During the Christmas break we did some research into locations for filming our live action trailer, the locations we researched were Richmond, Merton and Wimbledon Common. We decided to go for Wimbledon common, but before we came to this conclusion. We went to Wimbledon to scout out areas in the park to make sure it had the characteristics which would suit the feel we were going for. We came to the Conclusion that here is where we were going to film, the pictures below is the evidence of going to the place as well as reference images for us, so we remember what the area looked like. we also pinpointed the location on the application “Google Maps” 
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FMP Animation/ Evaluation
To start off I’d like to state that I tried my absolute best with my animation, however, given the fact that my animation skills are very poor and I didn’t understand it completely, the animation kinda failed for me. The animation was originally going to be an informative and educational animation about the “brief facts” about Eadweard Muybridge.
However, during the process, my ideas changed as the character’s movements were relatively restricted as well as the movements would move strangely and gave a feeling of poor quality or something not to be taken seriously. so I decided to work on that and actually make it intentionally “bad” in the sense of the movements. however, I tried to make it somewhat interesting, with special effects (implemented by after effects), and music (implemented by garage band as well as logic pro).
The animation had to consist of 30s (30s maximum and 27 secs minimum). to create the environments I took images of Kingston as well as images that I have taken in the past and applied a posterised/ cut-out effect onto them. all the images I used were a primary source (taken by me) however a few of the sound effects like the birds chirping were from “soundbible”. to create the rain effect, however, I got rice and literally poured dry rice onto my phone whilst the recording was playing. meaning the phone was able to record the impact properly as well as being able to hear the impact the rice/ rain would have if it was actual rain.
I originally created my environments using illustrator and photoshop using the paintbrush tool as well as various tints and tones of colours. however, I realised that the environments ended up looking amateur and mediocre, so I decided that environments which are sourced from real life areas would look more effective.
I originally wanted to create this animation frame by frame but I later realised how tedious and time consuming that would’ve been as it took extremely long to create this animation using digital means. The character featured in this animation is a variation of Eadweard Muybridge. the reason why he has no eyes or mouth is merely the art style I chose to use. I thought an abstract approach to the animation would give it a more surreal feel.
the requirements were to make it 1080p HD, H.264.
the feedback i got was mixed but was very helpful.
it has shown me that people did appreciate my efforts as well as getting some great feedback from them all, i believe it would give me a better chance in future.
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Eadweard Muybridge Research
Eadweard Muybridge was born on the 9th of April 1830 and passed away on the 8th of May 1904
He is an English photographer important for his early work in motion-picture projection and his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion. He chose the first name Eadweard as the Traditional Anglo–Saxon form of Edward, and the surname Muybridge believing it to be a similar fashion to the first name.
present day, he is well known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used a dozen cameras to capture the illusion of motion in stop-motion photographs, and his “zoopraxiscope”.
the zoopraxiscope was a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography. in the 1880s he produced over 100,000 images of animals and humans in motion.
The zoopraxiscope is an early device for projecting and displaying pictures in the form of motion. Created in 1879, it may be considered the first movie projector. The zoopraxiscope projected images from rotating glass disks.
He is also now commonly known as the ‘father of the motion picture’ as his early experiments laid the foundation for cinemas today.
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