A blog about me, my doings and everything I think deserves attention.
When people use your app for the first time, they should intuitively grasp the most important features. The design work doesn’t stop at the first use, though.
Google just doped their designers again and went all in on their new Android Design page. This probably comes as a reaction to the inconsistency of Android Apps and is trying to teach the App devs som common guidelines.
So, I’ve got a lot on my hands and it’s so much fun rapidly developing and already writing on my new blog.
Yeah, new blog, but don’t worry 
This will remain
I’m going to make a blog about blogging (yay 
) and it will be entirely in German.
It will be called Vollzeitblogger.de and I will spill all I’ve learned from blogging here and there and basically be a startup guide, improvement camp and pro tip place for aspiring bloggers.
On the page you see a little script I wrote with CodeIgniter and jQuery today. The source will probably be published once it is mature enough. It saves email adresses and names right now, later on you’ll be able to bulk email people when your project is taking off.
Yeah, I thought you’d ask that. I’m still working on my twitter clone ROARER and I’ll get as far as I can for the exhibition friday next week. Everybody will be able to participate, because it will be accessible for everybody at that point.
Yeah, I’m currently working on making a pastebin for translations and writing a WordPress theme. The pastebin will show original text and translation side by side. Functionality for annotations and revisions will be added later on. I feel that I’ve really lacked a tool like this, especially for showing song texts beyond the language they were written in or working on multilingual blog posts.
PS: My portfolio just reached pagerank one, yay!
You know when they say there is nothing more important than experience? That’s so true. Trying to shoot video with three very inexperienced people is a lot of fun and I think in the end our bloopers folder is going to be a lot bigger than the actual footage that is going to be used. That’s not a big deal, considering the video is going to be 30-60 seconds and we shot for several hours. Well, preparation, white-balance and similar practical elements of the shoot were consuming more time than the actual filming, because I went for a very fast cutting style. Luckily Trond with his keen eye and Kenneth with his endless pragmatic mindset were there to accompany me, watch me fail and gather some footage.
The other video shoots were not going that smoothly, but delivered good footage in the end and they also were a lot of fun.
The most advanced light setup had Kenneth, with a silhouette flashing lamp, a dark room that first gets lit up when the second actor enters the room. For the lamps used a bunch of thanks to Ragno/Mette from MeRox Studio.
To sum up the shoots I was involved in:
- jumped into one that lasted half the night with very experimental lightning and from these hours only a time-lapse of by passing cars was used.
- played the evil nature polluting guy, wearing my top hat + voice over in Adinas video
- handled lightning and camera angles at Kenneths primary shoot
- played the shizophrenic guy in Tronds video
- played a freezing guy and a guy that gets stroked and scratched in Tanitas video
Thanks to my girlfriend without whom this project would not have risen at all, also thanks to everybody who supported me, gave me input and tought me about the used software, without this had never been possible.
Finally yesterday the NoMA film festival was hosted and I want to thank everybody who made it possible, helped out, made print-material and helped others to finish their videos. It was a blast.
So after all the talking, here my video is:
Here my notes for today:
shooting two people -> equal headroom, equal lookspace
choose interesting background, out of focus
Talking to camera-> direct, reporter
Talking slightly off camera -> indirect
Make the interviewed feel comfortable, ask easy questions until they are.
If questions are extracted from footage, ask them to incorporate the question.
3 way colour correction:
- make sure fleshtones look natural unless desired otherwise by context
audio gain:
- control volume
adjust speed
- slow motion (intensify moments)
Tips on storyboarding:
note camera movement and sketch objects/characters
think about POV, perspective, blur
If any of this below is incorrect, please correct me and I’ll edit the post. If you have additional information, please share.
Hi everybody, I just shortly want to share the information we got during the lecture with David Fratto today. It’s essential for your production so just be sure to master:
camera recording settings:
output settings:
Vocabulary learned today:
Recommendations for further reading:
dvinfo.net community for digital production
Doug Jensens vimeo channel
Oh! I forgot:
creative commons music you can find here for free for non-commercial projects: jamendo.com
for sound effects under the same conditions check freesound.org