Adobe Premiere London train timelapse experiment

This is a new experiment of a different journey on my way to London. When I got on the train I realised there were no tables for me to put my camera on and I panicked a little.. I remembered first class had them so I tried to see if I could sneakily do it without anyone telling me off.. luckily I found a lady in first class who said she would watch my camera for me and the ticket guy said it was okay so.. win win! I took in total 850 photos.. seems like a lot but I think I should of taken more. I set my camera to take an image every 1 second 850 times. I wanted to do something different from the last train time lapse so I had to break up the images in to different sequences and make 5 different videos in My Movie on my PC. I changed the FPS (frames per second) which can determine how slow or fast my time lapse will be moving. The more FPS the slower the less the faster. I also wanted to experiment with the video fading in at the start and fading at the end, I also learnt how to fade the music as well at the end. This was really annoying to do and its all really small on premiere pro. This will hopefully be close to what the final video will look like.. just need more feed back.

Hollie xD 

Tutorial with Ellen Nolan

Before going  in to today's tutorial I didn't really know how to start my printed publication side of this project. I knew I wanted to keep in the theme of journeys and perhaps carrying on using train journeys or maybe buses or travelling by car. I know I enjoy long exposure photography and wanted to add that to my narrative as well. During the tutorial Ellen helped me improve my thoughts in to solid ideas that I can now start getting on with. I had already started looking in to photographers who used train journeys within their work, I came across this artist who's work is on Flickr, Céline Ramoni. Its quite weird I came across her work because I just got a new laptop and I changed my screen saver to a image that was already on my laptop and it happened to be the work of Céline Ramoni. I also came across another artist Michael Zhang who is the editor on the website PetaPixel.  (I'll write separate posts with their images on)

I am still keeping within my theme of journeys and using trains. My time lapse video on the train with just the phone on the table was proved to be effective, I left it there because I just thought it looked good within the frame but other people have expanded their opinions on it, which is what I always like about photography people can create their on interpretations of what you've created. I am planning on having the time lapse images on their own on each page of a hard or soft back book. I am going down the route of incorporating my phone and looking in to the miscommunication of modern technology when using our phones. I will play around with different types of text that is used on mobile phones. At the beginning of my book I when writing my introduction I will use ordinary text you find in books.

Whilst discussing this idea I mentioned that I had recently got in contact with a friend from school who I haven't spoke to in 8 years. Obviously I found him over Facebook. He was a lovely friend whilst I was at school and I remember he was really quite when I spoke to him face to face but on MSN he would always be chatting away and always had a lot more to say. I want to base this story within the publication narrative and now that I am back in contact with him I want to use our text conversations to go with the still images on the train journey. I'm not going to tell him that he's apart of my project that will ruin the fun. When writing my preface for the start of my book I want to write something about him and the relationship we have via our phones.

Hollie xD

After the review

After my review on Friday I was told that the beginning of my experimental video with the train going passed was successful and that I should carry on with that but make it longer and cut the other video of me and Sammi out of it. To be honest I am totally fine with that I can use my experiments I've used on adobe premiere to slow parts of the train journey down and capture more of what happens when then train stops and use the fading techniques with my audio as well, just some tweaking and hopefully it will be a successful final piece. For me time lapse is something I do for fun that's why I wanted to add more to my video but perhaps the first and simple video is more effective then adding more and over complicating it. I was also told I need to do more research in to artists and photographers which I did with a project last year I just didn't want to add the same research in... but its will show where I got my ideas from as I did want to carry on from last year as I enjoyed it so much... Maybe its something I can develop in more depth when I reach my 3rd year, who knows!

Kindly someone was taking notes for me whilst I was getting my feed back -

My notes

• Tacita Dean
• John Smith (already in sketch book)
• Eadweard Muybridge
• Paul Fusco -JFK train
• Rene Magritte - Painter who does frames within frames
• Play more with transitions, more subtly would be good.

'The narrative structure in the first part of your test works well, its the strongest part' - Ellen Nolan 

Audio practice with Adobe Premiere

I did this time lapse on my iPhone using iMotion. Its annoying because its got the black side bits which I don't know how to remove but also its wobbly because I'm holding my phone. I did like the positioning of phone but it proves I should really use my camera. I'm going to create another time lapse like this one so it fits with the rest of my videos. I was practicing using the audio settings in Premiere it was really fiddly when I started to create the music fade near the end of the video. Its not perfect but its a huge step in the right direction!

Hollie xD

Experiment 2 with Adobe Premiere Pro - Split screen

Just another little experiment with Adobe Premiere, I learn how to use the split screen technique just researching on YouTube it was pretty easy to do and now that I've learnt how I can continue experimenting for my final video piece!!

