Update 09/03/12

There been a few issues with the resolution of the graphics as I made them slightly too small and now they're pixelated, but its been sorted. That means that we've finished our project and been signed off!

Now its time to draft my evaluation before I'm off to Swanage. When I get back I'll have one week till the evaluation deadline and two weeks till the collective project deadline. It'll be a bit busy during that time but it all should get done in time.

Update 08/03/12

In the media department at school right now and we've just moved on to grading. Its difficult to grade because you need a good eye and be able to match colours confidently. If we all take turns grading then we can reach a general agreement in the end.

The opening sequence looks great so far, I've seen the clip so many times that I've learnt the script. I've been given the task of the creating the graphics on the screen which I've been animating for the whole week during every lesson and free period I've had. The program I'm using is Adobe After Effects which I've only used once before now so theres been a bit to learn, although there are a lot of repeated techniques and effects in the graphics. Generally, animating graphics has been simple but time comsuming. Raef and Anna have been working hard on getting the clips in order, sorting out any music and dialouge problems and a lot more.

At the moment Anna is grading and Raef is in another lesson. I'll be working on evaluation draft now as I'll lose a week due to a Geography field trip to Swanage and an Art exam.

Update 27/02/12

Day after our shoot and I just have a few things to report.

• Overran by a hour so we worked from 8:00am till 6:00pm.
• Set design was finished quickly, although we added a few extra items that were not in the test shoot.
• We've scheduled to film the main hacker shots during thursday lunch time with Robbie Lardi, using the bookcase in one of the class rooms as the background.
• The remaining two hackers  will be filmed during friday lunch time with Natasha Jalonen and Francis Gillen.

Update 25/02/12

Its the day before our real shoot and I'm hoping it'll all go according to plan. We've allocated 9 hours, 8:00am till 5:00pm, an hour longer than our test shoot since we ran out of time. The first two hours will be dedicated to setting up, then after Nico and Francis arrive we'll start filming. There should be plenty of time since most of the room has already been set up. Our lead hacker shots and some of the other hacker shots will be taken at another time.
Posters, whiteboard, curtains, bin bags, bed covers have all been left the same as from last time. This time we'll have more lighting since we noticed that the footage we shot was grainy. Another option we could've taken to solve this problem would've been to use the Sony V1Es that the school had available, but it would take some time to learn how to use the video cameras, so we chose to use more lighting. There will be three lights in total, all with blue filters.