipod on – music begins playing
o Next camera shot on street watching her stretch
· Begins running
o Camera in front watching facial expressions
o Begins to pan around her to the backside
· Runs past a bright red sign, which catches her attention, Stops.
o Camera zooms in past girl to read sign
· LAST DAY FOR FREE BOX OF GIRL SCOUT COOKIES!!! Spence Park, beginning at 9AM!!!!
· Checks watch, time – 9:05 AM
o Camera shot of time on watch
o Camera shot of just her face (slow-motion?) freaking out
· Takes off in the different direction she was running
o Camera follows her until she is out of distance
· Appears in Spence Park
o Camera behind her as she gets closer and closer to Girl Scouts in the background, begins to reach out…. CLIFFHANGER
2. Business Man (Well Off – Successful Life)
· Wakes Up to Alarm Blaring
o Camera Shot of Alarm Slap, time – 8:15 AM
o Next shot of him still in bed, “tired sigh,” claps and lights turn on, and grabs remote to turn TV on
o Camera shot changes to view Weather Channel, hear man getting up in the background
· Shuffles in pajamas over to closet, then into the bathroom
o Camera pans from bed to closet, following motion
o Zooms in on hand grab of suit and shoes already ready to go
o Camera pans from closet to bathroom, following his motion
o Stays focused on closed door
· Man comes out immediately after going in all dressed and clean shaven (Full suit, shoes on, watch, Bluetooth, iphone, briefcase in hand, glasses on to appear smarter)
o Camera does an up/down motion to see whole outfit
o Next shot man grabbing car keys on dresser as he walks out of the room
· Now in garage
o Camera shot of man getting in Cadillac
o Close up of hand turning keys, hear engine roar in background
o Classical music begins to play
· Driving
o Camera shot of man pulling out on to street
o Camera still shot, car enters left – same view until exit right
o Camera shot inside the car looking out at street
· Flyer hits and sticks to window
o Camera zooms on flyer: LAST DAY FOR FREE BOX OF GIRL SCOUT COOKIES!!! Spence Park, beginning at 9AM!!!!
o Camera shot of man’s watch, time – 9:05 AM
o Camera shot of man’s face freaking out
o Camera shot of car making hard turn right and then speeding out of scene
· Pulls up at Spence Park
o Camera shot of whole car and in the background is the park. Zoom in on man getting out, not even shutting door, and running into park
o Camera shot of man’s face, begins to pan around to back where you see Girl Scout’s in background, man reaches out…CLIFFHANGER
3. Tattoo Artist/Person (living on couch in his studio)
· Wakes up to Ipod blaring Death Metal
o Camera shot of alarm slap, time – 8:40 AM
· Sits up on couch, wipes eyes, coughs, grabs beer that is next to couch, takes a swig and gargles with it as he walks towards bathroom
o Camera follow motion
· Spits beer in sink
o Camera behind him (don’t see him spit it but hear it)
· Stands up straight
o Camera Zooms in on man and features – nose ring, tattoos everywhere, wife beater, baggy jeans, dangling chain
· Smells armpit, makes vomit face, but turns around from mirror anyway
· Looks at fridge to see to do list, grabs it: Need more Ink! Go to store; Milk; Eggs; Beer; Monster: Donuts; Client Coming in @ 3 PM
o Camera zoom in on list
o Camera follow his motion as he walks out door
· Heading down the street, gets cigarette out, feels his phone vibrate in pocket, reaches in and grabs it
o Camera zoom on text from a friend: “Dude! LAST DAY FOR FREE BOX OF GIRL SCOUT COOKIES!!! Spence Park, beginning at 9AM!!!!”
