My interests and my skills

Interests/skills .Drawing :I love to draw and have done my whole life and i believe i am quite good at creating my own ideas and not copying. .Beatboxing(making sounds with my mouth):I can make weird and unusual sounds with just my mouth. which could be used for sounds in games/animations. .Creating concept art: I like to design concept art using photoshop or by hand but i also enjoy using new types of media as well. .Designing characters from scratch : I like to design characters using pen and pencil then finishing them on photoshop to give them a professional look. .Filming: I really enjoy filming and editing on final cut pro but i do need to improve on my editing skills. .Creating scenery for games/animations: I design scenery from scratch using any media i can get my hands on i prefer to use photoshop with the pen tablet or just by hand using paint,pen and pencil or anything i can get my hands on including random objects to make shapes etc..

Short Animations and their meanings

I was browsing the web when i came across loads of short animations i liked the look of and looked into to how they shared a message. Below are the 4 animations i found the most interesting out of the many i saw.

Set extension

The video here is all about how what you see on the big screen is not all what it seems. This video is a showreel of some of the best set extensions out there from holes in the ground to vast landscapes that completely change the shot. We have been asked in this module to add our own set extensions and this video has motivated me to create something spectacular,I will not be able to create something this good in the time we have but i thought it was a good idea to look at what could be achieved if i got really good at set extensions.

Evil Makeup tutorials

The videos above are tutorials on how to create a realistic zombie and a vampire. For this project we have been given a task to create a 1 min video on a topic of our choice from a few given to us by our tutor i have chosen to do evil vs good. I have decided that in my vid i will have zombies in it or vampires the videos above show cheap and good ways to do this. The one about zombies is especially good as all the things you need to create for this look are easy to get cheap but still give off a great look if you want to look like you are a flesh eating zombie.

My idea for my film

|||| My zombie film|||| My initial idea when i saw the brief was to do some kind of creepy horror movie, with the feel of a video game. I wanted to scare my audience. The idea of good and evil was what attracted me most. I thought back to when I used to watch blade and other horror movies as an adolescent, and I wanted to recreate for the audience the highly charged feelings you get watching those kind of films at that kind of age. I wanted to produce a one minute trailer for my movie initially. I thought about what might work and how I could incorporate good and evil and I came up with the idea of a zombie movie with a difference. My central character is a zombie that resents having been made a zombie, fighting with the evil he has become. This inner turmoil makes him want revenge on the evil of the zombies by exterminating them – I can’t say killing them as of course they are dead already! I thought of doing a similar thing with vampires but really I think that has already been done with the vampire tv shows and the film interview with a vampire. I have to work out how my zombie character is not pure zombie and I think the idea is that he was born half zombie as his mother was pregnant when she was bitten and he was born with many zombie characteristics. He smells like a zombie, he looks like a zombie. The zombies in this film are not stupid and mindless, but they are evil, but my character can pass himself off as one of them easily so he can get close to them.

Good

Good vs Evil Visual effects At a professional level

I looked at some visual effects done by professionals to give me some ideas on what i could do for my 1 minute film,the videos below are 3 of the videos i liked the best.The first video is a video that shows you all the visual effects from the TV series the walking dead,this video was the first that came to mind as it linked in well with the good vs evil theme. The walking dead is about zombies,In my film i will try to use some of these visual effects for example shooting the head of a zombie with a pistol or the sniper if i make my film about zombies. I looked at the effects in the Wizard of Oz, this film was made such a long time ago before they really had special effects like we do today, so this was motivating for me, i have so many more tools at my disposal, and yet they were able to make something that was really scary in its day, so there is hope for me! also i like how this film made monkeys seem evil, i nver thgouth of them as anything but cute before i watched this film. I liked the clip about pirates of the caribbean as this film has such good special effects, also the them e of good and evil is in it too, though in this case what you might think of as evil turn out to be not so bad after all and the trusted establishment turns out to be "evil" i like this twist.