ZIP Productions

This is a project from grade 12 where we had to create a production company. This is my logo and i also created a little intro video clip like in real films to introduce a company. This clip was created on Adobe After Affects. And the logo was created in Photoshop.

Final Audio Walk

For the Sound Assignment, our group made an audio walk recording of a cell phone conversation between our fictional protagonist, Sarah, and her boyfriend, Jim. She travels through York University’s underground tunnels late at night using Jim’s directions to avoid getting lost. In this suspenseful thriller, Sarah hears noises which lead her to believe she is being followed. The audio is entirely from Sarah’s perspective, so students are encouraged to hold their cell phones to their right ear to induce an immersive quality. The audio track was designed to make participators in the audio walk feel the same suspense as Sarah. Consider a film being shot entirely through the perspective of the main character.

The mood and atmosphere is created through the use of dramatic voice acting and realistic sound effects, many of which were recorded at the same locations as those featured within the audio. The Audio Walk is meant to be followed by the audience at the same pace as Sarah, to fully relive her experience in the tunnels.

The walk begins on a staircase beneath the Ross Building, and continues through the tunnels, twisting and turning until the students reach the staircase to the Stacie Library.  Some of the techniques used to enhance the story and audio were echoes, phone effects, static, and making use of dual audio channels. The audio walk concludes with the revealing of the stalker’s identity. What may first appear as innocent intentions escalates to an exciting climax whereby the ending is left open-ended.

The recording directly engages with the audience to make them feel like the character Sarah and have them relive that experience. In that sense, it can be a lot more frightening than watching a film in the comfort of your own home – especially if the walk is performed alone and after 11PM as done by Sarah. The target audience is anyone who enjoys suspense/thriller/horror films or stories, but would like to be immersed in the experience.

Group: Alex K, Alex O, Josh Watson
Voice Actors: Sarah C. (Theatre program at York), Alex K, and Spencer K.

http://dm.finearts.yorku.ca/~aornat/sound/Audiowalk.mp3 : MP3
http://dm.finearts.yorku.ca/~aornat/sound/Audiowalk.aup : Audacity File
http://dm.finearts.yorku.ca/~aornat/sound/sourcefiles/sourcefiles.zip : Source Files
http://dm.finearts.yorku.ca/aornat/sound/map.jpg : Map

Sound Rough

Some [really] rough recordings completed after a minor setback. Just some general, creepy, industrial-like sounds of a style we hope to recreate in the final audio file. Uncanny ambience, echoed footsteps, and heavy metal doors are an effective means of creating a setting reminiscent of a horror film.

http://dm.finearts.yorku.ca/~aornat/filedump/rec1.zip

Lecture Room Ambiance

Entering the room at the start of class you hear whispering voices and pages turning as students open their books. Every few seconds you hear the door fly open as more students walk in. Every once and a while in the first 10 minutes you hear the apple or windows start up noise as computer begin to boot up. You start getting pumped for class once you hear the door open and hear Stedman tapping away at the mic to see if we can hear him. The lecture begins and you can hear people typing away as professor Stedman starts his slides. Every couple slides there is audio file sor youtube videos. As they play, you can hear students laugh and chitter chatter about the subject and joke about it. There is usually the few students who choose to whisper throughout the entire time, it gets very annoying. As i look around, i can hear typing as if people are typing notes, and then you look closer, and 60% of them are on Facebook.

Last 5 mins of class, you can hear students start to fidget and get excited that class is almost done. Papers ruffling, binders shutting, bags zipping, all these noising telling you class is almost over. Once the teacher has finished, he said and class is done, and all at once there is this huge noise of chairs being pushed back and students footsteps down the stairs. Lastly, the door flies open over and over until the room is empty and silent as the prof cleans up and leaves.

Sound Assignment Idea!

