planning team trailer

This is our brainstorm as a team on our ideas we made, we all put in our own ideas and decided together which would be the best or in our case used a few of each other’s idea all into one big idea to make the final plan, we decided on the team name The Awoken: Guardians of Titus.

This was all decided this morning on the 29^th of November 2011 were we all made ideas of names for the game for the trailer which is on the picture above, the following were made from each member:

Lewis: Dead Tomorrow, Survival, Fighting to Survive, Doomed.

Ivo: Bad feeling, The Tomb of Titus, 2147, Last man alive, Apocalyptic Hell, Lion Hell.

Adam: The Awoken, Salt Rising, The temple of Titus, 2042, Carnage.

Joe: TOMB, Depths, Broken Soil, Diary of a madman.

Rob: Tomb of Secrets, the Awoken, Guardians of Titus.

Then we decided just to use the awoken guardians of Titus to add 2 names together in the end which we all decided was an appropriate name because the lions are going to be the main focus of the trailer they will come to life as zombies and we will use the themes they have in their names which are War, Vigilance, Peace and Determination.

Job Roles:

Joe: Sound effects, plot, creature/zombie or Photoshop effects.

Adam: Tomb and environments

Ivo: Lion/Lions, hands and lantern, zombie duck near the canal.

Rob: 3d architecture, hawk

Lewis: Sound effects (Lewis Radio) and 1 female zombie.

Alex: Photoshop splash effects.

Story so far.
The story will start by our character which will be in first person you will only see the characters hands at some points during the trailer, he will start in a tomb in Saltaire in the future where the radio will be playing “Lewis radio” or “apocalyptia” which is part of the audio effects, he is writing or looking at a map with a lantern lighting it up, then the door blows open and then something happens, we are having the 4 lions (war, peace, determination and vigilance) in Saltaire come to life and zombies and other things also happen.
This will take place in Roberts Park and will be in the future where zombies have taken over, some other characters may include, Titus salt, some of his workers from the mill and maybe some of his family but they will all appear as zombies if they appear. The deadline for the trailer is 10th and this link with open day and the digital showcase as we are hoping to show off our trailers in these occasions.

Analogue Overview

Analogue sound is completely different to digital, it involves physical thing, it has unlimited bandwidth. it is vibrations and is arguably a higher quality sound than digital.
Formats are vinyl records and magnetic tape, the slower the tape moves and the thicker the size the higher the quality of sound.
Digital sound is stored as bytes of information on the media which are made into sounds by using a computer and exact copies can be made of the original, analogue sound is information stored as varying strength of magnetic fields or heights of the grooves which can be amplified.

"Audio and video have been analog since the beginning of radio and TV and the first magnetic recording. While the industry is almost entirely digital today, analog is still around in the form of AM/FM radio, audio cassettes and VHS tapes. The ability to capture the subtle nature of the real world is the advantage of analog techniques. It takes huge digital capacities and bandwidth to match the granularity of many analog systems."

Planning for trailer

As a group we did a brainstorm about what genre we wanted our trailer to be based around so each member of our group chose a genre we would want to do and what we would want the trailer to involve for example i chose horror and said i wanted it to be first person where the person is running away heavy breathing in the dark.
We will decide as a group which idea and genre is best from the questionairres we did. from the answers we recieved the most out of. when we have decided as a group which idea we want to do we will then make a start on the trailer which will most likely be after the christmas holidays.

Music Studio - Feelings

In this weeks lesson of our music studio lesson we listened to 6 different songs and wrote down on a powerpoint presentation about each song and how it made us feel when we listened to it

Understanding how media producers create products for specific audiences

For unit 6 learning outcome 2 we have been asked to produce information about how media producers create products for specific audiences to show that we understand how it works, this piece of work is in for Tuesday the 1st of November deadline, we have to produce a word or power-point presentation to show that we know how this works.

Questionnaire for the educational trailer

We were assigned as a group to make a questionnaire about the games trailer/educational trailer we will be making later in the course based on the buildings in saltaire because it is a world herratige site which we are learning around and we decided to use that as an advantage towards our course so we could get educated and educate the public with a trailer, We made quantitative questions and qualitative questions to get the best range of answers so we could base our project on what was most popular in the public.

We went out last week to ask the public and students the questions that were on our questionnaire we created, we made 30 copies and filled them all out which we have now collated on excel to determine and tally up the results and decide which were the most chosen so we can then base our project on the most popular subject.

We have collated the results and determined which are the best subjects to choose like the gender,age, where,when and other questions asked.

Questionaire for history of saltaire

to make a final decision on what we are doing on our final project for the trailer/ game walk-through we have made a questionnaire with quantitative and qualitative questions so we get the right amount of information, each member of our group made their own versions of the questionnaire and we decided to go with mine and ivo's simple to understand questions and rob briggs's layout because it looks more professional.

We are going to print out 30 copies of the questionnaire and go out and ask the public the questions to see what their thoughts on the project are and if they would watch it or not, we are going to ask teachers students and people in the street.

Development Of Games

I have been asked to do a project which is 1500 words maximum where i have to study about how games consoles have developed since the first one that was made and how its changed so much in terms of graphics, the amount of people that play games now and all other things. also i have to discuss the specs of consoles and what limits them for instance a handheld console is run on battery so it has its limitations and also isn't as graphically enhanced as the Xbox 360 or other consoles.

I have a 2 week deadline to complete this work which is next week.

I must use my referencing log sheet to get the hang of it and to remember to use it for every piece of work i do because you have to reference everything in university.

History Of Saltaire Research

I was asked to do research on the first week of college for an assignment on the history of saltaire i had to go to salts mill and look at the history of saltaire i took pictures of things that interested me about the history of saltaire i then did a collage with the pictures that i took which is below.

this is the collage with little bits of information about each of the pictures. i am doing this because later in the year i will be doing a project in 3d max in one of the historical buildings in saltaire.

Team Icon Work

For the first proper project we are doing we were assigned into groups based on skills and once we were assigned we were all asked to think of 3 names for a games company we think would suit well each and then all vote on each persons best one to determine which one we will be designing a logo for.

Once we had all decided which was the best team name of each person we all then made 3-5 different logos for the name we got chosen, We sketched our ideas, My team name was Affliction and i made all sorts of different sketches for the team n

ame which were mainly tribal. then voted again which was the best logo for the team name and had a sort of competition on which one would represent each team and took another vote i got quite a few votes but then we ended up choosing joe's red hawk studio idea as the final choice but tweaking it a bit by putting it in robotic font which was rob's idea so he will attempt to make the logo.

This image on the left was my logo for my name i chose which was affliction, it got a couple of votes and came in second in what we chose overall.

Music Studio Review

On Tuesday the 20th of September i started my first lesson in the sound studio which i will be doing once a week for an hour on tuesday afternoons where i will be discovering new things about sound equipment, For the first lesson i learnt how to properly twist and bend the wires for the microphones so they do not get ruined and also tested the mix desk with the microphone with sound effects and playing with the bass and other features.

The rules of the sound studio are:

do not eat or drink because you might spill it on the equipment.

be careful with your ears don't put it at a volume that damages them.

Bend and lift with the knees when lifting.

Make sure there are no cables on the floor that are able to trip you up.

Introduction to games year 2 work.

I have made a new blog for all the work i will be doing in year 2 of the BND games development course, i will be blogging when needed which will be much more than last year to let you all know what work i've been up to lately.