{"id":2359,"date":"2013-02-07T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2359"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:27:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:27:26","slug":"an-introduction-to-blade-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/an-introduction-to-blade-runner\/","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction to Blade Runner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been MIA from <a href=\"http:\/\/etmooc.org\" title=\"#ETMOOC | A MOOC about educational technology &amp; media &#8211; Coming January 2013\">etmooc<\/a> for the past week or so, busy time at work, <a href=\"http:\/\/edutalk.info\/\" title=\"EDUtalk - Audio publishing by educators, using mobile devices\">edutalk<\/a> and life in general have conspired. I&#8217;ve been glancing at g+ and reading a fraction of the posts but that is about it.<\/p>\n<p>Daunted from doing much thinking I decided to fall back on animating gifs, <a href=\"http:\/\/etmooc.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/02\/introduction-to-topic-2-digital-storytelling\/\" title=\"Introduction to Topic #2: Digital Storytelling | #ETMOOC\">one of the tasks<\/a> in topic 2. I am happy messing about with gifs so this is a restful activity.<\/p>\n<p>Falling back on an old favourite I downloaded a clip from youtube of the opening sequence of Blade Runner.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YaR5wVL9x2I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I quickly grabbed a few very short sections of 9 frames each. Once I looked at them I though they would combine nicely.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/images\/2013-02\/2013-02-07_blade_runner_intro.gif\" alt=\"blade runner intro\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p>I did this in FireWorks CS3. Fireworks allows you to import gifs quickly and place them on a image. You need to place them in the right place first click so I put on place holder graphics with the same dimensions of my gifs to make it easy to line them up.<\/p>\n<p>This turned out quite well. Caught some of the mood of the opening scene perhaps. I would have been better making a better quality version of the fan gif to avoid the banding. The eye could have done without the extra  fireball on the last clip but I like the way it almost mirrors the &#8216;real&#8217; fireball on the left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been MIA from etmooc for the past week or so, busy time at work, edutalk and life in general have conspired. I&#8217;ve been glancing at g+ and reading a fraction of the posts but that is about it. Daunted from doing much thinking I decided to fall back on animating gifs, one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,6],"tags":[17,101,487],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-etmooc","7":"category-wwwd","8":"tag-animatedgif","9":"tag-bladerunner","10":"tag-etmooc","11":"kind-article","13":"h-entry","14":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-C3","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14974,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/14974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}