http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBaZYH8U8fw

 Here's a video tutorial for making a cool text effect. The cool thing isn't the text, but the flowing shapes he makes. It looks really professional , and we could easily do it in After Effects.

skip to :40 to see the actual video of the finished result

So I did this video in literally 2 minutes with those metaball things.

Like this.. one. kinda

but not as cool and less polished and ya.

http://vimeo.com/13395858

Simple but cool. Ellie posted it somewhere so I can't take credit for it. But we can make it pretty organic to make it go with that heartbeat thing

Maybe we can take like parts of some of the structure things the arch kids are making and start to build them but leave out the huge connecting pieces that make up the costume or whatever

Then when they walk in with them everyones like oh hey whoa that thing.

Not all of them because that'd take forever but... ya know

ya know

Thoughts and References

Hey, sorry I didn't brainstorm earlier, I've been rather swamped today.


I remember the gorilla exercise from Josh's class, and that sounds like a very appropriate idea for our project!

When I was thinking of anticipation, I guess I was thinking of a more literal interpretation of the word. Like I had an idea of stylistically representing the building up of excitement of an event, without the reveal. Like an animation of a predatory animal tensing before it pounces, or a runner before the race begins, or a woman very late in her pregnancy (it'd be a less intense rep of anticipation). And for sound, maybe a rising heart-beat, which signifies an elevation of mood or excitement, or maybe the sound of an orchestra preparing for a piece, or a musical build up of some kind.

I'll try to get some referential images or videos before class tomorrow for some of my ideas, and post it up here. I'm still rather unsure of what he expects from us  :S

Edit:

I also thought it might be cool to have a running narrative that has a character working towards a goal that the viewer doesn't know of, but is interesting enough to make them eager for the final reveal. Kind of like a man running toward the light at the end of the tunnel sort of thing. There would be many pieces that do not make any sense until they are brought together.

Edit Edit:

Here's wikipedia's definition of :
"Anticipation, or being enthusiastic, is an emotion involving pleasure (and sometimes anxiety) in considering some expected or longed-for good event"
We might also want to consider the duality of the word as it's defined by wikipedia.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqBAzeOOTI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmyE534nN7A

So I'm thinking kinda like in life drawing when we did those monkey things and we drew all that crap and didn't know what it was until we flipped it..

Something like that except I guess without the big reveal because that be with the clothes or whatever they are.

That's kinda a summary of what those videos are.. the 1st one is some guy making cool stuff that only looks cool at the end and the second one is some professor guy talking about anticipation.

But yea.. so far I only have concepts but I dunno what the content will be haha