We had a class presentation today regarding our chosen stories and storyboards etc.! got some feedback from alan. but before that, we had consultations with alan regarding our learning contracts earlier in the week. Since my story is kinda ironic, he wanted me to up the "irony" factor of the story, and to do that, i should place more emphasis on decorations. so he suggested that i could start off the animation with the girl talking on the phone and telling her friends that her halloween decorations would be the best this year. then after her accidental death, i could end off with her friend's remark on how good her decoration is. :b i like that idea so i'll most probably incorporate it into the story if i can't think of another way to bring out the irony of the story.
For today's presentation, one of the feedback i got was that i can cut down on a couple of frames, especially at the start. this can help me cut down on a lot of animating and save me alot of time. it can also get a bit draggy if the beginning is too long. also, i will need to find more references to get a better idea on how my character would look when she falls into the rope. or maybe instead of a rope she can get tangled and hung in "christmas lights"? hmmmm.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
hand up by wednesday! :[
heard in today's class that we gotta hand up our:
-individual storyboards
-learning contract
-character designs
-references
-research plan
all by wednesday!! :X booooo. ahh well...i will be really busy the next couple of days...and my weekend is already taken up by other things! dang. and my group is going to build a set for our other module which will be really time consuming...but we will work it out! i better get started on my learning contract!
i have some ideas for my animation piece. i will probably use messy lines that changes on every different frame...is there a term for that kind of animation? that could be really tedious as i'll have to draw every frame even though a shot might stay for an amount of time. but i think it'll suit the whole halloween theme thing and since my target audience are for 18-21 year olds, i suppose it would work because they would be more open to such a style? hmmm. and i was thinking of using dull colours for the background to bring out the "halloween" dark feel. but i'll some more research and see what other styles i can use. :] i might also limit myself to use only a few colours. yea.
-individual storyboards
-learning contract
-character designs
-references
-research plan
all by wednesday!! :X booooo. ahh well...i will be really busy the next couple of days...and my weekend is already taken up by other things! dang. and my group is going to build a set for our other module which will be really time consuming...but we will work it out! i better get started on my learning contract!
i have some ideas for my animation piece. i will probably use messy lines that changes on every different frame...is there a term for that kind of animation? that could be really tedious as i'll have to draw every frame even though a shot might stay for an amount of time. but i think it'll suit the whole halloween theme thing and since my target audience are for 18-21 year olds, i suppose it would work because they would be more open to such a style? hmmm. and i was thinking of using dull colours for the background to bring out the "halloween" dark feel. but i'll some more research and see what other styles i can use. :] i might also limit myself to use only a few colours. yea.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
questions
we were told to ANSWER THE FOLLOWING questions on our blog regarding our project:
1. Who are you telling the story for (primary audience)?
—Ages 18-21
2. What reaction do you want?
—Shocked
—Disturbed
- Laughter
3. Is the narrative omniscient (all seeing) or restrictive (viewed from a single perspective)?
(If the narrative is restrictive, whose viewpoint are you using?)
—Omniscent
4. List the important events of the story.
—Establish that it is Halloween (calendar shot)
—Girl puts up decorations around her house
—Wanted to hang a puppet on a tree outside her house
—Lost her footing
—Ended up being the one hung instead
—While gasping for help, passersby thought it was just some prank and laughed it off
—She died.
5. Which aspects of the setting of the story are important (time of day… location… period of history…) and how do you intend to establish these important elements?
—During Halloween
—Night-time
—Location:
+ Start of film - inside the house
+ Climax and end of film - outdoors
6. What traits of the characters in your story are important and how do you intend to establish these traits?
—Girl
+ clumsy (when decorating indoors, she accidentally trips over things and drop or break items)
7. In what order are the important events (step 4 above) covered? Is it a strictly linear sequence of events in time, or does the story contain any flashbacks or other interruptions to the sequence of events?
—Linear
8. How does the story flow, does the pace change? Does it contain a surprise? Consider your answers to 1 and 2 above when making your response.
—Normal pacing
—Surprise:
+ when she accidentally lost her footing and got herself hung
9. How will you use sound to help all your responses to 5-8 above?
—Cheerful music at the start with occasional notes in the minor key? hmmm
—As the story progresses, the music becomes more and more sinister
—No music as she was gasping for help
10. Does your story need dialog?
(write out the dialog)
—Little dialogue
—More of gasping
—Dialogue:
+ "nooooo...please heeeelp me..."
+ *chokes* “Hee…..lp meeee……hel…hel….help….lp.” *dies*
yea so that's it!
1. Who are you telling the story for (primary audience)?
—Ages 18-21
2. What reaction do you want?
—Shocked
—Disturbed
- Laughter
3. Is the narrative omniscient (all seeing) or restrictive (viewed from a single perspective)?
(If the narrative is restrictive, whose viewpoint are you using?)
—Omniscent
4. List the important events of the story.
—Establish that it is Halloween (calendar shot)
—Girl puts up decorations around her house
—Wanted to hang a puppet on a tree outside her house
—Lost her footing
—Ended up being the one hung instead
—While gasping for help, passersby thought it was just some prank and laughed it off
—She died.
5. Which aspects of the setting of the story are important (time of day… location… period of history…) and how do you intend to establish these important elements?
—During Halloween
—Night-time
—Location:
+ Start of film - inside the house
+ Climax and end of film - outdoors
6. What traits of the characters in your story are important and how do you intend to establish these traits?
—Girl
+ clumsy (when decorating indoors, she accidentally trips over things and drop or break items)
7. In what order are the important events (step 4 above) covered? Is it a strictly linear sequence of events in time, or does the story contain any flashbacks or other interruptions to the sequence of events?
—Linear
8. How does the story flow, does the pace change? Does it contain a surprise? Consider your answers to 1 and 2 above when making your response.
