My Pixilation Thing (OUAN405)

I'm pleased with how my pixilation turned out, especially since this was my first time working in this medium. I want to learn to direct. Since I plan to kill Brad Bird at some point and take his place as the new Brad Bird, it was really useful to work in a directing environment outside being hunched in a dark room, staring at a computer screen as the rickets sets in. This time I was working with a real person, so I felt like a proper director! It's good for me to start to learn to flex my directing muscles, as my inability to criticise the work of people who I'm on a team with has plagued me in the past and I want to get past that.

CAMERA-ING:

I worked with a tool called a cam-e-ruh, which apparently is important for films. It was good to boost my confidence with using them. I really really enjoyed solving problems such as lighting, shot framing and working in a really small space and I like to think that I conveyed a good sense of where everything was. Were I to repeat this, I would've put more consideration into my set and what it tells the audience about the character. The set works quite well as it is, as student accommodation has a life of it's own because it's CRAWLING WITH FILTH.

I really like these shots

ANIMATING:

I am pleased with my use of EASE IN AND EASE OUT with things like arm movements. These two principles of animation are definitely in my top fifty principles of animation. Also, I really really like the skid.

I'm not pleased with the transition between the eggs being uncooked and then being cooked because the camera jumps a little. This is because my dumb idiot flatmate blundered into the kitchen and then tripped over my camera stand and moved it and then DIDN'T apologise, but I ate half her food because I couldn't be arsed to cook my own thing so that's okay. Also, my leading man had to take a break halfway through filming to smoke his massive bong or something, so I wasn't working with the ideal team.

There's a clear distinction in the framing between these two shots, which is vexing

Some frames were too fast and others were too slow. I would've loved to add an extra couple of frames to my actor moving down the corridor, and though, for the sake of speed, I took out a couple of frames from the shots where he pours the oil and salt into his pan, maybe I could have stood to take out more.

I cut my actor out of the previous frame and pasted his body into the next frame to make his movement slow down

My ARTISTIC STYLE is better than Wes Anderson's

EDITING:

I am pleased with my sound effects. The African drums add a good pace to the scene, and I tried to add joy and energy with creative sound effects, like using a maraca for the salt shaker and the sound of chickens for the eggs.