May 27th, 2007 by klilley
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May 5th, 2007 by klilley
Well last week was the 4D deadline… There were some problems right up to the last minute such as flash stopping on one frame and freezing the movie for no real reason apart from it being Flash! I had to pull off a couple of late nighters to get it finished and by the end of it the first chapter was driving me insane (Once you know all the lines just from listening it gets worrying). I would of like to of done more graphics wise and maybe produced it in premiere/After Effects to get the better sound quality but as always time was against me.
The presentation went quite well… I think perhaps I was so tired I just didn’t care anymore. All the films were amazing in their own ways… some with really good graphics and others with interesting narratives. We had a good review for ‘Who the Fuck is Alice’. So fingers crossed!!
Big thanks to the family and Kat
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May 3rd, 2007 by klilley
Well it’s taken two days hard work but my final year project is finally complete and in its testing stage.
Currently the project works by using motion tracking with a very primitive form of gesture recognition. The screen is divided into several sections (Percussion, String, Brass, Wood Wind), each section holding a different sound. The partcipant has to draw a circle over a section to activate a sound… The sound can be looped depending on how many circles a partcipant draws i.e. drawing 3 circles will loop the sound 3 times.
The sound can then be manipulated in speed by using the bar at the bottom. When the programme recognises two points over the same area within the bar it will change it to that location. This also works with the volume bar along the right hand side.
I’ve attached a couple of movies that record me playing with it… currently it tracks my blue pen (thanks barclays for your free pens) but when I come to testing it next week in the small media lab I will be using my light wand.
Movie01
Movie02
Movie03
Movie04
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