Showreel

Today I animated the camera in my photograph compositions so that it panned around and showed all of the photographs, before revealing the 4 photo split screen. I managed to do this fairly quickly and added these shots to my showreel. However my showreel was way too long so as a way of cutting the time down I chose the best two compositions and just kept those ones. I also edited some of my other clips and took some things out to get my showreel time down to 1 minute 30 seconds. I still have a couple of shots left to put in of my final major project at the end of the semester before the hand in but I have done everything that I can do on the showreel so far.

I spoke to my tutor about my website template and also clarified some points about the creative and written CV.

Showreel progress

In this weeks class I started thinking about how I was going to display my photography within my showreel. After looking at a few photography showreels like the ones below for ideas, I decided I would put my photos into groups of 4 and do split screens that I would then animate a camera to move around and zoom in on. I thought this way it would be more interesting than just a normal slideshow but wouldn't be too complex that it took away from the piece of work themselves. During the class I decided which photos would go together and put them into a composition in After Effects. Next week I am going to animate the camera and then export the pieces so that I can add them to my showreel project in Premiere Pro. After that I will just be waiting on the final pieces of work from my final major project to go into the showreel, then I will export the finished video and put it onto my website, ready for the hand in.

Social/Professional Media Links

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/HannahSaul5


Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user10502990


LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/hannah-saul/42/6b0/a52/


Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahASaul

Creative CV

Below are the JPEG's of each page of my creative CV. This CV will be put into InDesign where I will make it into an interactive slideshow that will then go onto my website.

Website Template

I have finally decided on which template I am going to use for my website. I have gone with the Bella Studio template. I chose this one because it is clean and simple but has just the right amount of sections for text, stills and video. I like how the branding and tabs are central and there is a large space for a showreel or in my case a slideshow of stills/screen shots right in the centre of the screen. It makes it very easy to introduce a visitor to your work straight away without them having to do too many clicks. I also like how the website isn't too long, meaning you don't have to scroll down far to get to the bottom of the site. In my opinion there's nothing worse than a never ending list of things to look at, the user will get bored and will click off the site. Tabs are definitely a better way of sectioning work.

I am excited to purchase this template and start replacing everything with my work!

Homepage

Porfolio page

Contact page: I really like having a ready made form for contacting as it makes it so much easier for the user to contact you and therefore they are more likely to do it!

InDesign

Today we looked at Adobe InDesign. This software can be used for online publications and interactive text and image. We did a few tutorials in order to learn the basics that we then can apply to our own work. I think the most useful tutorial for me was the slideshow tutorial. i think that I will use this to create my online creative CV that will go on my website. I like the idea of having each section of the CV on a separate page that you can navigate in between. I think it adds something extra and a little different to what is usually a very dull word document.

Three different states of a slideshow and the navigation buttons.

Showreel progress

In the last class we looked more into editing our work for our showreels. I had already roughly chosen the sections of work that I liked so I started making them smaller so they would fit into the 60-90 second time requirement. I also used my logo and branding to create an opening and closing clip for the showreel, including my contact details. In order to finish my showreel I need to work more on the transitions between my clips and decide on how to display my photography.