2D animation

Animation using tracing paper. This is how Loren was drawing the tentacle, and how the animation comes together at the end.

Using 2-D animation for all the pieces would take an incredibly long time, so Loren only plans to use 2-D animation for the more intricate and detailed pieces of animation that need to be quite smooth and flow well. (the tenticle at the bottom of the stairs is a good example of this). Starting the 2-D way is easier to see how the overall movement of the animation piece will look, you then have to scan each frame onto the computer, where you can easily quickly colour them and place them onto separate layers on Photoshop to then save into a moving animation on a GIF file. Gabby has experience on Flash which will be increibly useful for creating the simpler animations such as the clock and missile.

rough cut feedback.

After last lesson we had to stop editing no matter how far we were and show our work so far to the rest of the class. to enable us to edit more efficiently we placed our full animatic under our final footage, this unfortunately caused some confusion amongst our class mates, who mistook it for the actual footage.

Positive feedback
44'drawings are really good, detailed'
43 'good concept'
48 'good drawing'
47 'good drawing and editing so far'

Area's for improvements
44 'you can hear the track from the when you filmed in the background'
43 ' you need to manage your time better, you might run out of time'
48 ' do all in animation'
47 ' use either real life or animation, not both'

Over all we appreciated the rest of our class taking the time to look over our footage, however it would've been more beneficial all round if we had the chance to show more of our footage put together, to prevent them getting confused and presuming that this was how the music video was going to look. This way they would have noticed more of the footage that we have captured, which has yet to be placed in order etc.

Capturing the Footage

This weekend we all got together to capture the footage for our music video. However, the camera we were given caused some trouble for us and we struggled to capture all the footage as easily as we had hoped. The battery kept on running out far too quickly so we could only film on 10-15 minute intervals max, we then had to charged it for an hour before we could use it again. this meant that the time we had to film was largely reduced and seeing as we only had this one day to film, it caused us not to get all the footage captured on the day and less variety of shots. The battery was also not holding properly in the camera, causing the camera to constantly turn itself on and off and therefore capturing long shots or different shots of the entire song being sung was impossible without the camera failing on us.
To complicate things further, the camera was not equipped with a foot so using the tripod for steady footage was out of the equation and the zoom was also broken, not allowing us to zoom in very far without the lens immediately zooming back out. So we were unable to hold the lens at a certain distance or capture smooth footage.

Overall the footage we captured was ok, but we are really disappointed that we weren't able to work to the best of our ability and we are also worried that it will greatly effect the editing and our marks of the completed video. We will do our best to work with what we have though, but we know that not having all shots will cause our detailed shot list and music video plot to be affected.

Animatic Version 2

Here is our final animatic of the full song. We will rely on this for when we film and it will be really helpful. We are very pleased that the music video plot looks successful just as an animatic.

Loren drew the animatic and merged it on final cut and edited it from the previous version because we realised how many more shots were needed compared to professional music videos.

Roger Rabbit Movie Trailer

This is an example of how our music video is going to have both elements of animation and real-life. Our animation characters will vary and it will appear from real-life prop and location.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG37ysSqgq8
look at the link because the embedding has been disabled.

Feedback for the blog

This is the feedback taken by other students of the same project in our class:

1) Types of posts they think its missing- need more shot lists, better animatic.
2) Evidence of research- you can tell that the research its been done b y looking at the animated video from A-HA
3) Will the visual effects will be successful- YES, with a huge amount of effort, it will be very good at the end.
4)Overall assessment- LEVEL 3: Proficient planning 20 marks!!!