Category: BA (Hons) Final Year

• New Year, New Things

  2018 is here and I am hopeful for a great and productive year, in so I plan to write more regularly about the sorts of things I am up to. First of all it is about time that I publish and post my final film from Staffordshire University.. Colour A girl bored of her monochrome…

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  January 6, 2018

  BA (Hons) Final Year, Blog, Final Major Film – Colour, University

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• Time to Graduate

  In preparation for my graduation on 14th July I decided I would design my own Graduation Mortar Board as I have always envisioned doing such a thing when I graduated.. And so work began as I decided to make a small replica of my final film set as a 3D Mortar Board. Beginning by designing…

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  July 14, 2017

  BA (Hons) Final Year, Blog, University

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• Show and Tell ’17

  Now that our course has ended and all our work has been handed in we had this final year exhibition to put together for Staffordshire University’s Art and Design ‘Show and Tell‘ Opening Night Friday 2nd June. We at the Animation Department decided to have the theme of Alice and Wonderland for our show. Specifically with a center table…

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  June 14, 2017

  BA (Hons) Final Year, Blog, Final Major Film – Colour, University

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• Festival Plans

  I plan to submit my final student film ‘Colour’ into various festivals through the online festival submissions company Withoutabox. This is as it is a system already setup for filmmakers such as myself to easily submit your films to any of the festivals that are involved in their company.  Of course, there are a few…

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  May 18, 2017

  BA (Hons) Final Year, Blog, Final Major Film – Colour, University

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• Final Major Project Film ‘Colour’

  Overall my final film has turned out great, it is just as I had imagined it to be as a final product when going through the stages to create it. It also shows a great challenge successfully completed as I pushed myself to make a larger film than I would have originally thought and with…

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  May 18, 2017

  BA (Hons) Final Year, Blog, Final Major Film – Colour, University

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• Editing

  I decided that I wanted to build on my editing skills by working with After Effects for this film. I mostly figured out what I needed to do at each stage by transferring my skills with Premiere Pro and Photoshop software. However for the things I didn’t know I researched into them online and in…

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  May 17, 2017

  BA (Hons) Final Year, Blog, Final Major Film – Colour, University

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• Post-Production Schedule

  I made sure to finish the production of my film by our Easter Break so as to leave those two weeks and the final four before deadline to work on the post-production (and sort out any unexpected delays in production) However there were no delays as the production time went smoothly to the schedule. Here…

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  May 16, 2017

  BA (Hons) Final Year, Blog, Final Major Film – Colour, University

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• Sound

  The foley and atmospheric sound is the final part in my film that I am not as skilled in as I would wish and so decided to get assistance with. I passed on a list of all the small diegetic sounds to add a little realism to the final film to Emily Kirkham. These were…

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  May 16, 2017

  Assistant Work, BA (Hons) Final Year, Blog, Final Major Film – Colour, University

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• Assisting Animator

  When I had worked out my schedule I realised the animation was cutting quite close to Easter Break that I had planned to be my final deadline for this stage of the work. And so to save on some time needed in this stage I decided to get assistance animating one of the scenes for…

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  May 15, 2017

  Assistant Work, BA (Hons) Final Year, Blog, Final Major Film – Colour, University

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• Animation

  Animation was a very important stage of this project as it is the production and the medium of film I am creating. But with the schedule mapping out the plan for each day to know that I had enough time for each day.  However to make it clear to everyone in studios and myself each…

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  May 14, 2017

  BA (Hons) Final Year, Blog, Final Major Film – Colour, University

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