Saturday 19 March 2011

MovieStorm Write up

We had two men (Amos and Alex) come in, who ran the demonstration, to show us how to use MovieStorm, which is basically a program on the computer, which you can make a house/or just one room and then create your character and control what they do and then make a movie out of it.


We were shown in steps how to use the program. We were shown that to make a MoveStorm project we had to click on 'new move' and it would give us a white background and lines on the floor making squares to show where we can place the wall/ or we could use a template, which was a set that was already created and we could change it and change the characters. There were tools that we could use to create the wall, paint it and do the ceiling and the floor. To add props we went into the prop library, and we could also change the direction or the colour of the lighting on the set, to create a different atmosphere or to create different shadings on the set.

Once we had the set all done, we then went into the 'dressing room' to create our characters. With our characters we could change the sex of the character and the shape of the head, eye colour, hair colour and the clothes that our character would be wearing.

Then, once we were done with creating our character, we would go back to the set that we created and place our character where we wanted him/her in the first shot.
This would be in the 'Directors view' so it would be before filming the scene.
Once we had placed our character, we would change the mood of the character, for example, happy/or sad. Have the character do gestures and make them walk, run or sit. We could also, make them interact with the props for example, selecting that the character would sit and play the piano or watch TV. Also, if we had two characters we could make them interact with each other, by making them fight, or flirt with each other, which also meant that we could make them talk to each other or on the phone, by creating the dialog by recording your own voice or something that we already had on our software.

Once we had finished making our character do something in the scene we can then film it happening, but while it is filming, we could purse and change the angle or the view of the camera and carry on filming.
When we changed the view of the camera we can use the shot types that we would normally use if we were filming a real life film.

Then, when we had finished filming our short or long scene, we then went to the cutting room, where we can edit and adjust our film, to make the shots snappier or just to make it a little more shorter, this also enables us to paste our shots in the order that we like.

Once we have finished making the film and editing it, we then clicked on 'Publisher view' which enables us to generate movies as a MP4, which we then choose the 'large' move setting, which will create the movie to have a resolution of 1280 x 720 'PX'

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