My contribution

This time around I:

• Wrote the audio for the website
• Helped design the workbook layout with Scott
• Proof read the workbook
• Did most of our final photoshopping of our final images, and other images for the workbook
• Designed the website with Ben
• Organized our indoor shoots
• Planned colour and composition of final shots with Kev and Scott

Final Flesh Workbook

Woot.

2800+ words

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175 photographs, images, graphs, vector art files and graphicky things

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InDesign is now my friend

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a very long week of writing, structuring, re-writing, re-structuring, page layouts, and general fiddly page editing about 12 hours a day

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awesomely helpful print shop lady

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the workbook is finally finished.

development section excerpt that sums up book/the flesh project content:

"Eppie, and the Flesh story have grown over four months of intensive research of, and by design. As our understanding of taste, humanity, cultural values, and basic scientific data has deepened, so too has the complexity of our design. These images on the following pages illustrate the development of the flesh project from provocative yet basic ideas that sparked imagination to fully resolved designed concepts that illustrate just how beautiful our future could be. This is flesh."

process:

alot of writing and mindmapping to structure idea>

more research to back up initial biology, chemistry, sociology, psychology, language and culture, cannibalism etc, this time on genetics to develop how we will manifest the Eppie idea in people>

developing into linear workbook friendly format > INDESIGN used for document layout and editing, many many battles with indesign but we appear to have resolved our differences and managed to finish in time. >

more restructuring >

more re-writing >

many many many fiddly photoshop image and illustrator graphic issues tweaked. >

proof-reading >

individual numbering pages which was so much fun because indesigns auto page numberer failed on me. >

final editing process (Meredith and Scott read through workbook around 30 times on Sunday night being as picky as humanly possible until both lose their minds.)

Page examples below

hard copy handed in and link to download pdf on www.flesh2090.com website

Groups contribution

Scott - Research, writing, editing, structuring argument, page layout and design, photography, some basic photoshop, capture and compositing of internal anatomy images, vector graphic tweaking, exporting fun, and 5 awesomely fun runs to the printshop and back to school on print day (4 because of multiple file exporting issues, 5th running due to excitement of project finally being potentially complete :) )

Meredith - Proof reading! We did this MANY times. help with page layout and design, and tweaking of vector graphics. Photoshopping of final images and help with tweaking other images to match tone of book, research - conducted two of the interviews.

Kevin - Vector graphics in illustrator for contexts/phenotype section, and cover page patterns

Cam and Ron - Outdoor context photography and editing, help with final image photoshopping

Byron M - Rendering of Eppie for life cycle section and help with research and writing of scientific grounding for life cycle.

Presentation

DLF Presentation:

Philosophy

• • Cannibalism
• • Sustainability
• • Communication
• o Language
• o Culture
• o Sociology/Psychology
• Medi and Scott

Showcase

• • 7 showcase shots
• o Piece of graphic
• o Final image
• ♣ X7
• Kev

Life Cycle

• • Growth - blue growth renders
• • Maturity
• Kevs 3d print
• Red vid
• slugs on the ground shot
• blue vid
• • Death

Research

• • Scientific Grounding

Conclusion

Website Buttons

Feedback anyone?

Website Audio

DLF final Website Audio from Meredith Crowe on Vimeo.

Photos for Ron

Photo

Photoshop!

The Website.

Final Website.
We each have our little section that we are in charge of, but they all need to fit, and work with bens overall template.

The front page of the site looks like this: + digitally done slugs.

and is 360 degrees rotatable.  The menu system is still being talked about, but will wrap around the body somehow.  We have 5 sections:

• Philosophy (scott)
• Genetics (Kev)
• Life Cycle (Byron M)
• Images (Me)
• PDF download

When you click on one of these links, the model spins around, zooms in on a part of the body and blows out to white.

What we need for each section are a series of images 1024x768 and the first and last slide need a white background.  So we need pretty much a 'presentation' for each section

Example of what would fit with the website

Not this much text either!!

Go for any images from the previous projects for these sections, or a close up of the slugs and their colour, but dont use anything that is going to lessen the impact of the finals from this time around.

