Production Principles

Production Principles Unit

Out Of Your Head

For this project I decided to work with Sabir Rana, Adeolu Ogunyemi, and Alex Mallison. Having worked with Sabir and Adeolu previously I knew that we worked well togther as teamates, and I knew that we would all work well with Alex.

In our groups we had to chose 5 words from a list of words we were given and come up with a concept for a 20 second animation showing a storyline with a begining, middle and end. The words that we ended up choosing were: poison, village, shadow, swamp and castle.

We collectively came up with a concept of a King who sees his future in a crystal ball that he is fated to die at the hands of a shadowy figure. he then goes out of his way to avoid his fate, such as exiling all the villagers out of the kingdom. in the end because of his actions taken to avoid his fate. he ends up falling victim to it, and the castle crumbles down into the swamp it was built on top of.

We decided to include more of a comedic tone in order to lighten the moody undertone of the story, as we were focusing on a kind of Shakesperean and tragic storytelling and wanted to include something that would engage people yet not make the audience feel that it was too serious. of a piece.

Alex came up with a moodboard of what are piece was going to include based off of the words that we chose for our concept. We had decided on incuding colours that were visually appealing to the audience, so for our inspirations I suggested the show ‘Bee and puppycat’ as the colour scheme is bright and appealing while still showing serious and tragic topics and getting the point across, which is what we wanted to include in our animation piece. Alex suggested the film adoption of ‘Macbeth’ which works well as it is similar in theme to what we wanted our film to be, especially in terms of the colour palette.

Moodboard:

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After our idea got greenlit, which involved cutting down on a lot of the ideas that we wanted to include in our final piece, I created these simplified storyboards that showed what we imagined our final piece would look like. We decided to allow for creative freedom when completing the final animation as we knew we may not have enough time to do a lot of what we wanted to.

Storyboards:

We made the decision to split up the tasks just before we broke up for winter break. I was tasked with the storyboard and some of the backgrounds, and Alex got started on the character designs of our two main characters.

Character Designs:

Character design of the King Character Design of the Prince

After we got back from the winter break we decided to get started on the animation and background designs. some of our group had already got started on their animation and I had got some backgrounds drawn. for the interior of the castle I took inspiration from medieval church interior and the colour scheme of ‘Bee and puppycat’

Background Designs:

Background 1
Background 2: Alex helped me out by drawing this to save on time
Background 3: i created a version in the final piece where the candles are unlit
Background 4

There is a 5th background that Sabir created of the castle in full when developing his 5 seconds. Adeolu created some concept art for it (pictured left)

In order to work more time efficiently we made the decision to split the 20 seconds that we had to animate of our film into 4, and each of our team were tasked with animating 5 seconds of the story which we put together at the editing stage of production.

My 5 Seconds:

This took me around 2 weeks to complete. Originally I had planned to have things happen a little differently, for example, I wanted to animate the walking staff at the beginning of the scene with different designs, until iI realised that it would distract from the King and the Prince, who are the main characters in the story, so I gave them faceless designs, yet still included some staff designs in front of them to show that they are all staff from the castle. I also wanted to include the shadow scaring the king just like the storyboard presented but I realised there would not be enough time to include that in the final piece.

Final Video: REGICIDE

Final animation with sound

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Stop Motion

Week 1

Monday: We joined groups of 3 in order to put together a stop-motion using small pieces of black paper on a white background following instructions from the teacher. I teamed up with Sabir and Adelou.

Wednesday & Friday: in these 2 days we chose a movie in our groups. My group chose The Matrix. Using charcoal we then had to create a stop motion of how we perceived the movie without a reference to go back to.

Week 2

We were given ‘The Moon’ as a prompt. from that my group and I brainstormed separately and created an animation together using ideas that all of us contributed. I have included some of the information I contributed here:

There are three main ways in which the Moon impacts on life: time, tides and light. ‘For many animals, particularly birds, the Moon is essential to migration and navigation. Other will time their reproduction to coincide with the specific phases of the lunar cycle.

These eight phases are, in order, new Moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full Moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and waning crescent. The cycle repeats once a month (every 29.5 days).

The moon is a feminine symbol, universally representing the rhythm of time as it embodies the cycle. The phases of the moon symbolize immortality and eternity, enlightenment or the dark side of Nature herself.

In Leonardo’s Codex Leicester, circa 1510, there is a page entitled “Of the Moon: No Solid Body is Lighter than Air.” He states his belief that the Moon has an atmosphere and oceans. The Moon was a fine reflector of light, Leonardo believed, because it was covered with so much water.

Selenophile (n.) – a person who loves the moon.

I also included an article on the moon and its influence on greek mythology

Here is the final video that we came up with:

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Storyboard

Week 1

Monday: I created a singular storyboard based on the prompt “running away from a monster”

Wednesday: I teamed up with Katy and Summer to create a mood board inspired by the prompts ‘red riding hood and ‘weird and wonderful

Friday: Here is the WIP storyboard that I drew from the prompt: 2 friends/people meeting for a coffee and having a disagreement over A) Spilled coffee, B) Disagreement over the bill, C) Two spies meeting to exchange info, D) Robbery. I chose a disagreement over the bill.

Week 2:

Monday: We first started off drawing some scenery and objects and textures from around the room. then we were told to draw our surroundings from our own perspectives.

my own hands that I drew and some textures
this is how far I got with the secondary task.

Wednesday: We went to southbank to do some live drawing. I joined a group of people and we started by going inside a cafe to draw people we saw. then we walked around for a bit and ended by going inside of the Royal Festival Hall and i drew a few people that I saw there that piqued my interest.

I really love how you can see the improvements and progress I made in these drawings from the beginning of the series to the end

Friday: I updated the Storyboard WIP from last week of the prompt ‘two lovers disagreeing over the bill’. We also had to create 3 storyboards that tell a story inspired by things that we drew on Wednesday during our live drawing in Southbank.

The story I’m trying to show here is of 2 partners. in the first frame the girl is waiting for her partner. In the second from the girls partner is lost and looking in a map. in the third frame the lovers are reunited.

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3D Worlds

Week 1

We were briefed on what our final project of this rotation would be and taught some skills from Autodesk Maya. I found this very difficult.

This is the ‘Storyboard’ I had in mind for my final project. It is a floating book with mountains and a tiny house pushing stars out of the chimney into the night sky with an atmosphere of stars and planets as the sky.

Week 2

Monday & Wednesday: we explored some cinematic scenes on how to tell a clear narrative in order for the viewer to follow a storyline. I chose the Netflix series ‘Bee and Puppycat’ the task was to show how framing techniques were used in a specific scene by comparing it to framing techniques that we had learned in class.

This is the final result of the 3D worlds Project. I was really happy with how it turned out. If I were to change anything I would change the colour of the house and make it more defined as its kind of hard to make out the windows and roof from the walls. I would also add more detail to the house and more stars and planets.

Zoomed in images of the scene
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2D Motion Graphics

Week 1

Monday: we learnt how to make a ball move in certain positions on Adobe After Effects

Wednesday: we were given an animation of a man jumping and had to animate a scarf on him in procreate based on movement theory.

Week 2
For this task we were given 4 sounds and were told to choose one of them to use as a backing track for an animation we were going to create. I chose the second track and decided to create a looped animation based on some looped mini films we were shown in class. I used after effects for the first two scenes of the apple falling from the tree and the scene where the seed falls through the screen.

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