In this week’s meeting, we began file consolidation by renaming all of our files for consistency and moving them to Imogen’s hard drive. We looked at the .gifs Ren had made, but then decided to instead go with a shorter, smaller clip that had the colour drained out of it and would move as a .mov file when rolled over in Korsakow. We decided our constraints for this would be three seconds of video (with the audio wiped), and we will experiment with colour drain to get the effect we want.
We had a further discussion about the compression of each file and the size we were trying to get to. One of the benefits of how we’ve structured our shooting schedule is that we are doing our recording and post-production at the same time, which is helping us stay on top of our tasks.
When another group was presenting their second prototype, Seth mentioned something about fine tuning your fragments so well that you can then go on to mass-produce them. I think this is what we have effectively done so far – even though it has been a learning curve along the way.