Showing posts with label BSA 125. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BSA 125. Show all posts

Wednesday, 19 June 2019

Week 17 Blog hand in

-Watching animatics
- Hand in blogs

Holiday task 2




Advice from Tutor.

Stop motion animation, who do you wanna work with. a short story only limits to 1 minute long. make simple with high standards. have it really fun and polished with the finished look.

Describe the main story and body any conclusion. Short and sweet.

Mainly discussed what we'll be doing next semester.
Bunch of research and readings focus on the comic and composition of the page with various.
Think about character props and background and have a mindset on how to show them.
Keep on watching lots of animation and tutorials might help.

Class activity:
Watched some of the storyboarding videos of my classmates. everyone had a unique way of presenting their story either by voice-over or by sketches or background music.
I realized that I definitely lack some of the sound clips and dialogue. And Its good to include starting cover and ending one with credits for the making of the storyboarding.

Blog Review:
I consider myself an average guy to update the blog. I have no previous experience in writing blogs neither reviewing my thoughts in English. But somehow I have improved a bit in terms of understanding and managed to do the task. I have mostly worked on my blogs in the last days. which I realize not a good thing to do. I won't be repeating the same from the next academic session.

Bugs and Errors.
I have faced a couple of errors while using the Toonboom storyboarding pro software. I even lost a couple of good work in which I had put lots of time and effort. But I take it positively since it made me do again which is good for me.

Pictures of errors.




I'm missing an image in this part of the blog.







Week 13

Reference for storyboards from the internet really helped me to get the basic concept of presenting my character in an environment.




Lines and shapes.

Week 8 thumbnailing


What is Animation Thumbnail?

These are the collection of small sketches that are combined with brief notes, they are used to capture ideas for a story or character. This helps to preserve memory and ideas for the character or story. These are fully drawn images and can be manipulated over time. Thumbnails are started by doing rough sketches.

Example of Thumbnailing.













In this image, I wanted to make use of the perspective angle in a very rough way. A stick figure at the back is a ninja about to chase my main character Alisha.

  a very rough thumbnail for my next assignment.

These resources in college drive are extremely important, It makes your concept and understanding clear and leads you to work accordingly.






Other key terms:

-Screen direction
-Staging

week 7 Visual literacy Storyboard Pro

Using Storyboard Pro software


Since there was a limited license product for the software I wasn't able to use them for a couple of weeks. Instead, I searched for some tutorials and mostly observed what was taught by our tutor.

Later on, When I got to access storyboard, I was a bit slow learning it. First I got to see the tutorial video project file.



This is the example of a video that teaches us how to put stuff together in the appropriate order.


And here is the general script that was written.



"Lost and Found"

EXT. park - DAY

Lenny walks through the park, looking for his beloved pet.

LENNY
Here, Spot -- (whistles) Come on boy, where ya hiding?

Lenny walks a bit further and stops. He slumps.

LENNY
Aw, what's the use? I've looked everywhere...

Lenny droops in despair but perks up when he hears the sound of barking off-screen.

LENNY
Spot? Is it really you?

A spotted bird flies into the scene and approaches Lenny.

SPOT
Ruff ruff!

Lenny holds out his hand and Spot lands on his finger.

LENNY
Aw, good boy, Spot!

Lenny laughs as Spot licks his face.

LENNY
All right, pal...it's been a long day. Time to head home.

Spot starts flapping his wings, pulling Lenny up in the air with him. Lenny and Spot fly up and out of the park, heading toward the setting sun.




Week 3 Treatment done

Scene explanations Step Outline
Critiques

To clarify my understanding on the treatment I further referred to college learning resource material which I have listed below for my further learnings.









Template for Treatment


My script writing after the tutor's correction.

After it has been marked.


I am very much positive about my tutor's comments on this paper. 
I really need to work on my time management. and also correct the font for my script. they are supposed to be in this format.


Proper Format for script writing.



My Experience and Perception of studies. 

When I was writing my assignment, I had no clue how to write the script and I wasn't catching up with what's been taught in class. Maybe it was just because I was not used to this kind of environment. In the early days, I was feeling homesick, I was missing my family badly, I was all by my self, I have to be responsible for everything including my financial state. Therefore I was very worried.

I've somehow managed to write a script and my Tutor has helped me a lot. Despite all these things were new to me, I somehow manage to pass that paper and I hugely thank my tutor Ruby for helping me out with my studies.

At the end of half of the semester, what I've realized is that I need to be very organized and focused on my studies. I need to fix my schedule and give more priority to studies rather than working 20 hrs per week. At that time I didn't know how my academic would be in the future, I took it very lightly and I had a bad friend influence.

