With the new lockdown, our brief changed slightly for those who do not have the capabilities to complete it at home. There is now an option to complete a film poster, instead of an animation for the final task. I plan to stick to the original, however, the new addition has added another option to try out and experiment with. So, I would also like to try making, or designing a film poster for my show as well, and for this lesson, I learned about the techniques and aspects of a film poster, as a starting point. I’ll begin by […]
Category: Fantasy Brief Research
Fantasy Genre and Characters pt.1
This is the lesson where we got introduced to the fantasy brief or our new project. We went through each slide and discussed the requirements as well as how they were going to be accomplished. The brief is a scenario wherein Netflix have commissioned us to create a pilot for a 2D fantasy series, with R&D, pre-production, skills and development all expected, as well as a 10-second animation to be featured in the film. The brief shows that there are three tasks, split into three categories, the character design, title sequence […]
R&D
For this online lesson, our focus was on R&D, which stands for research and development. This was useful because soon we would be starting our fantasy brief, which is the first big project that we will be doing. So, why is r&d so important? Well, the first part of it – research – is a vital stage for any project. We research in order to find inspiration and generate ideas, but also to focus in on the audience: what they want, what they like and dislike, and what the previous audience types were for any examples. These are both extremely […]
Representation
Here are the things that I learned in our online class on representation. Construction – This is the way that media text is put together. It is all of the editing and choice of camera angles we see in film. For example, this scene from clueless, in which we see from which angle the producers decided to shoot from, and what would make up the frame in those few seconds. Mediation – The process everything goes through before it reaches the audience. Like how scripts are rewritten, original footage edited and changed, magazine articles proofed and checked, and […]
Colour Theory 2
In this second lesson on colour theory, our focus was on LUTs, which change the way the colours of a video look. They are colour grade presets and can make flat colours looks much sharper, stand out and increase contrast. We also learned of a website called Gumroad where people make Lut packs and market them. I think it’s great that there is a website where you can buy and sell lookup tables (which is what Lut stands for). We grabbed a simple Halloween clip off of Pixabay and imported it into Premiere. Right after that, in order to make […]
Colour Theory
Concept art is the form of illustration used to convey an idea for use in films, video games, comic books, and other media. Colours play an important part in this and in films, they can have an emotional attachment and value (red can mean passion, shock, violence, or anger, whilst yellow generally means happiness.) Some important definitions that I learned are hue (colour/shade), value (brightness/lightness), saturation (intensity of hue), chroma (quality of colour, hue and saturation combined), and mono (one). I also learned that there is more than one set of primary colours – I always thought that there was […]
The 12 Principles of Animation
This lesson began with a quick starter to recap easy ease in and out and overshooting. We hopped onto After effects to create a quick animation and remind ourselves of what we learned last week. I chose to make a star move from one point to another and then applied the easy ease functions and made it overshoot its destination. I found this easy enough and was planning on doing a second star before we ran out of time and had to move on. The 12 principles of animation. This was our topic for the lesson and we […]
Genre
Our first online lesson was a discussion and analysis of genre. Genres are various forms of identifiable classifications, or categories, which refer to repeating patterns and conventions. In other words, they are a specific type of music, film, literature or art. Genres are mostly heard of in films and books, where recognisable motifs and themes are included. These are called conventions, and they also have their own categories within media: Conventional settings – the surroundings used in a story. For horror, we usually see dark, ominous places like a spooky forest or abandoned castle. A graveyard, or cabin in […]