Advancing our Advert 1

Lauren and I began aminating our clips yesterday and found it rather uplifting, completeing a clip each completely finished gave us both more confidence in our project, knowing now that we are capable of completion. I animated the scene in which one of the original skittles meets one of the tropical skittles they are made to look as though they are shaking hands. Lauren animated the clip where three skittles are in a boat moving across the sea, adding in arms. Both of the clips look really good just as we had imagined. One of the problems we did however come across on our first attempt to animate was after we though we had completed it we the exported it and found that half of the shot was missing, this was because we hadnt resized it to fit into the square provided my flash. Realising what went wrong and starting again was a bit of a hassle but we managed to do it and complete them rather quickly so we werent to bothered. On of the things we have to remeber is to export the movie in the format of QuickTime otherwise we are unable to upload them onto iMovies.

Having some completed clips, we have started to put them together on iMovies, me and lauren have and a few disagrrements about this as i think it is a better idea to use the old version as we have more experience with it, however, it is on another mac so we will have to transfer all our shots. Lauren thinks the newer iMovies would be better because it is more advanced than the old one and it is also on the mac we have all our clips on. This is problably the better option as we will have a better finish to our adverts but it will mean having to spend some time learning to use it.

Sizes

When me a lauren first thought about props and began making them we imagined them to be a lot bigger and the surface we would film to also be larger. when it came to us actually filming we found that the props (the card cuttings) work much better when they are much smaller. With them being smaller the camera was able to use closer and distance shots easier as the didnt have to move from its stand.

More problems

Another problem we have come across after a few clips is that the colouring is different even though the same card has been used. Filming on different days with different cameras just makes the shots look different. This was a major problem with a few of our island scenes, on one of them the yellow was extremely bright and another wasnt that bright at all. I re-filmed both the shots on the same day with all the same equipment in the same place. This made them look alot better and it now shows that they are on the same island.

We also had problems with the camera staying still. when filming the skittles moving passed some palm trees right at the end of each shot the camera slighty wobbles. this kept happening. im not sure if it was me or if there was a problem with the camera so to overcome this I made the shot longer so that the last bit can now be cut away as it will be to long. Therefore the part that wobbles will not be seen.

Editing

I have tryed to upload the first clip i have edited on however it has not worked so i am just going to write about it for now. Since editing this clip we have reshot it so we wont be usiing the edited version anymore. One of the problems i faced during editing was working with Flash, using it for the fisrt time made it extremely difficult, so i needed help from Mr Michie. I learnt how to add key frames and how to change the movements which each section of the clip. what i was attempins to produce was movement with each skittle to bring them alive, this meant giving each of them arms which moved from time to time. each skittles arms had to be produced on a differnet layer and changes each frame. I think that editing will be the most time consuming for me and lauren and therefore we will need to improve our skills on it.

Shooting Schedule

Here is our shooting schedule from october to november.

More Problems

Another problem that has occured with our clips is that when watching them back we have found that the lighting is really bad, its too dark and a bit shadowy. this mean that we have to re shoot the 3 clips that we filmed on wednesday. To provent this from happening again we are going to use a strong light which will shine over the whole scene so that there will be no shadow or dark patches.

Problems in Filming

When filiming our parachute clip we found it was extremely hard to keep the clouds still the whole time. When watching the final clip back we found that when the parachutes were approaching the bottom the cloud moves slightly out of place and therefore ruins the clip. To get round this we decided to cut the clip just before this happens and make a new clip which is without any clouds and with only one parachute to fill the time which would have been filled up with the reamining clip we cut. We zoomed in on the parachute moving in and then out of view.