Friday, 13 August 2010
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Animation Class - Exercises 1 and 2
The following students have not submitted the Bouncing Ball and Canon Shot exercises:
Loh Ming Luan
Sela Samrith
Sokhan Sophearith
Please submit to me via e-mail at john@limkokwing.edu.kh ASAP!
Loh Ming Luan
Sela Samrith
Sokhan Sophearith
Please submit to me via e-mail at john@limkokwing.edu.kh ASAP!
Friday, 2 April 2010
Video Poem
MODULE ASSIGNMENT BRIEF:
The Brief
Digital stories can be about anything - love, work, hopes, fears, the past, even the future. An incident that sticks in your mind, a subject you feel strongly about, a place you love (or can't stand), that's the gem of a Digital Story!
Present your digital story in a form of a video poem. The poem must be reflective of your personal feelings or experiences. Example #1: my first day at University would consist images of fear, unknown, new friends etc. Example #2: my personal feelings about rape would include images of fresh flowers dying, lock & key, teardrops, darkness etc.
Students are required to compose their own pictures, use personal artifacts (if applicable) and still pictures in order to give a clear idea for a personal story about themselves or their experience. You are however allowed 50% usage of royalty free images (scanned not downloaded from the internet) BUT there must be altercations to the images (hue/saturation/levels/treatment).
Equipment used for the project includes computers, image manipulation software, basic video editing software, scanners and digital cameras. Try not to use video cameras as this module is not about understanding how to make video BUT understanding how to compose good shots! Start with a digital camera. You can compose in any editing software as long as you can insert sound into the project and it outputs as an AVI or MOV file e.g. idvd, moviemaker etc.
Objective:
The assignment allows you, the student to conceptualise images through juxtaposition. The montage of images is supposed to convey your message and how you organise the images in sequence to emphasise on that visual meaning.
Duration of Assignment (effective from briefing date)
14 Weeks
DEADLINE
Week 14
Video Poem Requirements
The assignment MUST be at least 120 seconds/2 Minutes (minimum requirement)
Video resolution size is 720 X 576 pixels at 25fps PAL formatted
A suitable soundtrack (referenced for educational purposes)
Compiled CD/DVD with master files (images and editing files)
A compiled workbook with storyboard
Workbook Requirements
Must contain storyline, concept, storyboard and the actual poem. Please do not reverse engineer this requirement e.g. finishing the project then producing the workbook. The workbook is your step by step process on how you achieved the final outcome of the assignment.
Submission
Submit your final workbook in an A4 size comb-binded format, with a black backing and a PVC/Clear cover. It must be included in an envelope (12” X 16”) together with a CD/digital copy containing the assignment.
Submit only to your respective lecturer. Ensure that you received a receipt from the lecturer when submitting your work. Also, ensure that you have completed and submitted your Archive (CIRA) form to your lecturers. The CIRA form has to be pasted in front of the envelope and on your CD Cover.
The Brief
Digital stories can be about anything - love, work, hopes, fears, the past, even the future. An incident that sticks in your mind, a subject you feel strongly about, a place you love (or can't stand), that's the gem of a Digital Story!
Present your digital story in a form of a video poem. The poem must be reflective of your personal feelings or experiences. Example #1: my first day at University would consist images of fear, unknown, new friends etc. Example #2: my personal feelings about rape would include images of fresh flowers dying, lock & key, teardrops, darkness etc.
Students are required to compose their own pictures, use personal artifacts (if applicable) and still pictures in order to give a clear idea for a personal story about themselves or their experience. You are however allowed 50% usage of royalty free images (scanned not downloaded from the internet) BUT there must be altercations to the images (hue/saturation/levels/treatment).
Equipment used for the project includes computers, image manipulation software, basic video editing software, scanners and digital cameras. Try not to use video cameras as this module is not about understanding how to make video BUT understanding how to compose good shots! Start with a digital camera. You can compose in any editing software as long as you can insert sound into the project and it outputs as an AVI or MOV file e.g. idvd, moviemaker etc.
Objective:
The assignment allows you, the student to conceptualise images through juxtaposition. The montage of images is supposed to convey your message and how you organise the images in sequence to emphasise on that visual meaning.
Duration of Assignment (effective from briefing date)
14 Weeks
DEADLINE
Week 14
Video Poem Requirements
The assignment MUST be at least 120 seconds/2 Minutes (minimum requirement)
Video resolution size is 720 X 576 pixels at 25fps PAL formatted
A suitable soundtrack (referenced for educational purposes)
Compiled CD/DVD with master files (images and editing files)
A compiled workbook with storyboard
Workbook Requirements
Must contain storyline, concept, storyboard and the actual poem. Please do not reverse engineer this requirement e.g. finishing the project then producing the workbook. The workbook is your step by step process on how you achieved the final outcome of the assignment.
Submission
Submit your final workbook in an A4 size comb-binded format, with a black backing and a PVC/Clear cover. It must be included in an envelope (12” X 16”) together with a CD/digital copy containing the assignment.
