After beginning our 2nd assignment of the year, a digital artefact for Beyond The Camera over 4 weeks ago, me and my team finally submitted our composition just in time for the deadline at 4pm this afternoon. Our task was to make a image based composition that would revolve around a particular narrative while exploring the characteristics of rostrum camera technique and text image manipulation, enabling us to enhance and develop our creative skills as a group.Collectively we decided that our narrative would be horror based and would involve a young female getting followed into her house by a strange presence. We began the assignment by sourcing a range of sound clips and files from websites such as freesoundorg.com, freesfx.co.uk and soundjay.com where we found a range of sounds including footsteps, thunder, rain, a taxi pulling up outside a house, bath water running and even some gentle whispers to give the composition that extra eerie touch that it needed. From this we decided as individuals that we would put our sounds together using sound manipulation software Audacity in order to come up with our own take on the narrative we had previously decided on. As an individual this allowed me to explore my own creative side and it wasn't long before i had gathered around 9-10 sounds that fitted in with the narrative. The following week we decided on who's audio composition sounded the most adequate for this particular task and decided on my group member Pete's, who's composition was then tweaked by me and my other fellow group member as we needed to cut the audio down to 2 minutes long.
The weeks building up to the deadline day involved getting myself familiarised with After Effects which i had initally been quite anxious about as i knew it was something i hadn't experienced before, along with the fact that it proved to be quite complex in terms of understanding the format and ways in which the software worked. It wasn't long before my group and i started to source images off the internet that fitted in with our horror based narrative. With a little help from our tutor, we were able to search for images that held a tighter shot, meaning that we had more of an engaging theme, rather than sourcing a load of random shot images that would look untidy when it came to putting the images together in order to create a movie artefact.
As today was our final chance to complete the assignment, as a group we decided to come in early and power our way through so the finished item would look as polished and professional as possible. As i hadn't given myself the opportunity to have a proper go at compositing on After Effects, i felt like today would have my final opportunity to enhance my software skills. Therefore i took it upon myself to tweak any faults and make any possible improvement i could before we would have to submit the task, such as aligning the text image animation properly, editing out uneccessary sound from the sound file and making suggestions to my peers as to what i think would look more ideal.
Although we submitted the assignment in time, i believe if we had had more group meetings, the artefact would be guaranteed a 1st. However due to the lack of communication between me and my group members we didn't have enough time to make any further changes therefore the assignment was in some way rushed.
Luckily there won't be any other practical assignments this year so i look forward to going home for Christmas and making the most of my time off before i start to write my individual report :)
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