Sauron's Eye

 An idea I had was to have the theme of Lord Of The Rings where the eye was Sauron's eye at the top of the tower and the ring appeared whenever you clicked.

The eye and the background goes red when agitated by the mouse.

I have since decided against this.

Movie Script

We see the back of Darren's head as he walks along, he approaches his friends who are fighting.
Darren : Woah,woah guys cut it out.
Jonothan : Yeah, st stop it
Neil : Get off me
Lance : Hahaha,
Darren : Neil forget him, Jonothan come here, listen up. We're going to Hunter tomorrow night.
Lance : Where's Hunter?
Darren : Near the Uni somewhere, anyway the chicks will be banging, the costumes will be smooth like mafia or something, so wear something badass, We'll get our drink on and stake our claim. Tomorrow night we make something of ourselves.

The next evening Darren, Jonothan and Lance wait at the bus stop for Neil who missed the bus.
Lance : Where the hell is he?
Jonothan : He just missed the bus, he'll probably be picking out his clothes with his mum, you know he's useless with fashionable clothes.
Lance : Oh yeah Jono, Mr hot fashion
Jonothan : Because I can wash and iron a shirt?
Darreen : Oi, Shutup, Relax, We've got all night, people will only just be starting to turn up.
Jonothan : Hey, the bus.

Neil steps off of the bus dressed as a pirate
Neil : Hey fellas!
Lance : What the hell are you wearing?
Jonothan : Why are you dressed as a pirate?                        Darren: Laughter, Hahahaha
Neil : Pirates are badass, you said dress badass.
Lance: If you're twelve
Jonothan : Its a criminal themed party, we are going as mafia, the fab four,
Neil : You didn't say that, you said dress badass
Lance : That's not badass.
Neil : Yes it is
Lance : No it's not, you look like a toddler.
Neil : Yes it is, pirates drink harder, party harder, and kill people more ruthlessly than mafia.
Jonothan : Guys shut up,where do we go?
Lance: Hunter is around here, somewhere...
Neil : I can use my pirate map to find it!
Jonothan : Your kidding right? and I bet X marks the spot too.
Neil : Thats right. See, its digital, and completely flexible. Touch screen too, I just type in Hun..T..E..R... and...
Darren : Look those people are going too, lets follow them.
Lance : Put that thing away
Darren : You look like a dick.

 The four characters walk into the party.

Each character does their own thing at party.
Darren talks to ladies and gets numbers.

Jonothan is awkward but gets into chugging beer, fast!

Neil talks confidently but people are uneasy about him, he drinks rum like a sophisticato

Lance trys picking up girls and gets rejected.
Here I am, what were your other two wishes?
I seem to have lost my phone number, can I have yours?
Baby, if sexy was a crime you'd be guilty as charged.
Do I know you? because you look like my next girlfriend.

Lance is slapped. Fade in and out of black
Neil : You should've seen it Jono just downed them one after another, it was unbelievable, just like water.
Lance : Wha, what happened?
Darren : You got bitch slapped.
Lance : Where's Jono?
Jonothan throws up over balcony onto people below.
Darren : Oh crap, guys, Lance, help me with Jono, lets get out of here.
Jonothan : Wha? Huh?
Lance : Neil, Come on

The four of them are chased into the cemetery

Darren : Come on, this way. Get down.
Neil : What are we doing?
Jonothan : Wha?
Lance : Shut up Jonothan, those guys over there are after us because he threw up all over their heads. We've got to get out of here or they will kill us.
Darren : Nice spot for it.
Neil : We can use my pirate map
Lance : Oh man...
Neil : No look, I can find our location... Kelburn Graveyard and then... find different ways out. This path is where we came from so those guys will be there, but we can go down here there are steps that lead to the road.
Lance : Can you see them?
Darren : Nope, lets go quick.

