Creating 'Joe Media' Graphic

I decided to go ahead a bit with schedule and create a graphic not as a final but as a work in progress. Here is the final result

So how did I create it?

First I had to make a 3d sphere and extrude its shape;

Second I created a camera so that the sphere was in the centre of the screen;

Finally I made the text and added all the materials to the layers, ending with this, then I set it to render out into high quality formats;

Media Plan

This Video was made and created using Adobe After effects with everything in it being original. I screen capped me using Windows 7, Adobe Photoshop and Cinema 4d.

Inspiration for Creativity

http://creativity-online.com/

Being creative needs inspiration and one of the best in the world to admire in creativity is James Dyson.

James Dyson

You know the feeling when some everyday product lets you down. 'I could have designed this better myself', you think. But how many of us turn our thoughts into actions?

James Dyson does.

He is a man who likes to make things work better. With his research team he has developed products that have achieved sales of over $6 billion worldwide.

But what is creativity?

- Creativity is a mental process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the existing ideas or concepts, fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight.

- The ability to think imaginatively and originally

- The experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative and idiosyncratic way which is characterized by a high degree of innovation and originality, divergent thinking, and risk taking.

- Promoting construction or creation; "creative work"

- Using imagination and expressing oneself in art forms.

Action Plan

My Action Plan for September 2010 - January 2011;

September 2010

- Complete research stages, this includes Content Analysis on relevant films, studying the target audience of whom watch/like post modern thrillers and the media technology developments.

- In depth study into Blade Runner

October 2010

- Start planning my production:

- Create the initial opening storyboard for the film on paper

- Create the mock-up graphics on various programs like Cinema 4D and After Effects

- Creating the Custom Animatic from paper to digital

November 2010

- Create a physical storyboard using play mobile to get a better view at what camera angles to choose and setting also

- Research into conventions and think about inter-textual references I could make for example a link to the matrix?

- Start work on the opening of the Live Action Film after all previous stages are complete, this will run along side creating all the digital work like graphics and animations if needed

December 2010

- Continue with making the film and shooting the film

- Start work on the sub category's of my production; the Poster and Magazine Reveiw

- Look at conventions of existing media posters for my genre and start sketch ups on paper

- Study and research film magazine reviews for films like the matrix in Empire and also begin mock-ups

- Start to produce the secondary productions in Adobe illustrator and Photoshop making sure I either obey conventions or disobey with giving reason.

- Show a small group of people my film giving me feed back to my work so I can improve upon it if needed to

January 2011

- Finish the film shooting along with the digital components allowing me to start work on the Editing part of the production

- Finish the Poster to a professional standard and getting it digitally copied to blog and printed out

- Finish the Magazine Review to my liking but also comparing it to relevant pieces

- Finally after all the above is completed upload the film online if possible and create a DVD menu and disc to go along with it

- Start Evaluation.

Planning My Advanced Production

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Conventions of existing media texts; In order to get my film to a high standard I will need to look at various present films that are relevant to mine, an example would be Blade Runner.

So what is Blade Runner about and how will it help my production?

Blade Runner is a post modern Thriller, the same as mine so learning of this can not only help my story but my cast, shots, mise en scene etc.

In short blade runner is inspired by a 1950s Film Noir. The original version of the movie has a voice over by Harrison Ford, similar to the bogart movies of the 1950s especially those based on Philip Chandler novels. The replicants are almost impossible to tell from a Human being, so how do you know what is real or fake? In fact Harrison Ford ends the movie with Shaun Young who is a replicant. All the replicants want is to be able to be treated by Humans, so they are trying to cross the artificial barrier to the Human barrier.

Usually in a post modern film they make inter-textual references or parody's, but most importantly they create Hyper reality;- The world inside the film, breaking the rules of realism and trying to represent media reality.

Technology I will use

I am going to use a wide range of technologies that I have, these include Cinema 4D.

This is a 3D software engineering program that allows me create such things as 3D text graphics (like at the start). Another program is Adobe After Effects CS5 which is a editing and special effects program for videos which will be key to my film. I will be using the Apple iMac Pro - snow leopard as one of the OS systems, this is because we have access to them at school which provide the means to edit, add sound and will allow me to piece together my film. Comic Life is a handy bit of software which can allow me to make essentially a 'Comic Strip', which I can use for my story board, plan and other things similar. Illustrator is another program by adobe which can allow me to use vectors accordingly and effectively when needing to export or import. On the Apple iMac's they come with iMovie which is a simple yet effective editing program for videos which I will use to its fullest ability. Adobe Photoshop CS5 is well renown, and I will be using this bit of software to make graphics and text for my video and the poster for my production. Google along with Google chrome is a key feature for my production allowing me to make this blog but also research on the internet and without it I could not do this. Finally the last peice of software I will use is Windows 7, this will be my main OS because it runs on my computer.

Here is a video on demonstrating my technology.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frnKaGefD8M

The Cast

Choosing the cast I will do carefully, making sure that it is the right character to fit for the role. I will look at the props and costumes also very closely because they will be key to making the film work. Some of my inspirations...