Presentation...

For you if you use me in your presentation. Love Noah x

Cheers me, so I've made a few visual things to go with my crappy soundtrack so that, well I've done more work really, duh. But I think the soundtrack isn't really that great, I mean, its useable and works but the visuals are really going to have to carry it because on its own its a piece of sh*t. And its not actually finished yet, but you can get a very good idea of what it's going to contain.

Here are the photoshop files I have made so far:

This will be used for backgrounds, possibly behind the village. And/or it will be use for a sort of scenic shot. The Back mountain and then front wall are separate, meaning i can show depth through it.

This is a rough idea of what I wanted one of the 'men' to look like in the trailer, as you can see in comparison to my older drawings he is much larger and very macho, you can also note that he has a beard, and aside from facial hair I wanted the men to look much more fearsome etc, so my main characters will look nice and puny next to them. Also here is my progress on this dude.

Next up is the very cringe worthy sound track with animatic. I hope you don't shoot yourself whilst listening. It isn't finished yet which is clear, but it has given alot of decent keys for animation as well as generally progressing this project in terms of restructuring etc.

I'm sorry. X

Continued Production

My monday presentation was moved the other day to wednesday, which has obvious benefits. It does feel like my brain is giving me less drive to work however, but I am fighting to keep going. With all of the shortening going on of my trailer I am working to make it look as good as it can, as well as thinking of extra things I could do if it become necessary. The sound track is structurally coming along very nicely with the side by side production of this rough, i guess animatic you could call it, but it is simply meant to be a visual aid for when I present my finished sound track. Some of the voices I have recorded are really cool, very viking sounding. So yeah, just a quick update on my progress, and hope to put up the animatic maybe soon? Providing I don't just quick time play it in the presentation. Sweet, take care peeps X

Is There Such A Thing As Too Short?

So I've made a ton of rough visuals for the presentation on monday, and whilst im putting them together, although some of them will have more going on in the (since there currently just stills) alot of the shots are awkwardly long, and really its just unecesary, so I may cut it down to like, 2 mins, and see how that effects it, but I thing the only thing this will do is strengthen it. Plus if my tutors say it is to short, whats wrong with making a 30 second viral trailer or something? We shall see in time. Also, this blog was partially just so I could post this video which is all I am listening to over and over. It, is, GOLD.


2:00 later..... yeah okay so alot shorter, I'm going to have to make an extra ad here, there is no way in hell my tutors will think this is enough work. Boolahx.

Rolling Rolling Rolling WHAAT?!

What up peeps, as you know I've been working on my sound for the last few days and some of it is really going well. I have the voice over type guy finished and it is gooood. Then I'm having a laugh making my voice sound like: a woman, Jack Black, Will Smith (or at least a 'wooo!' from him) and random other male characters. You'd think I was using some awesome software, but no, I just do good things in Garage Band. Yep. I mean come on I did CGI in Windows Movie Maker by using MS Paint over video, I'm just good at that kinda crap. So yeah, I'd say I was roughly en-route to meet the monday preview of my sound track, and so far I'm pretty pleased. See you soons X

ps I also think it might end up being 2 mins, not 2:30 mins, simply due to not needing that long, dont want filler crap right?

I'm sorry but this is also hilarious. Must watch.

Fun Times.

I'm currently having a right laugh whilst testing out voice recordings for my trailer. Obviously getting voice actors in would be far too late a move, and to be fair, I think I'm handy enough in crappy free software to produce great sounds anyway. I currently have a Don LaFontaine-escque voice going down and it sounds great, bar a few computery sounding vowels. Even so, my plan is if I cant get photoshop files ready for the presentation on monday, it would be awesome to have the sound track finished, or near finished, and I'm off to a good start. With the time line sorted in a fairly strict manner, and a sound track nailed I think the animation would be pretty easy to get working, its just the photoshop part I hate. Its my bead really because I'm such a perfectionist, but I spend way too much time in photoshop, and I hate it as it is! Anyway back on track, my current plan for the presentation is defiantly get this sound track to a nice clean, VERY nearly finished state. Then they can listen to it and become excited, and maybe to aid this I'll sketch out a couple of crappy little things so they vaguely can see what will be happening visually.

