"What is a sting?
Company Stings & Idents from Jeff Quinlan on Vimeo.
Company stings designed for the channel 'city'.
They are all pretty simple compared to that of the BBCs and MTVS (shown below)
MTVs organic idents. They are all really nice because you see the work folding out and turning into the ident. Even if it isn't clear to begin with you know what it is by the send. I really like this style of working.
BBC - Some of these idents i remember from my childhood but some i have no idea what tye are about. Its great in this sequence you can really see where the designs change as technology improves. As is the same with everything in graphics, when the technology changes so does the work you produce which is why its important for me to look at everything at the beginning of this module that interests me as a design.
'A Flash animation or Flash cartoon is an animated film which is created usingAdobe Flash or similar animation software and often distributed in the .swf file format. The term Flash animation not only refers to the file format but to a certain kind of movement and visual style which, in many circles, is seen as simplistic or unpolished. However, with dozens of Flash animated television series, countless more Flash animated television commercials, and award-winning online shorts in circulation, Flash animation is enjoying a renaissance' - Wikiperdia - (i know thats not great but its a little insight to what flash is about to someone who doesn't know much about it)
I don't really know much about flash. I know what it does but not how it works. I realise we won't be focusing too much on flash player but i want to see all bases that we can design for. From the looks of it flash animation compared to after effects is a lot more simplistic but still effective. It's a simple alternative to after effects.
When i was younger i used to watch Joe Cartoon all the time and loved it, its a good example of what can be done with flash player. Simple animated cartoons bringing a little bit of humor to your life!
(MUST INTERACT WITH IT)
Joe Cartoon - A Poodle Story - MyVideo
I do realise that joe cartoon is an acquired taste, and not for everyones liking but it does give good example of flash.
Fred pointed out in our seminar today that its not all about motion graphics, although that is the module we are doing and what we are working towards. There is a whole new graphic design world opening up within the world of gaming and that is generating designs for interfaces. although we don't create them ourselves the designs behind them are based around us. This is something i do find very interesting because it is such a huge market and would be very lucrative to get into. I myself am not a huge gamer, but i do appreciate the gaming world and what it brings to people. I have been looking at general interfaces of the most current gaming consoles out there just to get a idea of what they mean and what they do.
Again, this is another film that i love. And one of the great speechs has been taken from it and turned into kinetic type. there are certain elements about this that i really love, and to show i have put the selected times down in the clip and what i love about it in those bits.
0.07 - '...think about it' - This line is great. It takes up the full frame and i like how its laid casually across the end of the 'r' interacting with the pervious sentence and type. It just rolls along and fits together.
0.14 - '...he gives you' - I particularly like this bit because of the zoom on the type, its not quite legible but you do recognize it. It emphasizes Al Pacino when he is shouting the lines by it being big and bold.
0.20 - '... own private' - What I like about this is the change in kerning as Al Pacino draws out the word 'private' so the word extends itself emphasizing it that much more.
0.33 - 0.38 - '...look but don't touch..' - This whole sequence is great it works so well with what is being said. It emphasizes in all the right areas, focusing on the words and drawing your attention to them and them alone, using the rest of the sentence to play around those words.
This whole sequence is really interesting because it gives you an insight into how editing type and using different emphasis can really change the way something is read and digested. This has shown how important it is to get it right if you were to use a speech like this when creating kinetic type. Because i am really interested in this, this is something i want to keep in mind with the rest of the module, really manipulating type to get the most meaning out of it.
I LOVE THIS!!! Not only do i love the film, but this kinetic type works so well. The speech itself is long and complicated and by keeping the type simple and the movements easy to follow the kinetic type emphasizes the words instead of confusing the person reading it. I really like simplicity and it works well here, this is something i am defiantly interested in trying out once i have my skills in after effects honed!
This is just a software overview for myself. I don't really know after effects at all so for me this is just a basic look at what it can do, what software you can use with it etc. I have taken all this information from the after effects adobe website.
After effects does this:
For motion graphics and visual effects
For video editing
For interactive design
It works with pretty much all software that i am used to for example; illustrator, photoshop. This is important because it gives me something i already know to work with.
This is the basics i wanted to know before my workshop tomorrow with Mike. I realise it isn't much but for me it's quite a lot!
Billboard paper source - I found this website while looking for billboard paper that is appropriate to what i would be printing. Here is some information about it:
1. 1.06/1.27/1.52m width
2. solvent & eco-solvent ink
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this is a smaller version of the process that would be similar to what i would do to print my billboard
This would be the most appropriate size for my printing design as i have designed my billboard to be long and thin. It is however the most expensive costing £465 for one billboard design.
What is good though is that if i were to use redcliffe printers to print my poster they work in a variety of formats to print in ranging from quark, illustrator, indesign and photoshop. Seeing as i have done the majority of my designing in illustrator using a mixture of both indesign and photoshop it would be easy for me to transfer my design over to them. For my design i will have to do it to the specification they want in order to print with is 25% of the actual size so that would be 3048mm x 762mm. This is very helpful as i can get my design to fit accordingly.
Billboard Poster Sizes and Prices
| 96 Sheet PosterFinished size: 12192mm x 3048mm Artwork: 1219.2mm x 304.8mm Minimum image file size 200Mb |
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| 96 Sheet PosterFinished size: 12192mm x 3048mmArtwork: 1219.2mm x 304.8mm Minimum image file size 200Mb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 96 Sheet Poster (Panels 1 to 24) | £465.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 48 Sheet PosterFinished size: 6096mm x 3048mmArtwork: 609.6mm x 304.8mm Minimum image file size 100Mb | ||||||||||||
| 48 Sheet Poster (Panels 1 to 12) | £230.00 | ||||||||||||
| 32 Sheet PosterFinished size: 4064mm x 3048mmArtwork: 406.4mm x 304.8mm Minimum image file size 70Mb | ||||||||||||
| 32 Sheet Poster (Panels 1 to 8) | £144.00 | ||||||||||||
| 16 Sheet PosterFinished size: 2032mm x 3048mmArtwork: 203.2mm x 304.8mm Minimum image file size 35Mb | ||||||||||||
| 16 sheet Poster (Panels 1 to 4) | £88.00 | ||||||||||||
| 4 Sheet PosterFinished size: 1016mm x 1524mmArtwork: 254mm x 381mm Minimum image file size 200Mb | ||||||||||||
| 4 sheet Poster (Panel 1) | £22.00 | ||||||||||||
| 6 Sheet Poster or SuperliteFinished size: 1200mm x 1800mmArtwork: 300mm x 450mm Minimum image file size 75Mb | |
| 6 sheet Poster | £30.00 | |
| Quad CrownFinished size: 1016mm x 762mmArtwork: 254mm x 190.5mm Minimum image file size 25Mb | |
| Quad Crown | £14.00 | |
| Double RoyalFinished size: 635mm x 1016mmArtwork: 158.75mm x 254mm Minimum image file size 25Mb | |
| Double Royal | £12.00 | |
| Double CrownFinished size: 508mm x 762mmArtwork: 127mm x 190.5mm Minimum image file size 20Mb | |
| Double Crown | £6.80 |
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