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2BAIT, Task 2, Journal 9

2008-08-14T17:59:00.000-07:00

It's Friday and Task 2 is due today. Nathaniel isn't at school today so i'll have to email him all my finished work incase he needs any of it. In form today i borowed my friends USB but he wanted a deposit so i gave him my iPod cable (i was using my iPod as a USB), then in class i realised that my work was on the iPod and i had no way of getting it onto the computer. At lunch i'll go and get my cable from my friend and go to the library and finish this assignment. Since i can't show my work in class because the other segment is on the iPod and Nathaniel's not here, i'll have to show it to some friends at lunch and get them to fill out the survey. Then all i have to do is insert an automatic table of contents, write up an analysis on the survey results, paste this journal into my assignment, and email this work to Mr. Phillips and Nathaniel. Yesterday Nathaniel sent me the Project Timeline so i printed it out and wrote out the ammendments we made. Some of my journals where too big to have two per page in the assigment to i added page breaks.

2BAIT, Task 2, Journal 8

2008-08-11T07:16:00.000-07:00

It's Monday night and i just finished re-editing my segments. At school today i tried to save my 'top ten tackles' segment but again it came up with the error message. I put every needed file on my USB and took it home to re-edit both the segments. I created the ending credits and since we didn't end up filming anything a lot of the titles are useless - in the end i just put 'Directed + Written By' and 'Produced By' - so the credits only go for a few seconds, which is a good thing. Nathaniel wasn't at school today so Tomorrow if he's at school we can add my segments to his. Now that we've finished here are all the final changes to the storyboard:
1) There are only 3 segments - Top Ten Tackles in Time, Top 5 Fights, Top Ten Worst Sports Accidents in History. Shaun McManus retirement video/AFL match preview was scrapped because it was too hard to find the videos on the Internet.
2) We didn't film any intros to the segments as sport show host because we ran out of time.
3) End credits only consist of 'Directed + Written By' and 'Produced By' .

2BAIT, Task 2, Journal 7

2008-08-09T18:58:00.000-07:00

Mr Phillips gave us an extension until Tuesday because we've come across allot of problems. On Friday i brought my ipod in to use as a USB with my sporting injuries pictures and videos on it. After i finished my segment on sporting injuries i tried to save the file as a movie document but at 99% a message said 'could not locate original files'; Nathaniel was having the same problem and couldn't find a solution. I decided I'd have t re-edit my segment - which would take an another hour or so. I backed up all the videos and pictures onto my ipod to take home and re-edit. When i was at home i forgot to add the number titles so i tried to re-do them, but after searching for 10 minutes for the right font i gave up. I re-edited the video - on Monday i can get the number titles and bring them back to my PC. I haven't tried saving my other segment into a movie file yet so on Monday ill do that, and if i get the message again ill have to re-do it Monday night.

2BAIT, Task 2, Journal 6

2008-08-07T01:32:00.000-07:00

It's Thursday night and I'm working on finishing my segment. I realize that Nathaniel and I won’t be able to finish by tomorrow. Instead of filming our introductions for our segments I guess we will just have to put some title screens. Nathaniel has finished his top 5 fights segment and I have finished the top ten tackles segment, but am still working on the top 10 sporting injuries. For my segment on top ten sports injuries i made a title screen saying "warning...the following images may offend some viewers", (red font on a yellow and black striped background) because the segment features various bones being snapped in half. I've tried working on the segment in the school library at lunch but i can't access what i had already completed because in windows movie maker you have to have the videos used for the project present. At home i created the warning title and downloaded, converted, imported and edited 10 sporting injuries to put into the segment tomorrow at school. I have lost my thumb drive so ill email the videos to myself and access them at school. Tommorow Nathaniel and I will add the segments and submit them.

2BAIT, Task 2, Journal 5

2008-08-03T23:52:00.000-07:00

Today Nathaniel and I discovered that the computers in our AIT room now recognize the real player videos I downloaded a week ago – I think they are working because of the new codec’s. I also found that real player was installed on my computer but not Nathaniel’s but when I clicked on real player nothing happened. Nathaniel and I went to the library to download some videos on real player because the quality is really good. When Nathaniel was trying to download videos an error came up saying ‘unable to download video’ so we swapped computers so he could download some videos on my account to his thumb drive. One of the problems I encountered was that we are unable to watch videos on youtube – which is stupid -, I needed to use youtube because no AFL videos were on the other sites e.g. daily motion etc because they are more American based. I remembered someone saved to the U: drive a list of proxy websites so I went through the list until I found a working proxy.

