End of Day Targets

  In a group meeting yesterday, we decided on targets that we were aiming to meet by the end of the day. A target that I set myself was to type up and add more detail to the timeline of our storyline. The timeline is something we though would come in handy when writing up the synopsis of our animation, and creating the storyboard. 

The picture above is a screenshot of the timeline typed up. Obviously, as time lines do, it starts at the beginning of the story and goes through to the end. We decided that we would use the same shot twice at the beginning and near the end because it would tie the story together and it shows how life is created over and over again, because we see the character getting concieved at the beginning and then conceiving a child at the end.


Jack and I set ourselves the target to work together to create the synopsis from the timeline above. We found it easier to also do a roughly storyboard as we went along because it would make the final storyboard a lot easier to put together. I think that we worked well together to piece the story together bit by bit, and the timeline of events definately made this process easier. Although we added a few bits and changed others, it was good development of the storyline and hopefully it's something that will work out well. Our rough storyboard and synopsis can be seen in our group folder.


Blair and Kelly were set the task of creating the character profiles. Although this was a task that I was orignally set, we felt that we had come to another dead end and this is something that needed to be done before other tasks to get the ball rolling again. They both created the character profile, which again can be seen in the group folder. It shows the character in different stages of his life, from a baby to an adult, and also in different positions, such as walking and crawling. The fact that they did the character in different movements is another thing which will help us when creating our character before filming and will cut out some time.


Overall we worked well yesterday and now we are definately on track to getting most of our main pre production work done. The timeline helped us a lot with creating the synopsis and the rough storyboard. This will save us a lot of time with trial and error when creating our proper time line. The character profile was something which was done well and is also something that's particularly important in animation, although I would have found it hard to do this as our character is just a black silhouette.