EDIT 2

Secound Edit

Wire frame

Wire frame

Seven Bones Presents - DOG LIFE

Film Evaluation

Whilst carrying out my primary research for the subject area we were given, I came across an interesting film called “The Shagggy Dog” which was similar to the idea we came up with. We were given a script, with a title of “Dog” we had to use our imagination to come up with an interesting storyline which would attract the viewers. Everyone was set different roles in the crew, in which they could support the group. I opted to be the producer for this film, as I am interesting in such a profession in the up and coming future. I previously was producer in my A level project, so I was not a complete stranger to the area in which I will be working in. Being a producer includes many responsibilities, as they have to conduct everyone’s behaviour towards the project along side with the Director, which has to inform the producer of everyone’s conduct. Whilst doing our film I had to call the Nottingham council and speak to numerous amount of departments to gain permission to film in certain area’s for explain “ forest fields”, I had to get permission from the communication department to get such permission to film in the area, permission was granted by Mrs Kirsty, unfortunately she did not want to give her surname. Carrying out the risky assessment and location recce was also not easy, as I had to focus on small details in the area in which could affect our filming.

I personally think the filming process went well, saying this of course we had to overcome a lot of obstacles like random people getting into the mise-en-scene, this challenged us to smoothly proceed in our filing, reason being for this is because we are not allowed to film anyone without their consent, doing so would invade their privacy. The positives I can take out of this task, I would say is it raised my confidence in communicating with people in the council, not only that but also allowed me to enhance my creativity, whilst carrying out my primary research. What I think I could have done better to provide my crew with a more successful film, well I have to admit I felt like I could have done so much more to provide my crew with better locations. When we first started talking about locations I came up with an idea to film in London, but unfortunately due to the lack of funding we were unable to proceed in the idea. I also opted to hold the massive microphone whilst filming, which I found extremely interesting as I provided the film with real life sound, however the disadvantage in this was that if the wind blew to hard and we were not holding the microphone straight you would be able to hear everything, which would not be good for the film itself., Which we came across but managed to overcome without any problems. Whilst supporting my camera man, a random up to me and was asking me what I was doing with all these equipment, at first I thought it was somebody from the council, but then he told me his a BBC reporter, and was interesting to find out what we were doing. He also asked to send the film to him after it was finished.

Rough Draft of poster idea

Film Description

Shot 1 opens to smoke floating across the frame. As the camera follows the smoke it pans past a framed picture of a dog to a depressed looking man smoking a spliff. There is rubbish littered around the room and the man is dressed in just boxers socks and a vest, he looks scruffy and un washed. The second shot opens to complete darkness, all the audience can hear is scraping of cupboards and opening and shutting of doors. The shot will be filmed from inside the cupboard and the door of the cupboard will be opened to reveal the man’s face. He is shown to be looking at piled up tins of dog food, the only things in the cupboard.He then sits down at the table with a plate and cutlery and empties his tin of dog food onto the plate and starts to eat it. This is then followed by a montage of different bowls of dog food being eaten by the man and more drugs being consumed as he plunges himself deeper into depression. The camera angle could be pointed up at him and made deliberately wobbly(see lock stock for an example of this, it’s just after the main character looses to Harry the Hatchet in a card game). This would reflect the mans mind state under the influence of the drugs.Contained within this montage I visualised the scene where he is walking down the street with a ‘distinct pronounced spring in his step’ having just bought some drugs from a dealer and clearly happy that he is going home to consume them. As he is taking more drugs he begins to act more and more like a dog we see him get down on the ground to sniff some dog shit. The shot opens with a piece of dog shit on the floor and the man lowers himself into the frame before sniffing it and leaving the frame again the same way he came into it.The next shot it of the man in his living room he goes to drink the water out of a glass but stops just before it reaches his mouth. He then puts the glass down on the floor before lapping the water up out of the glass with his tongue. It is clear he is sad at the thought of doing this.The final shot shows the man running around in circles as if chasing his tale before laying on the floor rubbing his back on the carpet as a dog would do.Credits

Clowns from Hell

Untitled from Serhan Velettin on Vimeo.

Animation Storyboard

Aniamtion Design

Animation Evaluation (Scary ride)

Animation is one of the hardest and most time consuming projects I’ve ever done in my life. But it allows me to enlighten myself with software which I would normally never use. Whilst attending my seminar, at times I felt stressed and almost frustrated like I’ve never been before, due to the time and effort you have to put into a project as extreme as this. Our task was to design a scary ride suitable for people and to create some fear in their eyes.

After further research, I decided to use scary clowns as my theme. The reason why I chose this specific theme is because I personally have a fear of clowns; their mentally disturbing faces, physiologically effect the human mind, as it’s dissimilar from a normal face. Once I chose my theme I moved on to developing the story for my ride, as I wanted specific objects, on specific parts of my ride. I started off by designing my main entrance, giving it a scary theme. This would allow the people attending the ride to understand the theme of the journey they are about to attend. I designed a storyboard suitable for my theme; this gave me a clearer view in which I could proceed in developing a ride which would attract people from both the inside and outside of the ride. I used a program called “3D Studio Max”, such a complicated program. After numerous attempts on working with the program I started to taking in the necessary information needed to start designing my piece. Whilst modelling my piece I tried to capture a scary theme in every area, as I was drawing any idea which came into my head on paper.

This really helped me as I already had it on paper, so I could refer back to it whenever I wanted, although my drawing is not at a high standard, it was understandable to me anyway. The positives I’ve taken from this project are, it allowed me to enhance my ability to design something from scratch, from my own imagination, which of course fits in perfectly with the course I am studying. I would say there are plenty of things I could of done better, which would of improved the project I am currently doing, these consist of time management and putting more effect in to the work I do in seminar’s rather than doing most of the work at home. However having said all this, I think I ended up with a decent piece, considering how worried I was about this animation piece in term two. The rendering process is basically a waiting ‘game’ as you just wait for your piece to form slowly, hoping everything fitted in perfectly as you designed it. If I was to redo this project again I think I would add even more scary objects like dead clowns rising from the ground, this would add to the creepy effect, I’ve been trying to portray.

Ideas for my scary ride