Storyboards and Musak!

Monday and Tuesday night i roughed out some storyboards. Very rough but then as a group we padded out the first 2 scenes on Wednesday.

From doing this though it became evident to me that some of the strong points in the story are being lost in this basic storyboard that we have. Things like:-

1. when colour is introduced to suggest her becoming more comfortable with her self.
2. Studio apartment layout
3. Tech issues with environment being 3D but looking hand drawn and parts of it becoming 3D when she realises herself.

This made me aware that we will need to spend a few weeks doing research and development for certain technical things that we want to do, but i haven't put this in our production plan at this point, so i will have to revisit that.

Other things that became obvious to me was whether or not the pot plant creature part works. And even the fish...the fish doesn't do much and all its actions are reserved, but then you have this part with the pot plant that is very characterised...im wandering if perhaps we should pull the acting back a bit for this...but maybe it will make more sense in the animatic.

Speaking of animatics...Damien started one for us on Thursday in flash and it is looking really good so far. We are hoping to get this finished by Friday the 2nd of May in order to hand it over to Andrew our music composer so he can start laying a scratch soundtrack down.

Down to the Musak...

We met up with Andrew a 2nd year music composer who seems rather keen to assist us with the music for our film, which is going to be VERY important being A. we have no dialogue and B. The script is driven musically as a suggestion to whats happening.

It was really exciting and intersting to watch and listen to Andrew as he went through our storyboards with his ideas and suggestions as far as stepping away a bit from the noise and more to the melodic. He has some really great examples of his work which he thinks will work well with our script. And some of his ideas for suggestions for character and story have really helped us alot. I very much look forward to working with him on this for both the collaborative experience as people ideas and for his experience. Sitting with Andrew, also really solidified this project for me, its a real thing...not just an assessment peice for our final project...its just real...its weird.

Thursday - Met with poor bruised up Andi. She is really liking where we are at with the story, suggested if we have a few surreal moments in the story, perhaps we need to push it further like i.e. instead of toast popping from toaster have flowers or something...


So where we are at:-

Damien and Caryn are modelling Charlie.
Damien has also started the animatic.
I have started furniture design and will be doing colour scripts in order to get more of the story across.