Test Blurts

Test Blurts

This entry consists of all the tests I carried out with the aim of dining an identity for Blurt. My tests will show examples of trial and error, development and shows a journey though my thought process. Creating these tests has taught me a lot, it has broadened my knowledge on Premiere Pro further with the sorts of effects and edits I can apply to my footage For some of the more illustrative imagery that I digitally created but as well as that I established a way to use more than one of the adobe programmes to help me create my footage, by doing so, I filmed my footage using imotion and I drew my imagery on illustrator and developed further using photoshop, so doing these tests has widened my tech discovery as it has enabled me to reach behind the surface and amalgamate the use of more than one programme, using Illustrator and Photoshop to create a much better image which I have found this discovery is not only eye opener and pleasing to know but also has taught me a lot by finding this discovery to create dynamic imagery and motion graphics too.

Channel 4 cutout test

This was a trial and error clip as well as to show my development and progression. I wanted to show my secret as to how I created my interpretation for the 4. I've not got much to say on this video in fairness considering it is in my previous blog entry.

Eye shadow Tester

This clip here is the magic to some of the tests on this entry and on many of my animations. Where I filmed my eyeshadow pallet, yet the most random thing I could even imagine... but this was basically just for trial and error and accidentally worked in my favour... because I have secretly used this footage in my animations which you may or may not spot instantly. But I filmed this footage using I motion using both the manual and the time-lapse setting  where I captured each colour of the eyeshadow pallet so that I capture the colour well in a smooth crisp way.

Eye shadow developed test

This piece is basically a developed test for trial and error with the eye shadow pallet, seeing as I liked the previous one, I decided together a paint brush and pick each colour and then blow the dust to send of a blurted message, this was again trial and error but seeing what I could create with the stuff around me. I again filmed this footage using motion apart from the fact that I used the time-lapse mode only for this section as what I was recording was at quite a fast pace and continuously therefore it would only work filming this footage using the time-lapse mode on IMotion. 

Test 1, Trial & Error 

This test is basically just a short and simple test where I experimented with shadow, tones and light as well as looking at shadows. This piece was just a source of trail and error I thin this was to do with light reflecting onto a mirror and it so happened that there was shadows also. I can't lie I think this test could of been better as in it could have been more exciting seeing as it is just moving lines, although it did to some degree reminds me of the opening to the Psycho movie, where there are black lines going across the screen after trying to recreate the Psycho Video in one of the technical sessions with Jordan. You could say my inspiration for this piece came from that.

Test 2 The DISK 

This test took a while to get right I can't lie was basically a p*ss about I can't lie but this was basically a trial and error, which I liked and went well, where I wanted to see what I can create using other inanimate objects, to think of the mind-blowingly ambiguous doing o I basically turned all lights off in my room so it was pitched black, I then used a torch and shone it against the disk and rotated the torch so I can get the parallel multi coloured lines going across the disk in a rotational way. 

Test 3, Pencil Blurt

For this test, I collected pencils together, not just any pencils, I collected coloured pencils that you'd see in a rainbow, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet... of course! but I wanted to formulate them and use the liquified glitter paint to spell out blurt as if the liquified glitter was noosing out of the inks, but unfortunately this didn't exactly go to plan... but I liked how I recorded myself writing Blurt using the glitter paints. For a test piece, I don't mind this but I wouldn't use in my animation because I personally feel this way of giving Blurt an identity seems too messy for featuring in my 30 second footage. 

Blurt Test 4

This test here was basically again trial and error basically using videos that I had already made but trued putting together to edit creating a 10 second test animation using Premiere Pro, where I was able to experiment with the transitional movements in my imagery and how I was able to change the colours, saturations and blend modes to create variety, this was to also enable me to get to know Premiere Pro and seeing what it is all about basically. Which for getting to know Premiere Pro I would say went successfully as when I experiment with the programme am learning the programme as well as creating experiments. 

