I saw Karl's ideas for a monkey/chimp theme for his project today and I mentioned 'Pankun and James', I said i'd post something for some bizarre inspiration...so here it is....
Basically Pankun and James are a comedy duo from Japan comprising of a very clever chimp (pankun) and a bulldog (james), they've had numerous TV shows together but Pankun himself is pretty famous and actually presents his own talk show with celebrities.
In their shows together they are usually given a task to do like go on a train journey and buy their own tickets, etc.....and you'd be amazed how intelligient they actually are.
Anyhoos....this clip always makes me laugh so i'll show you this, they're basically doing a sit-ups challenge. The sound effects go along great.
It's funny when James attempts to do some situps!
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3 November 2009
HP Commericals
LOVE theses commercials. there say that it is used in Adobe After Effects. there are going to be my concept area. displaying your interests from the comfort of your Computer.
2 November 2009
'Think' drug driving TV Advert. 'Your eyes will give you away'
The initial reason I chose this TV advert to review was because it made such an impact on me. Every time it airs on TV, I concrete and watch it fully, and I am still majorly impressed by it every time.
The narrative of this advert is about a group of teenagers who have been out and taking drugs. One of them decides to drive. As the police drive past the car, the eyes of the teenagers give them away. After the police siren is alarmed, and the teenagers realise they have been spotted, the audience are left to assume they have been arrested.
As this advert is run by ‘Think’ who are a government run company, they are not advertising to create money. The primary aim for this advert is to warn people who take drugs that driving is extremely dangerous and also that it is very easy to be spotted by the police. Even though the target audience is very wide to any one who uses drugs, the advert stereotypically aims at teenagers. This may be because the biggest number of drug crime come from teenagers, or that teenagers don’t know as much as older people about the subject.
They get there message across extremely well by using hyperbole techniques, for e.g. the extra large eyes of the teenagers. The audience know that they are exaggerated, however it effectively get the message across quickly in the short 30 second space. The ‘silliness’ of how the eyes look, also mirrors the ‘silliness’ of taking drugs and driving. Hoping to make people realise, it’s not as cool as they think.
In the car there are a range of people, for e.g. both young white and black guys, and girls. Having both genders and race allows a large audience to empathise with the characters. It makes the scenario a lot more realistic. The advert also emphasises this by using a small car that teenagers are more likely to have. Within the car, the teenagers are having a normal conversation and laughing about the night’s antics. They seem ‘normal’ and apart from the eyes, they don’t seem phased or affected by the drugs. However, the dark lighting and the low, eerie non-diegtic music in the background lets the audience know there is hidden meaning and the advert is building up to something. Keeping the audience interested and wanting to know what happens.
When the police car drives past, the action goes into slow motion. This illustrates how reactions are slow and impaired by drugs. The camera then focuses on the girl in the back of the car. She looks very strange, scary and her eyes are incredibly emphasised. This explains how the police actually see you, and how clear the affects are.
The narration of this film appears to be in the driver’s point of view. It always goes back to his face, and the jerky, unsure movements of the camera signify how he is feeling. Whereas the other passengers seem carefree and not worried about being caught. This indicates that it is the driver who is responsible, and it is the driver who will be in trouble.
The advert ends openly, with only the noise of the siren in the background and the driver expressing a distressed look. This lets the audience decide how it ends, and therefore more affective as it makes drug users a lot more worried about the consequences. It then ends with a black screen, and the ‘Think’ logo at the bottom right of the screen. Using a simple back screen has connotations of danger and doom and leaves a sense of trouble for the audience.
This advert is extremely effective at getting the message across about drug driving. A lot of adverts are aimed at drink driving which use shock tactics to convey the message, for e.g. people having car crashes. However, ‘Think’ had to use a different approach for drug driving to make sure there was a clear divide between the two. They have successfully created an iconic image of the eyes so the audience will now associate drugs with the ‘involuntary effect’ it has. A follow up from this advert has now been released in poster form. Graphologically, the poster is simply a huge image of an eye with veins either side. The TV advert was so clear and effective that when people see this poster on the sides of buses etc they will know exactly what it is for.
The narrative of this advert is about a group of teenagers who have been out and taking drugs. One of them decides to drive. As the police drive past the car, the eyes of the teenagers give them away. After the police siren is alarmed, and the teenagers realise they have been spotted, the audience are left to assume they have been arrested.
As this advert is run by ‘Think’ who are a government run company, they are not advertising to create money. The primary aim for this advert is to warn people who take drugs that driving is extremely dangerous and also that it is very easy to be spotted by the police. Even though the target audience is very wide to any one who uses drugs, the advert stereotypically aims at teenagers. This may be because the biggest number of drug crime come from teenagers, or that teenagers don’t know as much as older people about the subject.
They get there message across extremely well by using hyperbole techniques, for e.g. the extra large eyes of the teenagers. The audience know that they are exaggerated, however it effectively get the message across quickly in the short 30 second space. The ‘silliness’ of how the eyes look, also mirrors the ‘silliness’ of taking drugs and driving. Hoping to make people realise, it’s not as cool as they think.