For the sound assignment, my group came up with the idea of leading the class through a recording (or series of recordings), which depict the thrilling story of a person or pair of people making their way through a series of tunnels (rather, underground tunnels) in their attempt to escape from some pursuing threat. We’re not yet quite sure what the threat will be, but we were considering taking a more comic approach and having a zombie chase our victims. The recording would of course feature classic zombie-horror vocals, a horrified narrator (owner of the “found” recording), and background music, which would help set the mood. Having the ‘tour’ featured underground would allow us to experiment with various audio effects (echoes and fades) and different types of sound sources. We also plan to explore a wide variety of audio editing techniques, and hope that our theme is flexible in that it gives us much freedom in our approach.

The tour will take place in an underground tunnel linking the Ross building to the Chemistry building. It’s a long walk with many twists and turns, so we recommend students stay close to the group to avoid being lost.

Here are some top-notch photos of some of the hallways students will be passing through:

One Piece Hockey Armor by Motion

The One Piece Hockey Armor by Motion was created to make life easier for hockey players. This is not just any equipment, this is an all in one armor that is the next generation of hockey. The One Piece consists of one upper body and one lower body piece that are joined together by the strongest magnets in the world, 100 tesla. To start, the top half consists of shoulders pads, elbow pads and a neck guard all combined into one jacket. The entire top half has visco-elastic foam(memory foam) built into it that allows for precision fit and greta comfort. Inside the upper half, there is two buttons, one plus and one minus that once the entire One Piece is attached will allow you to inflate all the memory foam to fit your size. Having the memory foam, gives the skater the breathing room and also lots of flexibility making it easy to move.

The bottom half consists of skates, shin pads, pants, and a built in jock. The skates are the lightest on the market and have a One push mechanism on them that tie your skates up at the push of a button. The shin pads have hinges where they attach to the skate, allowing you to separate the back side and the front, allowing for easy slide into your skate boot. Then an easy snap up, clip the front of the pad into place under the lip of the pant leg. The pants have a built in jock and also have a spine protector which is filled with memory foam to keep your back safe if you fall. The pants do up in One Motion by snapping the two sides together, which are also 100 tesla magnets. The entire bottom half including the skates have visco-elastic foam to keep you fit and comfortable.

For all this equipment separately, skates would be $400-$600, shin pads $100-$130, pants $150-$250, jock $15-$40, shoulder pads $150-$250, and elbow pads $50-$100. An average of this would cost $1170. Being able to make the One Piece all at once and sell it at once, we are able to sell it a low price of $999.

The One Piece Hockey Armor by Motion is the most light, flexible, comfortable, and protective hockey armor on the market. Come to any Pro Hockey Life today to pick up your own One Piece.


Google Sketchup file - http://dm.finearts.yorku.ca/~jowa30/shin_skate_pants_shoulders.skp

3D image project

My idea for my 3D imaging project is to create a two piece hockey suit that contains all hockey equipment needed to play. The suit contains one upper body and one lower body piece that connect together through electric clips that will hold them together until release button is pressed. This is a rough draft and i am not a very good drawer so my final product will look totally different from that. But atleast you get the main idea, any comments please tell me, i love getting feedback to make my final project better.

Google Sketchup #1

This is a desk in my dorm room, it is simple but i am working hard at getting the easy stuff down first, its a little confusing to me so i am starting simple and slowly moving my way up.

Hope you like it

Website Proposal

My topic idea for my website is going to be a parody of the sports website foxsports.com. The name of my website is Joshing Sports ( yes it is my name, but it also stands for joking about something). I am going to take the stories that have and replace with funny things or stupid things that have happened to athletes. My main page is going to be general with the top story of the week, and my other pages will be different sports pages that have their own stories, such as NHL, NFL, NBA, etc.

I want to be able to put it a pop up or something like a welcome to the site or something. I want to be able to have graphics and stuff, but i am not exactly sur eon how to do anything, i am actually very confused with this website coding and i am finding it difficult. Hopefully i will be able to come up with some good ideas.

I anyone has any ideas or anything that could help me, please dont be afraid to comment!!!!

I need help, so anyone that would like to help is totally allowed!!!!

The art of Social Networking!!

