Ollie Tristram

It's been over 2 months since I posted on here last.

The set and the Foley sounds are amazing. It's inpiring. I might make a stop-motion with a similar style very soon!

Hello.

Results are in and i got a 2:2 for my first year. I'm satisfied with that result but I wouldn't say I was pleased with it. Although, I got a 2:1 in the module which was most suited to me (Narratives) becuase it was mostly AV and thats what my pathway is for next year so on that basis I should be aiming to maintain and improve that score for next year.

Also, I found this awesome stop-motion of someone creating a spaghetti meal using household items.


Stop Motion Spaghetti Cooking - Watch more free videos

That is all for now.

Well, I have finally finished my interactive showcase and to be honest it hasn't been that stressful. I haven't tried to be too adventurous, but I think the main reason I haven't had too much grief is because I have been using ActionScript 2.0. All the tutorials I used online to help me were all in AS2.0 so I would have been buggered if I used 3, and when I used 3 for that last Flash project I did it turned out well crap.

I will post the showcase soon, but I just need a few people to test it for bugs etc first.

P.S. I know I haven't posted in a while but I've been playing GTA IV too much! Ha!

The above video is a competition entry made by me and my friend Andrew (who did most of the work). The competition was to create your own music video for Feeder's new song "Miss You" and the prize is to have it featured in the extras on Feeder's upcoming DVD, plus some other stuff I think. The quality is pretty poor because it has been compressed so much (I think I'll have to let Andrew know), but you can understand it lol.

The video is mainly old footage from our A Level music video to a different Feeder song which we have re-cut. Other footage you will see is from my Uni work such as the One Shot Film and Pixelation. We did shoot some new footage in the same woodland area so not to lose continuity, but on saying that, the video doesn't really have any particularly continuity to it other than repeated effects. Nonetheless, Andrew has done a very good job editing it and is easily in the top 5 compared to the other competition entries.

Have a look at some of the other entries by clicking this link: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=feeder+competition

Over and Out.

The stress has begun. On saying that, things have gone reasonably well for me on day one of creating the showcase in Flash. What's been the main issue is time. I have only got as far as creating a preloader and creating buttons for the 'homepage', and it's taken me nearly 3 and a half hours!

I'm not even sure if the preloader works because the document seems to just load on frame 2 everytime I test it, i think it might be because there is so little information for the preloader to load its loaded and gone in an instance. If that is the case then hopefully we'll see if it works by the time I have added videos.

I have been browsing tutorials most of the time, only finding the preloader one most helpful. I sort of found out on my own how to made the buttons work and they do so as I intended which I am very pleased with.

Here are two screenshots of my days work:





In my next session I am to begin importing videos, pictures and music onto the frames which the labelled buttons lead to.

After today's lecture on Flash and the Interwebs this idea came to me. It is an idea (which will probably be final) for the 'homepage' of my Interactive Showcase. It's simple, which I wanted to originally go for, and also a memorable layout idea.




I started with a basic image of me and imported it into Photoshop. Then using the Polygonal Lasso tool cut myself out. Next, I inverted the selection and painted the background white but because this gives you hard edges I used the blur tool to soften them up. I tampered with the brightness, contrast, hue and saturation until I ended up with this final image. I altered the canvas sizes to divide the image into six segments, five of which can be seen in the image. I changed the dimensions of each to give the image a distorted perception and finally added drop shadows. Also seen there is my logo idea which may act as a button to bring users back to the homepage.

In the image you can see my colour theme, which I explained in my previous post. The five images of me will act as buttons to take you to the next frames hosting various things about me and my identity. For example in the image you can see one will lead you to videos I have made.
With the other four, I am planning on these being Pictures, Music, Avatar and then for the other I'm not entirely sure, but I'm thinking of writing a short Multimedia Autobiography that will let users read my life so far using Multimedia and my influences.

I am planning that when users hover over the buttons a blue border will highlight it and the title of where the button will take you will appear.

Now just to put it into Flash... :(