Life Timer (Unfinished)

Life Timer WIP from Mark Sniadecki on Vimeo.

This is a work in progress. The data illustrated here are the hours I spent working and in classes beginning December 1st, 2010. In addition to the format seen here, I am intending to add something like cut-scenes for events like major holidays or semester starting points. I am also planning to go back and add some textual messages in the lower righthand corner (opposite the calendar bar) that will make comments upon particularly busy or slow passages in the data.

The motion graphics were created as frame animations in Photoshop, except for the rolling calendar, which I built inside of Premiere using TIFFs I had created in Photoshop. All of the moving pieces were then assembled in Premiere, where the data points and associated sound effects were inserted to follow the flow of the calendar.

Unfortunately, the idea for this piece came to me late in the game... so I will have to finish it and re-submit after the assignment deadline.

Credits: The graphics are completely my own. The opening theme music is by Eric Skiff, who offers up his 8-bit compositions freely for projects like this at ericskiff.com/music/ All other audio is my own creation.