On the 24fth February, we went on a trip to the Bradfird University for a careers fair. We got the train at ten and we made our way to the university, we arrived on time 10:30 and our first task was to look round the uni stalls for some information. There were many stalls locared around the area all of them different from the next. Each stall was different as they had different information.
Our first workshop was in the great hall it was presented by a man called Phillip Charles who runs a compamny called pipeline productions. He was there talking about been creative, Pipeline productions main aspect of business is workshops as the beggining of the company was the founders went around and did workshops in different places schools,community centres, youth centres. They specialise in music rap been there main speciality as there aim is to teach young people about the music community and how they can get involved and also give information from a business perspective. At the end of his workshop he mentioned that Pipeline Productions does other forms of aspects been creative writing, dance, acting and videography.
Link to Pipeline Productions: http://www.pipelineproductions.co.uk/
After Phillip there was a second speaker she wasn't from Pipline Productions, what she was talking about was her past experiences to what help her become who she was. Her name was Amy Held what she discussed was her career and what she did, apperantly she did a lot of voluntary work. My honest opinion she was a bot dull as she also stop to take breath and was a bit nervous as her attention was in other places.
Our second workshop was a Stop Motion Competition with Bill Beaumont from Distant Future along with him was his colleague Rozi Fuller. This workshop was fun as we were split into teams to make a stop motion animation. All the equipment was supplied and the final animations are been judged by representatives by people that were at the careers fair. He was impressed by our determination he is looking forward to work with us again. Also the winning team will earn a cash reward of £25 pound.
Link to the Distant Future: http://www.distantfuture.co.uk/
The people who were in my team was Robin, Phil and Dom and the ideas we talked about was a game themed animation so we opt to start of with a game of pong we did this by placing to clay rackets on the side of the laptop screen and we used Microsoft paint to make the ball then Pacman comes from the top of the screen chasing the ball he eats it eventually, then a ghost chases Pacman and sadly kills him and we made the death scene for Pacman whe he folds into himself.
Overall I think it was pretty good, I haven't seen the video in action as we had little time to make the animation into a .avi file, we used the program monkey jam to turn the animation into a video format. I didn't see much of monkey jam in action if I were to turn into a video file I would use Flash I have had some experience with it. Again we didn't have much time to manipulate the animation so we wasn't able to put any sound into it. Considering the time given we were lucky enough to get the animation done.
My opionion of monkey jam is that it isn't good compared to flash as monkey jam is a foreign program and using it was horrendous as it is much harder to use also converting the video in monkey jam took a long time and the end product required over 3GB of storage and the video slowed down the system. In Flash the images were importied into the library but flash wasn't able to process them into a functioning timeline. So we used Windows Movie Maker it worked but there were some issues with the frame rate but overall it was fine.
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