story boarding

To day i started planing my shots for my story board of my short film Luck Coin I had started drawing my frames at uni and carried on wen i got home after i had finished drawing some frames i asked my housemate to have a look and give me he s apionion he had a look and made some suggestion witch wear a big help to me
these are the frames he help me with i have my original in a folder but will be putting them in my sketch book at some point the next step will be to couplet the story board clean it up in photoshop or illustrator and then start putting the animatic together with premier or after affects

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TO day iv been looking at some development of my idea Lucky coin iv been think and look at different images and videos of slot machines I will post some picts and videos of what iv been looking at but to some it up iv been thinking that this idea will be relay good on account of time that i have for a film im pretty sure this would fit in to 1 min tops give or take 3o second for opining title and end credits
so one idea is to use found object iv been think of buying a little toy slot machine for this project or even build one out of metries as for the animation proses two things come to mind using stop-motion elements or after affects this could also have the elusion of motion graphics don with in after affects .

links to videos on you tube







Images of toy slots machesns

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3) Lucky coin
i think this has more of a hummer to it so i would put it with in the adult of hummer
Idea of £1 coin going into gambling machine the person wins on it and one £1 coin rolls away unseen goes through peoples feet scuffled into dark corner un noticed cleaner notices it puts it in and plays and wins
audience

the style of witch i would do this is stop-motion pixillation of people
had a look at this viedo on you tube and i think i could use a style of after affects to achev what i want with this



the link below got me think about the sceen wen the con goes on its epc adventure through the pub crossong the flor and obstical of proles legs and feet and this sort of siuet pixaltion reely could do this film idea justic fro the coins jucter persion lookink toward and up

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With regards to the dyslexia film iv spent some time narrowing down what i want to do with this film

2) Dyslexia public info film
Audience varied depending on who i target

People seen struggling with dyslexia have different way of learning visually ,pictures,moving imagery. im looking at different audiences primary schools collages and adults at uni different metrals for leering as some dyslexics are at disadvantage
I feel the style of the film would be interesting to use mixed collage almost like Dada movement found objects and stop-motion.

This video i found on you tube and its a dada movement sort of film i relay like the way how the text has ben animated and this is something smiler to what i would like to trie with my dyslexia film but with a little more mixed imagery

Link to video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPKpX0bGqps

the link below cought my eye the use of motion graphics is also a realy good idea to exsperment with and its something i have wanted to trie for a while

Link to video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TU-Na5kK2Q

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Today iv also spent some time thinking more about the my design proses wen it comes to animation style and what i want to use so iv written a little about each story idea i have and what i want to use to make it each story idea is a rough concept.

1)The scarecrow -trailer
Adult horror
Someone creating s.c. he is an evil person collecting peoples souls he is an evil musion he brings the s.c. to life by playing a serton metal song this activates the s.c while this is happening there is a crow sat on Hess shoulder as the s.c is brought to life the crow is struck an becomes part of the s.c. the crow is Hess evil sidekick the crow goes into the peoples eyes and helps steel the souls
Proses stop-motion animation
The type of mood i want to give the film is a dark era type with many textures and an interesting crueler pallet i want the scare crow to have a specify look almost like corps bride and nightmare before christmas style of armature iv also looked at the movie 9 for a couler pallet that iv found interesting theres also a good use of textures.

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Dyslexia research
Today i have been yousing the internet to research one of my ideas for my short film about dyslexia I have copied the url so that wen ever i want to reference something about this video it will be allot more easier and time saving for my self .

The short film is about
the story of a dyslexic kid struggling at school. Find out typical dyslexic difficulties and their strengths. Based upon the schooldays of the creator of the Nessy Learning Program.



I have contacted the person who posted this and have asked them if it would be ok if i could do an animation of this story I am just waiting to see if some 1 gets in touch.

I found this very useful as it was very accurate about learning difficulty's
This is the sort of film i would like to make but I am not sure if i have the time to make something as detailed as this because this has quit allot of info that needs to be in it so people can get a good idea about what dyslexia is its honest and true not just a bunch of pretty pictures thrown to gather .

the next film i found was a documentary about dyslexia and i started to get an idea from a scene in it we the teachers are giving a repot about the students way in how he works and gets on in the class room the link is below

Journal pg2

Today has been a very busy day i met up with my mentor at uni to discuses how to organize my film and get it started so the first thing we did is talk about my ideas about my film and then we drafted up a rough Production timetable i think its a good idea to start planing my weeks because as i no from past experiences how fast time can creep up so iv given my self a good amount of time for both preproduction and post production the whole idea is to help me keep focus on what i need to do in those weeks so my next step is prioritizing what to do in the preproduction this will enclosed script development concept art my budget with the post production its all about making it happen getting the concept work developed and finalized so i can move on to make the film and do the animation as well as the end part burring the disk and designing the packaging and 1 sheet.

While organizing my self iv also decided to change my room and organize it a bit better so now it looks and feels like a mine studio Iv also decided to clean up my computer by giving it a clean instal so now it should run faster and smoother while i work on this project the next step is to get on with some design and concept and get a script organized ones thats sorted im going to start working on my animatic .

Production Time Table

Preproduction


21st Feb Preproduction

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8th March Preproduction

15th March Preproduction

22nd March Preproduction

29th March Preproduction

5th April Preproduction

Post Production

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24th May Post Production

Journal pg1

This is my Journal for my short film i am making in my journal i will wright all about the proses i go through from concept art to pre-production to post-production I have a few ideas for a short film ideal it will be 1 min long I have three ideas for my fill all are in early stages of development my main gole is to keep it simple and be able to tell a grate story using animation the three ideas are

Film ideas.

1) A Public Awareness Film about DYSLEXIA.
Telling people about it and how it can affect you while at school or even out side the real world this film is meant to be able to explain what DYSLEXIA is and how to help people who suffer with it in there every day live

2) The Scarecrow
I got inspired by an unusely way for this idea i was watching a movie called 9 witch was a C.G.I film and what got my attention was the way the characters wear made there couplers and the mood of the film so i thought to my self it would relay be nice to make a film with that sort of couler and mood in stop-motion being able to build an armitcher and making it in to a stop motion puppet to animate relay got me existed so iv been looking at different styles of Scarecrows i want to capture a creepy scary mood my plans are to develop a story that will capture an young adult audience i think with the amount of time i have i would maybe make a trailer of this film instead of the whole thing but depending on the story how good it is i may make a complete film in my 3rd year at uni.


3) Coine
I haven't relay got a name for this film but its about luck and gambling the idea is as follows in a pub some 1 goes to a gambling machine and puts £1 in to play the man plays the game and wins a lot of money at this point the money is falling down in to the tray the man collects hes winnings apart from 1£ that falls on the ground the man doesn't notices as the pub has gotten busy and the lighting is dim the con falls to the ground and starts to role down the floor amongst all the shuffling the coin comes to a stop but that's not it the coin gets pass around with kicking it with out noticing eventuality its closing time and the coin has been kicked into a dark corner the next day some 1 notices the money on the Flore and decided to tries there luck at the game and then the same proses happens again i think this would work well with a mixture of live action stop-motion and after affects im not sure what sort of audions this would be for but i think this is an interesting idea for a short film