Week 7

Progress

This week we have been working on our animation further. Me and Nella are figuring out exactly how to film the scenes so we can do it soon. We are deciding which ones need to be close ups, when to pan, etc. We have also decided to concentrate a lot on how the characters should look so they can appear to have a personality. I have made some eyes on Photoshop, however they are basically circles, so we will work on them a bit more to give the characters some depth. The characters themsilves we decided to make look more representative of what they're meant to be. The woman we want to have a more curvy body and maybe wearing a pencil skirt and the man wearing a suit, to show more male and female characteristics and to represent a work situation.

In class we were shown successful and unsucessful posters in preperation for our promotional package. This was helpful as it gave us an insight of what we can do. I have decided that as our animation is a romantic comedy, to make the poster quite simple. I like the monochromatic style of posters so am considering doing that.

Week 6

Work in Progress Submissions

Yesterday we submitted the Work in Progress assignments and did our speeches. Generally I am pleased with the outcome considering the time period we had. The layout and web page are looking good, and the the animatic is as good as can get. There was not much more we could do with the animatic considering the short timespan. As Josh advised, I put it in Premiere and cut out the scenes that didn;t look very good and put 'incomplete scene' and the time it went for.

We got the feedback today and it was mentioned that the characters need to be more developed and we need to concentrate on the scenes and angles. We will get to working on this today, as it already needs to be developed for the next assignment- Promotional Package. This assignment is to be done individually. I am very keen to get a start on it or at least have a concept by next week so I can get the tutors opinions and advice.

Non Teaching Period

In the non-teaching period Nella and I have been working on the assignment 'Work in Progress.' The animatic is the main component of it, so I have been concentrating mainly on that. It took me a few days to animate the logo, as I don't know Flash very well and am doing everything the hard way. At the moment Nella is concentrating more on making a background for the Flash web-page and the DVD cover.

We filmed the David Jones food court toilet doors when the food court was almost closing, so that random people didn't think we were creeps. The animatic was very difficult to do, as we cleverly forgot to use a tripod for the camera and didn't realise the implications it brought. Animating the characters wasn't as hard once I got the hang of it. However, seeing as the video was jittery it was hard to keep the characters in the same spot as they kept popping out of the box. I then made a box behind them, but this was also difficult to make look good. Seeing as when the camera zoomed in the characters had to get bigger and when the camera moved so did the characters and the box, the animation was hard to make look professional. I will keep working on the characters and environment looking integrated. Also having some trouble tweening but kind of found a way around it.