Research Alec had advised us to look into how Focal Length can affect the feel and look of the camera, so I went ahead and got to researching. I found this helpful image that showed the same camera position but with different focal lengths, and how this essentially zoomed in the frame. […]
Month: February 2023
Pre-Pro Progress
This week we were really focussing on getting our preproduction wrapped up, with the purpose of almost finishing at the same time of our presentation in 2 weeks. We selected our final characters, and made sure they looked like a nice cohesive party so that it would make sense for them to be together. I […]
Previsualisation- Previs
Today we learnt more in-depth about Previsualisation and why its useful. The idea of previsualisation is blocking out scenes and movements of the character and it allows us understand and explore a couple things. It lets you understand the cost of the production, plan camera/light positioning and to find any problem areas that can be […]
Redesigning, Style Exploration and Cementing our Plot
This week we received feed back on our presentation (noted in the previous post), and my group got to work on receiving this and talked about how to approach our new designs. EXPANDED STYLE RESEARCH We split into groups with the remaining class time to do some more specific style research, focusing on texturing and […]
3D Animation Pipeline
This week we were introduced into the idea of the 3D Animation pipeline, that is the workflow and stages that you need to create a piece of 3D animation. A general Previz workflow consists of the following: So we are currently working through the Preproduction phase, designing our characters, environments and props as well […]
Researching and Developing my Character
I decided to make this a separate post, since I had to do some more research into DND and its races and classes, but this follows the Pitch Presentation Critique post from before! So once my group was told to lean further into the DnD aspect, we had to get research more about it. I […]
Sound and Editing
This week we focussed on learning how Sound (or lack thereof) can effective the emotion and tone of the scene, as well as how Editing can affect the temporal logic of the scene and effect the audience’s view. SOUND There are two main components that sound can be broken into, Diegetic ( sound that exists […]
Pitch Presentation
This week we had to present our groups idea to our peers. Making a Title and Naming Our Short Film In order to do a pitch presentation, I thought it was important to have at least a working title, so I started a discussion with Tori and Eoin and we started to come up with […]
Cinematography and Mise-En-Scene
Class Content: This week’s lecture had us taking a closer look at Mise-en-Scene, Cinematography and Framing. These are very important elements that really set the tone of any film, and just like last week, we were given multiple different clips and had to pick out how the framing and lighting changed the tone or […]
Building Our Narrative
This week we wanted to really nail down our narrative. We had a short discussion in class of what we wanted the middle of our plot to be, since we had nailed down the start and end of our story. Unfortunately, only Kori, Tori and I were in and we didn’t have the best understanding […]