Feedback on font is good! please.  But we do need to be consistant. we can pick them today.

I dont think any of the previous sites have done very well at incorporating text. 

This is being human:

Pretty boring.

And this is Post life:

Who have done it the best out of everyone i think.

Will talk more to everyone after the shoot today.

Thursdays Shoot

We need 120 Orange, Yellow and Pink

Rebecca and Jodi 2:30 - 3:30
Mitch 2-3:30

Pauls Lab

Ross is away this week.  He will meet with us on Monday.

Wednesdays Shoot

For Weds shoot we need:

60 small yellow and green slugs that taste good.
40 big translucent green slugs

These are for hands and arms, and a 'crest' for earl.


Have emailed ross about meeting him either thursday avo or friday.

Monday.

so for monday we are looking at 180 leeches.

Aroused - Billie + Nick
Red - Purple - Yellow  80 total
Front of the neck
Girl - more pink
Guy - more orange

Relaxed - Jade
Green - yellow - cyan 50 total
lower back

Distressed - Billie
Light purple - red - light blue 50 total + 5 Dark purple/black EVIL leeches
Shoulder/ back

I know everyone can come in except Jade, will catch up with her today.  We were going to talk to Paul Hilliar about using his lab. will keep everyone posted.

Shoot Planning

Final Video

FLESH from Meredith Crowe on Vimeo.


How I actually made this:

• Storyboard

• Took lots of images and videos of our models
• Exported videos from MPEGstreamclip as image sequences
• Pulled all photos (46,000 in the end) into iPhoto and arranged them into sets
• Cut out 80% of the footage
• Export galleries from iPhoto (about 50)
• Import individual galleries into MPEGstreamclip and export as clips
• Import clips into photoshop and fix lighting and colour to make everything consistent
• Import all clips into Premiere

• Find good music
• Cut and edit music to fit film
• Fix frequency levels and track speed
• Import to premiere

• Cut and order the whole thing together
• Rework audio
• Re-cut and reorder the whole thing together

• Try and render - fail
• Fight with premiere excessivly
• Ben does loading dance
• Win fight with premiere
• RENDER!
• Compress!
• Render as flv for website

Audio for Vid.

I'm having a bit of a freak out about audio for the stop motion, started to wish I had just committed to writing some a couple of weeks ago because its taken me just as long, and i dont have anything I'm happy with.

If anyone has any suggestions - songs or artists, let me know aseep.

Todays Shoot.

The photos from today are really good! And everyone's keen to help us out next time. We just have to keep in mind that theyr first years, and they go home for the holidays so ill grab their schedule off them and let everyone know.

Models and Film.

OK! so I've got at least four people coming in tomorrow, 2 guys, 2 girls.  3 of them are non european.  Starting shooting at 10.

They can shoot over the weekend too if we need them, but thats cutting it a bit fine.

I'm thinking about the video, looking at a combination of very slow video footage, and stop motion.  Have almost sorted the music for it too.

Interviews and Monday

Scott and I have been going through the interviews and pulling quotes.  We are going to have a write up of them all, and look at doing voice over stuff in the video, but we don't know yet if this will work.

We are starting to get video footage on monday avo. have booked the room and camera. going to focus on close ups of the models, and how they interact and pull away from the skin.

Interview with Geoff Chambers

Interviewed Dr Geoff Chambers yesterday who is a microbiologist and evolutionist from the faculty of biological sciences VUW.  He was really really good to talk to!  Have the interview on tape, its about 45 mins, of which 20 are probably applicable to our project... sorry.  If you want the file, ill give it to you in class.  I'm hesitant to release it online.  Ive sent out more emails this morning, want to do more interviews by the end of the week if possible.

What is Fruit

So essentially, a fruit is a plants ovary. The ovary wall or pericarp is what forms the skin of the fruit.

is a part of a flowing plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower, mainly one or more ovaries

result from the maturing of a flower.

Inside the ovary/ovaries are one or more ovules where the megagametophyte contains the mega gamete or egg cell.  After double fertalisation, these ovules will become seeds.

Have a couple of good readings on this. Ill bring one in tomorrow