Ident | 10 | bird bird bird, bird is the word

The idea of pitching to a smaller group has worked out quite well. After pitching my idea to David Bagulay and Ashleigh Butterworth, I got the idea given to me to introduce a bird to the ident.
Dave n' Ashleigh were saying that the start of my ident needs somthing else...look for your self...

This is the animatic I showed Ashleigh and Dave.

they were right...the start is boring and you don't have much to look at and the introduction of a bird would fit in perfectly.

The idea is that the first half of the ident is looking down at the mountain... a birds eye view "ho ho" so i need the same of the bird, which is easier than a side view, plus there's no camera movement so i dont have to think about changing the perspective of the bird.

Here's phase one (below) of bird animation...rough

this one below is the bird cleaned up...but he looks too clean, I have to remember he's flying over a mountain fast, and birds feathers would always flap at that height and speed, so I made extra frames on the wings and feet to make him look like he's actually in flight....and also living.

then i realized his tail and feet seem to disappear...oops 

Fixed

Ident | 9 | Tests

My vision seems to becoming clearer now I have these tests to look at. Loving the style, liking the colours but, need to work on...

. Camera angles

. Taking out odd squares here and there

. Do printmaking for the final one

. Think about Bird (I don't think I've mentioned this yet)

This test (below) doesn't have the textures moving, within the moutin, and people are thinking it looks odd because there static, but the background isn't, sooooo....

...this one has the textures, within the mountain, moving downwards as well as the background, I personally think it doesn't make a difference.

As well as the that list above I also need to work on making it more knowing that we're looking at a mountain...Chris had trouble knowing what it was which made me think weather it's easy to understand or not...maybe the sound might help???

Ident | 8 | Working Hard or Hardly Working

From my pitch to Dave Baguley and Ashleigh Butterworth today (11th March) I realized I needed to get my hand done effect, which I want happening in the background, set in stone, Dave had a hard time understanding it....and to be honest it made me realize I still didnt know what I wanted it to look like.

In the afternoon I gave up for the day. Until Sarah Brewster said something which made me realize I was wasting time, but didn't know what to do, so i looked around for something to pass the time.

Etching and Printmaking Handbook was the first thing I saw.

I remember getting this in the first year...and also in college (ND Graphics) and it made me think back to my work created within the sessions. I went home and dug up my printmaking from my old graphics coarse...it was the style I've been looking for.

This one (above) is a little bit harsh, but still could work

Little bit too....i don't know the word, but, you know, there's no fade out.

So instead of buying a roller and some paint (like I was going to do, to get the style I wanted) I think I might try out some printmaking.

*Update

So Im not wasting time during the weekend, i thought that i'd use these prints from 3 years ago to see if the style would look good...

This is one I made from using paint marks about a week ago, we think it looks too static...

I think the colours are nice, but its lacking something.

This one (above) has a bit more to it, and if i was to do more of them and put them into after effects and make them move, the style might work well.

Ident | 7 | Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's somthing else that's influencing me

Introduction to the shining, I like the way the camera is moving through the environment.




Watching from 1 minuet 8 seconds, the camera going really close to the road and car is really nice. I think for my ident, going from far away shots to close up in one movement throughout could be effective...would have to try and see...

...But from this first test done mostly by rick, i can see the camera movement working.

Also the style is exactly what I want.

Ident | 6 | Blinded By The Light

 The music in the background actually goes well with the test! that wasn't planned

The idea is to have this blinding light fill the screen in the ident (which will come from the sun) as we crane up from the environment, not decided what the environment is yet though. I'm looking at mountains and deserts etc.

This is a test i did in flash, its really bad, its not the style im going at all...to by quite honest, i dont know why i wasted time drawing out this thing...but! it dose get across the brightness of the sun I'm going for and also this central line through out the crane up.

Ident | 5 | Style in Motion

I told you about Lou Romano, well, I wanted to find a style like that but in moving image. Here's two I found...



The colours and textures are nice in this one...





Watch from 2 minuets in...a nice 3D effect happening which i'd like to try.





Here are two videos from Lou Romano which he did for 'Up'






*UPDATE

After speaking to rick about my idea on March 4th it seemed like my vision would look dull once the piece settles (as a voice over says whats coming on next), so he was saying about animating the background/ the textures so they change and flicker.

I always liked this animation since I saw it, like, six or seven months ago. Unfortunately all I'm using it for is to reference how the texture in the background of the animation is always changing and thats all.

It might be on a loop of about three or four textures...




Jon And Roy - Get Myself A Gun from BLATANT on Vimeo.

Here's another example of an animation with textures in it, some/ most are static, and the looped ones are very subtle.

Ident | 4 | Looking Through Books and Watching Planet Earth

 

book name

most of them are black and white...but i can get a sence of shape, texture and look of some the the places in the world.

the light coming through the clouds and dividing through the mountains is dramatic

could put lighting in the ident somehow 

angry image (above) 

 

watch name

these next three below show different times in the day :)

 so do the next two below :(

now, I like this one (below) this really nice cut halfway through the mountain, made by the light and shadows...would go well with this central thyme I'm thinking of

another show with centralness

the shadows on cast from the low sun could also create a central line. 

and this is grand central

Ident | 3 | Inspration and Thoughts for Idea 1

All these wildlife documentaries rely alot on these fantastic shots of a landscape which will leave us in awe, programs like 'planet earth' shown on BBC 1 (repeated on eden) show us some really nice shots.