Feedback from Dan

Test 5, Flash Blurt

For this test animation I basically filmed my footage using photoshop after creating on illustrations on Adobe Illustrator, I then filmed my footage using Motion, same as how I filmed all of my footage but I was using the time-lapse mode as this test was just colour changing from one colour to another- simultaneously.  This footage was just a simple trial and error test really. 

Test 6, Blurt

The footage for this test 

Painted Blurt!

These tests above, I can't lie but is one of my favourites the thing I love about these is the fact they can be animations on their own if I was to make a 30 second animation on the spot. The thing I love about these is the simplicity of it, I like the idea of using other art mediums around me, yes it is to some degree a but wasteful but for art science its worth it! I came up with the idea of paint frankly because it was there also because of the fact that Paul said to me to paint designs for Blurt, through a zoom call in the stages of designing logos and I didn't think it was a bad idea, it allowed me to be experimental, create trial and error giving me a break from the computer. I liked this idea because I associated Blurt as a very flamboyant colourful kind of theme, very colourful and I thought Paint would be perfect, considering the fact Blurt is a series about art, I thought paint would be a good material to give blurt identity, and the paint being in the colour sequence of a rainbow, for the reason that I see colour being an importance for art and the creative world and I wanted to show that in my tests here and I love the idea of squirting the paint I think it is effective and works well, I like how the one on the left (annoyingly it was a pain In the butt to switch over) but how this animation is reversed I like how the blurt disappears back into the tubes. The  second clip below is basically these two clips but with an upgrade! 

Test 6, My 10 Second Experimental  Blurt

With this test, it is basically an upgrade... this test levelled up! Where I put both clips together and you can watch the clip both from the beginning and the end of the clip at the beginning and the ending as the beginning and the beginning as the end... in less complex words, from the beginning  to the end at the same time the upgrades are the fact you can watch both clips at once, the point of this clip is you are supposed to watch both clips at once with the left eye focusing on one half and the right eye focusing on the right half of the video almost like an illusional like way. I have also included audio, where I managed to create some audio alongside this footage, by doing so, I basically voice recorded myself making splat sounds in a s sudden blurt sensation, this is one of my favourite tests because it is ambiguous, it makes you think and forces you to really concentrate when you look at this clip. 

 

Feedback from Becca!

Test 7, Comic BLURT 

This Comic Blurt is a test I created using again photoshop and illustrator and edited together on premiere pro to create this 10 second bumper as well as using Illustrator and Photoshop for the imagery and motion effects. the thing I love sot with this test is seeing imagery blurt out the lady's mouth, I find it clever and effective and it shows she's Blurting something out but in the unknown as to what she's blurting out. This test is another potential favourite and I hope to feature this footage in some of my animations. This test was again there to how my development as I wheedle through the trial and error in the art world of experimentation.

TEST 8, Test

This test is very straight forward, I was showing my progression and development in the journey of this project by doing so I drew a paint splat on Illustrator which I then imported the file onto Photoshop and saved the splat as a paint brush and I then painted the top left corder full of blurts and splats to which I then added a flashlight effect as well as merging the word blurt into the mix which I quite liked for a sim-le and basic test, tit was just fun to experiment and let my mind run wild. The idea of the paint splatter was inspired by my logo designs, the significance of the bottom right half of the footage is negative space, which I like this effect because it keeps the dynamic of this footage simple and allows the colour to stand out to which that enhances the type. Its all about trial and error after all, the only hindrance I have with this piece and it is ashamed but through complete fallout of my own, I made the type paper backwards... so the T appears first and the B last!! it annoys me deeply but creating these tests is about showing my errors and mishaps after all but I can just tackle this as a learning curve for future feature animations.

Test 9, Tiles

Trial and error has shown to be interesting, for this test I wanted to experiment with using mosaic tiles to spell the word Blurt for the use of experimentation and trial and error basically I wanted to go as far as to use unique inanimate objects for this test. I think this test works in terms of the simplicity side of it but it worked to some degree although it meant I had to create one letter at a time because I unfortunately didn't have enough tiles to make the full word. So yes this test could have gone better, but it was interesting to see if I  can create characters using mosaic tiles. 