In the car there are a range of people, for e.g. both young white and black guys, and girls. Having both genders and race allows a large audience to empathise with the characters. It makes the scenario a lot more realistic. The advert also emphasises this by using a small car that teenagers are more likely to have. Within the car, the teenagers are having a normal conversation and laughing about the night’s antics. They seem ‘normal’ and apart from the eyes, they don’t seem phased or affected by the drugs. However, the dark lighting and the low, eerie non-diegtic music in the background lets the audience know there is hidden meaning and the advert is building up to something. Keeping the audience interested and wanting to know what happens.
When the police car drives past, the action goes into slow motion. This illustrates how reactions are slow and impaired by drugs. The camera then focuses on the girl in the back of the car. She looks very strange, scary and her eyes are incredibly emphasised. This explains how the police actually see you, and how clear the affects are.
The narration of this film appears to be in the driver’s point of view. It always goes back to his face, and the jerky, unsure movements of the camera signify how he is feeling. Whereas the other passengers seem carefree and not worried about being caught. This indicates that it is the driver who is responsible, and it is the driver who will be in trouble.
The advert ends openly, with only the noise of the siren in the background and the driver expressing a distressed look. This lets the audience decide how it ends, and therefore more affective as it makes drug users a lot more worried about the consequences. It then ends with a black screen, and the ‘Think’ logo at the bottom right of the screen. Using a simple back screen has connotations of danger and doom and leaves a sense of trouble for the audience.
This advert is extremely effective at getting the message across about drug driving. A lot of adverts are aimed at drink driving which use shock tactics to convey the message, for e.g. people having car crashes. However, ‘Think’ had to use a different approach for drug driving to make sure there was a clear divide between the two. They have successfully created an iconic image of the eyes so the audience will now associate drugs with the ‘involuntary effect’ it has. A follow up from this advert has now been released in poster form. Graphologically, the poster is simply a huge image of an eye with veins either side. The TV advert was so clear and effective that when people see this poster on the sides of buses etc they will know exactly what it is for.
STORY CONCEPT and design inspiration
I have been struggling to come up with ideas for my Animation piece but last night i suddenly came up with a concept of me turning the Animation into like a first-person view of me browsing through my computer which of course contains everything that's important to me from Videos of Dance, to Music that i listen .since i spend most of me time on it. i think it will be easy to convey on the screen. it will have that SCI-FI, metal, robotical, mechanical feel to it because robots are the next level of dance.
Does any1 remember the MTV characters on MTV Base that was 2 years ago. well i got inspired by those characters because i could see myself creating them on Flash and so i made different characters that i made a while back and i might incorporate some of them into my Animation.
Cloudy with a slight weird chance of meatballs
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs review coming soon.. when i find tyme to watch the movie
Half term comes to and end...
Well we are all back into College tomorrow!! After reading people's blogs I think people are struggling with getting the idea finalised. During the half term I thought I would create an exact story board and be ready to start the animation, however I have also found it more difficult. I have the ideas, and when I put to paper, I keep changing bits. I have kept all my drafts because it shows my chain of thoughts. I think when we all get back together tomorrow, the creative juices will come flowing right back!!
Over the half term, I watched several animations because I have been with my little nephew H. I am going to do a review on Bolt! Has anyone seen this? Amazing. I havent heard much about it, but I thought it was just brilliant. Too funny. Watch this space for that upcoming review!
Just a few ideas for you, in regards to the youbrief.
1. When you are finding it difficult to think of ideas walk away. Sometimes you want to keep working till you find the idea but most of my ideas come from when I walk away and get a drink or get a shower.
2. I am reading up a book on beating perfectionism. Its both a skill and a flaw. Its a fantastic book. One point of advice I would offer is accept mistakes. It is human to make mistakes. So, dont worry if you are no 100% on the idea yet, it will fall into place. Have faith.
3. Write a to-do list!! Haha, for anyone who sits next to me in class will realise this is a little obsession of mine. Whenever you feel completed snowed under with ideas and work you have to do, simply write a to do list. It will take it all out of your mind, therefore clearing space and allow you to refer back to it making sure everything gets done!
Hope that helps people, or at least gives for some good reading. See you folks on the morrow.
P.s Just to make you laugh, here is my halloween picture. I designed the outfit so it does effectively fit in with this PDP!
1 November 2009
Shape up Bob!
In a way i'm glad that it was half-term this week, because i've not been very well for most of it, but because of this I haven't been as active and it has been a very bad week in terms of my brief. A week in which I had hoped to get on and have a clear light at the end of the tunnel.
So at this moment in time I am (feeling much better, but) still in the ideas generation phase of my brief, according to my gant chart this puts me well over a week behind schedule. Yet, i'm still determined not to rush myself and I am still taking time to generate the ideas that I want to see in my piece. がんばります。
Today I did, however, receive some random inspirational imagery passed on my brother:
Ball droppings
This really relaxed me, it was interesting to watch but being into making music I also tried to create a pattern whereby the sounds would fit together in harmony. Very relaxing.
