Presentation Boards

Final Animation

Science Museum Black Hole from Jack Cook on Vimeo.

Soundtrack tests

Voice Over

This is the recording of mine and James wrights voice over attempts of the scientist in my animation. I took many takes in order to get what i wanted, changing microphone settings and volume in order to neutralize static, unfortunately the microphone used is not of the greatest quality but it does the job.

Warning this recording is long and boring, it also may not be suitable for younger listeners due to technical difficulties.

Vacuum Sound Tests

Vacuum sound clips

Final Animation (No Sound)

Science Museum - Black Hole were i am up to

Science Museum - Black Hole were i am up to

The Scene

Coloured vacuum

Science Museum Logo

Vectored vacuum

The Digitized Man Mug Shots

Scenery / Black Hole Machine

Final Character design

Character Design

Initial Storyboards

Idea 1. Plug hole black hole

Ending 1: man sucked into black hole
Ending 2: everything other than man sucked in. man left in blackness on his own

Idea 2. Doodle man - draws black hole - man tries to escape - book closes

Idea 3. Black hole created by giant pin
Idea 4. Black hole created by giant hoover
Idea 5. Children explain how they think a black hole is created.

Existing Imagery

The following images are peoples interpretations of how a black hole looks. The 1st image being a cartoon illustration which would be much more appealing to my target audience than the other examples which fall into the categorie of "space art".

Science Museum

The Black Hole accourding to the Science Museum:
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/onlinestuff/snot/what_is_a_black_hole_and_what_would_happen_if_you_fell_into_one.aspx

About the Science Museum, from milking cows to black holes

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/press_and_media/press_releases/2007/09/490.aspx

Black holes

Black hole
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In general relativity, a black hole is a region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, including light, can escape its pull. The black hole has a one-way surface, called an event horizon, into which objects can fall, but out of which nothing can come. It is called "black" because it absorbs all the light that hits it, reflecting nothing, just like a perfect blackbody in thermodynamics. Quantum analysis of black holes shows them to possess a temperature and radiate like black bodies.

Despite its invisible interior, a black hole can reveal its presence through interaction with other matter. A black hole can be inferred by tracking the movement of a group of stars that orbit a region in space which looks empty. Alternatively, one can see gas falling into a relatively small black hole, from a companion star. This gas spirals inward, heating up to very high temperature and emitting large amounts of radiation that can be detected from earthbound and earth-orbiting telescopes. Such observations have resulted in the general scientific consensus that, barring a breakdown in our understanding of nature, black holes do exist in our universe.

http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/

The Brief