Monday, January 24, 2011

Final Work -Videos of Emotional Expression






















Concept Poster

This concept poster is used for simplification of my 3 emotion videos, whice are Excited, Love and Sad. All 3 emotions use flowers as symbol for each of the emotion, since my target audience is for Girls Teenagers.




















Main Menu UI
This is a a screenshot of my Main Menu GUI. The background I use is much similar to my concept poster, to keep the design original and same. There are 5 buttons in main menu:
- Creator Names: Show my name as a creator for this GUI
- Concept Poster: Show a concept poster in JPEG File
- Excited: Take to the info menu of the excited video
- Love:
Take to the info menu of the love video
- Sad:
Take to the info menu of the sad video



Excited





















In our life, excited moments usually come unexpected; without any warning or such.
Just imagine of how excited our feelings if we are just sitting around, minding our own business, and suddenly, something comes to you, telling you some good news that might or/and will happen to you.
Not only that, the excited moment should be best to feel when we are waiting for something good happen.
That is generally how such things will happen and will be shown in the video.

The video starts with the spinning circles, to show the relax feel of someone who just minding his/her own business, like hearing a music.
Suddenly, the circles stopped spinning, indicate that something has come. Then, the holes on circles align together, to show that we are eager to see or hear something that might come.

When they are align, something pointy comes and is trying to go through the holes, to indicate the news or something has come to us. If that something very good and excited...
We sure know what our feelings and what kinds of emotions that we can show now.

Next scene, the circles becomes a sunflower in the field, with other sunflowers as well and the weather starts to change and rain pours down.
That indicates the excited moments for flowers to receive water after getting hot weather for all day and they are start moving (dancing).


Song: Suddenly I See - Performed By KT Tunstall


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Love





















Love emotions can be feel by anyone and everyone. Most common is to show love with the families.
Based on the target audience, girls/women tend to have love feelings/emotion when they turned to teenagers.
In order for them to show their love emotions, they usually make it secret and make it something that is quite to understand by the others.

In this video, the similar way is used, just to give some general ideas that love emotions sometimes cannot be interprated by the others,
only someone who has experienced it might understand.

The video starts with slidescreen falls down and string of guitars started to play a music; indicating of someone (girl) has started to enter teen life. Guitar strings have turned into bunch of lines and changed the color, to make it as a diary, where most girls write their love experience on it.

The unintelligable scribble and random sketches are just something to show that love emotions should be secret and cannot be shown by the others. The next page is turned and shows two strings come and tied together. This one should be obvious to show the emotion of both male and female.

Next page turn and shows 2 bars, moving up and down. That indicates that a male and a female who just busy doing something in their life, bound to meet each other and eventually fall in love.
Another page turn and shows a red apple. A red colour indicates love emotion. Then, the apple has been eaten and suddenly turns into a red rose, which is quite literally showing the love emotions.

Song: Golden Touch - Performed by RazorLight

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Sad




















Not everyone like to have a sad moment. The sad emotion brings no joy in their face, does not feeling very good, not energetic and so on.
Sad feelings/emotions can best be described as a dark experiences, where the feeling of the surrounding has turn to dark. Silent, awkward moment passes by and not everything comes in colour; everything looks dull. Also, sad moments come when something bad happen, as it opposed of 'Excited' emotion. That is generally how the sad emotion is truly mean

In this video, in order to show bad moments, a dull environment/colours with not so loud, but soft and slow, yet shivering music used to truly shows the sadness emotions. As for target audiences, girls are most likely not really energetic when sad things happened.

The video start with a figure of Newton's Cradle (swinging balls), moving so slow, to indicate the sad moments of somebody. The thing should has a sound, but when sad emotions come, everything
in surrounding becomes silent immediately.

When the left ball touches a center ball, it starts to break apart, and turned into a piece by a piece; generally means something that happened has broke somebody's heart or feeling. The ball pieces shattered and started to drop.
Next, one of the shattered pieces has sliced a string, which string indicates of someone while a broken piece indicates a bad moment/news/thing. The string broke off and move slowly, as it is not so energetic after having such a 'painful' moment.
A sliced string becomes a vital condition bar linethat can be seen in the monitor of hospital's equipment. Just want to randomly shows if the sad thing/news is actually about death, then we are surely feel very sad.

Then, the vital line touches a black, wilted flower and one of the petals drops off. It is just a reminder of what will happen after that. Does the person can stay alive with the sad news and everything will be come to an end.

Song: Kane and Lynch Video Games Theme

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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Concept Arts, Sketches, and Process

These are all collections of my sketches, concept art and some process of making the videos and posters (or any relevant things that help me to do the assignments)









Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Survey and Research About Target Audiences

Since my target audience is more specifically to Girl Teenagers (age between 13-18), I might have ready some questions and surveys that can be help for this assignment videos.

Name:
Age:
Student Status:

1 - Your favourite movie
2 - Your favourite music genre
3 - Your favourite hobbies

4- List out at least 6 emotions that you like
5- List out at least 6 emotions that you hate

6- Based on the like emotions, choose one of them and why
7- Based on the hate emotions, choose one of them and why

8-Write down your excited emotion experience (if any)
9-Write down your love emotion experience (if any)
10-Write down your sad emotion experience (if any)