Collapsus - Media At It's Finest

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Collapsus

Response to media project

Podsnack would not upload my response to blogger and said there was an error so I put a link to my response

Video Game Presentation

The video game that my group created called Little People, Big World was a very basic game that was based on strategy and skill. The main idea of the game is for the character, which has been shrunk to collect all of the pieces that are scattered on different levels that when put together at the end of the game will make you normal size once again. I think a point we did not get across to our audience in this presentation were the ways to gain points in this game. Because the main point of each level was to find a piece of the remote that was needed to end of the game we did not focus on ways that the player could gain points within the different levels. I think if we could have made up some examples for this. The easiest thing to describe and convey to our class were the objectives and the goals of the game. The objectives and the goals of the game were the easiest to describe and I think was one of the strongest points that we made in our presentation. However looking back maybe we could have developed more goals and objectives for each level of the game.

Explaining these goals was easy because the goals themselves were too simple. The goals and objectives of the game are pretty plain and I think we could have had more complex levels in our game. As a whole I think that the presentation went well and that our audience understood the purpose of our game.

This American Life - Superpowers

I have tried multiple times to upload my response via podsnack but it is not working so below is the link to my superpowers response based on the episode of This American Life

Superpower

Dr. Manhattan

Heroes and Villains

For Alex’s animation I think he focused on a superhero and not a villain. He had a basic stick figure character that wore a cape and could fly as well as run very fast. His character sprays out a fire with his superpowers and all was well with the world it seemed after, it looks like there were fireworks to celebrate. At the end of the animation his character shows off his skills some more, by showing more water coming from the hero. I think Alex did a good job focusing on the lighting aspects in his animation. While there were no shadows in this animation that shows that his character is a hero, and that he is not trying to be sneaky or hide in the dark, unlike villains most of the time. The contrast of the water that the character is spraying and uses to deflect the fire and keep himself safe are a positive sign and symbolizes that he is a good character, because villains tend to have fire or to be spreading or starting fires. The setting and the fact that this character can fly establish the mood of the animation. The setting is in the daytime and there is bright green grass making it known that this is a hero. I actively associate flying superheroes with Superman and we all know that he is a good, worthy hero and not a villain so I am sure that he is a good guy because of this. Alex created an entertaining animation and made good use of lighting in his work.

This is a link to watch Alex's animation on his own blog - Alex's animation

I really enjoyed watching Ian’s animation. He created a villain and it was obvious to the viewer that it is a villain because of the color. Not only did the color stand out on the character but also in the graphics in the rest of the animation such as in the actions. First off there was contrast in the shape of the characters. The villain had a triangle head and the other character, probably the hero, had a circular head. Contrast was also shown in the color difference of the fire from the villain and the water from the hero. Subtext was shown in this animation in the scene of the fire and water. Water is brought into the animation and the villain quickly deflects this with fire, showing that he is more interested in destruction. The entire animation the villain has the same hue for all of his actions and his outfit. He is wearing red and has red and orange fire to fight with. The brightness of the fire, his outfit and the light saber that he fights with and kills the hero with are different colors of the hero. All of the colors in this animation are deeply saturated so that they stand out. The hero does not have an outfit and is a plain black stick figure, which makes the saturated colors of the villain stand out in the animation more. Ian’s animation was very well done and the colors made it memorable. Job well done.

This is a link to watch Ian's animation - Ian's animation

I was supposed to do another critique of someones animation in my lab, but not very many people have posted their animations...

Animation Villain

Below is the animation that I made and the pictures of the hero and the villain for the animation assignment.

Villain

Hero

MEDIA 203, Joke 3, Interpretation 1...

For the video joke assignment I was given a joke that involved the phrase T-G-I-F, along with the well less known phrase S-H-I-T which means Sorry, Honey It’s Thursday. Because I was the only girl in the group I ended up acting in both shot movies and got to personally experience the differences in the ways that my group approached filming these movies.

The first movie that we filmed or otherwise known as “Joke 1” with our obviously very creative title was done as a comedy and was filmed inside of Siegfried Hall, mainly inside the elevator. I would say something that we did not focus on enough in the movie is movement. While the movie is only supposed to be less than 3 minutes and the joke is a short one, since we were in an elevator we did not have much movement within this film. In our other film, once again creatively titled “Joke 2” there was exaggerated movements. Because it was a silent film we had exaggerated movements so it was obvious of what was going on to compensate for the lack of dialogue. Along with movement something we focused on in this film was tension and release. The tension is evident when both of us became agitated in the films because we did not understand what the other was saying and then the release at the end of the film when he explained S-H-I-T.

The second film that was shot was a more creative than the first. To change this film from the other one my group decided to make it a silent film and to add in captions so the viewer could understand what was happening. This film relied on the rhythm that we had when acting and the rhythm of our movements. Our movements allowed viewers to actively see that we were talking to each other and by reading the captions are aware of what we were saying to each other, however it is also didactic because the viewers can tell that we are becoming confuse and frustrated by each other.

I am proud of both videos and I think that they are very different, however I liked the second video more than the first. My group was successful in filming this video in a different way than most other groups, and was able to portray the jokes in two different ways.

Tony Hawk Pro Skater

I always stuck with the simple video games growing up because I was never very good at them. One game that I always did play was Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1. The video below is my critique of the movements that are used in this game.