Pixelation Film Restoration

Friday 24th April 2015

Session Review

During today’s session, I was making sure I have all of the files for the final submission. In particular, I was successfully able to recover the emotive typography Photoshop files; however, the time spent was mainly dedicated in restoring mine and Matthew Ashurst's pixilation short film. 

The reason behind this was because the original rendered film was corrupted along with the adobe premiere files. thankfully I uploaded the original film to my Vimeo account so I used an online file converter to download an uncorrupted version of the film and import into adobe premiere restoring both the finished film and construction (Adobe Premiere) files for the final submission.

 

Changing the contrast and brightness attempting to improve the film's quality

Resources

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/devis_andrew/Color-Correction-1_Premiere-Pro/video-tutorial

http://www.online-convert.com/result/bcc0baede383e879aaa49af409460990

By Sebastian Jones

Data Loss and Recovery

Tuesday 21st April 2015


Session Review

Previously last week Friday I had lost my USB stick containing almost all of my university, college and personal projects;however, thankfully my university files were scattered around and saved on multiple MAC computers in the Digital Arts Centre. So my first action before purchasing my new USB stick was to compress all of my animation folders and store them in my email account which was a wise course of action.

Also my personal work was saved on my home desktop and as for the college work that is missing which is my 3d models and animations I have contacted a friend who is still attending south Birmingham college and will transfer my l still left on my college computer to my email.

Overall at this point despite it being a slap in the face I am used to this cycle of losing my past work which it seems once I finish once set of education the work is submitted but the majority of work I possess is discarded leaving me only with wok that strangely seems to be useful later on for future projects and this is evidence in my university and personal projects since it forces me to work harder and the steps I undertook in creating that work is relived in my mind's eye.

By Sebastian Jones

Thirty Second Mars Bar Advert Final Session

Monday 20th April 2015

Session Review

During this morning’s session, I watched the final footage and compared it to the collection of existing Mars bar advertisements and I noticed one small error and that is at the end of the advertisements Mars always displays subtly the mars bar or logo either on a table or on a billboard.

So until I can photograph my own picture of a mars bar placed on a table, I browsed the internet for a existing photograph of a Mars bar. In addition, I also proceeded to use the 2008 Mars advertisement a guide while editing to mimic some of the company’s existing advert style.

Overall the final film is simple and worthy enough to present, I also added two dips to blacks one at the beginning and the other at the end of the film. The reason was because I did not desire the footage to cut into view; however, given the spare time on Wednesday, I will take the time to take my own picture of a Mars bar and see if the audio can be further edited.

References

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-NvmNnU2UY

https://amongoodfriends.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/10-11-12-mars-bar.jpg

BySebastian Jones

Thirty Second Mars Bar Advert Session 2

Saturday 18th April 2015

Session Review

Following from last session yesterday evening I had arranged with all four group members me included to meet at the desired time of three pm in the afternoon since it was convenient for one of y team members who normally finished their work at two pm although only two of the group were prepared to film our individual mars bar advertisements.

The other group member had contacted me explaining he was unable to attend the day of shooting likely due to exhaustion of their work hours. So with the other group members Tom Baxter I had we arranged to meet within the university campus instead of the original meeting point at Worcester’s Foregate street train station entrance. Once I had arrived he  had informed that he asked another one of our classmates Noah to aid us in our post production shoot which was most appreciated because two people were needed to act in both mine and Tom's advertisements and a third group member was needed to operate a camera.

After a thirty-minute brainstorm session of all three of us discussing the proposed concepts and discussing which scenes were possible to film. Once we all were satisfied with our refined concepts we had began filming Tom's film first which took many repeated attempts due to many hilarious mistakes such as me grinning and laughing.

Nonetheless, the final results for Tom's film were impressive and the remaining time was devote d to shooting my film where my concept of two character arguing during their lunch break was further improved with the characters arguing over their boss where one was angry with the bosses decision over firing an employee whereas the other is defending his actions. Both characters end the argument when to her explains that the boss was right in his decision but had fired the wrong employee.

Overall after many outtakes of both Noah and I attempting to maintain a calm and collected posture while delivering our lines the final two results were satisfying since the last lines were further improved with improvisation.

By Sebastian Jones

Thirty Second Mars Bar Advert Session 1

Thursday 16th April 2015

Session Review

During today's session, I have simply browsed the internet for existing mars television advertisements in order to begin generating concepts before the day of filming tomorrow afternoon. After watching these videos I discussed the brief with my mother to gain her opinion and similar to me we both shared the same concept whereas the brief stressed two characters would argue after a meeting, lecture or work and then one of the two characters would pull out a mars bar in his lunch break and share it with his colleague.

Finally ending the advertisement with both characters eating the broken mars bar and finally relax similar to the snickers advertisement where the actress Joan Collins has a diva tantrum until a friend says "eat your snickers" and Joan Collins is revealed to be a man and then calms down stating he feels better.

References

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIQ_pJzU-rI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTaCangOzCw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uii3VhELiuE

By Sebastian Jones

Water Advert Session 1

Monday 13th April 2015

Session Review

We were given a brief to produce an advert for a bottled water drink nd make a slogan for it.
So far our group's ideas were vitae suggested by me and "tubig" meaning water in Filipino it was humorous and we considered the word.

`However, we were then given the true brief and that was to create a thirty-second advert for Mars bar and have two characters disagree on everything except there love for mars bars.

By Sebastian Jones