Projection 1

For the first projection, I knew pretty much what I needed to create. The animation needed to show a living room (or any room really) with a fair amount of possessions that would disappear, thus stating how people can loose all of what they have, leaving them with nothing. To start out, I needed to take pictures of the living so that I could draw over it in Adobe Flash. I wanted to make sure that the photo was straight - saving time when it came to animating over it.

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The two images that I whittles it down to are of a different perspective. I feel that the first one - looking down on the living room - did not give the best view and would not look very good when animated, due to the items being further away and appearing smaller within the frame. The second image is at a more eye-level perspective and everything appears more prominent in the frame. 

To make the animation, I simply rotoscoped over the image in flash. Every time I took out a part of the image, I added a new frame, thus creating the animation. When I was complete, I deleted the photo layer and was left with the drawing on a white background. 

In Photoshop, I imported the .mov file and did nothing to it. All I needed to do was click 'save for web' and from there, I can make my movie file a .gif. The only problem with this, is that they ate meant to be small file sizes, therefore I could not export an A1 size gif. I started out by trying one of the smallest sizes, but felt that it would be too small for the projector. 

I made the gif larger and then realised that when it is finished, it does not hold the frame where everything is gone. To solve this, I duplicated the last scene of the .mov a number of times, making it longer giving the audience longer to realise what has happened. 

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