Channel 4 test 1

Now this test, is very simplistic, for this test, I drew the channel 4 logo via illustrator, to which I then transformed this image to photoshop to then add pattern that I created with my imagery to my the 4 and for this animation I decided to go for a Litenstein approach, just for the stigma of trial and error and curiosity really, curiosity is what made the white cat's hair curl as they say. I like the use of experimentation for this imagery but the frustration with this footage is that it wasn't filmed at a 16:9 ratio and there was a few points of the clip with play white which I felt ruined the experiment. For this experiment I looked at colour scheme, pattern and development. 

Channel 4 test 2

Well at least this one is filmed in the ratio of 16:9 footage! but yes I quite like this animation test, the imagery is much bitterly arranged and spaced and you can see more of the detail of this test than test 1 I like the imagery in the 4, I think it works well to have flowing imagery into the four, I like in this one I have looked different hues and saturations for some of this footage giving my test the motion of colour transmuting from one colour to another.

Channel 4 Test 3

Out of all of the channel 4 tests I have created and composed, this is my favourite, I like how I have used a variety of different colours on the 4. I will tell you a secret with this video, it was based on my photography of my channel 4 stencil art, which you may of come across from my previous entry which are stills... still photography... but the magic begins as the secret for this was putting these photographs and c4 spray paint art I did on Premiere Pro still as a photo file with the eye shadow pallet clip overlapping the photo layers where I then changed the blend modes to best suit each illustration to which I ended up growing to like the way of exiting imagery and felt this test was a turn educes and you will find this in some of my 10 second animation footage and for the 30 second animation without a splitting doubt.  I love the idea of transforming a still image to a motion image, it is simple but effective and I found this quite clever to be fair. 

A Pop Art Test

This test here is basically a spliced combination of my digital draw work that is very cartoon comic book like. I really like this as a test and hope to use segments of this test in some future animations. Anyway I really liked the use of the POW shape with the pattern there changing into alternate colours from one colour to another, I find this effect exciting and visually appealing. The reason why I thought to create this shape is because I remembered that a lot of my work in this test is Litenstein based and his work is print and comic art (POP art) In comic books you see this shape a lot for dramatic effects to maybe enhance onomatopoeias or emphasis a word which Is basically the key thing to do for the identity for Blurt.  I really liked that segment of this test, especially how I wrote the word blurt, although I do wish I had filmed it better and maybe have a more fluent structure to this piece. I really like the Pow shape segment in this piece, I like the fluidity of the pattern and how the colour transmutative changes from one colour to another simultaneously but in a gradual flow. I can't lie this is one of my favourite test blurts and hope to add some of this footage to future animations for this project.

Test me!

This test I like, it is unique, I think it works as a 10 second bumper, but in fairness this test doesn't have any form of narrative or story behind it because the whole idea of creating this test was to experiment with my imagery and with motion graphic aspect of my imagery. By creating silhouettes, to creating colour changing imagery, to adding patterns and other dynamics to this footage which you'll come across seeing this footage. To create this test I created my imagery via illustrator where I drew myself as a back profile image and I then moved my file to photoshop where I was able to add imagery I previously created into a pattern where I was then able to change the blend modes and colour scheme of the pattern in the silhouette me to then putting pattern in the character which gave the image life and more enduring excitement. Anyway, the only thing I have to pick on about this footage is the fact that this video doesn't give blurt an identity it was just an experiment on colour and motion image, you can say this piece was a test of trial and error. 

Test with My Typeface

You may remember how in my previous project I created my own typography based on this year's Lisbon trip back in January, which I put together and manufactured on photoshop to formulate the alphabet this was Called Lisboa Neons, through the thermal projector thing they had in one of the museums. Anyway- I have bought this segment back into this project, they do say it is good to recycle! This was to demonstrate my trial and error and my journey though experimentation, techniques and processes. I used this typeface to spell out blurt because it was unique as it was made from people, I wanted to see what it would look like actually spelling a word and seeing as we were giving Blurt an identity I thought I'd give it a shot.

Lisboa Neons Type
For those who don't know!