(There is no audio in the piece)

Hollie xD

Nikon Advert 'I am Nikon'

After my tutorial with Ellen Nolan, I was left feeling really confident about my project and it gave me a bigger kick up the bum to fulfill  the pretend Nikon advert idea using different typography, different music, but with a multiple rang of video, time-lapse (still images into video form) and still images on their own. I need to practice more with Adobe Premiere so at least my  final video for my mid review this Friday coming will grab peoples attention and hopefully impress (might be getting a bit overly excited). After the review I'm assuming we can carry on our digital project as I am really enjoying it and slowly finding my feet and getting to grips with it, just means juggling both digital and printed at the same time but I'm sure I can manage (Y) FINGERS CROSSED GUYS!!

Hollie xD

Adobe Premiere Pro work shop!

After my Brighton trip I had a lot to experiment with in Adobe Premiere in today's work shop. Still got a long way to go with learning all the ins and outs but it was such a successful work shop and I really got a lot out of it and actually learnt something. I've made a small experimental piece that I am really proud of and think it has a lot of potential to grow in to a really successful and interesting project that other people hopefully will be interested in.

Trip to Brighton!!

Yesterday I decided to go on a random trip to Brighton with my friend Sammi. Shes also doing the narrative project and we are both doing journeys. I thought it would be good to just go out and capture what ever I felt like and tried not to think about the so called 'final' idea.. I tend to to that a lot and end up panicking. Obviously the train journey was going to be a main focus but I didn't want to try and get typical images. I wanted them to come across natural that the camera wasn't really there. I didn't take a tripod when I was doing my multiple time lapses because to be honest I didn't know what I was going to capture and it was also raining all day.. Didn't really want to carry around a tripod. I ended up getting a few random time lapses, on the train, in Mcdonalds, two in different parts of the shopping center. I hadn't been to Brighton in a while, if  it wasn't raining I would of done a time lapse of the sea and maybe taken more images outside. Me and Sammi both did some video recordings of us walking up and down two escalators capturing each other going up and down. The timing was a bit off but it was a fun experiment and something I think I want to add in to my project properly. I'm thinking of maybe creating a camera advert advertising Nikon... I think I have to ask first.. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to use the brand name? But what I want from my narrative is to show friendship and fun being captured by my Nikon with a variety of different time lapses. Fingers crossed!!!

Hollie xD

Journeys - Idea

I've still been struggling over the last month to get to a point where I know what I am doing with my research and sticking to a theme that I can progress on to. It's been a little worrying because normally by now I would of had an idea and just needed to of figured out how I was going to create the idea. Its been the other way round in this project but I think I've finally come to a solid idea that I am happy with. I've chosen to not go so personal in the emotional sense but thought about what things I like that I can use in a simple and effective way. For my professional futures project I am looking in to advertising photography and have seen some incredible images, so I thought lets bring advertising a product I already own in to my Narrative. Before I thought about the advertising idea I was thinking about recording myself walking and just capturing my feet doing a journey that I normally do. I then thought about advertising my converse as I wear them all the time and there are a very popular type of shoe. The idea just came to me out of no where with no solid influence apart from looking at different advertising images. After looking in to iMotion on my iPhone I thought I would record myself using stop motion getting on and off the bus to my town, the video was really blurry and I couldn't see a lot of detail of my shoes or the surroundings. I realized it might be the same if I used my DSLR so I decided to video record my feet moving instead and breaking the video footage down either by taking screen grabs or using Adobe Premiere Pro.  I haven't yet learnt myself how to use Premiere but I have been shown how to create the video footage in to more of a stop motion video. It looks really complicated but I'm sure I will learn. I also wanted to extend my video from me walking to two more people who own different coloured converse also walking. I want to create three different scenes matching to the coloured converse and perhaps the personality of the person who is wearing the converse. I wanted more of a sunny scene for my white converse on a path way, black converse for a skate park area and I haven't decided on my last coloured pair yet (need to find people who are willing to help me out). I want to push to 'advert' more from just displaying converse and having just one feature. I haven't given myself a lot of time as its taken me a while to decide what I want to do but... I do want to want to incorporate more time-lapse and stop motion video footage to my experimental advert. I want to keep in the theme of Journeys because I feel I can add a lot to my project with that theme. I'm going to take time-lapses of different types of journeys such as, car, train, tube, bus, crowds of people, sunsets, light trails and my friends. If I can combined the correct time-lapses together at the end of the video I want to either advertise my Nikon D5100 or iPhone 5s as they have created all the journeys and I will have to come up with an slogan to represent what it is I'm advertising.