[modfilms-general] SANCTUARY NEWSLETTER > JUNE 29 > 2005

[Laetitia Beaujard]

WHERE WE'RE AT

Yay we almost have a rough cut! Not having the VFX side of the project
locked in at this stage is proving a headache. .M. spent all of last
week creating placeholder effects for the edit without which there would
be too many gaps in the narrative for the story to make sense. There's
no need to panic but..  we start showing the cut to people this week!!!

 

AND OUR PRIORITIES ARE.. 

* Getting modelling and animation underway

* Finalising the copy for infographics

* Getting the story straight

* Finding the best bg plates for compositing, most options are DV

* Should Blake have shark eyes or not? Is she too hard to emphasise with
like that?

 

ALSO ON THE CARDS..

* A call for pitches for all kinds of design goodies

* Information graphics for Sanctuary (both State and Activist)

* Sanctuary The Film web site

* modfilms.net phase one site

And that's just the beginning folks... 

 

SITE DESIGN FORUM

The simplest part of the project is also ofetn the hardest - like how do
we get across the concept of a re-mixable film in the shortest amount of
time? And how far must we go to make this SIMPLE and FUN for people.
Folks should get the idea within 30 seconds of looking at the
modfilms.net home page. More thoughts into the site design process would
be welcomed around now in the forums, so please feel free to put in your
two cent's at - http://modfilms.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=140

 

VISIONBYTES - METADATA ENHANCED CONTENT

Michela met with Peter Fox from Visionbytes yesterday to have a look at
their XML tagging and browser capabilities. They've produced some
impressive systems like the Video Hansard system used by Australian
Federal Parliament and the all digital content management system used
for Southern Star Productions. Looking at their samples, two strong
lessons emerged. Work with the flow of how customers are already using
the data (e.g. their tools mimic what data entry people already use in
various industries) and keep track of the start and end of every single
word spoken. In the case of Sanctuary, this implies tagging each and
every event. Visionbytes are currently using Dragon speech recognition.
http://www.visionbytes.com <http://www.visionbytes.com/> 

 

DATA DEITY QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation
applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The
second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will
magnify the inefficiency." - Bill Gates

 

 

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