The dreaded error message

Technology has not been playing game of late. A few weeks ago my external harddrive broke. Kaputt! No way of retrieving the data unless I had a spare £400 kicking around to give to a company who could not guarantee they could retrieve anything. Needless to say, I don't have a spare £400!

The name of my external hard drive was MFA2 Brain. The name says it all. It was full of all the work I have done in the past year. Photos, audio, video files, documents, you get the gist.

I have spent the past 2 weeks re-filming and re-editing all the videos, audio and animations. In preparation for my crit on Tuesday, I was finishing synching the photos with the sound in the last of the animations when I was repeatedly bombarded with the following message:

After many attempts, and frequent error messages, I managed to finish the editing and quickly exported the file ready to show at the crit. What a relief!

Welcome to my studio (currently a film set!)

Over the past week I have been experimenting with filming in front of a green screen and a black background. This has been in order to be able to project my image against a surface so that it appears as if my image is in the space itself.

It has taken a lot of testing with different lighting conditions, camera settings, materials, and the continual adjusting of the distance between the figure and the background. Thank goodness that the room is big!

At the weekend I managed to shoot some good footage in decent lighting conditions, so now I am ready to commence with editing the animation.