Week 4

With this week we were still re writing the script and it was clear it was getting to both me and Becca. Even thou we set deadlines for the story to be finalised we find out the story doesn’t fit well or there was problems. We completely explored the whole story in all directions just to make the story work well. Whilst we were going through this process I hate the fact that the story worked in my head but when we told the tutors about the changes they showed us floors in our ideas. At the end of this week finally had to story lines, one being the new and developed story line and the original story line since we still both like it. It did have quite a few changes within it to make it fit better but it worked nicely. With the two stories we pitched them to a few other fellow students and got their personal opinion. They liked the reworked original story which was good news since we did favour that story more. We pitched it again to the tutors and they confirmed that it was good.


Story Deveoplement

The Collectors Motivations

1. Letting go, you can’t get every stamp (can’t have everything).
2. Being nice is more important than what you want (material possession).
3. The need to have exactly what you want doing anything to get it.
4. Grumpy, anti-social, kind of old man, boring, discovers a nice side.


The Stamp collector

A nice person
He’s just obsessed with stamps that he’s forgotten how to consider others feelings
He’s quite boring and mundane
There’s no colour in his life (Like in the Incredibles)


Places Visited During the Journey

After looking at the possible areas to which the stamp could travel through. We decided to have the stamps travel fairly realistic, going through countries next to each other rather than jumping all around the globe.

To Hawaii

Via: America
Mexico
Brazil

To Hawaii
Through Europe

Via: France
Italy
Holland
Egypt
India
China/Japan
Australia

Week 3

With this week showed Becca my thumbnails and she showed me a couple of hers. We came up with some good visuals for the rest of the storyboards. That took us all week planning the shots and trying to use filmatic language. Also this week, we had a presentation with Mike. The presentation went ok but I didn’t have enough information to go with my topic and I was all jumbled up when I spoke. I was still feeling the effects form last week. That’s my excuse anyways! After Gareth’s lesson I chose an area that I liked which happened to be a round marketing in the animation industry. I found this a fairly strong topics me to talk about in next weeks presentation.

Week 2

At the start of this week I assumed that there would be roughly 3-5 people working for Becca’s film including me, however arriving and meeting Becca this wasn’t the case. Turned out I was the only 100% committed person that applied for her film. She did get part-time offers to work for the film which is still very helpful further down the line. With this week Becca re-pitched her story to me so I knew exactly how she saw it at this stage. She also had some nice concept art pieces that she knocked up over the holidays which helped greatly to visually see her view of the story. Over the rest of this week myself and Becca sat down and began script writing the story. We came up with what we thought was a good story. We then decided to pitch it to one of the tutors the following week.

Week 1

This week was the first time back after the summer holidays and we had to pitch our film ideas that we thought up during the break. I had the idea of a civilisation living on the bottom of a shoe in some chewing gum. I did like this idea and thought it could have been really creative if picked. In the end it wasn’t chosen but I liked the sound of quite a few other films that were pitched that day. We had the rest of the week to reflect over what film ideas we liked best. There were two stories that I liked and they were the chicken farm story by Luke and Becca’s Stamp Collector. Out of the two stories I decided to work on Becca’s film as it is a lot different to the type of work and story line that I’m into.

Term 1