Project 2 progress-Final

I'm very please with my final project right now(my video it is called "people make the difference"). The main idea behind this video is to show the audience the human interaction with the park, either with or without. You may realize something immediately when you are watching, whenever there is a human interaction, there will be a lot of movement. If not, that is a quite static scene without human activity. I had composed a story about the human interaction through my design process.

And just yesterday (in my studio session) I had discussed the video with Kah, and we had talked about how to sharpen the movie and make my final project really great. And I think I had done it now, it is up to you to look at it and enjoy. The background music of my video also strongly suggest the story and it is a open source audio from archive.org.

Finally please sit back relax and enjoy the my video("People Make The DIfference") .

After Effects and some other cool stuff-project2 progress2

Now I 'm focusing on putting visual effects on my video showing the human interaction with a location, for me is the Kelburn Park. There were heaps of useful sites there teaches you how to make cool effects on Adobe AfterEffect. And I had learnt some of them which I think are quite useful for my project. I have found an open source audio which strongly supports my idea from architve.org. http://www.archive.org/details/MyspaceBackgroundMusic

I had made the human interaction with the park quite significant by using effects on sports people in the park. In one scene for example you will see a goal keeper taking a goal kick. As soon as he kicks the ball the earth shakes just like he "really made the earth shakes"! That just one of many effects I have used in the movie.

Hope you all enjoy it!

Project 2 progress

I have finished my shooting in Kelburn Park yesterday and I'm quite happy with my previous shooting on a nice saturday morning. And I would like to use some visual affects on my movie clips to show the audience how different a location can be with people. Kelburn Park always have a lot of sporting events and people come and relax in it during the weekends. How about the time when people are not in it? So in my video of this particular location I will show the audience the interaction between the people and the park itself. The first shooting I got was a freehand shooting of people using the park for relaxation and sporting events in the weekend. I found it quite hard to use the "filming Taiqi" in my shooting (hard to keep my hands steady in zoom-in shots). So in the second shooting, I had used a tripod to shoot the location and found some very interesting things I can do with tripod and camera(which was awesome)! These things have inspired me to move on to create a video to show the audience of how people interact with the park.

During the uploading of my video file onto AVID I had faced several problems, like not enough power on video camera in the middle of my loading process, file sizes and capturing video. Now I am ready to start editing my clips.

"What" is New Media?" Reading Response

This article tells us about the new media for instance, Internet, website, DVD, computer games and so on. And later how the old media became new.

So how media became new? That was when the new reproduction machine was first invented and made people want to use the media machine, which significantly influenced our lives today. And this article later talks about the principles of New Media. First, all media objects has numeral number representations. Second is about modularity. Third, it is automation. Fourth, it is variability. Fifth, it’s transcoding, there will be different coding and modular organization.

In the conclusion of this article, the author states that the computer media perfectly fits how the human mind operates. It is definitely the new kind of identification in the information age.