EXTENDED - PORTFOLIO BUILDING - COLLABORATION WITH LCOM STUDENT

This piece of work was produced as part of a collaboration between myself and leeds college of music student. The premise was to create some form animation/visuals to be projected and have music played alongside in an installation type setting. Unfortunately due to other commitments work on this project has been put on hold for now.

EXTENDED - FINAL FILM PRODUCTION - INITIAL PHASES AND WORK STRATEGY

Due to having mapped out the and fleshed out how the film might look at each point using tumbnails, it was at this point that had decided that I needed a list of all the assets that needed to be created for each scene. Having this list enabled me to have a clear idea of what needed to be worked on each day.

Slowly progressing through the list I was able to piece together each scene in a static form.

Building up each scene with the finished assets in a static form and enabled me to concentrate on the composition of each scene also.

Once each scene had been built up, it was then time to record the poem for the film so that the assets could then be synced up and keyframed.

EXTENDED - FINAL FILM - MEDIUMS

To keep production time as sharp as possible and for a more streamlined work flow I have opted to use TV Paint for alot of the assets used in the animation. As my animation has within it alot of varied shots and scenery, it makes more sense to create most of the assets in one place - rather than creating all of the assets by hand and scanning, editing and manipulating using adobe suite.

I have also found that the variety of the brushes and the versatility of tv paint to be very useful in achieving a child like approach to image making, something that I have utilised to make reference to my own childhood which is a theme that runs through the poem in the animation.

Despite using TV Paint to create most of the assets in my film, I have used paper based mediums to create some of the backgrounds and assets, this has resulted in a multi media collage effect that in turn shows my versatility in working with a range of different mediums.

EXTENDED - FINAL FILM - MOOD BOARDS

These mood boards use images that describe the basis of the sense of nostalgia that I am trying to get across in my film. They also include garish colours which will be an aspect of the aesthetic that I will use in my film. Colour is a very important signifier in terms of the mood that is being put across through animation/film, careful consideration will be taken on this aspect in the production of the film.

EXTENDED - FINAL FILM - POEM

Here is the poem that I have written to animate to in my film. The poem follows a slight story and is reflection of how the times have changed since my youth, the truths that become aware to you as you get older and some comments on the futility of amassing great wealth within a finite lifespan of a human being.