Tools & Systems; Coding.

We attended a few sessions of coding and processing information. This consisted of inputting certain pieces of information in a certain order and the programme will generate a visual result of your coding.

I didnt particularly enjoy coding or find it relevant to any of the ideas I had, I didnt enjoy it as a session but Im glad that I've at least been shown how to do it. 

Tools & Systems; Useful site for info-graphics.

I decided to have a more in depth look at info-graphics to try and inspire a few more solid ideas for the brief. I came across this site which I thought was quite useful. Many of its content manages to display information, in an easy way, with light heartedness and humour still intact. 

http://visual.ly/

Here are a few examples. I particularly like the bottom one on 'The Psychology Of Abandonment' and how it shows the percentage of when people usually abandon a book by using illustrations of books on a shelf to show the numeric information as if it were a graph. 

Tools and systems; Influential video

We were shown a video as an example of info-graphics, I found it really helpful and it gave me a better idea as to some things I could use for this brief.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xhdy9zBEws

I took some screenshots of the video of particular scenes and illustrations that I thought were useful and demonstrated a good idea of info-graphics. 

Tools and systems; Tools in use

After a Tools and Systems session, we were told to photograph our 'Tools' we had on us and what we would be using for the session that day

Tools & Systems; Mind mapping.

Im so confused about this brief! Im not really sure what is it Im supposed to be doing..

Still, when in doubt, I will mind map my ideas and see where my mind takes me.

Submitting my video via USB stick

After many many tried and failed attempts to upload my video up onto my blog, I have diecided that i wil be submitting my composition via USB stick. 

There will be more than one version on there, just as proof that my many rendering attempts have failed to include the sound. I hope that, based on my previous posts on showing my attempts, this wont be a problem. 

Struggling with sound!!

I have managed to animate my images in After Effects, although no matter what I try I cant seem to get the sound working properly. I have followed numerous tutorials on how to export and render a composition with audio, and no matter what I try I cant seem to get it working. a

I have taken some screen shots to allow my problem to be shown more clearly. 

I have highlighted the parts of the screen shot where it is evident I have included my assigned audio clip, The Third Man Theme. 

Here are some links to some of the tutorials I followed, and still no luck. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiJxe6GOjFY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK0pjMqEAhs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rRSTyvfpfM

Im trying to render and export my composition in all the correct ways but Im still having no luck!!