Some people find some weird things...

It has been a while since I posted!

A lot has happened in the past few weeks, we hit week 6 as everyone knows is a nightmare. It sinks in that you are half way through and within a month all the work has to be in. It is the time to panic!

But at the beginning of the month I went to Elstree Studios! We went for a cinematography expo with university and it was really interesting to see all of the different sorts of equipment we could be using in the future. Here are the ugly lot I went with ;)

And I got to try the new canon camera coming out! Look at how happy I am!

I have also been doing lots of work on digital media, the main reason why I haven't updated here in a while as i have a digital media blog (you can access this via my profile). Someone in my class passed on this video to me, it relates to what I am doing but I also feel like I need to share this with the world. I just think it's brilliant!

I have done more too, but I'm just too tired to update now, especially after my work today (pictures will follow)

A big shout out to the people viewing me from around the world, mainly in Russia and Germany! I'd like to know who you are, add/follow me or something =D

Time to open my toolbox...

As you may fully be aware, After Effects and I have a love/hate relationship. But we have been to relationship counselling in the form of Graham my Digital Media lecturer. I used to look at it as a massive obstacle that I had to do all in one go, but I realise that it isn't. He explained that every tiny skill he learnt goes into his 'toolbox' so when he knows how to do something like keyframe the position of something or how to scale something then that's a skill, and you use all of these to do bigger tasks like set extension.

And I just did my first ever After Effects work on video yesterday and today :) even overcoming some of the worst problems ever! I am really pleased with myself, eventhough the piece of work could be better I learnt:
- Sky replacement
- Using masking (auto and by hand)
- Motion tracking
- Null objects
- Chromakeying properly
- How to use curves to add depth
- Change my image to black and white

And that's from a 20 second project!

My toolbox is starting to fill up nicely...