The four meet up on the street.
Lance : So back to the party then,
Darren : No Way, not with Jonothan like this, and those guys will be back there too.
Lance : Go home then?
Darren : Yep I guess so, Neil, which way to the nearest bus going home.
Neil : Busstop fast find. And... it's the same one as earlier, just  go up and around if you want to avoid those guys.

We see the map as the boys run to the bus stop
Darren : Hey quick, the bus is coming, Neil?
Neil : They're coming!
Lance : He's right, quick come on
They rush onto the bus and the doors close just in time. They sit down and relax.

A La Fin.

I Suck

Sucky Drawing

Two days before hand in and I realize that I suck at drawing.

I want to be able to edit the colour and therefore need large empty spaces, but without all of the messy line work I realize my drawing looks like a couple of squiggles.

I will try to produce something on processing that isn't just an ellipse.

Cut Up and Agitated

Today I experimented with changing colours and images. I found that Images themselves cannot (as far as I know) change colour in processing, so I have cut up a picture of an eyeball and used the space behind it to have a shape created in processing underneath it that changes colour when the mouse is moved quickly, the eye turns red as if agitated.


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int size = 150;

void setup(){
size(500,500);
frameRate(15);
smooth();




}

void draw(){
 
fill(255,255-(mouseX-pmouseX),255-(mouseX-pmouseX));
ellipse (250,250,150,150);
  PImage green;
green = loadImage("Eyeball 2.png");
green.resize (size,size);
image(green, 250-size/2, 250-size/2);
 
}

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 I think that as far as eyeball picture goes, this is a sloppy method, it looks as if a two year old has attacked a picture of an eye with scissors, I will need to either do the pictures a lot better or create the image on processing as I had originally planned.

The good thing about this is that the colour changing as a result of the mouse moving works very effectively. I will incorporate this into my final design.

Stressing over arrays

I have read the array's section over and over, I have tried copying lots of examples, I still can not figure them out.

I tried and tried a lot to figure them out, and I couldn't.

I need to forget about arrays and create something that doesn't rely on them; this means no more multiple enlarging eyeballs.

Back to the drawing board or so to speak.

I'm stressed

Iamge from: http://thebookshelfmuse.blogspot.co.nz/2010/12/want-high-stakes-amp-up-stress.html

Interim Movie Storyboards.

 This is an illustrated storyboard of my movie.

The first shot is the guy at the bottom, we see the back of his head with headphones on.
next we see two of his friends fighting.
We see a close up on each of our four main characters faces.
a new scene, three of our characters wait for the last.
Beil comes off the bus dressed as a pirate.

The final scene is of the four characters on the bus after a full on night out.
in the background we see the cemetary that they ran out of,
we see the people running after the,
and we see a flashback of these people as Jonothan throws up on them.


This is the main plot line, intersperesed throughout this is Neil using the map navigation deveice. I aim to make this a large part of th movie's content.

Beat Tutorial

I have played with a couple of techniques that I have learnt from a tutorial on beats.

I am able to make images appear on the sound of a beat from a song using a simple snippet of code and by having the song appear in the same folder as the program.

///The following is the code I have used for beat practice.


import ddf.minim.*;
import ddf.minim.analysis.*;

Minim minim;
AudioPlayer song;
BeatDetect beat;

void setup(){
    size(400, 400);
    noStroke();
    background(255, 0, 0);
    minim = new Minim(this);
    song = minim.loadFile("Somebody That I Used To Know.mp3");
    song.play();
    beat = new BeatDetect();
}

void draw(){
    fill(0, 10);
    rect(0, 0, width, height);                beat.detect(song.mix);
    if (beat.isOnset()){
     
PImage both;
both = loadImage ("Eyeball 4c.png");
both.resize (160,50);
image(both,random(50,450),random(50,450));

    }
}

void stop(){
    song.close();
    minim.stop();
    super.stop();
}




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This is entertaining as I can play differnt songs that have different beats and they will all make the images pop up at different times.

Some interesting songs that I have practiced with are:
psycho killer by the talking heads,
throw down by tenacious d,
somebody that I used to know by Gotye ft Kimbra.