Film Project Horror

Today we decided on some ideas for films that we can reference and get ideas from. The movie "Dead Silence" is a good film to use because and has some really clever camera and sound techniques that are simple but extremely effective. I don't know how his film is going to turn out due to the quality of the camera's that we are using, but i think it will be a bit scary if done right. We have a lot of ideas to use in the film, and we have found when and where about's in the film we will use the "theres no place like home" quote and the red shoes. Luckily, the quote and the shoes can be really useful in scaring the audience. At this stage Theresa is going to be the main character and Charlotte is going to be the evil character and/or the neighbor which the main character is paranoid about due to her dreams. We have a started on the story board and have a good dialog for the story.

This is my story for my character John McGreggor

Jonathan Mcgreggor

A 25 year old Caucasian male, with a devastating background.

When John was born, Harlem, New York, 1985 doctors had discovered that he was diagnosed with autism. When his father Michael Mcgreggor found out about his condition, he walked out and was never to be seen again. Johns mother, Jennifer Mcgreggor was left with an autistic kid and no form of income. For the first 4 years of Johns life, his Mother had worked two jobs on a very low salary to support him. John had never made any friends or got on with any of the other kids. On Johns 5^th birthday, there was an expected visit from his father, but he never showed. Johns mother could not take it anymore and abandoned her son on the sidewalk. Johns mother was also never to be seen again. John had to grow up on the streets and fight other homeless people for food and nourishment. He had become very street wise even with his mental illness although he never made a single friend and soon had a bad reputation for his anti social behavior.

Because of Johns knowledge of the streets, he only spent a few days in jail over minor convictions, where he had gotten away with a lot of stuff.

Unity

I am going to use unity to animate the characters and create a 3D background. My aim is to create a 3D under water world, that each of the four characters are controlled individually by the user in 3rd person. I will use blender to create the characters, and blender to also create the items which the characters are going to interact with. These items will represent a specific time or moment that changed the outcome of the characters life, and shaped the way in which they react to certain objects found throughout the game. There is a website, www.learnmesilly.com, which is made up of how to videos for unity and character modeling software which is made and narrated by Will Goldstone, i intend to use this website to learn how to use this software and create the world and characters. Unity will be ran through a program which picks up light from the camera and used as a mouse.

Fun Animation Project

For this project we thought up some characters, we came up with four. John mcGreggor (Hammer), Eclipse (Boxing tennis ball), Octi (Octipus) and bandage man. My character was John mcGreggor, a walking hammer who was born in harlem, New york, 1985. He was diagnosed with autism and had a tragic life. We didn't include the hammer or the bandage man in our final project. In our final project, we had Ma'ake and Ronald working on the sketch book, Chad working on a camera operated mouse pad that picks up shadow, and i was working on the processing part of the project. Animation in processing is easy to do, but just takes a lot of time, for each image used in processing you have to create and import each picture. When i did my processing, Ronald created some pictures of the two characters, Eclipse and Octi, in photoshop, and he created them with different emotions, and wearing different items. He also created 6 items that the two characters interact with. I put all of these images into processing and make it so you drag the mouse over any object, and click it, and hold down a key (the beginning letter of the item) and then drag it to the character, and he will some how change depending on what item you dragged over. Also due to the characters having a sad background, if you click the character and drag them around, they will smile while they are being dragged, and go back to normal after they have finished being dragged.

Processing Exercises

Today i'm finishing off most of the exercises for processing. When the computers were re-imaged i lost alot of important work that i spent alot of time on so i have to re-do them. I find processing easy because it makes sense whereas max is a lot harder to do. I have done most of the exercises and i am just making small adjustments to make. I feel confident in getting a decent grade for processing as i'm good at it and i have had passed experience in it.

Processing exercises

Today i'm finishing off most of the exercises for processing. When the computers were re-imaged i lost alot of important work that i spent alot of time on so i have to re-do them. I find processing easy because it makes sense whereas max is a lot harder to do. I have done most of the exercises and i am just making small adjustments to make. I feel confident in getting a decent grade for processing as i'm good at it and i have had passed experience in it.