Work Process

Once I had gone through the ideas, I then began creating the whole animation. To start, I had to first cut an A4 piece of paper into a box shape with the centre missing, to resemble at TV screen, once this was done, I then began to tear at the pieces so that these pieces could then be placed together in the actual animation. We then grabbed a camera and began taking photographs, we did this by starting off with taking a photo of an empty table/desk and then slowly moving a the pieces of paper into view and taking another photo after every small motion, we did this with every piece of paper, placing them together to once again resemble the TV screen, we then took several more photographs of the TV screen shape itself in order to get the effect we needed.

Once I had all the photographs I needed, I then placed them onto my computer to edit them all together through Flash, once this was done, I then needed to create the image of a television turning on as I couldn't just have the clips of gameplay footage suddenly just appear as it would feel disjointed and out of place so I found a clip of a TV switching on, I then used this footage to recreate the very look of this into Flash, it was a difficult process and required taking note of split second changes and effects as the effect of a TV switching on is roughly about a second and half long. After this was all sorted out, the last thing required within Flash, was to create the logo animation itself. I created the logo by placing the GINX logo (GINX is the gaming channel that I had decided to base my ident on) onto Photoshop, I then grabbed several images related gaming i.e. guns, cars and remotes, I then edited these to look similar to the GINX logo, I did this by changing the colours to look identical to the logo itself, I then placed them all into Flash, overlapping the different images and then animating them to give the logo a slight sense of movement.

After I had finished off creating all of the original pieces of animation, I then had to find clips to put into the ident of video games, this was easily done by collecting all of the most relevant clips and trailers that had been released around the time of the development of this animation. I then placed all of the clips I had created and collected into a film editing program called "IMovie". Being new to this program, it took a little bit of time to understand the features of this program but I eventually put together all the clips and trailers and then placed a song of my choice over the compilation. After this was all done, I then had to place this compilation over the top of my stop motion animation, this was done by dragging the compilation on top of the stop motion with "Screen on screen" enabled, this overlaps the clips and then allows you to place whatever edits you wish onto the overlapped screens. After this was all done, I then exported the file as Quicktime file, this was the easiest and most accessible file form.