Team Logo Concepts
My intention or idea for our 3D/flash project is we would start of at the canal in 1st person view sitting on a boat riding down the river where there would be a bird resting on the edge. When we would come to our first point of interest the bird would begin to fly towards the building I.e salts mill, the camera at this stage would now be seen through the birds eye making it a birds eye view, the bird would circle the building and then rest on the window sill. The bird would see a human inside the building where then the camera will switch views between them two. The human would tour the building, in order to get to the other points of interest we would implement some
sci-fi features (portals, underground passages, teleport etc). In order to get the big feast we would re inact it and record on a camera which in turn we would edit it and give it a laurel and hardy type of look(black and white, writing instead of speaking, fast paced etc) in order to include the video in the 3D model the human would enter a room where there would be a retro projector playing on a screen our feast re enactment. To finish it off the camera would leave the last building and exit through the window sill and head towards the roof where an eagle would be in a stance, the camera would then rotate around the bird to its back where the bird would do a leap of faith, at this time the camera would follow it and enter blackness which in turn the camera would zoom out and it would be a man watching the whole thing on an tablet stating the words play again.
My Intentions
My HCI Map
3D Enviroment Concept
3D Shots
Project review
When we marketed the showcase we used print media as well as our social accounts ie. twitter. i thought print media was more succesful as social media is worldwide any many people dont know or care about our product also nobody ever interacted or left comments for us except our college. Print media was effective as it was a physical invitation and we advertised in the local area which meant more people knew what it was about and were familliar with the area.
The showcase in whole was a sucess with people from different proffessions showing up and praising the work and there was also entertaiment and refreshments.
during the product we spent around 16 man hours on this project in college and spent severel hours of our own personal time. At times it got very frustrating with deadline pressure and when the software or hardware used malfunctioned. A professional would charge around £500+ for this sort of work.
i think the planning went really well in our teams making us in the end furthest ahead. we could have got along with some team members better but disagreeing is part of the buisness and makes good practice for real life
Prolouge
Millenias ago when the earth was still young and before mankind walked the soil the oceans and land were inhabited by an advanced but savage race who thirst for battle. They were known as Tricals, beings of unparalleled intelligence and feared throughout the galaxy for their brutal strength. A war with the Tricals hadn't been fought for over 3 Centuries as the inhabitants of the galaxy dared not challenge them, for if they did, they would suffer the same fate as the Modials the former occupants of Mars... EXTINCTION!! In the far corners of the galaxy you could still hear the cries of the women being violated and killed in front of their children as their blood stained the ground that's how Mars got the name the red planet. Of course with nobody challenging the Tricals their primal instincts needed to be exercised so their civilisation started collapsing as brother turned on brother, mothers slayed daughters, sons be headed their fathers and kept them as trophies. It was anarchy until one day during a war fought between the now divided sides of the Trical race.....they vanished. How do I know this? because I've met them my name is Michelle and this is the story of how I fell in love with a Trical.
Chapter 1
Hi my names Michelle and I live in the crap that is Saltaire, home to one of the first mills in Britain which our community like to broadcast as much as they can, because... well... no one who is any one gives a stuff about it, seriously you step out of Bradford (city which Saltaire is based) and tell them about this glorified mill or any of Saltaires history they look at you with the 'you did not just waste 5 minutes talking about utter rubbish' look. But we folks here know Saltaire has history... the freaky deaky kind, strange happenings have been occurring here since... well since the beginning. Now I don't mean ghosts or werewolves or anything like that because that's just ridiculous according to my uncle Francis who's taken care of me ever since my parents died when I was 11, but every full moon near the the famous mill people disappear without a trace, no blood, no footprints, no anything they just simply vanish and no one knows where they go. Anyway that's enough about Saltaire let's talk about me, I'm 21 and i am currently studying to be a paramedic at the local university but when I'm not studying I work at the old Music Shop in order to pay for the outrageous tuition fees sometimes I swear the government are a bunch of men and women possessed by greedy demons but what do I know.
It was 6:30pm and it was winter so it was already dark and I was finishing my shift at the old Music Shop, I pulled out my Motorola Razer because I'm not privileged enough to own one of those high end models with the touch screen and what not. I dialled uncle Francis to ask him to pick me up because it was chucking if outside, I must have dialled 5 times before I figured that I was going to have to walk it. So I put on my £5 coat which I got from a Car boot sale (you can tell I'm not related to daddy Warbucks) and waved goodbye to Bob (my boss) and headed into this god awful weather. The rain was crashing against my jackets hoodie as If stones were being chucked at me. As I trenched on in what can only be described as a river I came across a group of boys "hey Michelle" I quickly recognised the voice as Hal or horny Hal as I call him, we used to go college together and he always tried it on with me, he was a sleazy creep even then always harrasing the girls until one day he went to far and tried to force him self on my friend Chloe, luckily the janitor was walking by and stopped him, everything was caught on CCTV and he was sent to jail charged with attempted rape. "Come over here Michelle you can take shelter under my arm" suggested Hal "no thanks ill be fine" I tried to end the conversation quickly and tried to walk past them when I felt a tight grip on my arm like a snake wrapped around its prey, I turned my head and one of Hals lackies was staring at me with a desperate look in his eye. "Let go of me or ill scream" I threatened them all "oh sweetie nobody will hear you were near the mill and nobody comes here at night they're all scared of those superstitions" the guy seriously sounded like he had escaped from a mental institute. He looked towards Hal to see what his next command would be like a puppy waiting to be taught tricks, Hal used a hand gesture to bring me to him I resisted all I could but being a women has its disadvantages in the strength department compared to men unless your one of those crazy bodybuilders. Hal kissed me on my cheek and sniffed my hair I felt as if I was naked and my human rights were being abused, I tried to look around for anything I could use to escape when I saw a wrench on one of the men's bike. Before I could reach for the wrench Hal covered my mouth and bent me on his bike, all I could think off was how I was going to live after this when suddenly Hal grip began to weaken and as I looked at his face I saw his skin beginning to turn pale, he slowly stepped back like a zombie and collapsed to the ground and there stood in plain sight an arrow to his neck, I scanned the area to try to find the shooter when I saw a shoddy figure standing on top of the Old Music Shop. I had no time to thank the mysterious vigilante as I had to run while I had the chance so I quickly grabbed the wrench hit one if the men and ran as fast my legs would carry me a couple of the men came after me while the others chased that mysterious shooter, my heart beat was drowning out every other sound around me and my vision was blurred due to the lack of oxygen to my brain when Hal had his hand around my mouth but u couldn't think about that, I had to escape from the idiots behind me and the only place I could see was the one place nobody goes....the mill, if the stories were right it was suicide but it was my only hope so I steered towards one if my worst decisions ever and headed for the alley in the mill and hid. A few seconds later I heard one of the men stating that they had lost me and the sound of their footsteps began to disappear. As I began to calm my self down something in the corner of my eye caught my attention, it was right in the middle of the alley and it was a blue circular shape like water floating, I am no scientist but it looked like some kind of portal and at this time I was about to make my second biggest mistake of the night. This the problem with humans, our curiosity always gets the best of us. I started to walk towards it unaware what would happen I reached it with my hand and as I touched it I felt I was being pulled by what I could only describe as a vacuum and before I know it I was no longer in Saltaire. Where I ended up was out if this world.