i believe that i did manage my time right for all these tasks but if i had managed them better i would have been able to save more time and possibly have been able to finish before the christmas and new years holidays. in week four i only completed the proposal form and did nothing else and this was a massive waste of time looking back and i know that if i had done at least the first draft of animatic first that i could of justified that i had done some good work that week.
in terms of my work i believe that i did good and that i did it successfully enough to be able to justify my movie and that i can definitely film and make my movie in the semesters to come.
heres looking to the next semester and hopefully in the future my full movie on here!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, 16 January 2014
WORK COMPLETED!!!!!!!!!!!
6/01/14 - 13/01/14
i came back from the christmas and new years holidays, refreshed and charged, ready to finish editing my final animatic, this took me a few days and when it was completed i knew that it was perfect in showcasing the plot, its shots and my skills in editing with the keyframes running perfectly as the video played. once i converted the video to quicktime form after effects i began to collect all my work so as to have it ready for submission on the 13/01/14.
i came back from the christmas and new years holidays, refreshed and charged, ready to finish editing my final animatic, this took me a few days and when it was completed i knew that it was perfect in showcasing the plot, its shots and my skills in editing with the keyframes running perfectly as the video played. once i converted the video to quicktime form after effects i began to collect all my work so as to have it ready for submission on the 13/01/14.
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| converting my animatic to quicktime format |
RESEARCH DONE!!!!!... FINAL ANIMATIC READY FOR AFTER THE CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!
9/12/13 - 16/11/13
This week i breathed a sigh of relief as i was finally done with all my research. every visual effect, shot character and location was explained to its fullest and it showed ultimately that i was under control of my movie and that i would be able to do it if everything went to plan. as i was done with the majority of my work i took the rest of the week off as christmas and new years holiday was coming an i had more than enough time to get the rest of the work done. i decided to watch more horror films to get myself into the state of mind needed to film the movie and to expand my knowledge on how to make a scene atmospheric and to give it the right feeling that i wanted to portray onto my audience. with my final animatic i had now finished editing most of it and every key frame and shot was working perfectly and smoothly with no black screen in between any shot or shot appearing on top of another shot during the animatic playback.
the "knife bursting out of the students back" scene before adding the keyframes for the animation of the knife appearing to burst through the students back with blood spurting out.
This week i breathed a sigh of relief as i was finally done with all my research. every visual effect, shot character and location was explained to its fullest and it showed ultimately that i was under control of my movie and that i would be able to do it if everything went to plan. as i was done with the majority of my work i took the rest of the week off as christmas and new years holiday was coming an i had more than enough time to get the rest of the work done. i decided to watch more horror films to get myself into the state of mind needed to film the movie and to expand my knowledge on how to make a scene atmospheric and to give it the right feeling that i wanted to portray onto my audience. with my final animatic i had now finished editing most of it and every key frame and shot was working perfectly and smoothly with no black screen in between any shot or shot appearing on top of another shot during the animatic playback.
getting ready to add key frames to the sun setting scene for the final animatic
the "knife bursting out of the students back" scene before adding the keyframes for the animation of the knife appearing to burst through the students back with blood spurting out.Research almost completed... 2nd animatic done... final animatic almost done
2/12/13 - 9/12/13
this week i found it to be, while stressing in terms of having to find out and research so much information, a good week as once i had finished my second draft of the animatic i managed to use it as a means to quickly improve on it and integrate it with my budding final animatic. this was easy to do as because i had tried so hard with my second draft of the animatic there was barely any room for improvement (the keyframes worked perfectly, the drawings were better in projecting the story and when read by a friend he managed to give me the gist of the film from just watching the animatic and having no prior knowledge of the movie). Now all i had to do was rearrange my final draft of the animatic in after effects which i have to say was the favourite part of this course as i enjoy editing and creating a visual form of media by this manner. i could relax slightly now as i had two weeks to proof read all my work but the research still could, and did, take up a lot of my time so i felt that it was best to work hard till all the work was done and checked multiple times.
