Portrait Photography

After half term we will be starting the portrait photography section of this course. This will involve a new assignment paper which is on this site, take time to have a look at see what it includes.
The portrait photography will be in the studio and on location and we will cover all aspects of the cameras and the lighting so you can explore portrait photography.
It will involve looking at the work of other photographers and researching the broad range of styles within this area of photography.
You will be working on your same blog websites and recording everything that you do onto them as we have done with the animation.

NB,
There is an expectation that you record everything that you do at all times, this needs to be happening in every session. There is little point in alot of effort in the activity and then nothing of it appears on your blog, this has to improved.
Anyone found not following this from day one on this part of this course, or indeed the animation will be  spoken to on a weekly basis until it improves.

Update / Momentum

In the next session we will need to catch up and as a group see where we are within the time frame of what's required for the course.
This animation / photography course needs to be finished by xmas break, at the moment I am concerned that a lot of work hasn't been evidenced on your blogs at all. Partly the break we had at week four didn't help much, so we need to gain momentum again please.

Also because you are able to work from home on this course, you really need to do some work away from college to help you to pass this course. There is little point in doing practical work if you don't write about it on your blogs. The research of animators and their work will influence and inspire you to try and explore different ideas and animations for yourself.

In the next session I also need to look at everyones work to see what still remains to be done.

Iron Man Vs Bruce Lee [Animated Action Figure Style] HD

Change of plan

At the next lesson we are going to change direction slightly in that we will be moving onto 3D objects and action figures, etc.. and placing these onto a green screen in the photography studio.
We will be taking photographs / or movies with a flip camera outside that we will then be using as backgrounds in these films.

The example is the action figure video as shown ...I want to use a music video as the background for example so we need to think of the theme and the music to go with it...We will do this shoot together then I want people to work on their own ideas and action figures etc.....etc..

We have had a studio induction and experience with the lighting so now we will be looking at using green screen.