—Normal pacing
—Surprise:
+ when she accidentally lost her footing and got herself hung
9. How will you use sound to help all your responses to 5-8 above?
—Cheerful music at the start with occasional notes in the minor key? hmmm
—As the story progresses, the music becomes more and more sinister
—No music as she was gasping for help
10. Does your story need dialog?
(write out the dialog)
—Little dialogue
—More of gasping
—Dialogue:
+ "nooooo...please heeeelp me..."
+ *chokes* “Hee…..lp meeee……hel…hel….help….lp.” *dies*
yea so that's it!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Project 3
This blog is to document the processes and experiences that i'll go through during the pre-production, production and post-production of my project 3 in temasek polytechnic's moving images course. so it's basically a production diary. it is individual work and so it's sort of like a mini "FYP" (final year project) to be done in the span of 2 months. and since i'm in the animation major in moving images, we've got to come up with an animated piece for project 3.
before we were given more details on project 3, our class of 26 people was broken up into 5 groups. each group is given a weird scenario and a set of 10 qns for us to answer. my group includes chuinny, jarrold, naf and hanis! We created a PowerPoint slide presentation and presented it to the class. some feedback we got was that we are not descriptive enough and don't give enough details when it comes to establishing a certain setting or a personality trait of a character, such as the way they act, the words they use etc. Establishing the habits and personalities of a character early in the production can help influence the way a story is told, as well as the target audience and reactions we hope they would have.
after this session, we were told to each look for 3-4 weird stories so that we can use the gist of one of the story and create a story and animation based on it. it was pretty interesting searching for weird stories as some of them were really funny and entertaining! and some were pretty morbid and shocking too.
the first one that i found was about a girl who poisoned her boyfriend with a plastic pellet filled with rat poison when she thought that he was cheating on her. by using a kiss, she nudged the pellet into his mouth and he accidentally swallowed it, dying shortly after wards.
here's the link to the article:
http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/strangedeaths/912/kiss_of_death.html
the second story is about a singaporean old man who put his *ehem* private part into a 1.5 litre bottle mouth and couldn't get it out. too embarrassed he waited till it was pretty bad before he seek for help. by then he couldn't urinate as it started to get inflamed and due to other medical complications sparked of from this, he died. :O
here's the link:
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_354806.html
the third one is about a woman who commited suicide by hanging herself near halloween. however people thought it was just a halloween decoration and regarded it as a prank.
link:
http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/strangedeaths/328/trick_nor_treat.html
there are a few others but i decided to take these three. i realised that all of them ended in death. heh. :X
anyway, we shared the stories with our group the next day and picked one out of the three to do. then we each presented another member's stories to our class. some of the stories are pretty funny! and some were really strange. but it was entertaining. i decided to do the third story. but i'm changing to look like it was a accident and that it wasn't intentional suicide. i'm also going to change the date to be on the actual day of halloween and it would be set at the victim's house. i have some idea on how the style should be like but i'll tackle the story telling bit first!
yea so that's basically it for the first two days! i have a huge feeling that these two blocks are going to be killer. physically, mentally...two production modules in one block! and for the other module (animation2 - we got to create an animation based on a given story within a month), my group is going to attempt stop-motion, which is something we've never done before! but i;m excited to try. so yea it will be a very busy two months. hopefully everything would turn out great. *crosses fingers*
before we were given more details on project 3, our class of 26 people was broken up into 5 groups. each group is given a weird scenario and a set of 10 qns for us to answer. my group includes chuinny, jarrold, naf and hanis! We created a PowerPoint slide presentation and presented it to the class. some feedback we got was that we are not descriptive enough and don't give enough details when it comes to establishing a certain setting or a personality trait of a character, such as the way they act, the words they use etc. Establishing the habits and personalities of a character early in the production can help influence the way a story is told, as well as the target audience and reactions we hope they would have.
after this session, we were told to each look for 3-4 weird stories so that we can use the gist of one of the story and create a story and animation based on it. it was pretty interesting searching for weird stories as some of them were really funny and entertaining! and some were pretty morbid and shocking too.
the first one that i found was about a girl who poisoned her boyfriend with a plastic pellet filled with rat poison when she thought that he was cheating on her. by using a kiss, she nudged the pellet into his mouth and he accidentally swallowed it, dying shortly after wards.
here's the link to the article:
http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/strangedeaths/912/kiss_of_death.html
the second story is about a singaporean old man who put his *ehem* private part into a 1.5 litre bottle mouth and couldn't get it out. too embarrassed he waited till it was pretty bad before he seek for help. by then he couldn't urinate as it started to get inflamed and due to other medical complications sparked of from this, he died. :O
here's the link:
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_354806.html
the third one is about a woman who commited suicide by hanging herself near halloween. however people thought it was just a halloween decoration and regarded it as a prank.
link:
http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/strangedeaths/328/trick_nor_treat.html
there are a few others but i decided to take these three. i realised that all of them ended in death. heh. :X
anyway, we shared the stories with our group the next day and picked one out of the three to do. then we each presented another member's stories to our class. some of the stories are pretty funny! and some were really strange. but it was entertaining. i decided to do the third story. but i'm changing to look like it was a accident and that it wasn't intentional suicide. i'm also going to change the date to be on the actual day of halloween and it would be set at the victim's house. i have some idea on how the style should be like but i'll tackle the story telling bit first!
yea so that's basically it for the first two days! i have a huge feeling that these two blocks are going to be killer. physically, mentally...two production modules in one block! and for the other module (animation2 - we got to create an animation based on a given story within a month), my group is going to attempt stop-motion, which is something we've never done before! but i;m excited to try. so yea it will be a very busy two months. hopefully everything would turn out great. *crosses fingers*
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