LAUAN503 - Weekly 3

Tale Telling

Figure 1. Groups's contribution in creating Storyboard draft

Having some time to sink the idea in our heads and highlight the flaws, this week Briony and Zhama came to me with a brand new idea. It was clear that this idea had a good flow. It offered smashing implicit narrative on top of the more obvious story. Therefore we decided to bring it forward. 

Figure 2. Initial Story board

The group was keen on trying different media and so we decided to use the structure of the story to do Stop motion and 2D Digital Animation broadening everyone's skills within the group.

LAUAN503 - Weekly 2

Tale Telling

This week we had 3 meetings. 

Figure 1. - My mood board 

From the previous week, we all worked on script drafts and mood boards so we met to work on finalisation of this.

Figure 1. - My edited-after-group-meeting script idea

It was challenging to be able to compromise and let go of own ideas. I also found it hard to present my idea to the group in a way that they could pick the right elements from it (e.g. scene selection, mood, actual story etc.).

However we worked through this, taking turns in explaining our ideas and why we think it is the right one until we got a fair mix from each:

• Initial idea on soundtrack that would drive the whole story style - Zhama
• Finalising Script draft - my script idea was brought forward and edited 
• Character themes ideas - Briony had some strong ideas in her mood boards and so we started thinking about character design.

Figure 2. - Character development aimed at creating audience's empathy for our characters.

Then course lecture sparked new ideas and our team got spontaneously together to discuss our project. Learning the importance of 7 new principles that we needed to consider when planning the storyboards and character design - 7 principles of acting.  This information will potentially be very useful for my CoP research this year too, so that made me happy. :) 

LAUAN503 - Weekly 1

Tale Telling

Figure 1. - Dices

To be put into a group in random, I was quite nervous; not knowing how I will be able to compromise when it comes to selection of animation technique & medium choices for the group project. 

Figure 2. - My short story idea

Creative dice were rolled Figure 1. I found this a useful process to kick-start a story and maybe will be adding the dice on my Christmas list. :)

Based on these, I created a short story. I got nervous presenting it to the class Figure 2 but I noticed an improvement. speaking in front of people. Zhama and Briony, my team, were my competition at this stage as only one story idea was chosen but it did not seem to create any disagreements. So after the vote count, Briony's idea went forward. It is about 'The Complicated Life of a Cannibal'.

At this stage, I was chosen to be the director of our team, It will be a challenge and I know I need to keep very organised for this one, especially as I struggled to keep on top of everything last year.