Pre-production
Aim: Understand how preproduction such as concept art and story development can help my animation.- I will challenge myself for pre-production by experimenting with story development.- I will do research into filmic language to make my narrative more interesting,- I will push myself to create experimental concept art.
I spent a lot of time developing lots of potential stories. I used my research and chose # 40 Go on a nature walk of the National Trusts“ 50 things to do before your 11 3 / 4 list.” I was stuck some time on the ending. The revelation of the ending happened at formative. I was over complicating the ending and feedback from Dan, Dev and Sanjay allowed me to arrive at a simple ending! I would use the animation to show how man and animal should be mutually respected.
Story development is important to bringing the story to life. I analysed filmic language and how I could use this in my concepting and creations. If you scroll down my research tab there is a huge abundance of analyse of filmic language. I looked at colour, lighting, composition and music to see how I could convey my story. This research allowed me to understand elements I was sometimes not considering. For instance lighting can shape an atmosphere. I looked at Hitchcock to draw how he crafted dangerous scenes to inspire shots in my animation.
To challenge myself I wanted to really consider constructing a strong storyboard, to understand how films utilised shots to be interesting and poignant. The National Trust represent the conservation of national beauty for generations to come. I wanted to show the importance of conservation and protecting British Wildlife and nature. I decided to play with the idea of seeing the animals point of view as well as the child. I wanted to emphasise how there should be a mutual respect between animals and humans. Therefore playing with the points of view meant I was able to create interesting shots and meaningful shots. I feel by doing the research of composition and framing, seen on my research tab on my blog, allowed me to explore this idea and fulfil the objective to use story development to strength narrative. This composition also made it interesting for children to view the world from different perspectives.
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