I had to make the make the picture of the night sky circular. This meant that I could rotate it around a point and that means that it will be easier to loop. Also I am liking the bright colours very wizard of Oz. I have used lens flares to make some of the stars but I cant change there angles or their size. I’ll have to find out if the is a way of making a transparent layer that I can put a lens flare onto so as i can edit it that way. 

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 I got a bit stuck on the blue sky so I asked simon and this is what he came up with.

The whole of my piece is set at night. So I think it would be best to show that, I have made these stars but they look to normal I wan them a little bit more ‘wizard of oz’. Like the night sky in the Mighty Boosh episode where Gary Newman takes Vince and Howard to the north pole. I think that night time and the dark have strong association with churches because most of the fun christian celebration like Christmas and christingle are set in the middle of the darkest time of the year.

The night time involvement with children at Christmas and new is quite important. It is the one time of the year that children get to stay up late (10pm) and its dark. This brings a air of mysticism to everything unlike the summer where you stay up till ten and it is still light. This raises another point the subject of bell-ringing is closely tied into my child hood which is where I am drawing most of my information. I would like the film to have a childishness to it, a feel of undeveloped ability. Unfortunatly it might take me a while to figure out how to turn my sky blue.

Yes, I thought that Ben was on to something when I saw his face-book page that I thought I will have a go. Well at least until the novelty wears off.

Any way third year animation I am through the pre-production stage (just) and on to the production (nearly).  I will have to be getting out of the habit of trying to fit uni in between the ship and the museum. My animation is about bell ringing and bell ringers. I have recorded my local band at Otley in Suffolk. I will put animation to the recoding in a sympathetic way.

Why do I need to put animation with the recording? I think that this does actually need animating because the ringers I think will be more believable as characters.

Would it work as a radio show? The raw footage can be used as a radio four documentary but what I’m doing couldn’t be justified as a documentary or drama within those confines.

The way that I hope to be making this animation is by doing everything at the same time time. So editing, animation and sound in tandem. So I am going to have to get on top of organizing my week. I have a very busy week:

1. The museum where I volunteer. The sort of volunteering that I am involved in is mainly maintenace of a steam tug, a deisel tug , a fire float, steam crane, deisel railway engine, a steam carriage and two steam railway engines. Its great because I can indulge my childish nature, and they let me drive (sometimes with passengers)
2. The Ship where I work; because of uni commitments I have cut the days down to one a week I would do more but they are not open at weekends. It is basically the same sort of work that I do at museum. At Easter I will go to dry dock with it so it will be hard to do any uni work.
3. The gym 3 times a week. Even though I’m only in there for half an hour it takes me an hour and a bit to walk there and back.
4. Evening classes (pole dancing lessons but shh) but I only have two weeks left of them which is a shame because they are soooo much fun.
5. University itself workshops, seminar etc
6. All the walking that I do to get places because I don’t like buses and I cant drive (o god driving lessons)
7. shopping and basic necessity’s

It may not seem like that much but its all the walking to and fro that really eats all my time. I worked it out that I walk about three miles a day. I value the museum and ship things more because they are now my ‘chosen path’ where as animation I can only see as a Hobie.  Anyway the point is I have to sit down and work out my week and see if it is possible to have my cake and eat it.