2BAIT, Task 2, Journal 4

2008-07-31T01:54:00.000-07:00

Today I finished editing my segment ‘Top Ten Tackles in History’. I looked through my NRL and NRL tackle montage videos to find another 4 great tackles to put in the video. After I found some good tackles I put them in order from best to worst (1-10) and then added some video affects to the timeline. I halved the time of the numbers in front of the tackles for numbers 6-10 because they ran for a couple of seconds too long, but I kept the last five at the same time because it grows anticipation; I also added in the affect ‘fade from black’ to the last 5 videos because it looks more filmic. After I put the clips in order I need to make a title screen ‘Top Ten Tackles in History’ so I opened up word and paint. I wrote up top ten tackles in history in word and set the font to the most historic font I could find and set the size to 100, I print screen the words and copied them into paint, I then spray painted a green/grey/brown tint over the writing so it looks aged. Before I started on the title screen I Googled ‘historic fonts’ to see if I could find a good font generator but to no avail; I found some reasonable fonts but you hade to download them, but they all featured double lines above/below the text so I put that in my title. Nathaniel was away so I’m not sure how far he’s gotten. Tomorrow If Nathaniel is at school we’ll discuss what we both have to finish on the weekend to have all the segments ready by Monday so we can start filming. I think we should be able to film everything in one period if we’re lucky (it’ll take 2 periods at most). Then it’s a matter of uploading the filming and editing it into our project and we’re finished.

2BAIT, Task 2, Journal 3

2008-07-28T19:31:00.000-07:00

Today Nathaniel was back at school. I told him about how the videos turned out bad and we decided to start editing the bad quality videos because there is no way we can change the quality. I started cutting the best tackles out of a NRL and NFL tackle video. I found that most of the tackles on the tackle montages were a lot shorter that I would like so I decided to have atop 10 tackles segment instead of the top 5 we originally planned for. I needed to create a blank screen for the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 in front of the tackles so I went on to word, selected a good font for numbers and adjusted the size to 200; I then print screened and pasted the numbers into word were I changed the colours so they contrasted better and then individually saved the numbers. I then inserted the number pictures into my windows media project. Nathaniel is working on top 5 best sporting fights. We both decided to get rid of the Graham Polak injury update and replace it with a segment on retired AFL legend Sean McManus.

2B AIT, Task 2, Journal 2

2008-07-27T22:59:00.000-07:00

Today Nathaniel and I had planned to go to the library to download the sporting videos needed on real player. Nathaniel wasn’t at school so I went to the library by myself. The first computer I logged on to didn’t have real player installed so I figured that all the library computers didn’t have real player apart from the couple I used them on before. I logged on the computer and clicked on real player, a prompt came up saying ‘connecting to real player server’, so I was hesitant the program would work. After opening my document with a list of URL’s containing the videos I opened a few videos and clicked on the download video tab. The first three videos I downloaded seemed to be downloading successfully until around the 5th video said ‘unable to download’; I figured it was just that video so I tried some others but now every video I tried to download displayed the same message. I decided to download the other videos at home so I opened My Videos>Real Player downloads and found that all the videos in my library were unrecognizable by windows. I’m unsure why windows can’t recognize the program that created the videos so I have decided to go home and download the videos, convert them and bring them to school on a USB so next lesson Nathaniel and I can edit them. I expect the editing to take at least 5 lessons so the last week Nathaniel and I will be filming. I plan on asking for an extension now because I can’t see Nathaniel and I finishing on time.