The shots art really artistic and that's become something which each show has to do better than the last or else no one will watch them...lets face it, the stuff these programs show would be boring if it wasn't for these fantastic shots, the only other fascinating bits are the facts we learn from them...but you'd buy a book if that's the case.

These are screen grabs from the eden website on the 'programs' page. these are for different programs shown on eden, just looking at these, you know, you have either spectacular shots or very arty ones...

 liking the reflection.

 this on (above) i really like

So for one of my ideas i wanted to look into colour and epicness. Getting across this feeling of awe and fascination  when you watch these documentaries into the eden ident.

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I particularly like the idea of it looking rough...not undone, but using paints or the effect of paint etc...giving it a nice 'made' style.

but, im afraid of it looking too childish...its not a bad thing to look childish (as it could be shown at nine in the morning) but i want something that anyone can watch and feel fine with.

Here's what I'm inspired by...


 Lou Romano (his blog) is someone who really inspires me...this gouache painting are just so good, he been credited on a few of pixars films (incredables, up etc) for art direction and he dose the colour scripts for the pixar films...well the ones i mentions and some others.

Here's his work from up...

 

Came across these which i really like...he uses colour really well to distinguish each season. I want to look at colour for my ident.

 

 

I like the paint marks made in his work and also the colour/ use of lighting. I want to find a way to convert these sort of static images...well...i say static, there's movement in them...but i mean i wanna move them!


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So just to reiterate, I want to take the epicness and artisticness of these shots created in documentaries and bring it to the identity of the eden channel...but using this style of painting (weather that be really painting or digital)

Compositionally I was thinking '2001: A Space Odyssey'...really like this film, and was struck by some of the really ambitious shots and compositions with in the film.

I like the centralness of some of the shots and want to incorporate that into my ident...

Going to research places which I ant to base my ident on (cant just draw something off the top of my head...if Im going to draw a tree, a want to draw a certain type of tree, if you get me)
Also going to do some thumb nails of what i've researched which will eventually expand into animatics.

Ident | 2 | eden

Programms

Adventures in Architecture

Galapagos - its about the volcanic island 'galapagos'  

Heat - looks at how governments and companies are dealing with the 'looming' environmental disaster in are changing world

Ray Mears Goes Walkabout 

Yellowstone 

Tribal Wives - British women spend time with some of the most remotest tribes.  

Tribe - Bruce Perry goes to visit six of the most remotest tribes (don't think he's on the same flight as the wife's) 

Walking with beasts - aimed at children (shown in the morning)

also, its Darwin week on eden! and David Attenborough  is on the station all this week at 7 and 10 pm! its a win win.  

So there's a lot of stuff happening on this station; Effects on the environment, how beautiful the environment is, architecture, tribes, so on so fourth.... All educational but some verging on trash t.v (tribe wives) but mostly serious stuff, so I'll be putting my serious face on for this brief.

The station runs from 9.00am till 2.00am (this could change on each day...but gives me an idea roughly)
Having a air time from so early to so late means what ever I produce will have to appeal to both children and adults,

Ident | 1 | Searching

Go like three days to pick a television channel i want to make an ident for. I've gotta know what they stand for, there ethos, target audience etc...

Literally typed in 'television channels' into google and got this website which i picked channels which i thought might be good to create an ident for. !!!!LINK!!!

These are the channels that intrest me....


BBC 4
This channel appeals to me because i watch it quite a lot, probably the only channel i do watch really.....I don't watch t.v.

Here's BBC4 in a nut shell...

'The remit of BBC Four is to be a mixed-genre television channel for all adults, offering an ambitious range of innovative, high-quality output that is intellectually and culturally enriching. Its focus should be on the provision of factual and arts programming.'

(quot link)

So its audience is adults, has programs which are meant for enriching are knowledge and focuses in on factual and art based programms.

Here's some of there idents...






So at the moment they have this thyme of quartering the screen and making the peice of film look abstract.

Also, BBC4 took over BBC Knowledge in 2002...here's the ident for BBC Knowledge



Film 4
'I always remember when this first came out' ..... that was what i was going to put, until i realized that i don't remember when it first came out. I remember when it became a free service.

It used to be called 'Film Four' and looked like this (back in 1998...when it was a subscription service)





Film Four was second channels created be the channel 4 company...so in these idents we see the channel four logo split up (like it dose normally) but then one of the segments becomes the film four logo. so its feeding off the famouse channel 4 logo, so we make that connection between the two being linked.
Once it was established, it didn't need the channel four logo there...so it  just showed the film four logo. 


Then it became free in 2006 :o






Eden
Part of the 'UKTV' company Eden deals with...in a nut shell...

 'Eden is the gateway to the greatest shows on Earth. From the scale and beauty of BBC blue chip series like Planet Earth, Ganges and Superstorm to the revelation and intimacy of Tribal Wives and Big Cat Diary, Eden guarantees a daily shot of astonishment. With the aim of stimulating minds and provoking a sense of wonder and awe, Eden promises a bigger, bolder and brighter window on the world'

So they deal with shows from different networks, like from the BBC, the programs they show are like nature based ones, also looking at different cultures around the world etc.

Here's some of there ident's...

There using earthy colours and places which represent different parts of the earth, from the rain forest to the deserts to the north pole.

The UKTV company have all the logos of its channels circular... it looks nice when there clumpted together...but as single channel logos, dose it work?