Week 11 - (16/04/10) - Creating the video sequence

After editing a number of the images we then had to sort the images into order, and make sure that the transitions and flow of the sequence works well. After selecting appropriate images we ended up with 313 photographs create our montage with to which we re-numbered to make it easier to import later.

Problem

This week we began creating the montage sequence through using Flash. Although we came across a big problem as all the images would not load onto Flash. We tried a number of ways and were still unsuccesful. As we had a limited time until our presentation we decided to combine the photographs in sequence onto a powerpoint presentation.

We then presented this power point to everyone and answered a few questions about our concepts and ideas in general. A number of questions were asked such as where did the idea come from? To which we answered how we wanted to do a love story with a twist at the end, and that the twist came to me after i was listening to the song 'Lemon' by Katy Rose and the lyrics say "the flowers in the graveyard are all gone" and the song itself fits well with our theme.

The presentation was helpful as it helped us to see what we could improve upon, such as slowing some of the motions down to be more effective, and in general everyone gave us positive criticisim to which we took into consideration.

After our presentation and after we seeked help, we found that the problem was that the images were too large to upload to flash and the program could't handle the combined size. So we then scaled down the images to 600 x 400 (a similar size to the Flash stage) ready to import all the photos onto Flash.