Mock-ups for sign

Here some digital mock-ups for the sign, one is the original size, one is stretched.

Here is the finished design, text included for my Aunt's sign. It is to be made with Macrocapa wood, I will show pictures when all is complete.

Still Designing, Rosy Sign

Christmas break and I am still designing. As soon as the family recognizes that I am studying design they all want a piece.

This is a design that will work its way into a sign for my Auntie as a present for her husband.

Green Screening

The idea I had in my mind was that green screening was going to be easy, I just grab a piece of something green, do what I do when acting with it, and use keying to put another video in place of the green parts, this part was easy.
The hard part was mapping this new video to move with the green screen map that our character Neil uses. When filming the map waved around a fair amount, I should have thought it through and made Neil keep the green screen map as still as possible, this would have allowed for easier editing.



I finished mapping out the movements of the pirate map and stared the rendering process, I didn't realize it would take 40 minutes to render an 18 second clip.

My clip was rendered and I put it in with the rest of the movie but when played back it had no sound. Nobody told me you had to select the option of rendering the audio as well.

I had to wait another 40 minutes.

Digital Pirate Map : Final

Victoria University of Wellington
School of Design
DSDN112: Intro to Interaction Design
Project 2B: Navigation Interface
Digital Pirate Map

I designed a futuristic technology similar to a map but with the function of being digital to enable quick and easy use as well as being built from a flexible material to enable easy storage and the ability to be folded to fit into one's pocket.

This short film illustrates the use of this technology.

A special thanks to Mantra for the use of their music 'The Bunnyman' and 'Flashback'
Also thanks to Juanitos for the use of their song 'Black Samba'

Thank you to everyone who helped me in the creation of this movie.







Here is the link to my completed video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNeS-HtTAls&feature=plcp

I wasn't quite happy with how it turned out, technology just wasn't on my side, there were supposed to be some captions throughout the party montage but these got cropped out for some reason, I also had other technical difficulties, overall I'm content with how it turned out, it could have been a lot worse.

In one of our studio sessions we were asked by our tutor to list five words that our movie should portray about the navigation system, my five words were


Simplistic, Quick, Compact, Malleable, and Themed. I think I managed to portray each of these five words.

Simplistic, the Digital Pirate Map was shown to have a simple use which Neil used well whilst under pressure from the group of angry people chasing them.

Quick, Neil used the map to navigate the four friends out of cemetery quickly enough so as to avoid being harmed by the angry people chasing them

Compact,Neil was able to tuck the map away in his pocket, when not using the map it was not noticeable most of the time, yet he still carried it.

Malleable, several times we saw Neil folding, unfolding, or rolling up the map, showing off the flexibility  of its structure.

Themed, one of the main features of the digital interface was that the user followed dashed lines to get to their destination which was marked by an 'X' just as a pirate map would be. In my movie I wanted to illustrate this point of inspiration by having the main character dress up as a pirate.

Music

Any good film has music, and any law abiding film maker has rights to any music used in his films.
I immediately thought of my friends involved in musical acts and asked if I could use their music in my film. The band 'Mantra' released The Bunnyman EP in 2011. I asked my friend Jeremy Richardson, the drummer of Mantra if I could use some of their music

• Conversation started October 13 

• 12:57pm
• Jayden Rhinosaur Hamilton
  

  
  

  Jeremy, I wanted to ask you a massive favour.
  I am making a movie in the next few weeks for a design project and was wondering if you could licence me the use some of Mantra's music in it.
  Everything at University needs to be copyright legal, this gives me a great opportunity to use local music of people I know.
  I am unsure as to who owns the rights to Mantra's music but I was assuming that because you were 1/4 of the creative power behind the group you had 1/4 of the rights.
  If this is the case are you able to allow my use of the music; do you need to consult the others?
  The point of my project is to illustrate the use of a navigation interface of Kelburn Campus and I am turning this into a comedy movie.
  Thanks Jeremy,
• October 20 
• 3:29pm

  Jeremy Richardson
  

  
  

  yeah thats algood man
  
  I have chosen to use snippets of the tracks for Bunnyman and Flashback as a part of my film.
  