Yup, so thats that, keep checking here as the dissertation was handed in today which means all my time is going into this bad boy, so expect some sharp evolution to be going down. In the mean time, lets get back to posting some excellent videos up for you lovely people. SAFE X.




Maybe not amazing, but I gotta post up my teams success, proud to be a panther.

A Decent Running Order.

Hello again, I have been hard at work and have got a nice running order of how exactly my animation is going to go, this includes some sound and fullscreen graphics e.t.c. So without further delay, here it is:

0:00-0:02  two made up production companies will quickly fade in and out, the sound track will commence here with a large thud.

0:03-0:30  an establishing shot of the village in the day time (maybe with some background noise from it) followed by 1 or 2 closer shots of the town,  including men with beards. V.O 'in the quiet town of Quick Jaw' close up of the main character as he is called by his mother, a shot of her and the two other characters who have their names mentioned by greeting. 

0:31-1:00  V.O 'facial hair isn't all that simple' the characters ask about beards in a bar, 1 or 2 close ups of bearded men in there, one of the men says 'you have to go hunting' a man throws a head of a monster onto the bar, he has a beard, 'your beard is the reward'

1:01-1:10  V.O (and full screen graphic) 'this movember' the characters walk over to their equipment, the mother asks 'be careful out there' 

1:11-1:15  V.O (and full screen graphic) 'suit up' close up quick fades of the characters putting on helmets, shields, tying boots.

1:15-1:30  V.O (and full screen graphic) 'for the adventure of a life time' the sound track becomes silent, more atmospheric. the characters leave the village, mother says 'goodbye' the characters enter a cave weapons drawn, slowly creeping, waiting. A Skeleton falls from the roof, a character say 'oh come on!'

1:31-1:50 characters V.O 'I want this kill! I want my beard!' the sound track here has picked up and is epic, quick cuts of the journey and the beasts skeletons, 1:40 an actors name is flashed up, close up of the characters 'everything has been killed already cant you see!?' another actors name is flashed up

1:51-2:00 heart beating action with no sound, quick fade transitions and a slow motion shot of the final monster roaring. Full screen graphic of the title V.O 'a beards tale'

2:01-2:15  Close up of the characters on the adventure, one is making a beard related pun.

2:15-2:30  fullscreen title with all of the details, a V.O note about movember, maybe free entry with every beard?

So there it is, I reckon this is a really good frame work, and you can sort of imagine it in your head whilst you read which is always a good sign. I will no begin the drawing of rough story boards. See you soon X.

Posting from the grave.

Hey guys, little work has been done over the last few weeks as i have been working hard on my dissertation, which is finished now (bar binding and handing in) so that pretty sweet, think I did some good work so.
The work I have been doing every now and then when I get a spare moment from life is research into what makes a good trailer, or just generally the structure which most trailers follow. I looked at around 5 or so and found the structure to be pretty obvious. Heres what I took from it.

Trailers are split into 5 sections;
1/5- Contains information surrounding the setting, and an introduction to the main characters and the current affairs in the world.
2/5- Outline all current issues in terms of the characters and their goals.
3/5- There should be a large amount of suspense, or a slowing down of the trailer here, possibly outlining a change within the film.
4/5- This should be action packed with a lot of quick cutting and any extra information needed by the audience.
5/5- The climax of the action and a possible insight to the ending (not the ending of the narrative, simply the pinnacle point e.g the 'boss')

So yeah, thats what I took from looking at 2min-2:30min trailers, and I think its pretty spot on. I have a rough outline of how my narrative will fit into this schema, but I'm sure you can imagine for now how it would do so. Even so my current thoughts are to make the trailer light hearted, but not quite funny as I wont be able to pull it off, and there is nothing more awkward than watching something trying to be funny.
See ya soons babs. X