Design Development Cycle

The design development cycle is a process companies follow when they bring new products to the market. Throughout the upcoming project we will be following this cycle and in future as well to help us create the work to an exceptional standard. First you have to design your idea that you have come up with. After this is to actually build it and in our case go out a photograph our ideas and get what we need from this. Next, is to experiment with what we have shot on photoshop to see if we can get it right. Finally, is to evaluate our what we have created and then if we feel that it can be improved we go through this cycle. You can go through this cycle as many times as you need to get the work right to the standard you believe is good enough to use a final piece or certain work in general.

John Barnes Linnett

John Barnes Linnett was a British lithograph printer who was the first person to patent the idea of a flip book despite Pierre-Hubert Desvignes being credited as the person who created the flip book. He patented the idea in 1868 under the name the kineograph after Linnett died his wife sold the patent to an American. These flip books are some of the first he created and even though these were created in the early days they are a lot more complex and impressive than I thought they would be especially when it wasn't easy to create these as people didn't know whether they could be done like these have been.

Scott Blake

Scott Blake is an American artist who is known for his flip books, he is best known for his flip book of the 9/11 attacks. He has also created barcode flip books where he had barcodes that created famous peoples faces like Madonna and Elvis. I feel that after looking over a wide range of his flip books they are really good and I am really impressed with how he has done them especially with the barcode books they are really impressive. I feel that with the barcode flip books they would be really difficult to create so that is what makes them a lot better and the fact the images still come out really well.

Ding Huan

Ding Huan was a Chinese inventor who lived in the Han dynasty in the first century BC who is believed to be the person who created the early zoetropes. His invention is believed to be very similar to a zoetrope and not actually zoetrope and it is also believed the zoetrope was created a long time later. The modern day zoetrope was created in 1833 by British mathematician William George Horner. The images shown below are modern versions of zoetropes Ding Huan had created as his actually zoetropes are very rare to find anymore. To say he created these over 2000 years ago he had some really good ideas for zoetropes and the modern day ones show similar images to what he may have been able to create himself.

Peter Hudson

Peter Hudson is an American artist who specialises in zoetropes. I feel that his zoetropes are easily the most creative, it shows by looking over his zoetropes that he puts a lot of time and effort into creating them and it shows as I feel they are completely different to anything I have ever seen before. To say I have never seen anything on this scale ever attempted before I am really impressed with what Peter has been able to create with the zoetropes. I believe that when he gets these zoetropes working they will look really good.

John Ayrton Paris

John Ayrton Paris was a British physician who is one of two people who is disputed to have create the thaumatrope, the other being Peter Mark Roget, also a British physician. Saying that he was one of the first people to create thaumatropes, I feel that these thaumatropes are really good. I feel that they began quite basic as he worked with it in its early days but I feel they got progressively better. Because of this I feel that he has done really well with creating his thaumatropes and he has done a lot in making them really popular.

Jillian Palone

Jillian Palone is an American craftsmen, she works in a wide range of different arts and crafts. She is known for her thaumatropes. I feel that her thaumatropes are very clever, she regularly experiments with her thaumatropes to create new and better ones every time and I feel that she does that. Her work is really imaginative and creative as she hasn't just decided to stick with basic thaumatropes and hope that is good enough she has experimented with them and I feel done really well with the.

Tim Burton

Tim Burton is an American stop motion artist and also a film director, Burton has worked in non-stop motion films as well as stop motion. Burton's work has twice been nominated for Oscars for Corpse Bride, shown in the bottom picture, and for Frankenweenie in the top image. I have not seen many of his stop motion films but the ones I have seen are quite good and I know that these sorts of films can take a very long time to make and this is why I feel they are brilliant, as they take so long to make and still have a brilliant quality afterwards.

Nick Park

Nick Park is an English filmmaker who specialises in stop motion animation and claymation films. He is best known for films and programmes like Creature Comforts, Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run. His animated films have been rewarded worldwide with four Oscar wins from six nominations. I think looking over the different films he has made, I believe that they are really clever and enjoyable to watch for many different people in different age groups. In his films he has a certain style which is easily identifiable in his films and easy to tell its his work.

Mark Pain

Mark Pain is an English sports photography. He has over 25 years experience in sports photography. Mark specialises in a wide range of photography but mainly works in sports, he currently captures images from the Premier League for the Mail On Sunday. He also photographs many different sports events. After looking over a wide range of his portfolio I am really impressed. He has so much detail in the images and he has incorporated so much colour into his photos. I also feel that he has done really well capturing the photos at the perfect moment.