2B AIT, Task 2, Journal 1

2008-07-24T18:35:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I got some feedback from Mr. Phillips about my last assignment. I lost 8 marks on the credits so I decided to go home and create some – I watched the credits at the end of a movie and wrote up the information (music by, producer, editor etc). I then emailed the assignment for re-submission. Since I was away Tuesday and Wednesday and I Nathaniel and I have 2 weeks to finish the assignment. Today Nathaniel and I searched for an online video stream downloader. The first one we looked at could only download into .Mp4 so when Nathaniel discovered www.mediaconverter.org we used that because you can change the resolution, format, size, bit rate etc. However, after we downloaded some videos we realized that the quality was very poor, and even after we set it to the highest resolution the quality was still horrible for full screen viewing. We now realize that we have to use real player to download the videos to a good resolution – the problem is that real player is only installed in the school library. Nathaniel and I have decided to go to the library next lesson and download and convert all our videos in one lesson so we can start cutting and editing next lesson. After we have got the correct videos for the segment we can start to film and record our commentaries. Since we only have 2 weeks left I don’t think most of the class will finish on time, in about a week Nathaniel and I will review our situation and if we don’t think we will finish on time we’ll ask for an extension – instead of risking loosing marks.

2B, Task 1, Journal 6

2008-07-03T22:17:00.000-07:00

Today is Friday and task 1 is due. Last night I emailed Nathaniel my finished half of the storyboard along with the script so he could put it into his work today. I’m not at school today because of a cold so I haven’t been able to get Nathaniel’s storyboard to put into my work. Nathaniel emailed me saying he won’t be finished before 5pm and that he has talked to Mr. Philips – however it didn’t say what he talked to him about so I don’t know if we could be losing marks for this. I plan on sending my assignment to Mr. Philips today anyway and where the second part of the storyboard should be I will have ‘refer to Nathaniel’s assignment’. When Nathaniel finishes the work and emails it to me I may re-send the work to Mr. Philips so he can to see all the work in one document. Other than this everything in the assignment is finished and all I have to do is insert this journal.

2B, Task 1, Journal 5

2008-06-29T23:18:00.000-07:00

Nathaniel and I drafted the storyboard on Tuesday. We both discussed what final segments we should have in the show and then split the storyboard work between us, I will be completing the first half of the storyboard and Nathaniel will be finishing the second half. Before Tuesday’s class I printed off several copies of the storyboard template so Nathaniel and I could work on the storyboard, I gave 2 copies of the template to Nathaniel but it may not be enough so I emailed him the softcopy. Nathaniel and I both have scanners so all we have to do is finish our half of the storyboard and email it to each other. We both decided to create a script to go with our storyboard because it is too hard to fit the dialogue/script into the small box on the template, now we can just write “refer to script part __”

2B, Task 1, Journal 4

2008-06-29T23:03:00.000-07:00

Today I created the template for our storyboard. I searched on google images ‘storyboard template’ and selected a good template. I print screened a square out of the template and pasted it into MS Paint. I then opened a word document and typed out script/dialogue, field of view, actions, sound, time in font 12. I then print screened the documents and pasted it into the paint document where I realized font 12 was too large to drag into the template. I deleted the print screen out of paint and print screened a new document where the font size was 10 and pasted it into a separate paint document. I then cropped the image to I could only see the writing and pasted that into the first paint document. I dragged the writing into the template at the appropriate places. I then copied the template square and pasted it to the side of the original, then copied the two and pasted them another 3 times down the page and saved the work. I then opened the storyboard into a work document and printed several copies of it.

2B, Task 1, Journal 3

2008-06-22T23:55:00.000-07:00

Today I started working on the “hardware/software” to be used. I don’t see the point in creating this in the proposal stage because we will be changing our minds a lot; however it’s good to think about it now because we may not have access to certain software and hardware. Nathaniel identified the film genre and concept. I plan on allowing a about seven or so days to finish the storyboard. Next lesson Nathaniel and I plan on completing the "Explanation of target audience" and "Techniques to best appeal to the intended audience". Nathaniel will do the "Explanation of target audience" and when he's finished I can look at his work and decide the techniques we can use to appeal to the target audience. If we both finish early we can discuss some ideas for the segments in the show (so far we have thought of best AFL marks, Best sporting tackles, What's new in Extreme Sports, Worst Sporting Injuries etc). After the rough outline we can create a draft and then create the good copy, then compile/edit the work and we’re finished in time to submit the work.

