Tuesday, 17 May 2011

Bullet Time

For the first activity of our new project we had to recreate the motion of created when Neo dodges a bullet in the Matrix. The first thought that popped into my mind was how stop motion animation could be used to recreate the effect completely.  We also thought of using the green room to hide an actor that would carry a bullet. After talking to Kim about our ideas he explained to us how literally we had been answering all of the questions posed to us in our projects. This got me thinking about how we had approached the other projects and I did see the sense in what he said. From seeing this flaw our group decided to try and branch out and find a new way to create the motion that hopefully had no relation to the actual scene of the movie. We decided the best way to create the effects with what we had was to use a lazy susan turn table combined with the chromakey room and get some cool rotational effects going. Thinking on how to make it different from everybody else’s we decided to create a little story line to go with any actions we had. We came up with a passing the Chinese whispers/ passing the note kind of story line that would link all our short videos and even though the quality of our videos won’t be very good this should hopefully add another aspect to our outcome.
The end outcome turned out better than we thought. The flow we managed to create with our little story line seemed to be the key to turning crappy video into something that was at least a little bitt interesting and amusing

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