Friday, 8 April 2011

First Idea For a Final

I have decided to go with idea 5, at the picnic with the tea pot...



However I have decided to develop further on this idea, I think that having a range of wildlife animals coming out of the tea pot might be a bit too random and not actually make any sense, so I have narrowed it down to just birds. So when they go to pour the tea a bird flys out, followed by a couple more birds, then the last bird out blows a love heart towards the screen.













This makes my overall storyboard like this:


I think this idea goes with my three words:
Posh - I think that having a tea pot at a picnic is pretty posh
'Silent Film' - The idea of all this suprise going on but nobody saying anything, I think that because it is random it's a bit like a silent film theme
'Jane Austin/Mr Darcy' - I think it fits into this theme because it is an elegant couple at the picnic

Thursday, 7 April 2011

Ideas

After listening to the music several times I came up with a few ideas for a small animation to go with it. I didn't want my animation to be too predictable and boring with the music, so some of my ideas are a bit random, I tried to give a Charlie Chaplin/Silent Film kind of theme to some of them ....

Idea 1
A scruffy looking guy --> Posh girl walks past --> He asks her out, she rejects him --> He gets an idea (lightbulb above head) --> He reappears in a suit and top hat --> He asks her out again, she rejects again --> He then reappears in his suit with flowers --> She accepts --> They leave happily ever after

Idea 2
At a posh dance, boy and girl dancing --> Boy and girl kiss --> 'Larger lady' comes over, she's angry --> Boy runs away --> Girl looks shocked --> 'Large lady' chases boy off screen

Idea 3
A couple of guys messing around --> Start playing pranks on their friend --> After two pranks the friend plays a prank on the guys --> In the end guy is better off, leaves happy laughing

Idea 4
At a posh dance --> Man asks a woman to dance --> She says no --> Man reappears with two glasses of champagne --> She drinks both --> He carries her out off screen, happy

Idea 5
Couple at a picnic --> Goes to pour  cup of tea out of a teapot --> Instead of tea random items come out of the teapot --> Birds, squirrels etc --> Last random item blows a kiss at the screen

Idea 6
Man painting house up a ladder, big piece of artwork --> Two guys run into the ladder --> House is ruined --> Man chases them off screen

Idea 7
Posh girl looking sad --> Scruffy looking guy shows up , trying to impress --> She sends him away with a tear --> Second guy comes up trying to impress, he's too short --> She sends him away with a tear --> Third guy shows up with a walking stick and beard --> Too old so she sends him away with a tear --> Then a fourth guy shows up, he's tall and handsome --> Big eyes and love hearts all round --> They leave the screen together happy

Research - Methods

After looking at exsiting animators i decided to look into the different methoids that you can use to create an animation:
Stop Motion
Video
Flip Book
Zoetropes

Stop Motion







Video






Flip Book







Zoetropes



Research

Before I got too into my own ideas I decided to research into existing animators to see what was already out there...

Pixar
"John Lasseter says that it takes three things to make an animated film: world, character and story. In the simplest sense, that is the heart of this exhibit, the handmade designs for the worlds, characters and stories of Pixar’s first twenty years of filmmaking" (http://www.pixar.com/companyinfo/about_us/exhibitions.html 7/5/11 12.35pm)




Disney
Disney have made the majority of films I was bought up as a kid, I still enjoy watching them now! There are so many they just never get old...




Family Guy
Family Guy is more of a cartoon for adults and for a certain sense of humour, I like it but sometimes they can take their jokes a bit too far...

Print To Pixel

For this brief we were given a piece of audio to listen to and to create an animation for 20 -30 seconds of it. The piece of music i was given was JS Bach - Goldberg Variations BWV 988 01. Variation 1.



While listening to this i noted down words that came to mind as I was listening to it, the words i thought of were:
Elegant
English
Old Fashioned/ Black and White
Romantic Love
Old Fashioned Fairytale
Classical
Piano
Posh
Jane Austin/ Mr Darcy
Tea Pots
Charlie Chaplin
Harp
Ballet
Comdey - Fast Paced
Silent Film
Pride and Predjudice
Posh Dinner Party

From this I chose three words which I wanted to work with and use as my inspiration:
Posh
Silent Film
Jane Austin/ Mr Darcy


To further my inspiration i listed words and ideas that represented these words:
Posh
Precise Drawings
Well Dressed Characters
Simple Colours
Wealthy Appearance
Black & White

Silent Film
Fast Moving
Love Story
Comedy
Black & White
Characters
Short Story
Mischief
No Speech

Jane Austin/ Mr Darcy
Love Story
Posh
Romantic
Traditional
Wealthy
Old-Fashioned