Submit only to your respective lecturer. Ensure that you received a receipt from the lecturer when submitting your work. Also, ensure that you have completed and submitted your Archive (CIRA) form to your lecturers. The CIRA form has to be pasted in front of the envelope and on your CD Cover.
Monday, 29 March 2010
Printing.
In the most general terms, a print is a piece of paper on which a design has been
imprinted from a matrix made of some selected medium, usually stone, wood, or metal.
Prints fall into three general categories depending on their method of production: relief, intaglio, and planographic.
Relief Prints
In a relief print the image is printed from a raised surface on the matrix, so that
the printmaker creates the matrix by cutting away that part which he does not
want to show in the image. To create a relief print the ink is applied to the raised
surface of the matrix, which is then pressed onto a sheet of paper.
Relief printing is quite simple, it is just about printing from a raised surface. Take a flat piece of wood, and cut in to it as in the photo above. Lower the surface of the negative shape and so create a surface in relief. The positive shape or uncut area can now have ink applied to it.
A flat and even layer of ink is rolled out using a roller onto a flat, clean surface called the inking slab.
The ink is then transferred from the slab to the raised surface of the block using the same roller. This is called inking up the block.
A piece of paper is then placed over the block and pressure is applied either by rubbing with a spoon, or putting the block and paper through a hand printing press. The paper is then peeled back; this is called pulling the print. And so a relief print is made.
Intaglio Prints
In an intaglio print the image is printed from a recessed design in the matrix, so
that the printmaker creates the matrix by cutting into it the design he wishes to
imprint on the paper.
To create an intaglio print the ink is pressed into the design
cut in the matrix, the surface is wiped, and the ink is then transferred to the paper
under pressure.
Planographic Prints
In a planographic print the image is printed from a flat matrix, where the image
was created on the surface by use of a grease crayon or with greasy ink (called
Tushe).
To create a planographic print, water (which is repulsed by the greasy
image) is washed onto the surface, and then ink (which is held by the greasy
image) is applied to the surface. A press is then used to transfer the image to the
paper.
The earliest known printed books were produced using wooden blocks with the text
carved on them which was then used as a printing plate.
These "plates" were produced in much the same manner as those for wood engravings -- except instead of an "picture“ carved into them, the actual text of a page of a book was carved into them.
The earliest dated printed book known is the "Diamond Sutra", printed in China in 868 AD. However, it is suspected that book
printing may have occurred long before this date.
Before Gutenberg, printing was limited in the number of editions made and nearly exclusively decorative, used for pictures and designs. Books were hand copied mostly by members of religious orders.
Johannes Gutenberg
The earliest dated printed book known is the "Diamond Sutra", printed in China in
868 CE. Suspected that book printing may have occurred long before this date.
In 1041, movable clay type was first invented in China.
Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith and businessman from the mining town of Mainz in southern Germany, borrowed money to invent a technology that changed the world of printing.
He invented the printing press with replaceable/moveable wooden or metal letters in 1436 (completed by 1440).
The Gutenberg press with its wooden and later metal movable type printing brought down the price of printed materials and made such materials available for the masses.
It remained the standard until the 20th century. The Gutenberg printing press developed from the technology of the screw-type wine presses of the Rhine Valley.
It was there in 1440 that Johannes Gutenberg created his printing press, a hand press, in which ink was rolled over the raised surfaces of moveable hand-set block letters held within a wooden form and the form was then pressed against a sheet of paper.
Gutenberg Bible
Johannes Gutenberg is also accredited with printing the world's first book using movable type, the 42-line (the number of lines per page) Gutenberg Bible.
During the centuries, many newer printing technologies were developed based on
Gutenberg's printing machine e.g. offset printing.
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Screenplays for group exercise. Film Language
Click on the Download Screenplay link.
Scroll to the bottom of the new page.
Click on the download link entitled either scene 1 or scene 2.
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT ONE FOR YOUR GROUP.
Group 1
Download Screenplay
Lantape Paulo VincenteRuiz
Fred Sirhyan Cho
Mony Kandarung
Khim Sambath
Sokhan Sophearith
Touch Sokunthea
Loh Ming Lvan (Michal)
Hun Vannak
group 2
Sen Tharo
Sela samreth
Set Lyna
Sok Tha
Ieng Sunsolyna
Ir Chhay Hout
Kang M Youra
Sao Vannaroth
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Animation Studies - Exercise 1 - Bouncing Ball
Due at the beginning of the next class! When you finish your flash Bouncing Ball animation, select publish from the File menu to create the .swf file. I will collect all the animations at the beginning of class and we will analyze and critique them.
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
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Screenwriting
all the information you need is available here.
Basically you need to remember these six things.
Character who is it about?
Location where are they?
Context why are they there?
Conflict Something happens to change the established equilibrium
Exploration what are the possible outcomes of this conflict
Resolution what happens in the end
Alphabet
The alphabet is a set of characters of symbols used to communicate in a written form in a specific language. These characters may differ according to each nationality with some adopting similar characters while others are completely different. The earliest known origin on the alphabet was to be the “North Semetic” during the period 1700 to 1500 BC originating in the Mediterranean. Towards 1000 BC the evolution of 4 other alphabets occurred from the Canaanites, Aramaic, South Semitic and Greeks Aramaic formed the basis of Middle Eastern nations including Arabic, Hebrew and Indian.
