Julieus assignment

MODULE TITLE: Successful Practise and Principles

MODULE NUMBER: MMPR10108

MODULE LEADER: JULIUS AYODEJI

For this essay I have to identify a number of specific aims and objectives that I wish to achieve by the conclusion of my Level Two study.

Towards the end of Term Three I will be expected to choose a pathway as my course of study throughout Level Two.

So far on the course I have had the chance to experience a range of different media types and I fill that what I would most like to study throughout level two would be A/V, Audiovisual is the term to refer to media work with both a sound and visual component, Films and television shows are examples of audiovisual presentations.

The very first assignment of year one was to produce a short film using a technique called stop motion. Stop motion or frame by frame animation is the general term for an animation technique which makes a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved by extremely small amounts between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames are played as a continuous sequence.

I had also previously experimented with A/V in college, and produced at least four short films, one that also involved stop motion for the final product.

I have always been fascinated with films especially animated films from the animé genre, and my favourite animé artist and director would have to be the created of such films as howls moving castle and spirited away, Hayao Miyazaki.

Hayao Miyazaki is the prominent director of many popular animated feature films. He is also the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company.

Seeing such films and understanding the time and amount of effort put into producing them, is a great inspiration to me, and by knowing what it takes to create these pieces of work, makes watching them completely different because you appreciate the amount of work that had to be achieved to produce this film that may only last one hour.

By the end of my level two studies I would love to be able to produce a piece of work similar to what Hayao Miyazaki creates and directs, even if my piece only lasted for a few minutes I would be satisfied.

For me to achieve this I would have to have a lot of drawings that could be used for the animation, video effects and lighting , as well as audio, sound effects, voices and music integrated together to a precise level that the sound and video was in sync without any gaps or cuts in the video footage,or no time delays in the footage.

But before any of this could happen I will have to get started with writing so interesting a detailed stories of what the video footages could be about.