2B, Task 1, Journal 2

2008-06-19T18:49:00.000-07:00

Today I finished “what makes a good short film”. I first googled “what makes a short film” and went to the first website on the list. The website was exactly what I was looking for; it contained a number of headings with simple information. I copy and pasted the information into word and re-wrote the information in my own words and related it to our situation e.g. I deleted the information about hiring professional actors etc. Nathaniel and I then thought of a number of company names which we put into a word document. Eventually through a process of elimination we decided to call our company ‘Ultimate Action Sports’ . Then started to create the logo. From our past logo experience we knew that we could go to a website that makes them, we made the logo but the problem was that you have to buy it, so we print screened it, but the logo was on a stripped background. It was too hard to erase the lines in paint (background) but later on I found out that you can preview the logo on business cards, where the background is blank, so I just print screened it from there.

2B, Task 1, Journal 1

2008-06-18T21:02:00.000-07:00

Today Nathaniel and I discussed what we were going to do for the next three weeks and started working. We started to think of a company name, but eventually it was too hard to come up with a good name so we decided to do that later on, so we could think of a name while at home, on the bus etc. I proposed to start work on ‘what makes a good short film’. The first thing I did was google the question, it came up with the perfect website with easy information. I ended up finishing about a page and a half of work before the period finished. Nathaniel started working on the timeline. Mid-way through the lesson we realized that the timeline wasn’t suppose to be for the proposal, it was suppose to be for the production ; Nathaniel opted to finish in the timeline so we could still use it to get our proposal finished on time.

Task 4 22/05/08

2008-05-21T21:03:00.000-07:00

Today is started working on my logo, I typed ‘logo creator’ into google and found a great site that creates logos. There are a lot of symbols you can choose from and then once you have chosen a symbol you can add text in cool fonts and adjust the shape, size, colour etc. At the end it gives you the option of buying the logo to put business cards etc, but instead of purchasing it I print screen it and copy it into paint to edit and the save it as a Jpeg. A problem I found was that the only print screen I could do it is on a background of checkered lines, so I zoomed in on paint and started to erase the lines, I eventually learnt that an easier way to eraser lines is to create a white custom shape over the parts I do not want to keep and delete it that way. For the logo I am designing I am going to print screen one of my created logos of this website and just keep the good fonts you can use, then I am going to add that to my logo.

Task 4 20/05/08

2008-05-19T19:35:00.000-07:00

Today I finished and edited my logo analysis and principles and elements of design used on those logos. I am half way through finishing my 20 logo drawings and im not sure what program I should use to create my logo. The task is due in three days and I want to be finished by Thursday so ill have to do some work for homework considering we don’t have class tomorrow. Basically all I need to do is finish drawing my logos, then design my logo and then evaluate and edit all my work. Im guessing to finish this I will about 4 hours so I will do 2 hours of homework because we only have one or two more periods left.

Task 4 16/05/08

2008-05-15T18:49:00.000-07:00

Today in class I typed two principles and elements of design, for the logos I am analyzing. I also continued researching idea’s for the logos I am going to create.

Task 4 15/05/08

2008-05-14T20:55:00.000-07:00

Today I continued work on the principles and element of design incorporated into the logo’s I am analyzing. I also researched some other logos and found out that a lot of the logos feature things that are fast and aggressive such as monster - beast, red bull – symmetrical bulls, shark energy – shark and nos energy - nos logo. So when I design my 20 logos I am going to use some aggressive or fast animals such as a puma, lion etc or some sort element like speed or energy.

Task 4 13/05/08

2008-05-14T20:30:00.000-07:00

I wrote about the principles and elements of design incorporated into the logos and the connotations associated with them. I decided to improve the layout of the document by combining this information in the logo analysis.

Task 4

2008-05-08T18:52:00.000-07:00

At the start of the lesson I uploaded task 3 to the teacher’s computer and then started researching the elements and principles of design incorporated into the logos i am analyising and the connotations associated with them. http://www.johnlovett.com/test.htm is the website i used for my principles and elements of design.

Task 4 08/05/08

2008-05-07T20:56:00.000-07:00

Today I started to work on my analysis of 5 other energy drink bands. I used Nos, Pimp Juice, Red Bull, Shark and Monster energy drink for my logos to analyse. I found a good website that shows how logos can be effective if they use a consistent colour scheme e.g. reds, yellows and oranges go together very well, but its a paradox, as opposite colours on the colour wheel go together very well e.g. orange and blue or purple and yellow. I have decided to type my journals on Microsoft word and then copy and paste them onto the website because Google blogs does not have spell check so a lot of my journals contain mistakes.

