This is a class note I have taken on November 2nd, 2011 for our canada line project from experimental class. For our team, the narrative is based on the storyboard posted by Omar, and it is depicted as such: a single character falls asleep, falls into/ blown away into another state/ world and turns into a bird, flies as part of a block of birds, nest near to the train, wakes up. Is he a bird or human?
Design: we are working on color choices for the palette, (the time of the scene is drawn/ early morning)
Techniques: general interests are painting on glass, cut-out puppets, people also suggest that the bg and birds could be painting, character is puppet in the begining, but there could be transformation and morph from the cut-out to painting style for the character when he is blown away to the air.
As a whole class, people share great interest in building a 3d set (the train/ maybe train station, too), and we agree, as a class to build a real 3d set, using paper/possible other materials (I have tons of materials like wood/cotton/clay in my place)
The Parade group:
Narrative: Train is a parade, chaotic group, set in a station, characters on the platform and in the tunnels, possibly incorporated other characters from other scenes. Techniques: Actual cut outs, paint dyes in water, 3d set
Team Inner Worlds:
A passenger interacts with the window, "is there anyone out there?" He/she has headphones on, hearing an explosion of sound, has an acknowledgment with the window
Technique: masking tape for the window, pixilation, train set.
So far, the rough order of the team sequence is Inner worlds-other world-parade-coda/conclusion.
For next class, we as a team need to bring both storyboards on 4*3 index cards and an animatic on premier project with 29.97 frame/second, 4:3 aspect ratio, NTSC 720*540. The animatic need to be connected with the other groups, as for our project according to the current arranged sequence, the beginning of the story needs to connect to the end of Team Inner World, and the end of our project needs to connect to the beginning of Team Parade. Jennifer from Team Inner World, Karla from Team Parade, and I are responsible for putting up the animatic and connect the sequence into one big animatic in premier before next week's class.
Jennifer had a talk with Omar and I today after class, and figured out a match cut for the scene change of editing. I will contact Team Parade when Omer finishes polishing and refining his drawing storyboard. Our story ends with the scene when crows fly across the train, and maybe a zoom-in shot could be linked to the next scene with the chaotic train of Team Parade. Omar for now is mainly responsible for the storyboards. He will post it on moodle once it is done. I am responsible for polish it up and putting it as a time-based project. Emilie volunteered to help with coming up visual designs for the train set. What we need think as a team for this week for the project, except the storyboards and animatic which are taken care of, are: concepts for train set design, color choices for an urban early morning, crow designs. Put your updated ideas, images, tests and share your efforts on moodle. Apparently we are not having any actual meetings for this week. All discussions will be held on moodle.
I would also suggest we could think of our roles and interest as working individuals for this team. For instance, my interests are character animation, sculpturing the set and making puppet. I am familiar with Premier. I would prefer to take roles in preproduction (puppet making/ constructing set), some part of animation, and final compositing in premier. I think that is all about what happened today.
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