Our Movie

Here is our video. I hope you like it!

Thursday's Lesson

So Thursday's lesson was a little hectic to say the least.
Unfortunately, Lauren didn't manage to complete the formal scene so we made do without it. I then had to export her other scene as a Quicktime file and add it in to iMovie. After doing this, I added in the music from Lauren's USB and then worked on the opening credits as well as fading out the final scene. I then got Mr Powell's help to fade out the music also. We finished right on the bell but had to stay in for a couple of minutes after to transfer it to Mr Powell's computer.
If I had my time again I would definitely make sure that I started putting it all together at least the lesson before it was due! I just wish that I had had more time for editing such as scene transition and I guess it would have been nice to work on sounds relevant to the scenes rather than just having a song playing. If only I hadn't used so much time when the park scenes kept on freezing.......
I am actually pretty happy with what I've done though. I think the story is pretty clear and that the animation is of good quality. I also think the audience can feel and sympathise for Dan. I will try to post our movie soon!

The Final Scene!

Revised Final Scene

Dan Crying and Writing the Letter

My Week So Far...

In Tuesday's lesson I finished the scene where Dan is writing the letter to Lucy and crying in his bedroom. I coloured in the walls and carpet, made Dan's hand and pen move to make it look like he is writing, made him cry and exported the scene as a Quicktime movie. I then stared the final scene where I put the lockers in the background and traced Dan and Lucy. I also put Lucy in front of her locker.

In Wednesday's lesson I continued working on the final scene. I made Lucy take the note out of her locker, showed the note and began to make Dan run into the frame and then the bell rang. I then worked on it again after school in the library and finished the scene by making Dan run in and making Dan and Lucy kiss. I also finished the first scene by making Dan look at Lucy with a huge smile and making Lucy glare back at him. I then exported the files and had a go at putting what I have of our movie into iMovie.

p.s. these scenes will be put up very soon!

Week 8

This week I started a new scene. This scene is one where Dan sits on his bed and writes a letter to Lucy whilst crying. I have imported and traced a bed and a bedside table and made Dan sit on the bed and hold a pen and some paper. All I have left to do is make Dan write and cry.

Lake Scene

This is the scene where Dan and Lucy are at the lake. I hope you like it!

Week 7

Ok, so this post is a little bit late. I did have it written down as a hard copy but just didn't get the chance to put it on my blog. These reflections are for Week 7.

Over the week I have worked on the scene where Dan and Lucy walk to the bench in front of the lake. Over the week I managed to finish the background and make Dan and Lucy walk. I wasn't too happy because we didn't get Friday's lesson because of the Gold Coast show, but this didn't matter too much because I hired a laptop over the weekend. And boy, was that a semi-successful disaster!

On Thursday night I managed to get Dan and Lucy to hold hands while they walked, which was a very fiddly task!

On Friday, I made Dan and Lucy walk to the actual bench in front of the lake (which meant creating another background) and make them sit on the bench and Lucy put her head on Dan's shoulder.

On Sunday I finished this scene. I made the sun set while Dan and Lucy were sitting on the bench, made Lucy walk off scene and Dan get punched out by Ben, the guy who likes Lucy and wants Dan out of the picture. Even though this doesn't sound like all that much for the six and a half hours I put in, it was because of the annoying computer and program! I would do a bit on the scene, then go to save it, only to have it say that it couldn't save because of some error when saving to my USB or becuse the disk space was full, even when I only had one other thing saved to the desktop which was the previous saved version of what I was working on. I ended up losing about 2 to 3 hours of work in total - after losing 30 - 45 minutes of work about three or four times! So annoying! In the end, I figured that if I opened the scene off my USB, worked on it for 30 minutes then saved it to the desktop, then transfered it back to my USB, moved the one on the desktop to the trash and then emptied the trash, and started the process over, it would work. Time consuming, I know, but much better than starting something over that you've already done!

Just when I finished the last little bit of the scene, I went to save it. It told me that there was an error when I tried to save it as an Animation-ish file to both my USB and the desktop. So I exported it as a Quicktime file. I then tried to save it again, but then Animation-ish just quit! So I didn't save the scene as an Animation-ish file but only as Quicktime, which I guess is ok because that's the one I'll need later. I just hope I don't have to make any changes to it *fingers crossed*. I then had a panic attack because when I played it on my own laptop it wouldn't play on Windows Media Player, but then I realised I could play it on Quicktime, and it worked! Yay!

Hoorah to the end of this scene - I am so happy!!!

p.s. I will put it on soon!