Week 5

Becca and myself had to re-think the opening shot this week and we decided to change how it worked. We decided to open the film with a couple of stills to somewhat describe the main character. The first being a married couple, next the wife being in a wheel chair sujesting that somethings not right with her health wise and the last image os of him on his own. Through the images we see the couple with thier stamp books and then on the last one george is holding both. I also wanted to show that the garden has been neglected over time since the wife is not well. The bush grows in the background and the images become darker. Since we did not have a modeled wife we decided to draw the characters and import them into the cottage 3D envoronment. They stood out like a sore thumb so I had to edit these images to make the opening shot work. I manage to get them to fit in and they came out quite well. We also decided to make them sephia as it sujested that they were taken many years ago. I quite enjoyed working with photoshop for once when I was doing this, as this was quite a challenge for myself. I also worked on the opening title of the film which design each letterin on stamps. By accident I left the orginal designs on underneath the newly designed stamp title and it looked quite nice so I put it into the design.

Ground plane was bleached out from the render so the one in this picture was edited in from and ground photo that I had.

Becca drew the outline to these characters and I coloured them in with textures and paint tools in photoshop. Then I composited them into the rendered scene.

I think the logo gives a nice to touch to the opening of the film. Hopefully we'll have the title image fading in over the top and out again like in this image.