  
  

   I also asked if anyone else had music that they wanted to contribute towards the film, a friend and Actor in the film Anthony wanted to ontribute music. H sent me through some demos and I judged them on how they would fit into the party scene which I required audio for. Unfortunately none of the music fit a party atmosphere.

  
  

  From here I had to desperately search for free music online. I used the website http://freemusicarchive.org/ and searched for party music. Almost all music on this webite is free to download but also illegal to edit as it has a no derivitive licence.

  I did however find a track called Black Samba by Juanitos. It is not exactly the kind of party music I was hoping for but it does a good job of creating a lighthearted if ever so seedy atmosphere.

Making A Movie Happen

A lot of work went into making the movie, the most important part of this was finding people to help me as actors and other roles.
I used Facebook to tell people what I was doing, I had a number of my friends whom I had invited say that they wanted to help in some way, some were more reliable than others.


Here is how I went about it:
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Make A Movie

Invite-Only Event · By Jayden Rhinosaur Hamilton

 

• Monday, October 29, 2012

 

 I need people to help me with filming a movie, this primarily includes actors, but if you can offer your help in other ways like filming or music this would be much appreciated.

This is going to be a short film for a University project, we must illustrate the use of navigation interface (digital map) and I am choosing to do this via comedy movie.

The general plot line involves some boys who go to a party and cause some ruckus that results in them having to run away from people who want to hurt them.

Please let me know if you are interested in the slightest way and I will try to plan filming and other things around your availability.

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I had some of the following responses:

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I WANT TO ACT IN IT.

 Sounds interesting.

 Dibs on playing Rok Kongo, the cheerful backpack-wearing psychopathic adventurer

 M!W! would be keen on doing some soundtrack work too if you need one!

 Can i be Neil? :p

 flick me a pm if you want me. id be keen tho. pretty good at causing ruckus

 I can be ye pirate grrr any excuse to not shave hahaha

 Maybe

 I'm getting married this weekend, so I can't make it. Sorry about that.

 Can't make it this weekend brah.

 I'm physically unable to throw up so I don't think it would be a realistic character for me to play

 I can definitely do this, sweet

 I'd love to help but I'll have to get time off work, are we filming on just the one day or over many?

 Anthony and I are interested in playing villains if there are villains in it. Also where will the batcave be?

 Have moustache, will act.

 Me and Josh can defanitly cause rukus. You just have to tell the people afterwards that we were acting so we don't get stabed

keen :)

Keen whenever you need me :)

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 As well as the initial invite I needed specific information for certain scenes here are some of my requests and the responses I recieved from them:

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Jayden Rhinosaur Hamilton

i also want to do a scene where one of our main 4 is intoxicated and throws up over a balcony and onto some people, this will involve spraying water out of someones mouth onto some people, if i can get people who are not afraid of a bit of water who can get changed into dry clothes after the shoot that would be awesome.

  ohh i might be able to do that. does anything have to be done other than getting water all over meh?

 

 

Jayden Rhinosaur Hamilton

I am going to need some girls who can slap a guy after hes tried to pick her up.
slaps need to be realistic but not too painful.
pickup lines include:
'here i am, what are your other two wishes?'
'i seem to have lost my phone number can i have yours?'
'if sexy was a crime you'd be guilty as charged'
'you're so beautiful you made me forget my pickup lin

 ohh ohh I can slap good ! haha ..Hope you find a good slapper

How about "Cut the **** ****muffin, the time for horse**** has passed and I heard you like it up the-" *SLAP*

or or "Did you fall from heaven? Because your face is ****Ed up

Jayden Rhinosaur Hamilton 

 i have been told by tutors to keep it as g rated as can be.

 

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 Clearly some of the responses to my inquiries were more serious than others.