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Sunday 30 May 2010
One Leg At A Time Movie
Hey guys, finally, after all these posts. Is the final version of my film. Let me know what you think.
Wednesday 26 May 2010
Oh ya, Film is done
Sorry, it's been done since last week.
Been just working on the DVD cover at the moment. Got it professionally printed off for the tutors and seeing the work packaged is a really satisfying feeling. We are handing it in tomorrow and so the last two days have meant writing my evaluation because I don't really have another week to work on it. It's due June 3rd, but I'm heading to Poland! On behalf of the Encounters Film Festival and Calling the shots they want me to go to the Krakow Film Festival and give information and chat with newly joined countries in the EU. I'm so excited! I leave the 2nd so I have to get my evaluation done. Preferably today!
Been just working on the DVD cover at the moment. Got it professionally printed off for the tutors and seeing the work packaged is a really satisfying feeling. We are handing it in tomorrow and so the last two days have meant writing my evaluation because I don't really have another week to work on it. It's due June 3rd, but I'm heading to Poland! On behalf of the Encounters Film Festival and Calling the shots they want me to go to the Krakow Film Festival and give information and chat with newly joined countries in the EU. I'm so excited! I leave the 2nd so I have to get my evaluation done. Preferably today!
Wednesday 19 May 2010
Final One Sheet
As well as making a DVD, I have to create my final one sheet. I made a hand made one sheet (a.k.a a movie poster) where it had a 3d aspect to it. I felt since the character was painted on in a flat way, then having his hands attach the the 3d pocket of the trousers it would give an idea of what my movie is about. Showing that it's mixed 2d with 3d animation. Inside the pocket was the three life scenarios that Theo could experience. My tutors felt this would be hard to mass produce, so I've scanned the design as a normal insert for a DVD.
Filming Stop Motion
Was a lot easier then I expected! After about two hours of setting up, it only took an hour to film 10 seconds of footage. What took the most time was the bull mount. I had to find a way to make my bull bob up and down in a stable way. Thankfully my animation teacher Mary was able to find me a mechanism that popped into place. It was essentially a blue strip of joints all connected. It worked like a charm! I had to have everything controlled, from the set to each of the characters, for the tracking shot to work. Plus, with the addition of zooms and dramatic lighting, this was by far the most technical filming I've ever done in clay animation. Not a lot to do now, find music and voice over work and I'm finished!
Sunday 16 May 2010
Making the Clay Animation Sets
I got the idea for my set through my sketchbook. Since I can't print out color photos I've been filling them in with thick markers and I've appreciated the look of my book ever since. So when I knew I wanted my set to be simple like the Paddington bear set, I wanted to add another element so it wasn't copying it entirely. I'm adding a slapdash of color for excitement and since I can't move the camera, I'm going to have the set move towards the bull as if the bull was running. I've made hundreds of small patches of burnt grass to pass the bull like the intro to The Rescuers Down Under with the flowers. Here's the example I'm talking about:
Hope to be filming Tuesday!
Hope to be filming Tuesday!
Friday 14 May 2010
Rough Edit Done
And I couldn't be more pleased with it.
It was worrying me at first the look of the whole movie. The warm tones that I wanted throughout the film with the red didn't come together until I started working with the color correction program, Magic Bullet. It's incredible and in a matter of clicks, the whole film looks more professional. The saturation is warm without looking to ridiculous and so I'm excited to see the final outcome.
I've found that some of my transitions (my original idea was every scene would have a match point) worked a lot better when I took the sound from the last shot and connected it to the next one. The best example of this is in the final shot when the sister pushes the cart out of the frame and the next scene where she's pushing her brother in the same cart.
Still having problems exporting my flash film at the moment. It slows down too much so on Monday I hope to get help with that. Ian showed me how to make my cartoon in HD and for the hand drawn stuff, Mike Marchlewski helped with putting my 4:3 image into 16:9 without losing the quality.
Slowly but surely I'm getting there. Next week is all about the stop motion.....
It was worrying me at first the look of the whole movie. The warm tones that I wanted throughout the film with the red didn't come together until I started working with the color correction program, Magic Bullet. It's incredible and in a matter of clicks, the whole film looks more professional. The saturation is warm without looking to ridiculous and so I'm excited to see the final outcome.
