BA3a Collaboration

There are many areas I could have improved in with this project. Mainly time keeping, Ive really struggled with juggling my personal life with my work and this has really shown in these blogs. I have however, really enjoyed the parts of the process that I could fully look into and have found using new software and working with new people really interesting. I definitely want to work with these people again, they are both very lovely and supportive.

The first edit of this animation is a basic plan of whats going to happen without music or proper timing, Ill start considering that with the next edit. This edit has a basic royalty free sound on it, this is the kind of the music we would like to use for this production when its done properly. That version is with the 2D parts of the animation ...And the last is a fixed version of it. It took me a while to make each these edits as I am still trying to get used to premiere. I really want to look into editing further in the future so I wanted to concentrate on that with this project.

For set design, meg and I decided go for a really minimalist. We looked at different materials for the floor and walls. We considered saw dust for the floor as it is meant to be the inside of a tent but it would have moved around too much in between shots. We decided to go for a dark silk material, which looked almost like the inside of a tent and made the whole thing really dark. For lighting, we tried a couple of different filters. We found that blue and green were far too cold looking so instead we went for red and purple. Which gave a really spooky effect.

Over the summer, Meg and I discussed the idea of making a Circus of Horrors as our main project this year. We knew it was going to be a huge amount of work to do so we decided to look into all the preproduction for this project right from the start of the first term. The story follows a faceless clown, who arrive to a circus of horrors, finds his own identity and a home with the creepy characters he meets along the way. This clown has a lot of different masks, each displaying a different emotion and persona and he is reliant on these personas to make him a character. Throughout the story, characters from the circus take these masks away from him one by one until he has no choice but to discover his own self, not being reliant on this identities anymore. I was really interested in working with a clown character as I have always been very scared of them so I thought it would be interesting to try and connect with one. In this story, he is experiencing a lot of the same things I have...

For this collaboration in particular, Megan and I decided to focus on the first 90 seconds of the story. Synopsis It starts with a pan in to a zoltar machine in a dark room, the clown is intrigued by the machine and looks at it from a couple of different angles. The zoltar machine reacts by doing the same thing back. The clown responds by waving, this time the zoltar machine starts to move his arms up and down slowly over the crystal ball. The clown goes into a daze as he get hypnotised by the machine. The animation then goes into a 2d representation of his fortune being told, it has flashes of a circus and the characters to come. When he gets out of this daze, a ticket slowly comes out of the machine saying 'welcome home'. The animation continues from this but we will be concentrating on that next term, going into the final project. Storyboard.