Experimental Film : POINT GUARD

The film is about a hostage crisis in Kazakhstan. The short action film was full of violence and thrill to it. I thought that the structure of the film was very good in some ways, but the film has no particular conclusion to the short film. The film showed some grest ways of applying good camera use to the way the terrorists acted upon the film. Also the style of music and sound effects used to make the film so thrilling worked very well. The sound which was used to build up the action thriller later stages really makes the viewer capture that serious look when they see what happens. Then the use of the slow moving sound effects really made the film show a sad ending. Overall though i thought this film showed a good way of using the camera and directing it to make it look as if the terrorists were in full control.

Experimental Film international Film Festival RIZE

The international film festival film Rize (2005) is a documentary about dance and how people experiment themselves by expressing a a modern day art which is 'Krump'. The movie talks about how crews and gangs finding themselves wanting to find ways of making the world change and by using the danceform of Krump, it allows them to release energy and let themselves go. The art form of krump or krumping in the film teaches the viewer what is happening in the american community, the ghetto and those places which don't have very much but express and experiment hoping one day they can make it out of the streets.

Changes to our Rubix Cube

We had to think of another way to make our rubix cube more effective after the magnets weren't holding together at a good full force attraction. The Steel we used didn't match how we planned it to be. After a bit of research on magnets and how they cant connect to steel then through to the other magnet. We then came up with a solution that if wood was made in the certain areas of the rubix cube were the magnets are placed, than the magnets should fully hold each other in a strong position. We made different sizes to rubix cube because the rubix cube would be better and more effective for the person the interact with the game.

Rubix cube problem encounter

Today we learnt that accuracy and effectiveness of using the tools were crucial. Because of my welding, the rubix cube didnt quite come off on how i wanted it too. The end result of the welding was a bit of hassle because of the amount of time we had, the welding had to right on song, but what i thought was going to be perfectly sealed. When we stuck the rubix cube together, they didnt quite match eachother. This showed with the rubix cube being a bit off with measurements which meant the welding had to fixed properly and it took alot of time off our planned date.

Rubix Cube made of Steel

So we researched the type of steel we wanted to use for the rubix cube. our intentions were to make it out the lightest steel as possible. Because aluminum was the most soft and lightweight steel possible. We gathered the information and looked at the different types of stores for the most efficient aluminum steel there was. The prices of the steel were abit much to our budget and we so we changed our idea of aluminum and brought steel that was cheaper. But we knew the consequences of the steel we brought was abit heavier the the intended material. But we learnt from today that the prices of the material may be light but also it can be expensive.

Making Product

So far we have come close in finishing making the product. A few issues with the magnets used in the product. Firstly, because the magnets are not as strong as we thought it would be. Secondly, the size of the magnets we got may have been a bit too big for rubix cube, though we did manage to figure out a way to squeeze in the magnets into preferably a more suited area by cutting out circles in the steel.
Our goal is now to make the cube as strong as possible, because we want our cameras to fit in perfectly so we don't hesitate on how the cameras will pull though hoping it will stay on.

Overall I thought that our presentation went well. My group members explained our idea thoroughly enough and showed great interpretation into how our concept came about from a previous idea.

We now need to work off our concept and finish off the final touches. The problem is that the magnets connected through the steel blocks I welded on are too loose. Somehow our magnets are not attracting each other, which has made us come to the point of buying new magnets in order for blocks to connect, which should allow our steel made rubix cube to strongly hold onto each other without hesitating on strenght and endurance of the magnets.

With the 100 x 100 mm size camera, expect to see our rubix cube at a pretty big rubix cube. This will allow the person interacting with our rubix cube to spin and from there the camera will do the rest, capturing images from the surroundings and from the hidden areas of auckland city. Our intentions are that the images captured from the camera will have some hands blocking the camera at times. This because when we think about whos playing around with the rubix cube, that only we see the surroundings behind the rubix cube, but also in a way we can compare our thoughts to the person and what they could be doing there (for example: is this where they regularly shop). We get a chance to not see the hidden places of auckland city, but we can also think about how people interact with the city.

Making the Model at 3d Lab

We came into the 3d lab with a strong plan.

-make the rubix cube out of steel

-weld the steel together to make cube blocks

-make a camera holder

-stick the magnets

We started by putting the steel sheets together and making sure that we knew how many holes were needed in each cube for the magnet to hold. We needed 18, 10 x 10 sheets of steel drilled with holes. The purpose for these holes are for the magnets to contract eachother when the blocks are stuck together. Our intentions is for the magnet to hold onto the steel and when connected, the magnets will hold everything together for the twist effect.

Welding was also a big challenge for me. With no previous experience and with limited amount of help. Time wasn't going to let us have practise time. I started off strugling on some practise sheets. But when the pressure was on, i gradually connected with the welding gun and i got to learn something out of this 3d lab which was good for future projects.