I've found that some of my transitions (my original idea was every scene would have a match point) worked a lot better when I took the sound from the last shot and connected it to the next one. The best example of this is in the final shot when the sister pushes the cart out of the frame and the next scene where she's pushing her brother in the same cart.
Still having problems exporting my flash film at the moment. It slows down too much so on Monday I hope to get help with that. Ian showed me how to make my cartoon in HD and for the hand drawn stuff, Mike Marchlewski helped with putting my 4:3 image into 16:9 without losing the quality.
Slowly but surely I'm getting there. Next week is all about the stop motion.....
Thursday 13 May 2010
Flash Done
Doing Boils took another day but it was worth it. It looks a lot better then some slapdash piece of animation. Next week is the stop motion and editing. Hope stop motion goes well!
Sunday 9 May 2010
Shooting!
A Great day of filming and now I'm aware I'm more then 3/4 of the way done! All I really have to do is finish some boils for flash and then animate the stop motion scene and I'm done. This week I'm in London for the day and then when I get back I'll finish my set. Then on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday I hope to film my stop motion stuff and finish the flash stuff, leaving me two weeks to edit.
I don't think I'll need that much editing though, it looks amazing. Couldn't be happier with the actors or some of the shots we went with. The jib, which I thought would be our biggest issue, turned out to be relatively easy. Also my flatmate Iwan let us use his super dandy microphone for the voice over work. The store manager forgot about us in the morning so we were 20 minutes behind yet we still managed to finish my film an hour and a half earlier then expected.
Here are some still from the day.
I don't think I'll need that much editing though, it looks amazing. Couldn't be happier with the actors or some of the shots we went with. The jib, which I thought would be our biggest issue, turned out to be relatively easy. Also my flatmate Iwan let us use his super dandy microphone for the voice over work. The store manager forgot about us in the morning so we were 20 minutes behind yet we still managed to finish my film an hour and a half earlier then expected.
Here are some still from the day.
Friday 7 May 2010
Adding Boils
My flatmate Iwan always uses a technique for his animation which make the lines move constantly so it has a hand drawn feel to it. This technique has been called adding a "boil". First you have to draw your character then add two more layers of retracing it. The lines never are exact but it is another step in staying away from making it look like flash. To me, most of the work is done in trying to make your piece look like it wasn't done in flash.
Most of my inspiration for my film has been through Rainbow Club's "Smokey the Monkey". You'll see that it has the boil effect throughout the entire thing.
Most of my inspiration for my film has been through Rainbow Club's "Smokey the Monkey". You'll see that it has the boil effect throughout the entire thing.
Wednesday 5 May 2010
Rehearsals
Rehearsals went amazingly well. It works out that Jasmine was able to show up early and so we got right to rehearsing. Jasmine nailed her lines immediately and so it took only 45 minutes to get it done. The actor is just the character in the way that he day dreams and is just a natural. I just needed today to see how everything going to flow and the actors got along great too.
Tuesday 4 May 2010
One Scene Done!
Have all my layouts done and the silhouette scene done! Flash is so easy!
Theo with Tupperware in Dressing Room
Posh Men Sniffing Tupperware
Theo with Tupperware in Dressing Room
Posh Men Sniffing Tupperware
Saturday 1 May 2010
Using Flash
Arranging a meeting this week with the two actors to get them to rehearse. I feel it'd also be a nice chance for the two of them to get to know each other. Got my work done early so I went to Bournemouth to stay with Josie. Amazingly, there was a fabric store near her house so I got the red curtains for the changing room for less then five pounds.
Started messing around with flash and I am now addicted. After doing so much hand drawn stuff I see why it is so popular. It's very easy once you get the hang out it and the biggest relief is it saves you having to redraw everything, even stuff that isn't going to move.
Just did some drawings of the posh men who open Tupperware filled with burps. A cross hatch look gives it a lot more quality to it then simple cartoon. Will try to get all the flash done next week while preparing to film!
Theo on Bags of Money
Started messing around with flash and I am now addicted. After doing so much hand drawn stuff I see why it is so popular. It's very easy once you get the hang out it and the biggest relief is it saves you having to redraw everything, even stuff that isn't going to move.
Just did some drawings of the posh men who open Tupperware filled with burps. A cross hatch look gives it a lot more quality to it then simple cartoon. Will try to get all the flash done next week while preparing to film!
Theo on Bags of Money
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