To start off, both articles were written very well and they explore great views on the question of what we can truly accomplish with the internet and social networking. To start off the chapter It takes a Village to Find a Phone, was an amazing story of how there is always someone who feels the same way you do about a subject. Evan put that up, even know they got a new phone and still got all the info back. This was about what is right, and he posted, and everyone joined in ton stand up for something they all believe in. I thought it was amazing to see how many people, and how all of those people had the power to change the minds of the NYPD.

Second, was the Twitter, and Facebook article, which was also very well written. The difference with this article is that it explored different stories and how social networking sites could be the way to bring everyone together and in one of the stories, save peoples lives.

I get from these two stories is that we are all so involved with the internet that we can all join together to do things that one person could never accomplish on their own. I believe the Twitter and Facebook article is a stronger representation of this because the other one seemed a little out there for me. In understand that a lot of people have a large control, but i feel as if NYPD would not change their minds just because of what other people think. For the other article, i can understand, because so many people are affected by these social problems, such as racism, cancer, etc. and thats why it is so easy for people to spread the word and receive so much feed back. I am very happy i got to learn a little more about the positive things social networking is doing.

Yes men!

I am soo amazed with the work that Yes Men have done! I believe it is great to see the different views that people see situations, such as the oil spill. The problem a company trying to create positive press about something bad they have done is way to positive, and they attempt to create a sense that they are not in the wrong anymore but that they are here to help.

I love the way Yes Men portray their ads and show the true meaning behind something that has happened, such as "Chevron SHOULD clean up their messes", instead of other comments that stray away from the real issue, such as "Oil companies should put their profits to good use". It is not about the profits, its not about the communities, its about the big a** oil spill in the ocean that is killing innocent creatures and is ruining the environment.

I believe Yes Men should continue to do what they are doing, because it is now not only to make fun of things, but to bring the real truth of situations to the surface for citizens to see and read. 

Catalogs Discussion

I believe that Jesse was just helping people out, we was nit making money, he was not making a name for himself, he simply was tinkering with something in his field. What the RIAA did was absurd, and they should not be able to do anything as long as the person is not making any money.

Just like we spoke of in class, a student using copyrighted materials, and is using them for educational uses or for the aid of the public, should not be public. Jesse was simply broadening his experience in his field. It is the same as us using any Youtube video or music, yes we borrow it, but only for educational purposes and not to make money. Once we want to start making money, we understand that we need to be creating our own works of art from scratch and i believe that Jesse knew this as well. If he knew this would of happened, he would of asked himself, why? All he has done is fool around with other peoples things and put them together and made them better in order to help out his fellow students at school.

As for the lawsuit, i believe Jesse did the right thing, because even if did win, all he had was a piece of paper, but now, he gave in, but he speaks to the world about the things that companies will do just because you are using their services or products.

Big heads up to Jesse for doing the right thing and telling the world his story and raising awareness.

Presentation on CGI

Here is my powerpoint for Tues Oct. 19, 2010...


http://www.slideshare.net/jowa30/cgi


The videos do not work, but there is two slides that have videos that will be played.

Best of the Best- Remix Project

For my Remix Project, i chose to create the "Best of the Best" sequence of 2 pictures and 1 video. For my first picture i chose to recreate a penalty shot in soccer. The vue is from behind the ball, but what the remix is, is that the hexagons in the ball have been replaced with jerseys from some of the best teams and players from professional soccer. I also took the background of the picture myself.

For my second Remix picture, i chose to create a side view of one end of a basketball court in which there are 7 different players from the NBA that have made a name for themselves. These shots are either the top ten players in the NBA or a shot of them doing some of the best dunks ever done in the NBA. Again, i took the background of the picture myself.

For my last section, the video, i chose to do a video reel of some of the best moments or players in sports history. I attempted to use a lot of different sports to show how many people take every sport seriously. There is some of the best plays in football, curling, horse racing, etc. I also added in crashes, and some cheering from some of the best players in sports.

Hope you Enjoy!

