This week of the Intro to the making of module we began the next mini brief work and this one would be focused on story boards and animatics for stories. The week before we had been asked to look at a list of fables and then from the one we chose we would then translate into rough sketches and at a later date in the module we would then finalise them as storyboards then proceed to creating animatics for said stories. The story that I had chosen was named the fox and the kid which was the small story of how a young billy goat was separated from his heard and ends up being ambushed by a wolf but asks for it to play him a tune on a flute before he eats him. The wolf was tricked and the shepards dogs chase him away, the moral of the story was "don't let anything turn you from your purpose."
This was something that I could understand as there are times I don't let anything drive me away from my own purpose. We were each handed a set of sticky notes to roughly sketch our versions of the story onto much like storyboard artists do for their work, I recognised this from some behind the scenes footage of the Wallace and Gromit shorts. We were shown some examples of the different view points that we could use for this exercise and some had different elements they could operate on.
This was something that I could understand as there are times I don't let anything drive me away from my own purpose. We were each handed a set of sticky notes to roughly sketch our versions of the story onto much like storyboard artists do for their work, I recognised this from some behind the scenes footage of the Wallace and Gromit shorts. We were shown some examples of the different view points that we could use for this exercise and some had different elements they could operate on.
- Close up- emotions
- Extreme close up- detail
- Full shot
- Extreme wide shot
- Long shot.
These methods we were told were a nice way of creating a form of negative space which was something I didn't know about. Getting to the task at hand I began creating my version of the fable, the idea being that the Billy goat in my story would be a school boy walking home from school only to get so distracted in thought that he would walk in the wrong direction into the woods to be watched and ambushed by a wolf who is about to eat him until the kid requests him to play a tune and so he accepts, but this catches the attention of the Shepard dog police who arrive on the scene to chase the wolf away into the night.
Being a creative story maker in comic books I knew what the scenes needed such as the beginning shots would have a long shot frame of the school house to then move to a close up shot of the school boy billy goat, to progress to an extreme close up of the face showing some detail and emotions of him being treated like a child when he thinks he's grown up. The scene progresses to a birds eye view of the fork in the road and he takes the path to the forrest where in the next few scenes is watched by the wolf. These take the form of bird eye and wide shots from up in trees and behind bushes and the remaining shots of the ambush acted as long shots of the wolf jumping down and close up shots of the wolf holding the kid by the shirt collar. I interpreted the sound of the wolf playing the flute as a close up and the kid dancing a wide shot. The last scene was a long shot scene of the police chasing the wolf.
I was working on a rough sketch of the shot but Annabeth suggested that I should perhaps consider doing different shots of the kid and the wolf from point of view of the characters such as over their shoulders or near sides of their faces as a suggetion. I decided to use this for the wolf and kid confrontation and the police arriving to chase the wolf away. Over the next few minutes of the session I looked into some storyboard information that Annabeth had placed on Black Board and then studied tilting movements of a bin for my creative play project.
Over the Christmas break we would be refining and finalising these rough sketches into storyboards that we would then be turning into animatics upon our first lesson back from the holidays. I would need to balance my time from both my creative play and animation 101 projects and briefs to do these storyboards but I should be able to get this ready for the designated time. Looking over the course of this lesson I would think that despite my conflicting agendas I was making a good start to this project and hoped to learn more about how to do animatics and developed storyboards. I would be most looking forward to doing the animatic process itself to see if there was more to what I did for my animatic in my city life project and what could be improved.
Over the Christmas break we would be refining and finalising these rough sketches into storyboards that we would then be turning into animatics upon our first lesson back from the holidays. I would need to balance my time from both my creative play and animation 101 projects and briefs to do these storyboards but I should be able to get this ready for the designated time. Looking over the course of this lesson I would think that despite my conflicting agendas I was making a good start to this project and hoped to learn more about how to do animatics and developed storyboards. I would be most looking forward to doing the animatic process itself to see if there was more to what I did for my animatic in my city life project and what could be improved.
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