drawing david cope 28/11/07

decided which pics to use for my final peice working out which i could leave out and still tell the story and which i should do in mono print and which would be best as pen and ink.
the depressing nature of this project and to a certain extent the tombstoing project are starting to get to me.

history of design 28-11-07

posted a transcript of the lecture that sue gave on de stijl and what i am going to say in the de stijl presentation i hope that the others read it and do somthing useful

cel animation 27/11/07

work on mouth positions for a rabbit character

drawing with steve 26-11-07

working on drawings for the public information film he seams to be pritty happy with my rough sketches and script. spent some time today working how to layout the story board for the target audiance.

history of design 26-11-07

we were let off our lecture today to work in our groups for the presentation next week scott and jack did not turn up reh and

drawing david cope 21-11-07

i went down to the studio to pick up some sheets of aluminum for making the echings and got on with etching the designs from the mono print.

Cel Animation 20/11/07

working on scene design for fear and script for my character i thought that this character was a bit butch.

The script that i chose was the speech from dirty harry the effect i am going for is the opposition of a macho script with a soft pink character.

Also generated a story board sheet based on one in the stop motion book i started to transfer my story board sketches over.

study skills 19/11/07

lecture on note taking we were asked to take notes on an article and we then evaluated the work that we had done. We then talked about how we make notes and how helpful they are to future work.

Drawing David Cope 14/11/07

picked on the right of the child (not to be abducted) that I was going to use and started to come up with stills for the drawings work.

Cel Animation 13/11/07

Broken up into new groups and given a new project fear to be made in a 3d media we spent the morning brainstorming story ideas we settled on using a fear that is fundamental to the character that we are using we then focused on the fears of plasticne cahracters.

study skills 12/11/07

Given information on reading and use of the library. We were also given information on generating a bibliography of every book we had looked at so that we would not waste our time redoing work. This seams to me to be a very large amount of effort to put into a very small section of the course but it could be a good technique for working with films which are much harder to scan luckily archives already exist.

Drawing Steve Howard 12/11/07

explored the script and plot ideas for my tombstoning project to acheve the required 30 secs. also had a look at a comedy treatment for pissing in a straight line in the same vane as the spoof safty information vids on you tube.

history of design 12/11/07

a more substantial look as Marxist analysis moving on to the gramsci ideas of hegemony we then went on to look at propaganda using a film of hitler as a focus.

Drawing David Cope 07/11/07

learning how to make mono prints with referance to dry point which is what david wants us to use for some of the rights of the child prints.

Drawing Steve Howard 05/11/07

Decided on doing Tombstoning started to focus on the type and length of animation and the audiance

history of design 05/11/07

had an early look at base and supers structure (Marxist analysis) after the reading we had been given (from Marx). I had found the reading really rather hard almost impossible to make sense of. Sue suggested that we use as secondary source to make sense of the primary.
Looked a a busby Berkley movie from 1933 with more discussions of the mass in both production and consumption of entertainment.