Getting started

I have spent the day organising my office, purging all of last trimesters stuff into folders and bookcases and clearing out loads of junk that has built up over the holidays.

I found that quite a lot of information was distributed very quickly this tri, making me feel a bit anxious to get started asap. I have downloaded all the Module Summaries, Production resources and reading and templates and organised a new scratch disk for everything I create this tri in a suitable place for storing files.

I should state right up front that I am a Mac user, and I dont think I have notified a software house at the UoN as yet that I will need Mac Software, I am hoping it will be Adobe's Master Collection CS4 as I have read a few books on After Effects and Premiere Pro (in albeit CS3) and feel that would be a big advantage early on. Last year having never touched 3D software ever, I went a bit introverted, manic and prolly pretty dam weird for a few months while getting the hang of it!

I am just going to list where I am at with Module 0 and aim to do this regularly to time-stamp my progress.

READ:

• Course Outline PDF √
  
• Digital Video Files PDF √
  
• Digital Video Terminology PDF √
  
• Introdution to Premier Pro PDF √
  

SOURCE:

• Stock footage, photos and sounds for Assignement 1. √ (still need more footage and pics)

WRITE:

• Concept Brief
  
• Draft Storyboard

Neither of the last two have any ink on paper yet, I have some ideas about using the footage I captured on the m/bike to do some high speed intro and I like the idea of some space footage fromt the stock libraries, plus a few pics I have of me as overlays but I am not clued in yet as to how I will pull it together for a 120 second collage of 'two or three things about me'. Right now I want to tell the story visually with heavy metal music as the soundtrack but dont think it quite tells the story.

I think I have my first case of writers block, but in this case it is Video Directors block. I am not used to working this way with video, I usually get footage, or take footage, and then throw it together in the timeline, cut and trimming and reordering as I go to tell the story that I already know. This is different in that I have to think of the story but have been provided a theme, then create a concept brief and storyboard before I even open software.

Got my whiteboard up and running and am pretty happy with the office space, so just pull your head in Dan and get cracking!

:)

Intro to Digital Video Blog - University of Newcastle, Masters Digital Media

Hi everyone!
I thought I would get started with my Blog just to gain some ground where I can. I have had a Blog on Blogger before and after quite a few months and I suppose a few followers I got cold feet updating my personal life in DigiSpace on the Interweb (haha).
Anyway, not much to say as yet. I have read all the material available and I am semi-proficient in Premiere Pro but am waiting for course materials and software to arrive before I really get stuck in seriously.
I have been thinking a lot about my first assignment and think I will do a fantasy story. I have plenty of video footage of me riding my motorbike around Australia, my favourtie past time is riding my bike. I will try and tell a story about myself in sixty seconds based on my passions in life.
I give everything I do my all and more often than not end up dissappointed in my own work!
If you would like to see what I accomplished last Trimester studying 3D modelling feel free to check out my YouTube page.
I am REALLY excited about combing my cumulated knowledge of animation, web design, graphics creation and video experience all together this Trimester. I am seriously nuts about film, music, art and digital media in general so I cant wait to get seriously stuck in. No doubt I will disappear into my office for the rest of the trimester and become even more reclusive than I already am! I think I spend a wee bit too much time online already!
Dam Web 2.0!