Here is the link for my video on Youtube-sorry video quality is not that great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kinym-9Wx4

Remix Idea

I know i have been doing a lot of sports, but we were told to do what interest's us so i have got some feedback from some friends and i believe i have some strong ideas for this one if i can create them properly.

To start off, my first picture is going to be a side view of a basketball net. It will consist of 4-6 action shots of different basketball players to create on dunk. From start to finish, to make it seem like a frozen sequence.

Second, I think i am going to take a picture of a soccer goalie in position to make a save. I want one with lots of room and the goalie to one side. I will then take a soccer ball and blow it up to make it seem like it is the main focus of the picture with the goalie sort of blurred. I will cut out all the hexagonal shapes on the ball so its just the outline of the ball and the outline of the hexagons. Then i will replace the holes with different pictures of soccer jerseys so that they make up the soccer ball.

And last, for my video, it is going have a collaboration of a lot of sports to create one video. Some needs might include a baseball player diving into home plate, but before he lands, it fades inton a swimmer mid dive into a pool. There are many ideas i can do, so i am not sure completely all the details but am hoping to come out with a great final product that sort of brings all the sports together to show that they all incorporate the same sort of skills.

Thanks,

Josh Watson

The Web is Dead Article-Discussion

I believe the article is true. Slowly, these technologies such as the iphone, ipad, etc. are taking over the Web world. In my eyes, I think that the web is still there for us to use, but these technologies just make it easier for us to access our favorite parts of the web whenever we want, instead of having to be at a computer. Never the less, we are still always going to need the web, i think there is only so many things these "apps" can do and once on a computer, we can connect to everything. What i would like to know, is how far are these technologies going to go before they start taking over our lives? What I mean is, we already rely in them a lot, and the more they come out with, the more we are attached to them, so i would just like to know when they or when someone will jump out and stop them for making these technologies that empty our wallet and give us tunnel vision on how the rest of the world runs. Eventually we all will be using them and we will communicate through these and only these, making ourselves lazy to the point that we cant even pick up a phone to call someone or travel to their house to talk, eventually our world and everyone in it will be brain washed to "apps".

Josh Watson

Remix Video!

I chose to do my remix video on road hockey, NHL, and video games videos which formed sequences of hockey shootouts. I attempted to fit the clips so that they flowed correctly with each other. I used 4 videos from Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4XoVAG4k9s by captaincanuck7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUgwd1Ej0OE&feature=related by stevebak99

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFFPgxaLhJw&feature=related by ipushmycar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUPgISf6RsU by csnow157

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6OhxcevkM8 csnow157

I hope that you guys enjoyed, my art will get better once I receive more feedback. I am trying to get more art out of stuff other then the technical way of using the programs.

Josh Watson

Intro to myself!

My name is Josh Watson, I have been involved with many different types of clubs throughout my life, but once I found communications, I have never looked back. Before high school, I have always been a fan of big animated movies and special effects because of the way the artist can make something not real come to life. Once high school came, I was doing my own projects, which were not very good, and then I found a communications class. This class reminds me a lot of this course because we got to the chance to show our artistic ability, and be able to create master pieces of art, from scratch, or from a mixture of other artifacts. I am taking this class to further my knowledge of the electronic art and learn skills that will sometime in the near future help me be one of those artists that make a kid feel the exact same way I did.

Thank you for reading,

Josh Watson 

1st Mini Assignment

I chose the background of NHL 10 video game by EA sports because I have always wanted to help create one of the games. I used the image of the woman from Avatar because I have always wanted to be able to work beside the special effects artist from that movie because they are so talented. The image of the robot from Transformers is the same, it is a dream of mine to be able to create such a real experience with digital media for others to watch. The Apple logo is being used in my composite image because ever since I got my first Apple laptop, I have been in to design of any sort. I think it was the technology that apple can give that got me into this program. And last I used the Nike Just Do It towel because it's true, if everyone just did it, we would all have success in life. I also used the words never back down because i believe that if we never give up or back down that we will always do great things.

Thank you,

Josh Watson