o Camera shot of clock tower or clock close by to where he’s walking, time – 9:05 AM
o Camera shot of the man’s face freaking out
· Starts running in direction he was going throws cigarette
o Camera stationary until man leaves shot
o Next shot he’s all sweaty and panting, entering park
· Sees Girl Scout Stand, running in from side, reaching out… CLIFFHANGER
4. Hobo (Dirt Poor – Literally)
· Dog Barking
o Camera shot of hand slap on dog’s nose, dog stops
o Camera pans out to see whole shot of hobo under the bridge with a dog (Man pulls of newspapers as sheets)
o Setting very dirty, cardboard boxes, trash around
· Pulls newspapers off and looks at wrist
o Zooms in on drawn on watch on wrist, time shows 8:45 AM
· Gets up and stretches
· Walks over to a box of stuff
o Camera follow movement
o Camera look just into box as his hand (cut of gloves with fingers exposed) digs threw it, pulls out a gross toothbrush
o Camera shot of toothbrush being dipped in nasty river
o Camera shot of zoom in toothbrush in mouth
o Camera shot of spit hitting river water
o Camera pans back out, tosses toothbrush back in box
· He grabs his coin jar and leash with dog on it and walks away from his bridge
o Camera follows him walking for a little
· Sees the girl scout sign in the distance
· Drops both the jar and dog and sprints towards it
o Camera watch as man runs away
o Next shot of Girl Scout’s seeing man: frightened faces
o Shot of Hobo with tongue out reaching for cookies… CLIFFHANGER
CLICK TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT BUTTON
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
"Nature Rocks!" - Stop Motion Final
This short video goes to show how rhythm an nature go hand in hand! (:
Stop Motion Process Photos
These photos show a reel of a man "dancing." It was a study to see if we could make a man look as if he was in constant upbeat motion.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
"The Death of the Author" Response
"The true locus of writig is reading." This excerpt tears down the credits of the author saying that all texts are copied, that "the text is a tissue of citations...the writer can only imitate a gesture forever anterio, never original; his only power is to combine the different kinds of writing..." Roland Barthes makes the claim that, "the birth of the reader must be rasomed by the death of the Author." A text is said to consists of multiple writings, issuing from several cultures enetering into dialogue with one another. The only way that al the text can be simplified, collected, and united is not within the author but the reader. "The unity of a text is not in its origin, it is in its destination, " and that destination is the reader who is the only one that holds the apathy to gather all the informaion into a single field of which the text is constituted. I agree with this author to a certain extent. However, the text a reader absorbs is implemented by the author; therefore, the reader is only an extention of the author.
Interactive Narrative, Plot Types, and Interpersonal Relations Response
Interactive narratives begin with the choice of a type of a story for which there are three types: the epic plot, epistemic plot, and the dramatic plot. Interactive narratives deal with the "player" interacting with the story in a manner to control the outcome or determine certain obstacles during the duration of the story. All aspects of the user's actions in an interactive narrative should progress the plot. The objective of an interactive narrative is to make the interactive movements the rule or focus and the passive movements (the long periods of passive watching) the exceptions.
The epic plot focuses on the exploits of a solitary hero and the physical actions of the story. No evolution of personal relations is evident in this type of story. The epic plot has long been a favorite of game designers; and the technology of 3D graphic engines has made it possible to eficiently simulate movement as an embodied experience, creating spatial immersion.
Dramatic narratives focus on evolving the networks of human relations. The action of the plot is mental rather than physical, dealing with acts of verbal communication and emotional narrative immersion. Dramatic narratives present a closed pattern of exposition, complication, and resolution (the Freytag Triangle). The dramatic plot is the most difficult of the three story types to make interactive because it deals with the evolution of interpersonal relations along with he goals of the character at the same time, in which they must be constantly redefined.
In the nineteenth century a third kind of narrative arose. Epistemic narratives, driven by the desire to know, were featured primarily in mystery stories. This type of story runs second to the epic plot in interactive compatibility. It usually casts the player in the role of detective, combining the events being investigated with a variable story created by the actions of the player. Temporal immersion is created through epistemic narratives, which constists of three parts: curiosity and surprise (which dominate the mystery aspect of the story) and finally supense which controls the thriller stories. In an epistemic plot the player remains focused on the mystery until he finds the solution.
The epic plot focuses on the exploits of a solitary hero and the physical actions of the story. No evolution of personal relations is evident in this type of story. The epic plot has long been a favorite of game designers; and the technology of 3D graphic engines has made it possible to eficiently simulate movement as an embodied experience, creating spatial immersion.
Dramatic narratives focus on evolving the networks of human relations. The action of the plot is mental rather than physical, dealing with acts of verbal communication and emotional narrative immersion. Dramatic narratives present a closed pattern of exposition, complication, and resolution (the Freytag Triangle). The dramatic plot is the most difficult of the three story types to make interactive because it deals with the evolution of interpersonal relations along with he goals of the character at the same time, in which they must be constantly redefined.
In the nineteenth century a third kind of narrative arose. Epistemic narratives, driven by the desire to know, were featured primarily in mystery stories. This type of story runs second to the epic plot in interactive compatibility. It usually casts the player in the role of detective, combining the events being investigated with a variable story created by the actions of the player. Temporal immersion is created through epistemic narratives, which constists of three parts: curiosity and surprise (which dominate the mystery aspect of the story) and finally supense which controls the thriller stories. In an epistemic plot the player remains focused on the mystery until he finds the solution.
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