Zoetrope evaluation

For a mini-task we had to create a zoetrope. For this I had a decent idea of someone walking across a bridge and at first it seemed to be going really well, I added them on to a template on photoshop. The photos came out really well the problems didn't begin to arise until I had to actually create the zoetrope when putting it together kept going wrong and I wasn't able to create a base for it. After quite a few attempts I eventually had to give up with as it just wasn't going to work. The photos for the zoetrope I am really happy with really only the making of the zoetrope the problem. I feel that if I was able to redo it, it may come out a lot better than before.

Bob Martin

Bob Martin is a British photographer who specialises in sports photography. Martin has regularly gone and photographed major sporting events, photographing the last thirteen winter and summer olympics. His work has been published by many major publications including Time Magazine and Sports Illustrated. He is currently the only photography working for Sports Illustrated to be working outside the US.

I really like his images as they are action shots and it shows all the differences in the games and it also shows a lot about the matches. They are really good as it is showing players are not holding back and are going for it in their matches. The image of the horse racing is really good as well as you don't normally get to see shots like this and it is completely and is a really good shot as it shows the horses in action. I really like a lot of his images a lot are the action shots like below and there are also a lot of what he calls graphic shots which are also brilliant.

Thaumatrope evaluation

The thaumatrope was a mini-task from week one of the project. Simply we had to create a thaumatrope, this task went a lot better than I thought, I had done this task last year and it had gone horribly wrong but this time it was a lot better than before. Originally I had a plan to get one photo of Sean by himself and then one with headphones and then I would cut out the headphones. Part way through it went badly wrong so I decided to print out a mask and stick that one the other side and make it look like he was wearing the and after putting it all together it worked really well. I would have to say overall I am really pleased with how it came out.

Zoetrope

A zoetrope is a device that contains several slightly different images and when spun makes the illusion of the figure in the images moving. It is made by having several different pictures normally it is at least twelve. They are put together in a long strip and is put onto more paper, card or cylinder as shown below and the slits are put into it as shown below and after a base is put on and something to spin it on you can then use it.

Group Initial Ideas

For the group project, a stop motion film the plans were to do something similar to the mini task to create a fifteen second video. If this isn't done we will be sticking with the fantasy genre in the shoot.

Individual Proposal

For my individual project I have to use photographs to tell a story. My plan for this project is to use football in my story, the plan is to follow a shot which ends up in the back of the net. What I will do is have five photos, one will show someone kicking the ball, then I will have a couple of shots of the ball in flight maybe two or three images then I will have a final image of the ball in the back of the net. This will be very simple and easy to shoot and will not take very long to shoot and will be shot on my Canon 40D. My plans are to begin doing more sport photography in my work as it is something I would really enjoy doing in the future and I feel that this will be a good chance to do this. Since I have access to everything I need at home it should be really easy to get the shoot done in quick time. As I know where I am going to be shooting and there is little around that has any possibility of being a risk this is a bonus and will get the shoot done quicker. The main shoot will not require a timetable to work out when I should shoot as it shouldn't take long to shoot and this will be done soon not to have me rushing it at the end of the project.

Thaumatrope

A thaumatrope is a toy that has two pictures on it, one on either side and is attached by two pieces of string and when it is rotated rapidly is creates the illusion that the two images are merged together. Making one is very simple, first you need to get you two images and place one on one part of the card and the other must be placed on the other side upside down. If it isn't placed upside down it won't create the illusion of the two images merged together. Then you need to punch holes in the card where the string is and then attach the string and tie it on and after this the thaumatrope is completed and then you can use it and it should create the illusion of the two images becoming one.

Group Mini task evaluation

For the group mini task we had to create a short fifteen second stop motion film. For our video we decided that we would have someone grabbing different objects by using Jedi powers from Star Wars. We decided that Sean would be the person in the video, Frances would move the objects and I would take the photos. We decided to use a hot drink flask and a lanyard, moving the flask was the easy part as we just had to move it along the table into his hand. The harder part was moving the lanyard as this had to fly over and go onto his head. We decided to use a quick shutter and attempt to throw it over his head after a couple of failed attempts there was one that was really close, so we then just dropped it over him which worked and added them together to get it to work.

After this we did decided to edit some of the photos to try and re-edit it to make it look a lot better than it did before and after this the video was extended to over fifteen seconds and it did look a lot better than before.

Individual Initial Ideas

For my initial ideas the plan was to base it around sport but I am not entirely sure what I can actually do it about. I could do it around a comic book theme or just following the ball around if it was based around football, I could also base around a load of different sports.

Introduction

The following assignment is entitled Once Upon a Time and for the assignment we will be required to create two final pieces, one will be an individual piece which will be a story told by different photos for this piece we will need at least three final images for the piece. The other will be a group piece where we have to produce a stop motion film. The two pieces don't have to be similar and I feel that they will be very different. We will have six weeks to complete this assignment we will also be doing several mini tasks including creating Thaumatropes and Zoetropes.