Draft Proposal

Here is my draft proposal, I thought I'd put it up if It's needed for what ever random purpose it may have......... HERE.

Concept Task Week 5:

5 Image sequence, restriction task. Experimental.

Damn it!

I'm really stuck with a solid final project idea! I need to start again with my brainstorm and se if something more suited comes up.

:( dang

Final BRIEF: Concept Task Week 5

Choose ONE of your 4 ideas. Then Recreate it according to ONE of the restrictions below:

- Express your idea as a telephone conversation (dialogue only).
- Express your idea as a sequence of 5 stills.
- Plan your idea as a gallery installation - physical objects in a gallery that the audience can interact with.
- Express your idea as a ‘Post Secret'. See http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
You could imagine this were created by one of your characters - or make it from yourself.

This version of your idea should stand alone. It should come as close to expressing your idea as it can in this alternate form. Please include the outcome in your Workbook.

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Questions I'm Asking Myself:

I'm really not sure what to go with for my final major assignment concept. I've really been thinking about which concept I should run with, 3d characters or the experimental film?

Questions I've been asking myself: What is the best piece that will show off my skills? What do I want to do after I finish the course? What will work best in my portfolio? Which is achievable? All these questions I've asked myself a million times. 

Finally I think I may have made up my mind, I will head towards the impossible! I will really put myself on the line and go with the experimental film. This is a dangerous concept to go with as it really is a succeed or fail concept, there is no in between with the results.

The reason i will be going with this concept is that I really believe that it has potential to be something great. After the course finishes I'd really like to head towards camera work either in TV stations, documentaries, out in the field anything that I can get into. The experimental piece will be shot with some really nice camera shots which would be a great addition to my final portfolio for work in the future.

Also having the time limit to work too will really push and motivate me to get things done on time, organization will be much better if im under some sort of pressure. If I decided to do this concept out of school it most probably wouldn't even end up being created.

The 3D characters concept is something which I could easily do out of school, 3D is something much easier that can be worked on in your spare time.

Im still summing up all the positives and negatives from each concept and fleshing each out to see where they take me but at the moment, falling chaos' the experimental video piece is the concept path I will be taking.

Kate's Thought's:

Feedback on Ideas:

(1) You’ve got quite a number of genres/ elements suggested here. Thriller and western? Cowboys AND FBI Agents? That lends it a surreal aspect. You’d need to have definite intention in using all these elements. The twist is a common one, meaning you’d have to have the rest of the details developed well so that the film has other points of interest. I’m not as interested in this as in your other ideas – although combining genres if really pushed could be interesting.  

(2) It’s ok to start with a technique you are interested in but you do need to anchor it to a strong concept and make it your own. Following one object after another could be an interesting form for a story – how could you build a common theme around each moment that we see?  

(3) Things falling from the sky and smashing is a nice image. Is this a video piece? Obvious challenges if so would be filming locations/materials and being able to obtain the camera angles you wanted. If you want this to be an ad it will have to be limited to a standard ad length and will have to be very polished. You’ll also need to develop it so that the pay-off is appropriate to the themes/ imagery in the setup, whether it’s an ad or a short film. I’d explore both options if you develop this further. 

(4) What’s interesting here is your use of those really basic building blocks of 3D – why have you chosen these? Do they have distinct personalities as well as abilities? Figuring out the detail of the ‘puzzles’ they need to solve and why it takes the three of them seems a next step.

Concept Task Week 4:

Interrogation 2,

 3D Animation:

This concept is a complete full 3D animation. It starts off with a basic shape like a cube that transforms into a character, the character will grow all the basic features; legs, arms, eyes but still keeping it really simple. The character will then begin to travel along the screen. As his walking he suddenly bumps into a sphere who also transforms into a character, he grows wings and pops out eyes still very basic, has the ability to fly around, they continue traveling along the screen as they bump into a pyramid, who also transforms into a character and all three continue along screen. They come to a roadblock a wall stands in their way, they must work together to get past and solve this problem. They eventually solve the problem but unfortunately get trapped in a box/cage. In this box/cage there is a button on the wall that states: “press to activate”, box boy walks over and clicks button, the camera zooms out to reveal the box/cage is actually the original Box boy before the transformation, the animation clip can then repeat itself on a loop.

There personalities will be defined by there actions; the animation has to be nice clear/clean.

 

Kate's Thought's:

What’s interesting here is your use of those really basic building blocks of 3D – why have you chosen these? Do they have distinct personalities as well as abilities? Figuring out the detail of the ‘puzzles’ they need to solve and why it takes the three of them seems a next step

 

Interrogation: 

Who are my characters?

There will be three main characters each character transforms from a simple shape (cube, sphere, pyramid) into a more advanced character but still fairly simple that only has those basic features.

 

What style is the animation going to be like?

The animation will have a clean simple style to the characters and the background environment. Soft and clean.

 

What are the puzzles they must past?

A wall of some sort with an odd shape hole in the middle of it, the three must work together to create the shape needed to pass through the wall.

 

What is the length of the animation?

The animation will be around 30-40 seconds long that can be replayed on a constant loop.

 

What background is going to be used, color, white, real scene?

The environment will be very simple either a soft light solid colour or a basic white background with shadows from the characters, very simple.

 

Are the characters going to be textured?

No they will be sold colour no textures, one colour will be selected to each character but using various shades to make the character soft.

 

What are the characters personalities?

The box boy is the smart safe, sensible one; the pyramid is the tough muscle guy, and the sphere is the curious character who gets the others into trouble but still has a cutesy tone to its personality.

 

What's the sound/ music going to be like?

The music will be happy subtle tones; the characters wont talk but will make harmonic grunt type noises when they communicate to each other through their actions.

 

What is the target audience?

Target audience will be a younger age as it does deal with a happy feeling theme, which would really intrigue a younger based audience. Anyone interested in animation will also be interested in watching the clip.