Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Week 4 - Independent Study

Machinima:

I have used several different methods in producing my machinima documentary. After creating the experimental environment in the “Crysis Editor”, the animations were captured using “Fraps”. I did encounter a problem with Fraps in that my animations were surrounded by a thick black border. “Adobe Premier Pro CS3” was used to adjust the video file size and eliminate this border. I then compiled the documentary as well as adding text, audio and creating the crossover fades using “Sony Vegas”.

The mode of documentary that I have used is “observational”, which involves long takes and synchronous sound. “As if you were a fly on the wall”, as Russell described it in the lecture. The reason I chose this mode was because it was the most appropriate of the three. My documentary does not acknowledge the filmmaker, so it isn’t interactive, nor is it expository. With porosity being a measure of the void spaces in material I believed that by taking the observational approach I was able to more successfully capture the physical effects of this in an explosion.

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