finished Video

MP4 VERSION - L3 RISK - TOM H & ROB from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

Feed Back

Positive

Im glad people like the sound track of the project, it took me and tom a long time to find it.

People picked up on the speed of the project. it was made so fast because we had a time limit but we also wanted to show how people want to get there 'Art' done and leave before being seen.

people like the concept of out project .

Negative

Although most people liked the fast pace of the video others didn't.

most people don't like the zoom at the end so on reflection i would take it out if i had more time.

people thought it was too dark, again i would lighten the video with more time.

and also add a longer show of the finished work at the end.

Filming

We finaly found a wall to pint on. It’s a wall i knew about, and we went to see it earlier in the day, and went to ask the owner if we could use it. The wall is on the back of persons garage which backs onto an alley. This is what it looked like before we had done anything to it.



We went back to Long Road to get a camera, our paint and masking tape. It took about 20 minutes to drive from college to the wall so we didn't want to go back and forth too much.
We got back to the location with all the equipment and Toms Girlfriend to take pictures of us to use as evidence.





While we were filming putting the masking tape on the wall the camera had turned off. We thought we must have just forgotten to press record and the camera had turned its self off. But when we turned it back on to record again it came up with the message ‘Battery power low”. This was a problem and something we should have checked before we left college. This meant that we had to drive the 20 minutes back to Long. This took a big chunk out of our time and we had planned it so that we wouldn't loose to much light and there wouldn’t be many people walking in front of the camera or questioning us. With much bad luck we arrived back as the village school had finished and there was a lot of kids all over the place. Somehow we managed to do all the spray painting with no interruption which amazed me.
To let the paint dry we left it and went to the car. So when we put the camera back down, it was in a slightly different position. Hopefully this will not be too much of an issue because we sped the video up so much.
We made a Some mistakes which we really should have Avoided. I think the reason that we didn’t is because we were too focused on finding a wall to use and making sure we had enough time to do it.
This is the finished video.

Risk Task from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

Today

Today i looked for a royalty free music source. As Tom was not here i could not do any editing for my final video. I could not find and free music that was suitable for our video.

So far we still need to find a music source. and edit the video.
We will complete this tomorrow.

Trying to find location

Me and tom went out today to buy some paint. as we were driving we kept an eye out for a suitable location to paint.
we found a wall on a side road linked to the side of a shop and asked inside if we could use the wall. The man said he did own the wall but wasn't prepared to let us 'Graffiti/vandalise' the wall.
i know of a wall we could use in Sawston we may be able to use. I will ask if we can today and we will film after college on thursday, leaving friday to edit and do anything else we need to finnish.

Trying to find permission

Me and tom phoned a few people to try and get permission to spray paint on a wall somewhere in cambridge. First we phones the cambridge city council to see if they had anywhere which was designated to people that want to do graffiti which there isnt. They said we need to find a wall then we have to find out who owns it and ask them for permission. We knew that there is a bridge on long road with graffiti on it already but we ruled it out as the guided bus way is under it. We found out from a quick google search that the County Council are contracting the guided bus way so we gave them a call to ask permission to use the bridge under long road. They said that unfortunately the hole guided bus way is a construction site and so we would not be aloud down there without hard hats and high vis jackets. They also said that they wouldn’t indorse the use of graffiti or vandalism in anyway.

Backup Plan

It has been raining allot the past few days so me and tom thought it would be a good idea to have a backup plan because we cant spray paint in the rain raining. Our back up plan in is to still make a big stencil but have to do it using felt pens rather than spray paint. Another option would be to ask Coleridge if they have a spare art room where we could use spray paint.

The weather is not supposed to be bad so we should not need to rely on either of these.

Video test

stencil test from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

This is a test for mine and Toms final video. because the peeling of the masking tape took so long we had to speed up the footage by 1500% so it would happen faster.

This shows us that on a bigger scale to fit it all in we will need to do alot of speed editing.

This is the final idea for our project.

Risk Trials

This is a digital and mini version of our final idea.

Digital version:

Mini version:

The digital version was created by Tom on photoshop wile i did the mini version on a printed picture of Graffiti. I blanked out the text with some masking tape and then drew a pattern over it, Then peeled off the tape to revile the text.

Today!

Today we did a second checkpoint in our sketchbook and a sheet about stuff we are going to need for our project.

Resource Requirements:

Technical Equipment:

HD Camera

Tripod

HD Tape

Mac at Cole

Final Cut

Fire Wire

Art Equipment:

Black spray paint

Thick masking tape

Ladder

Miscellaneous:

Spray Paintable Wall

This list was very helpful to put across the process of planning, Because nick got us to write it the asked what we had written. After reeding out the list nick said that we even need to put down the small things you wouldn't normally think about, for example Fire Wire.

pier

I have taken what Yaz has said and i am going to crate a post about every lesson we do.

i am also going to be posting a post researching risk.

mockup

This is the style me and tom were thinking about doing in the final video.

Another version or the same masking.

We arnt sure yet wether we wil just record the video and leave it as it is, or

edit with effects turning it into animation or changing colours.

we had an idea, which involved creating a template of a face and spraying it

in different locations. But decided against it because we could only rely spray

in one place because of time constraints and finding locations to legally spray

paint.