Tying up loose ends...

To add some sound to the video, Polly found some appropriate ambient music to accompany the audio tour. This helped to add a further dimension to the animation and pull it together into one piece.
Polly searched for musicians local to Finchingfield to keep to the geographical theme and found some accoustic guitar work by a local called Alan Green who can be found on this link;
http://www.reverbnation.com/alangreen

After I edited the audio tour in Soundbooth, myself and Polly edited the accompanying music. We did this whilst animating the some of the scenes, and put some of the rendered scenes into Premiere Pro with both sections of audio and edited them together.
Following this we met as group, the minutes of which can be seen in the previous post.

Models Created for the Animation

As I did not want to fill the blog with how I modelled certain assets I have used my personal blog for this. Please follow the link:

http://finchingfieldkat.blogspot.com/

Group Meeting - 5/12/11

All in Attendance (Kat, Polly and Alex)

The group met to join the individual animations together and complete the assignment. Luckily Alex had organised the animation in Premier Pro along with the sound so it was just a matter of rendering the last few scenes and slotting them in.

The rendering of the last few scenes went well but unfortunately Polly's beady eye noticed parts with missing materials. This resulted in a few re-renderings but it all came together in the end.

Setting a meeting for recording the audio..

In response to Des' previous email saying he had limited spare time and after speaking with my group, realising that neither of the other group members would be available, I sent him this response;

Dear Des

I understand you must be very busy at this time. I would be able to meet with you this afternoon if you are free, around 3 o clock? If this is an option please call or text me on (phone no. removed). We could meet at the University or in Finchingfield like I say, this would be a tremendous help to us. We are at a stage where we are unsure what extra information we do require but I'll talk to the rest of my group this morning and hopefully will decide on what we intend to do with respect to the rest of the project to let you know when we meet. That is right, we did want to record some sort of guided commentary, which we would be able to borrow a recorder for if available although you probably know a lot more about this due to your broadcasting background!

Thank you ever so much for your time

Kind regards

Polly

Des did call me back after receiving this email and we spoke about how we were to record the audio and I suggested that I borrow the equipment from the University and meet him either at the uni or in Finchingfield and record about 20-30seconds of 'tour' in each room. Des suggested that due to his background in audio that it would be more feasable if he recorded the audio on his own equipment and sent it to me via CD. I did ask whether he was sure of this and I could meet wherever he required to assist but he said he was happy to do so and would send the finished audio file to my address. I obviously thanked him very much and he asked me to send my address via email which I did. 



Des responded the next day with;

Hello Polly

I've sent you a cd with a Voice Over for possible inclusion in your project.   It's in an MP3 format.  

Hope all is well with you

Des

Minutes for Group Meeting

Minutes for Group Meeting 
24/11/11

Attending: Alex, Polly, Kat

This was quite a brief group meeting, we all showed the assets we had been modeling and spoke about now finishing up any loose ends, trying to think of anything left to model before we start animating.

Work to continue;
All to continue modeling to finish up ready for animating. Polly to model a basic village of Finchingfield, Kat to model shop items and Alex to model extra bits and pieces e.g. flag for church and gravestones.

Emails

Dear Des

That would be absolutely wonderful to meet with you and also Jackie. Would you possibly be able to pass on her email address to us incase we have any questions and make contact with her. With regard to meeting up, we are available to either come to you or to meet at Anglia Ruskin, whichever is best for you really. If at all possible it would be highly beneficial for us if we could meet early next week, if this is not convenient for you then we would be able to meet later in the week or weekend. Again thank you for your time and interest in our project.

This is the link to our group project (it is currently a working progress and does not show everything we are currently working on, but will give you an idea of our progress); virtualfinchingfield.blogspot.com

Kind regards

Polly

And the response; 

Dear Polly

Next week is rather full at the moment.   The only time I have free is Monday.  It would probably be best if I came to you unless there was something you wanted to see in the Guildhall. If you could give me an indication of the information you are looking for I might be able to come armed with it on a usb key.  If what you wanted was to record a commentary from inside the rooms as they are then I have a minidisc recorder and a good microphone and could do that for you and burn it onto a cd and post it to you or send you the minidisc.  I'd be quite happy to do this as I used to do it for a living; I was a broadcaster. 

The Finchingfield Guildhall Trust has appointed a contractor to do the restoration and they will be taking over the site in the next few days and after that there will be only very limited opportunities to see it.  Jackie Bargman and I are coming to Anglia Ruskin on Friday 9th to see the projects you are working on. 

Thank you for the link. Very interesting.  

Jackie's email should you need it is:  (email removed for privacy)

Hope this is helpful.

Many thanks

Des

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Minutes for Group Meeting

Minutes for Group Meeting 

18/11/11

Attending: Polly, Alex, Kat

Brought forward to meeting;

Alex told us how he was getting along with modeling the ‘tour guide’ character, he says he has completed this and intends to model the objects required in the bathroom and kitchen.

Kat has continued to model the hand that will be used for transitions between scenes (through doors etc) and has been starting to model other attributes such as a fireplace.

Polly has modeled the windows and doors, adding and positioning them to the guildhall model, she also has modeled some objects including picture frames, and tables. Polly also talked about her contact with Des via email.

Items Discussed;

We discussed Des’ email and tried to arrange a date when we would all be free to meet, due to employment this was quite problematic to find a day that we could all be there but we agreed that we would work around Des and see when was best for him since he was doing us a favor and if some of us couldn’t be there then so be it.

We also discussed the animation portion of the module, suggesting when we would like to start the animating and post production work, agreeing it would be best to spend another week modeling to make sure we have enough objects for the interior and also that would give us time to source the accompanying audio.

The group also discussed the further assets that would were required and needed to be modeled that hadn’t yet.

Work to Continue;

Alex to model the assets required for the kitchen and bathroom areas

Kat and Polly to continue with modeling other objects required and Polly to continue contact with Des regarding recording the audio.