From offshoots of the Greek alphabet formed modern Greek, Cyrillic and Etruscan. Cyrillic would then become the script for eastern European nations including Russia, Bulgarian and Serbian. Etruscan would then evolve into Latin, which was used by the Roman Empire. The Roman conquests throughout Europe spread Latin through out its empire. It initially began with 21 letters but after conquests and time it evolved to the modern day 26. With the alphabet, history could now be recorded rather then memorized and would be fundamental in preserving human knowledge.
English Alphabet:
A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z
Sumerians created the first written language based on abstract signs around 3000 B.C.E. Imprints of the signs, called cuneiform, were made by pressing a wedge-shaped stylus into wet clay.
The Phoenician alphabet was based on the principle that one sign represents one spoken sound. Below each sign is shown its sound value, name and meaning. Reads from right to left.
Early Greek capitals carved in stone (c.600 B.C.E.). The inscription is also an example of boustrophedon writing (as the ox plows) in which lines alternated first in one direction and then in the other.
The Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet, modified the names, and added vowels.
Trajan column inscription cut in 114 CE. The letterforms are considered to be the finest surviving examples or early Roman capitals. Shown below is a closeup of the fourth line from the top.
The original alphabet was developed by a Semitic people living in or near Egypt.* They based it on the idea developed by the Egyptians, but used their own specific symbols. It was quickly adopted by their neighbors and relatives to the east and north, the Canaanites, the Hebrews, and the Phoenicians. The Phoenicians spread their alphabet to other people of the Near East and Asia Minor, as well as to the Arabs, the Greeks, and the Etruscans, and as far west as present day Spain.
The letters and names on the left are the ones used by the Phoenicians. The letters on the right are possible earlier versions. If you don't recognize the letters, keep in mind that they have since been reversed (since the Phoenicians wrote from right to left) and often turned on their sides!
The Greek letter phi (Φ) was already common among the Anatolians in what is now Turkey. Psi (Ψ) appears to have been invented by the Greeks themselves, perhaps based on Poseidon's trident. For comparison, here is the complete Greek alphabet:
* Until recently, it was believed that these people lived in the Sinai desert and began using their alphabet in the 1700's bc. In 1998, archeologist John Darnell discovered rock carvings in southern Egypt's "Valley of Horrors" that push back the origin of the alphabet to the 1900's bc or even earlier. Details suggest that the inventors were Semitic people working in Egypt, who thereafter passed the idea on to their relatives further east.
From offshoots of the Greek alphabet formed modern Greek, Cyrillic and Etruscan. Cyrillic would then become the script for eastern European nations including Russia, Bulgarian and Serbian. Etruscan would then evolve into Latin, which was used by the Roman Empire. The Roman conquests throughout Europe spread Latin through out its empire. It initially began with 21 letters but after conquests and time it evolved to the modern day 26. With the alphabet, history could now be recorded rather then memorized and would be fundamental in preserving human knowledge.
English Alphabet:
A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z
Sumerians created the first written language based on abstract signs around 3000 B.C.E. Imprints of the signs, called cuneiform, were made by pressing a wedge-shaped stylus into wet clay.
The Phoenician alphabet was based on the principle that one sign represents one spoken sound. Below each sign is shown its sound value, name and meaning. Reads from right to left.
Early Greek capitals carved in stone (c.600 B.C.E.). The inscription is also an example of boustrophedon writing (as the ox plows) in which lines alternated first in one direction and then in the other.
The Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet, modified the names, and added vowels.
Trajan column inscription cut in 114 CE. The letterforms are considered to be the finest surviving examples or early Roman capitals. Shown below is a closeup of the fourth line from the top.
The original alphabet was developed by a Semitic people living in or near Egypt.* They based it on the idea developed by the Egyptians, but used their own specific symbols. It was quickly adopted by their neighbors and relatives to the east and north, the Canaanites, the Hebrews, and the Phoenicians. The Phoenicians spread their alphabet to other people of the Near East and Asia Minor, as well as to the Arabs, the Greeks, and the Etruscans, and as far west as present day Spain.
The letters and names on the left are the ones used by the Phoenicians. The letters on the right are possible earlier versions. If you don't recognize the letters, keep in mind that they have since been reversed (since the Phoenicians wrote from right to left) and often turned on their sides!
The Greek letter phi (Φ) was already common among the Anatolians in what is now Turkey. Psi (Ψ) appears to have been invented by the Greeks themselves, perhaps based on Poseidon's trident. For comparison, here is the complete Greek alphabet:
* Until recently, it was believed that these people lived in the Sinai desert and began using their alphabet in the 1700's bc. In 1998, archeologist John Darnell discovered rock carvings in southern Egypt's "Valley of Horrors" that push back the origin of the alphabet to the 1900's bc or even earlier. Details suggest that the inventors were Semitic people working in Egypt, who thereafter passed the idea on to their relatives further east.
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