Ident Practise

As said previously are plan is to make our ident using stop motion. We felt as if we had to have some practise to see how it looks when filmed and whether it was worth doing. We filmed our practise using Diana's Iphone which has a very useful time lapse tool, which takes a couple of pictures every second and then pieces it together for you. This was very useful for our practise and saved a lot of time, however I feel as if we should use a proper digital camera for our actual ident as the picture will be a better quality and we can alter the amount of time between frames.

 Our plan was to use a light box and clear, coloured card cut into smaller pieces to create our ident. When we started we found there was no pre coloured plastic, so we had to create our own. We made a circle out of plain plastic, split it into quarters and then covered it in different colours of acrylic paint (red, blue, green, white). We used a sponge to to not show any brush strokes, and it ended up giving it a rather cool effect.

 We originally wanted the four sections to represent the four elements and then name our studio 'Elemental Studios' or something similar. As our plan was for the four sections to come together and spell out the name of our studio, we decided that this name will probably be too long to do this. This means we are still thinking of a name for our studio, which isn't too much of a problem at the moment. We will still stick with the four coloured quarters though as I think they stand out extremely well.

 After we had finished all the sides, we put it on the light box to see how it looked. We were rather pleased as the colours really shine through and because of the spudges due to the sponge, it gives the plastic a hand made feel, suiting the overall feel of an independent film studio

 We then procceded to cut each quarter into smaller triangles to form the mosaic, as Diana's vision was for the smaller pieces to start in the shape of the quarter. This soon proved impractical as it was impossible to keep them in the correct order, so we ditched this idea.

We ended up with four piles of triangles of coloured plastic. As each triangle is fairly small it makes it harder to spot any imperfections or missed parts.

We put the piles in the four quarters of the light box to see how they looked. When taking a picture, you can see the light moving underneath the light box, we were unaware this would show up when taking a picture but were happy with how it looks as it makes the background more visually appealing. We were extremely happy with how this section of the practise worked out, so then we proceeded to try a film the time lapse, although without our production company appearing.











Here are our three practise runs that we did. In our opinion the one that worked best was the first one as it wasn't too fast (like the second one) or badly centred (like the third). In our actual ident, the name of our production company would come up after the circle is formed.




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