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Description This was my Final Major Project for my Interactive Media college course which ended 24th June.

It was joint winner of Yale College Wrexham's Media Awards '09 for "Best ND Film" with another film called "Iris" voted for by students.

"Only In Dreams" was an idea I came up with to pitch to my classmates and it was voted as one of the projects that would be produced. I worked on it in a team of 5 people. I wrote the script and animated all of the animated sequences as well as editing the finished product.

Steve Owen was my director and co-editor, Lara Edwards was my producer, Gareth "West" Crosbie was my camera operator/DOP, Alex "Dex" Huxley worked on sound and my sister, Emily Roberts did production stills. Karen Bird, my tutor and Executive Producer helped with finalising the script among many other details, to which I owe her and the creators of this film everything.

All of my animation was created in Adobe Flash CS4 with a Wacom Tablet. Each shot lasts about 3 seconds on average and took 3-4 hours to animate, lineart and colour each one, including in-betweens.

I'd also like to thank my very talented actors...
Joshua Bartley as "Arthur"
Elizabeth Nield as "Lilly"
and Katherine Evers-Swindell as "Miss Williams" and the voice of "Anaya".

Music and sound effects are from copyright free resources or recorded on original footage.

Thanks for watching, enjoy!
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Comments: 28

Regivilli [2013-01-18 01:20:37 +0000 UTC]

Awww A boyfriend for her!! so sweet! Congrats it was great but, there some parts were the sound was weird! but i really love it!!!

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AmberDust In reply to Regivilli [2013-01-19 16:04:15 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Yeah a lot of the sound needed re-recording in a sound booth so there's lots of problems still that couldn't be changed! It was a learning process Thank you! ^^

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Regivilli In reply to AmberDust [2013-01-29 22:31:17 +0000 UTC]

n.n your welcome! hope to see more videos

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ForeignSin [2010-06-05 01:05:42 +0000 UTC]

My word! Gem that was excellent! I can't believe I didn't check you gallery sooner.
I will confess that her animation was a little edgy (jerkish in motion???) but I'm totally impressed! Congrats on the award! You all deserve it! A really sweet short film ^_^

I can't wait to see what the future brings out of you hun. <3

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AmberDust In reply to ForeignSin [2010-06-16 09:50:44 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! Yeah, using Flash for the first or second time for actual animation on this one so there are a lot of problems. I was running out of time also, so there were lots of shortcuts on the animation, but most of all, exporting it resulted in pixelation and some of the jerky motion that shows up... but it's all a learning process! :3

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Ryanmaster [2010-06-02 08:50:42 +0000 UTC]

This is great!

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AmberDust In reply to Ryanmaster [2010-06-02 10:28:59 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Writer4Eva [2009-12-21 05:28:49 +0000 UTC]

i think you should make more films like this, i mean of course i love your other work, but this is my favorite

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AmberDust In reply to Writer4Eva [2009-12-21 12:38:30 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! Well as a student animator, I will be doing several more short films as a part of the course, so keep a look out.

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Writer4Eva In reply to AmberDust [2009-12-21 14:12:28 +0000 UTC]

awesome, i'll do that!

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Wolves-Rain [2009-10-31 22:06:01 +0000 UTC]

this is awesome, great job!

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AmberDust In reply to Wolves-Rain [2009-11-03 13:52:00 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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LiNeOnLiNe [2009-08-11 16:25:40 +0000 UTC]

that's nice!

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AmberDust In reply to LiNeOnLiNe [2009-08-14 22:22:16 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Orfim [2009-07-22 21:56:56 +0000 UTC]

I really enjoyed it! it was so cute, really interesting idea

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AmberDust In reply to Orfim [2009-07-23 14:10:15 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very much!

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Orfim In reply to AmberDust [2009-07-23 21:40:35 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome

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avewa-je-me [2009-07-22 19:38:49 +0000 UTC]

oops...I saw some minor continuity errors...lol


keep an eye on the guy's facial hair through the first half of the clip.


anyways...good video.

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AmberDust In reply to avewa-je-me [2009-07-23 14:10:05 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, the actor was doing a King Lear play at the time and was required to grow his hair. Unfortunately this affected continuity. XD It would have been re-shot as well if we had more time, but we were still filming and editing a week prior to the deadline, we just had to stick with it lol. XD
Thanks for your comment!

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tjadin [2009-07-22 17:44:30 +0000 UTC]

Aw, if only it was a full-length movie! I think it would really make a good one. Absolutely amazing animation. The changes in perspective, everything. The animation, when looked at from the "real world" angle, didn't stick out like a sore thumb, either. It blended very well, as though it were supposed to be there. GREAT, great, great job on this.

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AmberDust In reply to tjadin [2009-07-22 17:59:40 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much! I would have loved to make a longer version, but it probably would've killed myself and the rest of the crew! It took too long to make as it was really.

Maybe one day though. Thanks again! ^^

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Deep-Emerald [2009-07-22 13:55:27 +0000 UTC]

Very cute concept
I really enjoyed it

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AmberDust In reply to Deep-Emerald [2009-07-22 16:38:04 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very much!

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Deep-Emerald In reply to AmberDust [2009-07-23 07:58:48 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome ^_^

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Treyos [2009-07-22 13:48:55 +0000 UTC]

An enjoyable film with some quality acting and animation. It's a good little story. Kudos on completing both it and your college course!

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AmberDust In reply to Treyos [2009-07-22 16:38:49 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very much!

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charfade [2009-07-22 12:52:41 +0000 UTC]

Wow really well done! The whole story kept me going till the very end. great job on the camera angles. My favorite were the ones in the beginning as he was running to class. I also love it when animation met real world cinematography, and the editing was right on. You have a great eye for this style! Keep up the great work!

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AmberDust In reply to charfade [2009-07-22 13:09:49 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very much! I really appreciate it!

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