I have the confident that I'll be doing my best from next semester onwards. Eventually, it's going to be good for me.

Learning from BSA 125 in college harddisk.

Storytelling

Act Structure I


Writing for short films/Animations.
  • Generally, the average animated film festival film is about 2.5 minutes long.
  • 3 to 5 minutes is a short time for the story. One minute is even shorter.
  • You can follow a robust strategy to form a proper story.
The story starts gradually from small ideas, structure. It's important to define the world and character to show the audience clear concepts.

Then, it's important to write the 1st draft and mention some critique for that story. 
Similarly, the 2nd draft followed by 3rd one.


The 3 Act Structure.

 





























Reference for learning:

https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/storytelling














Story writing Week 1,2

week 1

Introduction to character
How do you make the audience care about the character?
What do people usually do in a crisis?
A character might be anything like rats, cars, toys, Robot that we follow through the whole story. The lessons they learn, challenges they face and the feelings they shared by the audience

week 2 
Story structure

For a better movie

-Foundation and structure are important. For example:

It’s a creative way of telling stories with funny jokes and Punch lines that make sense. A mushroom goes to a discotheque asking girls to dance, everyone he requests rejects with a big "No"  A mushroom gets very embarrassed and goes to bartender and says "Nobody wants to dance with me since I am a fungi" (fun guy).

The story illustrates how a simple phrase can build a whole story keeping in mind that structure is important.



-the emotional impact that you want on your audience is essential.


Important moment. the story beats- refreshes,

Story Spine


gradually build a story.

must carry a message/ moral.

-theme/ Moral
deeper message it carries, identity, the reason for the character let go what they want. The need
might not be always positive.

Structure
basically consists of 3 acts

"antagonist" word learned!





act 1 General introduction to the character, maybe show their happiness and comfort moment.

act 2
make things hard for character/ obstacles/ growth/
overcome/ get skilled
low point or may fail

act 3
satisfying resolution on many levels
sets the world right
overcome the obstacles/ might come in surprise/ unexpected ending



Work backward/ reading the main foundation for developing stories



Activity 1






Part A
Three of my favorite films and moral of the story.
Cars 3
Hard work and consistent efforts pay off/ leads you to success.
Must believe in yourself to win or succeed.
Believing someone who you think worth a lot.
Its never too late to start a new journey.
Home
The antagonist are always not bad.
Always remember important tasks.
The relationship is very important

                                                                                     
Act 1( Back story)
Story developed by me that illustrates the moral and what we can learn from it.
Once there lived a lady named Geeta. She had a son named Abisekh. Geeta is very religious and goes to the temple every day. Everyday Geeta struggles to raise his son She would do anything to make her son happy. 
Abisekh is naughty and doesn't listen to his mom at all He spends most of his time playing with his friends and isn't serious all. 


Act 2
Time passes by, Abishek is fully grown up now, and he slowly understands the situation of his mom, how she struggles to make every penny and save for him. Abishek always wanted to be a well-trained Chef, But the tuition fee is a way too expensive. Therefore, he decides to work But fails to make enough money to afford his education. 

Act 3
As Geeta was returning back from the temple, she meets a strange man with a beard and dirty clothes, he talks with him and asks her to go with her, The man shows her all the treasure he has collected and offers Geeta to have one. But Geeta refuses it. She believes that only handwork and dedication can make you successful.




1. During her training session, she faces a ton of difficulties. The practice session is very tough and stressful. she learns every poses for karate. Her vision is clear and her punches are accurate.  there she fights with the master to become stronger, the teacher is very impressed by her performance.


Reference:


















Week 9

Update blog during holidays! everyday blog.
class tutorial
https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/storytelling#storyboard-your-film







Visual language

Tone:

Shading/ adjusting light and darkness leads to mood
dark values. atmospheric- sadness-
low contrast - calm
create a sense of direction where your eye is looking


Color.
color wheel: visually
feel emotional how the character is feeling and audience


observing
loosing up, not to think of loosing
realize from your mistake
take notes, visualize, what the scene means, do roughs,
teaching: tools. keep in mind ur making and telling experience.


Film Grammer.
Camera and camera angles used/ types of shots
Staging
camera motion- relation to character and actor


Story Spine



wide shot: establishing shots
medium shots: in conversation
closeup shots

What do u want your audience to know and feel?
set up your shot that is clear center framing
rule of thirds

Extreme shots
introduction to extreme shots and camera shots
the upshot: the power of dominance
down shots: helpless trapped
Dutch angle: unnatural, disorienting
plan your camera, where our character is looking at

dynamic shots.
Camera pan.
Storyboarding:





Week 9 3d modelling maya

 Giant: