P5

Statement of intent 

After completion of my final piece gif, I will have to exhibit the final piece. I  have decide that my animation would be a piece to go on a website alongside others of the same theme, i also think that it would look really nice projected as a loop onto a large screen as part of an exhibition alongside some of my photography work. In order to make it look a bit more professional I would use a tripod to take the photos to make the gif look more smooth and will mean that the photos are positioned more steadily and are not moving with the sunset . another idea is to get my gif about by uploading it onto tumblr and giffy with tags that link back to my website

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 this is my final piece, i think my gif was successful because it shows the development of the sunset, i could have made it more successful by taking the images with a tripod so that the image isn't moving about as-well as the drawing.

P4

These are screenshots of the process i used creating my gif through photoshop. i created my gif by putting the pictures into their own separate frames and then adjusting the speed and making it into a loop, i found the process quite easy because i watched a few youtube tutorials which guided me through the process, i saved everything i had done in terms of work on both the computer and on my memory stick so that it was always backed up and i wouldn't lose it. And i remembered to take regular breaks every 20 mins i was on the computer so that the light wouldn't hurt my eyes or give me headaches.

P4

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These are individual photos of my final piece, i used a film photograph that found successful from my photography course and then i took photos each time i added something onto it, in this case i was drawing a kind of sunset made up of triangles and circles in felt tip pen and then building up layers. my next step is to add all the photos onto photoshop and then make them into a gif , i plan to look at a few youtube videos to give me an idea of what to do as i have never used photoshop in this way before but after researching different ways of making gifs i found that this was meant to be a successful way. All of these photo's are completely unedited because i thought that if i edited them that the film photograph would become too dark.

P3 statement of intent

For my final piece I have decided to create a gif. I will be making this gif animation by painting onto a film photograph, I have taken this inspiration from the artist 'blu' which I looked at in detail in my earlier artist analysis. 'Blu' is an Italian street artist, he paints graffiti art work on walls in urban and industrial landscapes, 'Blu' uses house paint to paint large scale comical figures on the wall he then takes a photo and paints over the figure and then paints the figure in a slightly different position, he keeps doing this this until he's happy with it and this way the pictures all put together give the illusion that the figures are moving across the wall. Although 'Blu' makes stop motions and I am making a gif, I will be making my gif in a similar way with similar processes. I will select some of my favorite film photographs that I have taken and then start painting into them with expressive shapes I will keep stopping and starting the camera in the same way as a stop motion but I will not be needing as many photos so it is less time consuming. once I'm happy with the photos I will be uploading and creating the gif through the website gify which I designed for creating gifs. the gif will be a couple of seconds long and will give the effect of shapes moving across the page.

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For this final idea I took inspiration from the artist 'blu' I thought about making a stop motion animated video where I would make a painting and stop and start the camera each time I added any paint to it, this idea is very time consuming but I'm thinking it would work well as I would upload each photo onto Photoshop as a frame and then turn it into video and adjust the speed so that it will only last a few minuets. I would use watercolor paint for this so I can make it expressive and so that the paint will spread across the page quicker and easier so that the video is not too long, 'blu' is an artist that works with making stop motion videos, his stop motions work very well as it gives the effect of something moving across the page.