After adding the footage i had attained from my own work to the 'pool', Patrick and I worked together on making it into a coherent, enticing video of what you can achieve on this course.
Above you can see our showreel storyboard, admittedly it's a little 'bare-bones' in appearance but it conveys everything we need to know about the structure of our showreel. So using Apple's iMovie software, we began the process of choosing the content we included, as well as the timings. I found this multiple person approach to the video creation to be very enjoyable as it allowed for discussions and arguments to be made on every aspect, and i feel the final product benefited greatly from this.
The footage we had was obtained by Dean and Helen, a selection of their own work and that of students past an present, as well as opening and closing title cards from Wayne. There were initial concerns when we sat down to make it that we may struggle to reach our target of 2:30 (the agreed length of our showreel), but these proved unnecessary as we hit the desired time fairly easily in the end.
I should clarify the reason that hitting the time limit was a necessity for us. Patrick, being a wizard with sound and music software, had made a soundtrack for our showreel long before we started piecing everything together and it being such an excellent piece of music there was never any doubt that we would be basing the showreel around it.
So, that's what happened today. An enjoyable experience with the only problems being the lack of intermediate title cards for the different subject areas like "Art", "Animation", "Level Design", etc. Besides this i was very impressed with our final product and i was very proud to see all of my time-lapse work in the mix, though admittedly i felt some of the content was slightly unfitting or of too low a quality to be put in the showreel. Despite this, i believe we still have a great video on our hands, mostly thanks to Pat's fantastic music piece that just fits so well with the video, as well as Waynes high quality work with the title cards (though i wish there had been some made for the intermediate cards. I believe this was due to poor communication, however.)
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