Today I completed a few more drawings for the film, one is of the magic coming and taking over the town. The other is of the school children running away as the fog closes in on them. I am quite happy with them both and I am becoming more confidence with using charcoal to create greater detail in the works. For example the books and pencil pot in the window of the school, as they do not look rough and the lines are straight as in the past I sometimes have trouble drawing smooth lines on the paper.
I also started to use colour on the drawings, as I had purple pastel to represent the fog which enters the town. It worked quite well and adding a bright colour helped to carry the narrative. As the fog is a key part to the narrative of the story and I wanted to express the importance of that through colour.
I need to think more about the right scale of people/objects when completing my drawings. So that I can have the right amount of space to explain the story even further. As sometimes run out of room in the past on the page, so cannot explain everything to it’s full content.
This week I have been producing more drawings, so that I can take photographs of them with the Copy Can so that I can see were improvements need to be made before I start shooting for the final film.
Over the next few weeks I am going to make three rough shorts with certain scenes from the story of the film. First one will be the darkness entering the town and school children trying to get away. This way I can watch the drawings on a screen and see how they appear.
This will encourage me to see what is working and how I need to make changes to other part of the process, which are not. The questions which I wlll need to be asking myself are: Is the image clear on the screen, could the person watching the film see all the detail in the image, otherwise they may miss out on the narrative.
Check that the drawings are in the right position each time I take a photograph or when the film is shown it will be jumpy and won’t look very good. Need to mark were the paper needs to go each time, and this can be prevented. Any writing I produce on the drawings needs to be clear on the film, or it won’t be readable. I can check this by viewing it through a projector, then if there is a problem with the size I can see how big it needs to be for further work.
I will be trying out lots of different ideas so that I can see what is working. I am sure this will give me more questions which I will need to answer in order to work towards completing my movie.
