I am really enjoying working on my film, and I am how really getting in to the project. I need to start thinking about the narrative and were I am taking it.
So I am going to produce a storyboard, which will help me think about were I am going to take the characters. I hoping it will also get me thinking as often when I start a drawing, I just draw a street scene. Really I need to start to draw scenes from the film.
Time is important, as only have about three months now and if I plan now it will save time later. This will allow me more to focus on making the film better, but also to produce larger scale drawings as well which link in to this project.
This week I have produced several drawings for the film and I have just completed another rough clip from the film. The first one shows the couple walking down a street. This time I just practiced working on their body movements with moving the frames for each drawing. As I still very much need to learn how to effetely move their arms correctly for example.
The second drawing shows the haze entering the town. I set the image by the river, so you can see the fog coming in up the riverbank. I found this image quite easy to photograph. I enjoyed taking the pictures and also feel the images turned out well. I loved the effect I was able to create by just moving each charcoal line.
So by thinking about it why I was making the changes helped me think that this would be the correct way for that part to move. Otherwise it takes it out of context, but I am more interested in making a love story.
It is just the little things that matter, such as making sure that if they are holding hands that there are closed up, not just open, as this will help the narrative flow better. Make sure that I remember to think about how to draw the film right through the process to the end result.
I now need to start to answer my own questions and learn from them. From doing these rough shorts I am finding more problems and thinking that I still need a lot more practice.
Staff Member told me I just need to find time to practice more. He advised me to practice just taking photographs. This I become a lot more confidence with the camera, and just focus on taking the image, and making sure it is was clear. He also remaindered me again how to set up the camera again and how to create a good image. As with the Christmas break, I felt I needed a refresher on the best way to create this.
I will be going in to the studio even more, as I feel I need more practice. This is why doing the rough shorts as has been so useful. Helped me see what needs improving.
I have started taking photographs of the two drawings I produced the other day. I am still working out how to use certain features on the camera and had trouble getting the image on the drawing in to focus.
So the photographs I took did not turn out to well as some of the images are not to clear. For the first image of the haze entering the town, most of the pictures turned out quite well, those I feel still need to learn how to make the images even sharper on the camera, so it can pick up every detail of the drawing.
The second image of the school children, did not go as well as I found it very hard to frame the picture right, I could not get the full image in the photograph and so I need to ask a tutor for help, to be able to learn how to do this for myself.
Also found that with this drawing that the images did not come out right, as they were out of focus. So the movements of the children running are not easy to see. I feel I need to do this again. I was keen to observe the photographs to witness the changes in frames. To get an idea of how the final film needs to look.
How ever I need now to look at how I can improve this and learn to keep the images clear and sharp. Also need to put more frames in to each drawing. For example: have more happening: have greater detailed frames for the people moving and have a lot more frames for every picture, but to make sure that a person does not move to fast. So they move their arm to pick something up in three frames, this way it may took longer, but it looks more real.
I have started taking photographs of the two drawings I produced the other day. I am still working out how to use certain features on the camera and had trouble getting the image on the drawing in to focus.
So the photographs I took did not turn out to well as some of the images are not to clear. For the first image of the haze entering the town, most of the pictures turned out quite well, those I feel need to learn how to make the images even sharper on the camera, so it can pick up every detail of the drawing.
The second image of the school children, did not go as well as I found it very hard to frame the picture right, I could not get the full image in the photograph and so I need to ask a tutor for help, to be able to learn how to do this for myself.
Also found that with this drawing that the images did not come out right, as they were out of focus. So the movements of the children running are not easy to see. I feel that I need to do this again.
How ever I need now to look at how I can improve this and learn to keep the images clear and sharp. Also need to put more frames in to each drawing. For example: have more happening: have greater detailed frames for the people moving and have a lot more frames for every picture, but to make sure that a person does not move to fast. So they move their arm to pick something up in three frames, this way it may took longer, but it looks more real.
