video editing

For our CDrom application we are making a video each to be put in the video section, Mike is doing an interview, i am doing a 'related sports to graffiti' video and Kris is making a tutorial video on how to create graffiti.
I have almost collected all my footage, i just need another section on skateboarding then i will have it all on camera.
i have edited the beginning skate part and the bmx part so far using premier pro, after effects and photoshop.
















The screenshot above is of the program premier pro, aftre i imported the footage that i have so far i edited the avi file using the time line and the cut tool. Once i had the footage in the right order i added certain effects such as 'brightness/ contrast and exported certain frames that i wanted to edit in photoshop. On the bmx scene when a bike is in the air i edited the frame in photoshop using the gradient tool etc and imported the frame back into premier pro so in the video there is a freeze frame of the bike in the air.

NOTE to upload the preview footage below i used windows movie maker and the freeze frames of the BMX's in the air arent working properly (something to do with the importing into windows movie maker) so this will look a bit different to the final edit.



The screen shot below shows what one of the freeze frames should look like that didn't work properly when i saved the avi on movie maker.

the other three navigation buttons i am designing

Here are three more navigation buttons i designed myself for our CDrom












































Like the other two buttons (Video and Timeline) i drew out an outline image of the text and scanned it into photoshop where i edited the piece using gradient tools etc.

MP3 Player production and other work in progress

Recently I have been concentrating on the MP3 player.

We captured the footage of the Dj spinning decks at 3 different angles. The following video shows the editing and animating process i went through to get the video footage for the mp3 player.

Here are some pictures of us setting up and filming.

After filming the footage, i then set about designing the flash player. Here are a couple of printscreens that lead from Photoshop to Flash.

Actionscripting my flash player is a very tricky business, and to be honest its not completely finished. Sometimes i get the script right and the just the video works, and i've never had the songs working entirely perfect yet. But all the code is essentially in and just needs a bit of guidance from a tutor.

I made the player's layout and buttons by just drawing them in in photoshop and editing them with effects until they looked like they do in the final draft.

buttons for the navigation of our application

Our CDrom application will have 10 sections to navigate through so we will need buttons that contain the section name on them that the user can press and then be taken to the desired section, e.g. 'home' page will have a button that says home on.
Me and Chris split the job role of designing these 10 buttons between us so we are designing 5 each.
Here are my first two buttons






















We all agreed that the buttons are going to be done in a graffiti style and that the user must be able to clearly read the titles so that they know which button takes them where, we also agreed on a bright colour scheme.

To get the gradients of colour on these buttons i used the Gradient fill tool (on Photoshop) and made sure that the gradient went from a fill colour to transparency, this gave me the ability to add shadows and darker colours to the text.

Finished GANTT chart

Here is an image of our completed GANTT chart.

Music player Images

Here are some more images taken from the making of the music player movie screen.

Music player still images.

Here are images taken from the making of the music player video screen. We are going to have a music player playing a soundtrack, from a few selected songs that we have individually chosen.

The music player will be featured on every page of the CD-ROM and will include short video clips of a DJ playing records on a turntable. Depending on what button is pressed E.G the play button, a short video clip of a record being played will be displayed on a video player right above the music player buttons.

Photography of graffiti in Nottingham

Here are a few images of graffiti that i have taken in Nottingham. I think they are very interesting as they are advertising to remind people to recycle, but they are doing it in a way that people who may be littering may pay attention to as it is a clear message on the wall in the form of graffiti with bright, colourful images on the wall in places that littering may occour.

I think this form of graffiti can be justified as it doesnt offend people with offensive language, doesnt insult people and it atractive to look at. Although this is a large scale image people may say that it is visual polution, littering on the hand is a much larger problem as it destroying the planet and is potentialy harmful if a needle or broken bottle were to injure someone whereas this graffiti is not harming anyone.

Graffiti photography in Leeds

Heres a couple pictures of graffiti that i have taken in Leeds.

Although these pictures arent the most attractive that have been created they were taken at high level, out of sight for most passers by.

fine art graffiti

While researching graffiti artists i came across this video





What i like about this video is the quality of the piece and the overall speed that the artist produces it, this shows people that graffiti is also an art form and not just writing on street walls that is mainly frowned upon.