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==Katre Haav==

===GPS trackfilm===

I got inspired from GPS tracking as I had a chance to test one GPS program made for Nokia telephones, where it is possible to save your tracks for sport. I made some tests for „drawing“ a track on a map with GPS, but that alone seemed too boring to use for assignment. So I decided to make things more interesting and animate the tracks for my final assignment.

The princip of this animation is to walk around in the field drawing different tracks with GPS. Afterwards the tracks will be composited and made run after each other so animation is created.

As I first was planning the tracks I had no idea, that they are so hard to realiise in reality. I started with complicated drawings, but soon I realized it was too much to make an understandable animtion. Thats why I chose to use easy recognisable symbols.

Workflow:

Drawing a Storyboard

Finding a good location.

Going out to the location and mark basic markers on the ground.

Running around „Drawing“ with GPS

Uploading all the files in internet map.

Going through every track one by one and saving them as pictures.

Import pictures to After Effects and composite them, every picture after another so that an animation sequence is created. I had about 70 different tracks/drawings.

Finally find a fitting music.

Difficulties:

First of all, the biggest challenge was to start imaginig drawing in a bigger scale. Most of my shapes were more than 150 m long. In such a distance it is quite hard to remember exactly where did you draw the line before in order to know what follows next.

Allinall it is hard to imagine and realise drawings in such a scale.

Sometimes I had problems with the GPS signal, occasionally it didn't save the tracks, so I had to do some tracks again or later repair them manually in webpage.

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 ==Katre Haav==
 ===GPS trackfilm===
+I got inspired from GPS tracking as I  had a chance to test one GPS program made for Nokia telephones, where it is possible to save your tracks for sport. I made some tests for „drawing“ a track on a map with GPS, but that alone seemed too boring to use for assignment. So I decided to make things more interesting and animate the tracks for my final assignment.
+The princip of this animation is to walk around in the field drawing different tracks with GPS.  Afterwards the tracks will be composited and made run after each other so animation is created.
+As I first was planning the tracks I had no idea, that they are so hard to realiise in reality. I started with complicated drawings, but soon I realized it was too much to make an understandable animtion. Thats why I chose to use easy recognisable symbols.
+Workflow:
+Drawing a Storyboard
+Finding a good location.
+Going out to the location and mark basic markers on the ground.
+Running around „Drawing“ with GPS
+Uploading all the files in internet map.
+Going through every track one by one and saving them as pictures.
+Import pictures to After Effects and composite them, every picture after another so that an animation sequence is created. I had about 70 different tracks/drawings.
+Finally find a fitting music.
+Difficulties:
+First of all, the biggest challenge was to start imaginig drawing in a bigger scale. Most of my shapes were more than 150 m long. In such a distance it is quite hard to remember exactly where did you draw the line before in order to know what follows next.
+Allinall it is hard to imagine and realise drawings in such a scale.
+Sometimes I had problems with the GPS signal, occasionally it didn't save the tracks, so I had to do some tracks again or later repair them manually in webpage.
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