Shooting some reference footage

Today we teamed up, to shoot some reference footage for the 'Bloody Mary' animation.

That meant that we had to act out all of the scenes that Armando and Rowena sketched out in the storyboard.

Digitally drawing the storyboard

We did find out some difficulties while shooting this material. We did make some adjustments to our storyboard after shooting. For example in the part where Mary Read dressed as a soldier and a male soldier shoot. We decided to let the soldier come in the frame from behind instead of the front.

After we shot the footage, we decided to make a montage, like a moving storyboard. So that we can really have a good idea of the time, that the animation shall take.

Editing the life action footage

Our interview with Mister David Wilson

So last Friday, we had an interview with Mister David Wilson, during Playgrounds Festival in Tilburg.

We had more than an hour to ask him everything that we wanted to know. Which included questions on the work he showed at Playgrounds, questions that could be of importance for our own thesis's but also some questions that had to do with this 'Bloody Mary Project':

Rowena showed him our idea and some artwork. While Armando was filming and Raimke was taking notes. We did switch these roles now and then. 

Here is a short part of the interview, in which David gives us his view on and advice for this project.

We are still considering whether or not, we can really do something with the suggestion David gave us.

Screen Break Down and Story Boards

This week we have wrote a scene breakdown and started story boarding the film. Storyboards are a good way for us to see the story on paper and to communicate visually. It also helps us knuckle down on a visual style. We have decided to use silhouettes as a simple way to tell the story that also relates to the look of the early zoetropes. It will also create a uniform style that we can all animate in and give the film a unique look. We will use some colour in some circumstances such as Mary's hair, the red pirate ship flag, the yellow money the pirates loot and Mary's red broken heart. The colour code will be a useful visual tool to high light to the audience key parts of the story.

Chasse Park Recce Behind the Scenes Film

On Monday the 12th Nov Armando, Raimke and myself went to the Chasse park to record some footage of the park at night and to brain storm our idea for making a film about Bloody Mary, a pirate who lived in Breda for the House of Visual Culture. This is a short behind the scenes film of preparing for our presentation and pitch for the House of Visual Culture. Click on the link to view the film on youtube.

Bloody Mary Recce

Preparing our Presentation!

Last Monday evening we teamed up at the Chasse parking garage, to do some research and get some reference for our presentation on Friday.Friday the 16th of November we have to present our idea to the people of House of Visual Culture in Breda and the designers that we will be collaborating with. For this presentation we want to make clear:

• what our idea is,
• what our subject is,
• what we want our style to be,
• what kind of material we will need,
• what kind of knowledge we need to collect,
• what or proposal for the collaboration with the designers is.

So what we did is made some video/photo references of the location, so that we can prepare a little test for the presentation. We also tested with some flash light, to see if we might need some white sheets on the windows. And we did record some video material for our making-of.



Also we made a interview appointment with the people from Apvis. They had one of the projects on Glow 2012 in Eindhoven. They might be able to help us with the technical aspects of our project idea.More news after the presentation!

Welcome!

This blog is about a project called 'Bloody Mary'.

We are three Master students that are studying Animation at AKV St. Joost in Breda, the Netherlands.
For this period we have an assignment from 'het Huis voor Beeldcultuur' in Breda. We will be making a project for the Culture Night in Breda, the 25th of January 2013.

This is our plan:


At the Chasse parking garage we will project on the different small windows, on the outside of the garage. These small windows are all connected on the sides, like a filmstrip.

What we want to do is give the viewer a experience of being inside a zeotrope. On the other side we want to tell the story of (Bloody) Mary Read in image.