Inspirations :)

Hello!

While I was browsing through film inspirations, cinematography, title sequence etc. I stumbled upon some awesome websites worth looking at :)

http://www.filmjunk.com/2009/03/10/15-amazing-opening-title-sequences/

http://www.artofthetitle.com/

http://flickeringmuse.tumblr.com/tagged/prettyfilm

http://www.ifc.com/fix/2011/02/the-50-greatest-opening-title

Check them out! :)

Storyboard!

It's week 3!  Oh no! Good way to look at it is that there's only approximately 11 weeks til we finish =P
Anyways, I was working on the storyboard for the task 'Get Up and Go' and it made me realise that I suck at making storyboards. :( I've always been fond of drawing, but drawing people is my weakness! I just can't get the angles right and they look like zombies most of the time.

So here's my attempt on that Get Up and Go storyboard.

Also during that time when I realised that I suck at storyboarding, I figured I should look at how the professionals do it, see how they do it, and ultimately make myself feel worse for not being able to do that =P

I found a website on film making, storyboarding and other movie production stuffs. This guy did storyboarding for movies The Hulk, X-files, Terminator, X-men 1-3. Well that's what I gather anyway.

http://www.adrienvanviersen.com/storyboards/hulk.html

And another one, this one's pretty cool. There's heaps in here! Coloured illustrations, cartoons etc.

http://www.illustrationweb.com/styles/storyboard

:)

Brief History of Title Design!

Hello again! I wanna share a video we watched on the first class we had for this subject. It's called Brief History of Title Design. Our lecturer Damian Blayney commented on how technology, way of thinking and simply evolution of film making has changed the way title designs have been made. Pretty interesting to watch.
 I specifically like the one of the movie Se7en starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. The title design was so clever, articulate and relevant.

Enjoy!

Welcome!

First post ever! Hello everyone! Firstly welcome to Kimbo's blog! So it's advanced media integration time. It's Week 2 and honestly, I'm like 98% scared, 2% excited; or other way around? 98% excited, 2% scared? I've always been a huge fan of movies (we have around 800 DVD's now!) and film making is just interesting. I wanna be a part of doing movies one day, HOLLYWOOD baby! :)

Anyways, as I understand it, Advanced Media Integration is about incorporating a lot of film making, photography and other media stuffs and creating something extraordinary. Something that captivates the audience and something inspirational too.

I will be posting everything and anything I find incredible and worth talking about, any crossroads we may encounter and so we could all be witnesses and critiques to each other's progress and process. Jodie spoke about avoiding designing inside a vacuum which makes total sense. No matter how hard it may be to hear the comments about the little babies we design, we have to learn to take it! Toughen up gurl! :) 

Our first assignment is called "Get Up and Go". It could be anything we want, a video shoot, stop motion, animation or anything else we can think of, to portray a certain kind of routine or activities we do when we 'get up and go'. It doesn't have to be in the morning, but the concept should be there. For example, we get up, take a shower, brush our teeth, get distracted, forget keys, whatever. So that's what we gotta do. It's just a practice, probably just to see where we're at with filming, editing and typography. 

I'm thinking of doing my little sister, Shane, who's 9 years old. So it'll be showing the morning routine and attitude of a kid who wakes up to go to school. I think it's quite different compared to how an adult would wake up. An adult who wakes up to a world full of responsibilities, to work, to do chores and other stuffs :( I think the kids definitely see the world differently than we do. I'm excited to start working on it. I'm almost finished with the storyboard and I will post that up when it's done :)

Cheers!