this week i found it to be, while stressing in terms of having to find out and research so much information, a good week as once i had finished my second draft of the animatic i managed to use it as a means to quickly improve on it and integrate it with my budding final animatic. this was easy to do as because i had tried so hard with my second draft of the animatic there was barely any room for improvement (the keyframes worked perfectly, the drawings were better in projecting the story and when read by a friend he managed to give me the gist of the film from just watching the animatic and having no prior knowledge of the movie). Now all i had to do was rearrange my final draft of the animatic in after effects which i have to say was the favourite part of this course as i enjoy editing and creating a visual form of media by this manner. i could relax slightly now as i had two weeks to proof read all my work but the research still could, and did, take up a lot of my time so i felt that it was best to work hard till all the work was done and checked multiple times.
Starting to edit my final animatic
research time... 2nd animatic on the way... final animatic started
2/12/13 - 9/12/13
this week was another very important week for me. i had to commence work on my research document and this meant hours of researching, in detail, exactly how i was going to do everything for my movie.
a step by step explanation of my planned visual effects, a finalised list of all the shots i was going to use and a description to them all (what type of shot to be used and what was happening during the shot), what music i was going to use, a character description of each of my characters and various other topics. this would be similar to my proposal in terms of the layout of it but the information in it would be much more detailed and show without a doubt what i was definitely going to be doing. i also continued work on the second draft of my animatic again improving on my 1st draft and drawing the pictures just right in order to get keyframes to work perfectly but i also commenced to work on my final animatic draft in order to save time as the weeks starting to get less and the hand in date was fast approaching.
this week was another very important week for me. i had to commence work on my research document and this meant hours of researching, in detail, exactly how i was going to do everything for my movie.
a step by step explanation of my planned visual effects, a finalised list of all the shots i was going to use and a description to them all (what type of shot to be used and what was happening during the shot), what music i was going to use, a character description of each of my characters and various other topics. this would be similar to my proposal in terms of the layout of it but the information in it would be much more detailed and show without a doubt what i was definitely going to be doing. i also continued work on the second draft of my animatic again improving on my 1st draft and drawing the pictures just right in order to get keyframes to work perfectly but i also commenced to work on my final animatic draft in order to save time as the weeks starting to get less and the hand in date was fast approaching.
working on the second draft of my animatic
(scene showed "boy stumbles back"
1st draft of animatic complete now... onto the next draft!!!!!
25/11/13- 2/12/13
I finally finished the first draft of my animatic this week and whilst watching watching the images combine to form a story in the video i gained new momentum and inspiration to begin my second draft of the animatic with better drawings (i had stick men before) and to integrate key framing into it to allow certain scenes to have movement like the sun setting in the second shot of the movie.
I finally finished the first draft of my animatic this week and whilst watching watching the images combine to form a story in the video i gained new momentum and inspiration to begin my second draft of the animatic with better drawings (i had stick men before) and to integrate key framing into it to allow certain scenes to have movement like the sun setting in the second shot of the movie.
completing the 1st draft of my animatic
(the other shots are further to the right as i wanted space to edit this scene i was working on)
STORYBOARD COMPLETED... 1st draft of animatic still on the way
18/11/13 - 25/11/13
this week i finally finished my storyboards. after reviewing them again and again i was finally happy with them as i believe that they successfully showed off my story as fluidly, accurate and professional as possible. i had all the shots added and how many shots my film would be compromised off. due to concentrating so much on my storyboards however i slightly neglected the 1st draft of my animatic but now that i was complete with the storyboards i aimed to have the 1st draftt of the animatic done by the next week
this week i finally finished my storyboards. after reviewing them again and again i was finally happy with them as i believe that they successfully showed off my story as fluidly, accurate and professional as possible. i had all the shots added and how many shots my film would be compromised off. due to concentrating so much on my storyboards however i slightly neglected the 1st draft of my animatic but now that i was complete with the storyboards i aimed to have the 1st draftt of the animatic done by the next week
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| couple of shots from my storyboard |
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