Centre Screen

Centre Screen are one of the UKs leading film, video and multimedia production companies. They have been up and running for 23 years and have been working with museums, visitor attractions, leading corporations and government organisations. (They have a manchester office and an office in London) Looking trough their website it seems as though the majority of their work is interactive and one of their pieces that seems extremely interesting is their latest project for the London Eye! It is a 4D experience that shows 3D aerial footag

e of the London eye and experience New Years eve fireworks.

When the 4D experience occurs it is said to make the visitors appear that they are actually there! 'with wind in their hair, snow falling at their feet, the floor shaking and even a s

ense of smell'.

Illustration!

I found this book cover and i really love the illustration i can almost see it moving!! i love the simple fairly scruffy, rough lines! Jules Feiffer is the author and i also know he creates comic strips so he may possibly be the illustrator as well?

Lime Pictures (Liverpool)

The company was formed in 1982 by Phil Redmond and originally known as Mersey Television, before All3Media's acquisition in 2005 and the name change to Lime Pictures in 2006

Lime Pictures is responsible for ...

Hollyoaks Later

Grange Hill

Bonkers

Living on the edge (series 1)

After looking at what Lime Pictures have produce i began to look at all the roles people play to create them .... there is so many jobs to play on and off camera to create even just one episode!

I found this on the website that lists every part that needs to be played!

http://www.limepictures.com/FlashFiles/Production/checkplugin.htm

I found this extremely fascinating before looking at this i did understand that it takes a vast amount of people to create a team however i did not expect this many and this is just in the production process!!!!!!!

Tease!

While i was watching TV this short advert came on ... well i'm not to sure i would call it an advert more like a teaser!!! Similar to a film poster teaser!! Something that you will recognise but it doesn't give anything away! I haven't seen many off these and the fact it is totally bizarre makes it even better!!

I couldn't find an example of the teaser to show but it just shows a clip of the moose with some slightly creepy music repeating the word 'chew'. The moose has become the 'mascot' for wine gums and because of this we only have to see the 'moose' and we automatically think WINE GUMS!

Full advert!

http://www.maynardsayschew.com/#/advert

MOMI - Museum of Moving Image

I wanted to find a place where i could physically go to, to collect some primary research rather than just sitting at home staring at my mac! I found the Museum of Moving Image in London!!! I got extremely excited and started thinking about when and how i could get there until i read ... 'closed in August 1999' ... however istill wanted to find out more about what was there and what it was like even though i still won't be able to go!

I read about some of the things they had at MOMI and it made me want to go even more!!!!!

Tricking the Eye, Shadow puppets, Early optical device, The Phantasmagoria, Optical toys, Photography, Magic lanterns, Projection, Persistence of vision, The arrival of Cinema (Lumiere Brothers), Early Technical advances, British Pioneers including Birt Acres, Méliès, The early cinemas World War I, The formation of Hollywood, The Temple to the Gods of the Silent Cinema, Charlie Chaplin, The Russian Agit prop Train, Experimental Film, German Expressionism, The coming of sound film, Censorship, Newsreel, The Documentary Movement, Cinema of France, Animation, The Hollywood Studio System, The Great days of cinema going in Britain including Odeon Cinemas, British film, World War II, Cinema architecture, The arrival of television, Expansion of television, Cinema fights television, World Cinema, Television heritage and Television today.

New Way of Looking Evaluation

I found a new way of looking very very difficult at first, i stuck with an idea too soon causing me to get very lost later on in the project. It took me ages to finally find an abstract way of looking at my colour coding (traffic lights)...In the end i thought my film was very successful it showed exactly what i wanted!! It was easy to read my message as i used coloured objects to look industrial ... man made as such light traffic lights! The day before we had to show our films to the rest of the group i only had roughly about 5 seconds of footage and i worked hard throughout the night to create my final piece! In the amber section of my film i decided to use the same footage to show hesitation .... to portray the feeling of how you as a driver or pedestrian would feel as your getting ready to move (should i go .... no not yet ...go? .... not yet). The green was very successful i felt the pase was right and the sound that was recorded as i was filming creates a great beat to connote the adrenaline rush when the lights are on green and the cars go rushing past! I was very pleased with my film but if i were to do it again i would of liked to use different images in the green section and have a broader range to make it even more interesting!!!

Summary!!

I really enjoyed looking at animation from a different culture!!! I would never of thought to look at Germany especially i take most of my examples from the most obvious to me America and British so it was really exciting to find a huge variety of Animation and moving image from a completely different country! I found like in many other countries that the animation differs depending on the time is was created ... as society and popular culture changes through out generations! I found some animations that used techniques i know a bit about and some that i never even thought of such as Lotte Reiniger silhouette animations (they remind me a lot of shadow puppets and i didn't know many animations that use that technique). The older animations are fairly simple i found and experiment more with colour more than image such as Oskar Fischinger's scratch films which i love!!! I love the sophisticated look and the fact that you wouldn't think of it as an animation but its so simple and effective! And the sound that accompanies it makes it so satisfying to watch...more thought has gone into it than you think!! Then later on animation developed a bit more into stop motion an example of this is 'Balance'...this reminds me a lot of Tim Burton's work as the figures used are extremely elongated, thin and slightly creepy. I am going to continue looking throughout the summer at more animations from Germany and from other countries also to broaden my knowledge to the world of Animation!!!!!!'