In this task, the cloning technique of nuke’s rotopaint and cornerpin,match-move in the tracker node was used to clean up and change some details of the image sequence to achieve our purpose.
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This week I conducted a very in-depth academic discussion and research on this The major film theories: an introduction.
We can think of filmmaking as a window through which we can see the world. Cinematic art is a product of the tension between representation and transformation. “Its aesthetic basis is not what the world already presents, but the aesthetic use of the things or methods of presenting the world.”(p148) Jean Millet believes that “only after overcoming the dramatic aesthetics such as constant angle and duration, can film become an independent art from theater” (Andrew, 1976, P107) And in order to create a self-sufficient work, the traditional artist always represses the real (however realistic the purpose may be)…he simply experiences again (in a new way) the patterns that shape his daily life and behavior… (p159) Movies are a bottom-up technological process, which starts from nature and integrates our thinking with nature. It enables us to rediscover the world itself that has been occupied by scientific knowledge and forgotten by us. Cinema must submit to a purely psychological world, exchanging the connections between appearances in the real world for connections of a psychological nature. The greatest difference between a film and a dream is its integrity. “Whereas a dream evokes certain fantasies and emotions” that confuse or euphoria us in our waking hours, a beautiful film dissipates the energy it exploits. It takes “natural representations, reorganizes” (p208) them in the order of mental operation, and finally evokes our emotions. It puts these representations in the right order, “giving them a final sequence that obeys only the laws of the operation of the mind”, thus excluding the chaos of reality and allowing the viewer to complete a complete experience. “The viewer indulges in the things of the imagination, lost in a world detached from the needs and wants of reality”
Bibliography
Andrew, J.D., 1976. The major film theories: an introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
The poster on the wall is replaced using the nuke’s planar tracking technique. At the same time, we also used the color-correct and color-grading techniques we used before to make the poster blend more naturally with the scene.
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Critical Report Structure
• Title: Subtitle
• Acknowledgements – Optional
• Abstract
• Key Words
• Contents Page
• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Main Body of Text
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Image List
Also, we talk about how to develop a research topic, experiment, and critically evaluate methods, results, and their implications in a range of complex and emergent situations and articulation of criticality, clarity, and depth. Communicating a diverse range of intentions, contexts, sources, and arguments appropriate to your audiences are very significant processes in research topic development.
During this week we articulate the joints and rigging the head model to prepare for further animation.
Then we make the head model move correctly by assigning weights to different joints, such as opening the mouth.
This week we used nuke’s 2d tracking tech to create and modify the interface of the phone.
This week we learned how to build an argument during the process of developing an investigation, clearly state your contention, identify the important reasons/premises of your argument, identify possible objections, research evidence that supports your reasons and/or reduces objections, structure your argument so your points logically lead to your conclusion and clearly state your conclusion bringing together your thesis statement and the supporting points are very significant steps of building arguments. Also, we need to consider areas of professional and academic development that motivate the investigation study. At the same time, we also learned some relevant knowledge about literature review
”A literature review has four main objectives:
It surveys the literature in your chosen area of study
It synthesises the information in that literature into a summary
It critically analyses the information gathered by identifying gaps in current knowledge; by showing limitations of theories and points of view; and by formulating areas for further research and reviewing areas of controversy
It presents the literature in an organised way“
Sources Available at: [https://www.rlf.org.uk/resources/what-is-a-literature-review/]
During this week we used a variety of nuke’s color grading tools’ nodes to make some adjustments to the tonal unity and blend between the composite objects and the background, which I think is crucial to the final result of the film and TV composite.
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During the week we discussed documentary policy and animated documentaries, learned about the history of animated documentaries, and watched and discussed some excellent animated documentaries. Animation is often use to to ‘clarify, explain, illustrate and emphasise’ (Honess Roe, 2013,: 9)
The one I really into is Waltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli adult animated war documentary drama film written, produced, and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman’s search for lost memories of his experience as a soldier during the 1982 Lebanon War. ‘Animation, in part through its material differences from the live-action film, shifts and broadens the limits of what and how we can show about reality by offering new or alternative ways of seeing the world. It can present the conventional subject matter of documentary (the ‘world out there’ of observable events) in non-conventional subjective, conscious experience – subject matters traditionally outside of the documentary purview’ (Annabelle Honess Roe, 2013: 1) This animated documentary gives an unprecedented perspective on the war and is very impressive
Bibliography
Roe, A.H., 2013. Animated Documentary. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137017468
In this head project, we first built a model of a human head
Then we use the UV editor to process the material and texture of this head model