it's FINISHED!!

heyyyyaz !!

I finally can proudly say that i finished my animation..! It was long, exhausting and hard work.. but i enjoyed every minute of it :) I went in to school on Saturday (i know) at around 10 o'clock and didn't leave until some where around 5.30! In that time Ms Basile and myself were just filming the actual 'animation.' I had a couple of problems.. for instance there's one sequence in the film where Penny puts her headphones on .. i'll just say that the weight of the headphones was twice the amount of her arms lifting them.. that was a bit of fun! There were a couple of camera shots i loved, but won't tell you too much as it might spoil the animation. For the day, in total we completed 256 frames which is the equivalent of 256 clicks of the camera!!! And i'll tell you the best bit, we didn't finish.. i don't know whether i'm just really fastidious or a slow worker, but i had to go in early Tuesday morning to finish ..

Can i just say a BIG THANK YOU to Danielle.B for coming in and helping me finish.. (she didn't start until 10 o'clock and she still came in early to help me)

Then on Wednesday when we had our weekly meeting with Sarah i was free to just concentrate on editing.. I had no stand out problems during this process, everything ran fairly smoothly. The only glitch i can recall is there were a few frames that needed to be found because they caused the animation to jump. I had already recorded the voice over so i just captured it onto the piece .. all that was left was music, (courtesy of 'THE USED') which sounds great.. and i had finished!!!

Thanks everyone for reading my progress week after week, also to those of you have written comments helping me out with ideas...Just wanted to thank Sarah for the opportunity and for all her commitment and enthusiasm. Also wanted to thank my film teacher Dianne Basile, all her dedication and hard work is very much appreciated as there is no way i could have been able to achieve what i did without her.. It's been great fun and an will definitely be a memorable experience...

Elle :)

p.s Hope to see you at the launch..! Come and say hi if you see me :)

"Places to be, people to meet..."

Hey everyone...
Yesterday was so exciting and tiring!!
But ill start from the beggining, shall i ...?

In the morning we had our last visit from Al, he showed us how to use a dope sheet, which for all u out there that have absolutely no idea what im talking about its a kind of graph, that shows the animator exactly how a piece of dialogue breaks down into frames (lip synching). It can also tell the animator how each syllable is pronounced, and if there are any coughs, grunts, etc in the scene. It was really helpful because i decided not to go with the whole dialogue through out the movie, i thought i might make it more of a narration, as Penny's thoughts.. Might try to include some talking, we'll see how it looks!!

After that we had a reporter come in, to take some photos of us, with our sets and models, that was a bit of fun and a laugh... Just a tad embarrasing as the whole of the yr 11 media class was present! She was doing an article on Pop Fiction and thought it would be kool if she got to meet us and take some photos. I'm a very busy girl, but i said i would give her a few minutes of my time... quite generous I thought.

After lunch ..( and a very exhausting english SAC) we had the channel ten news crew waiting to interview us! It was great fun, didnt take us too many takes... Made a nice change to be in front of the camera rather than behind it!!

I think i could get used to this kind of life..

Elle :)