Interactive Narrative!

Metal Gear Solid Interactive by ~JonnySedarati on deviantART

Finally finished my interactive Flash project. I had never previously used Flash so to begin with I found it to be a bit clunky and frustrating but I think given the limited time I've had to work on this, it being the last project before my deadline I have created a decent piece of work that I think people will find fun.

Face Off In The Corridor

Face Off In The Corridor from Jonny Sedarati on Vimeo.

This is a step away from my initial animation which was done using the white board method. I decided to move away from that because it became tedious and I wanted to try a pixilation using real people and objects and I came out with this...enjoy.

Finished One-Shot Film

Shots In The Kitchen... from Jonny Sedarati on Vimeo.

This is my groups second one-shot film which we spent much more time planning and choreographing than our initial film that we only had about 30 minutes to work on. We began by meeting up to discuss a new concept and scenario for the film. we wanted to continue using a first person perspestive so I suggested that we have a student sat at his laptop writing an essay. Meanwhile the students flatmates would be drinking and getting ready to go to a club and in the process, trying to get the student writing the essay to come out with them, to their annoyance. The group liked this idea so we began to write a simple script of things that were going to happen; actors entering and exiting the students room, dialogue etc.

We had booked a camera for the following day which we had planned to shoot the whole film on. We picked up the camera and decided to use my flat to film. Once at my flat we spent three or four hours filming until we were all pretty happy with what we had.

Finally, we recorded the voiceover dialogue the following week and imported that and the video footage into Adobe Premiere for editing. I am pretty happy with how it turned out and enjoyed creating it with my group.

One-Shot Film (1st Attempt)

FML from Jonny Sedarati on Vimeo.

This one-shot film was created during the first week of my groups one-shot film project and was an initial experiment into how we could make something interesting with only one-shot to work with.

Oldboy - One-Shot Corridor Fight Scene

A memorable scene from the film Oldboy which involves a fight scene filmed in a corridor in only one shot. This relates to my current work as I have began the one-shot film project where me and my group had to use a simliar method however, in this clip the camera pans to the left and right which we were not allowed to do.

White Board Animation

This is my initial stop-motion video that I began working on a couple of weeks ago. It is more of an experiment than anything and I am still undecided on whether to continue with this particular video or create something new such as a pixilation as I found the white board technique became quite tedious after a while.

Photo Realistic Animation

A really impressive demonstration I saw a few months ago that shows how animation is advancing and becoming increasingly more realistic with new technology.

The Uncanny Valley

I saw this a while back but I thought Multimedia students might find it interesting if they were unaware of the theory XD

UP

I still don't really have any of my own work to post here so I thought I'd share a few brief words on a movie I recently saw which I thought would be relevant as it's an animated movie.

The movie is 'UP' created by none other than Pixar animation studios and follows the adventure of 78 year old Carl Fredricksen who sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America, now he's the weird bit...by tying thousands of balloons to his house and floating there. As always Pixar have created a strange concept for their movie and as always they make it work, it's not their best work in my opinion but it still has that Pixar magic that all their films include, so go see it! And support great animation.

For more information on the movie check out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049413/

Howdy,

I'm Jonny and I've just began my Multimedia degree at Nottingham Trent University XD. This is my first ever blog so I will do my best not to neglect it...anyway feel free to compliment or ridicule anything that does appear on here in the future.

Au revoir.