History of the 'Playstation' logo
This really does open your eyes to the design process I think, the amount of different designs that had been created before they eventually went with a final choice. You can kinda see in the last few images just how that final shape emerged into the eventual product logo.
Hob Box
When my brother showed me this I was completely gobsmacked, being of a music production background it's relevant to my own interests but what is so brilliant about it is that it's an applet that has been designed and created for the web (for free use) whereas professional software packages that offer a similar experience are priced at a few hundred pounds. But the look and interface of this applet is of a quality to rival the best of them.
At the moment it's clearly not a professional music production package, but I wouldn't be surprised if budding artists use this in a live situation. And I would pretty much bet that the designers of this applet with recieve an offer in due course for a pro release version. Great design, and great for the promotion of getting more people into making music.
555 Kubik
This is unbelieveable. How does one begin to design or plan something like this?
It's a projection on the side of a building, but with the careful planning of shadow effects and sound it gives an amazing 3D look. Brilliant.
So at this moment in time I am (feeling much better, but) still in the ideas generation phase of my brief, according to my gant chart this puts me well over a week behind schedule. Yet, i'm still determined not to rush myself and I am still taking time to generate the ideas that I want to see in my piece. がんばります。
Today I did, however, receive some random inspirational imagery passed on my brother:
Ball droppings
This really relaxed me, it was interesting to watch but being into making music I also tried to create a pattern whereby the sounds would fit together in harmony. Very relaxing.
History of the 'Playstation' logo
This really does open your eyes to the design process I think, the amount of different designs that had been created before they eventually went with a final choice. You can kinda see in the last few images just how that final shape emerged into the eventual product logo.
Hob Box
When my brother showed me this I was completely gobsmacked, being of a music production background it's relevant to my own interests but what is so brilliant about it is that it's an applet that has been designed and created for the web (for free use) whereas professional software packages that offer a similar experience are priced at a few hundred pounds. But the look and interface of this applet is of a quality to rival the best of them.
At the moment it's clearly not a professional music production package, but I wouldn't be surprised if budding artists use this in a live situation. And I would pretty much bet that the designers of this applet with recieve an offer in due course for a pro release version. Great design, and great for the promotion of getting more people into making music.
555 Kubik
This is unbelieveable. How does one begin to design or plan something like this?
It's a projection on the side of a building, but with the careful planning of shadow effects and sound it gives an amazing 3D look. Brilliant.
Is Disney/ Pixar on the "UP"
My first review I'm so excited ... I really don't know how I got into seeing the film "UP" knowing that the animation company (can I really say it) Disney/ Pixar produce it but after trapping my finger in the door of the cinema I really wasn't in the mood to be bored with a rubbish storyline with graphics that make me sick ...but I didn't leave feeling that way.
First of all there was a short animation, "Partly Clouded" My first thought was "great a cheesy cartoon" but the different elements such as, the story, the characters and perspective of the animation made the short film easy to follow and me want to see it again...
"UP" started off with a lovely tale of a couple growing up together and never really fulfilling their dream together, which really was depressing at the start of the film with the woman dying and the old man about to be put into a retirement home he decides to fulfil hes and his late's wife dream of going to Paradise Falls so he lifts the house off the ground with balloons (did I mention he sold balloons throughout his life...) Well as this goes he realises that its not the past that matters but the here and now and help to save Kevin (who is a mum) from his once hero. This film is a great animation, developed into the unlikely friendships between the old, young and different animals and how in the end they were lonely in their own ways and how they helped each other. The storyline is very well told and captures the imagination of audience, the usage of the colours are used to tell the mood from using somber tones of brown, blues to describe the mood to old mans loneliness. To sum it up I enjoyed so much better than the 5 - 7 year olds in front of me that it must be good ...lol.
First of all there was a short animation, "Partly Clouded" My first thought was "great a cheesy cartoon" but the different elements such as, the story, the characters and perspective of the animation made the short film easy to follow and me want to see it again...
"UP" started off with a lovely tale of a couple growing up together and never really fulfilling their dream together, which really was depressing at the start of the film with the woman dying and the old man about to be put into a retirement home he decides to fulfil hes and his late's wife dream of going to Paradise Falls so he lifts the house off the ground with balloons (did I mention he sold balloons throughout his life...) Well as this goes he realises that its not the past that matters but the here and now and help to save Kevin (who is a mum) from his once hero. This film is a great animation, developed into the unlikely friendships between the old, young and different animals and how in the end they were lonely in their own ways and how they helped each other. The storyline is very well told and captures the imagination of audience, the usage of the colours are used to tell the mood from using somber tones of brown, blues to describe the mood to old mans loneliness. To sum it up I enjoyed so much better than the 5 - 7 year olds in front of me that it must be good ...lol.
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