Task 4 06/05/08

2008-05-05T19:30:00.000-07:00

Started working on task 4 today. I have finished my timeline and started researching the definition of a logo. I started by reading wikipedia's definition of a logo and found it fairly useful however it doesn’t go into enough depth so tonight for homework I will look at some other websites and summarize the information in a paragraph ready for Thursday’s class. I think i will need to be doing at least 30 minutes of homework a night to complete this task because it is fairly detailed. I believe all the work is easy however theres too much of it. Also tonight and tomorrow night I will finish my task 3 advertisement editing so i can have it finished by the extension date.

2008-04-30T20:56:00.000-07:00

Working on Task 2. Finished the advertisement distribution brainstorm and the brainstsorm of possible products to advertise.

2008-04-28T19:34:00.000-07:00

Researched how to make stop-motion animation video. I found a good website that shows the steps involved in creating a stop-motion animation. I have decided to take the photos at home, put them on a thumb drive, transfer to the school computer and use iPhoto to arrange and set the frames, then convert video to MP4 and play on iMovie

2008-04-07T19:34:00.000-07:00

Investigated how to gain the attention of potential product-buyers. Its important to gain the attention of people but it is even more important to retain their interest. I researched a bit of history on energy drink advertiding, i found out that there has been a media blitz over energy drinks named "XTC" and "Cocaine".

Task2 Target Audiences

2008-04-06T23:54:00.000-07:00

Researched the target audiences of energy drinks. I found out that more and more adults are drinking energy drinks these days to keep up with their hectic lifestyles. Three main target groups for energy drinks are young, trendy, trendsetters and clubbers. They consume energy drinks for the same reason – to maintain health without losing their vitality. I also decided to make my storyboards smaller because I could only fit three in one page.

01/04/08 Task 2

2008-03-31T19:30:00.000-07:00

Today i researched how to appeal to target audiences. There is not just an age group, which i thought before, but there are many other factors that contribute to selling a product. You have to take into account gender, colours- different colours indicate different emotions e.g. green envy/envirnment. I plan on my product being a sports drink like gatorade so i can appeal to the athletic community.

Journal 11/3/2008

2008-03-10T18:36:00.000-07:00

Researched The Alien and Predator Movies. These movies are good to researc because they have made alot of them, so i can make a lot of comparisons.

Journal 25/2/2008

2008-02-24T21:50:00.000-08:00

I researched the special effects and CGI used in 300. I found out that basically everything in 300 is CGI appart from what happens in front of the camera.

Journal 22/2/08

2008-02-21T16:44:00.000-08:00

Today i looked at the pre 1900's film history and the Censorship and Classification in Australia. The pre 1900's film history was quite boring, all the significant dates where just advancements in film technology, like inprovements on motion picture cameras. The Censorship and Classification in Australia was interesting how the views have changed on "X" rated movies.

Journal 19/2/2008

2008-02-18T17:29:00.000-08:00

I started my research on film history, i found a great website that shows a timeline of the significant events in film history. I plan on summarizing these detailed points and make a timeline of my own, i'll probly get that finished by next Monday. If i stick to my timeline i should finish this assignment.

Journal 18/2/2008

2008-02-17T21:48:00.000-08:00

Added to timeline. Researched visual affects of The Matrix e.g. how they shot the slo-mo "neo getting shot at" scene, the first idea of how to shoot the scene was to have a camera surround neo and zoom around him at the speed of a bullet, this idea did not work and the camera broke. They later used multiple "still" cameras.

Journal 15/2/2008

2008-02-14T16:46:00.000-08:00

Decided to pick my movies with a constant theme. Ive picked gore movies like Bad Taste and 300. I'm going to research how censorship has changed throughout the decades and how the censorship affects people e.g. maybe take murder by decapitation statistics from before 300 and then see if a higher number of murders by decapitation have occured, something along those lines but not so Passé.

Journal 14/2/2008

2008-02-13T18:54:00.000-08:00

Looked at the marking key and the various marks you get for doing certain things. Some of the marks are stupid e.g. something like 3 points for page numbers.

Journal 12/2/2008

2008-02-11T17:33:00.000-08:00

I made a concept map today on power point, which is like a "family tree" chart that has the questions and sub-questions.I think this concept map is a good way of organising various information, however i cant imagine myself constantly referring to it, so in a sense its not really important.