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.
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.
