Week 2 - Week break down

1.  Animatic
2. Styles to use
3. Define style/2dn animatic
4. Style for every shot in photoshop/3rd animatic
5. Sound sync
   Make one shot in flash and after effects
6. Start animatic (7.5sec)
7. animating  (7.5sec)
8. 50% animating done (7.5sec)
9. animating  (7.5sec)
10. 100% animating done
    Compositing 
11. Polishing
12. Done and dusted celebrate with cake 

Week 1 - Third meeting : Written story board second draft and animatic

Draft 2

0-1 : Closed eyes 'The man who mistook his wife for a hat' written on eyelids. Eyes snap open, music on his iris everything changes to a trippy colour.- Magazine cut out letters for words, video someones eye opening then cut it into photos. As eye opens graduate the colour - Jess idea 
- Music iris technique (after effects) - Rosie idea
- Eye moving erratically around page - Mike idea
(Changed to one eye)
1-2 : Hand slams down on Radio alarm
- When he touches the alarm it changes colour, as hand comes down splats like paint - Jess idea
- Feeding of off Jess's idea, have the paint become the sea in the next scene - Rosie Idea
- Mike old fashioned alarm clock, do something with hands later - Mike idea 
2-4 : Him lying in bed sailing in a musical world, slowly becomes darker, into a storm, real life hands crumple it all up.
- Real life hands crumpling, paper cut out of actual sheet music, escaped paint drop forms slipper shape
- Use video of paint moving and overlay sheet music on the paint, 3D glass slipper filled with liquid 
- Clouds slowly moving, drift him off into distance, when sheet music screwed up have a bit of paint escapee
4-5 : Calm close up of him going into slippers
5-6 : Slightly energetic colour medium shot of him putting the dressing gown on
6-7 : Energetic bright colour long shot of him tying the dressing gown belt
7-8 : Just his face standing still, different textures playing over the top. Background moving showing video going from bedroom to kitchen
8-10 : Video, him turning the kettle on. Camera zooming in, as he touches the kettle colour changes on just the object showing water bubbling and the steam.
10-11 : Kettle clicks, noise stops, fast zoom into his face (Click breaks the music)
11-13 : Goes to use kettle but unsure how
13-15 : One colour, Slow zoom into kettle and slight distort/tilt  (Click breaks the music)
15-17 : Man looks confused at kettle, kettle wipes across screen
17-19 : Someone else puts a cup in front of him
19-21 : Drinking cup of tea walking up stairs, piano stairs he himself is black and white and everything else is colourful and trippy.
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- White screen, slow dripping ripple effect coming out, speeds up and becomes shower water. some steam fades into next scene
21-22 : Long shot, standing in bathroom, reflection shows blurred faceless image of himself, slow zoom in
- Mirror on wall steamed up, hand wipes across, faceless person (Blur) 
- Keep wiping to try and unblur it differnt mask each wipe Mirror shows different emotion, sad. - mask
22-23 : Standing outside shower (positioned in same place on screen) drying off, slow zoom out
23-25 : Super fast zoom in on his face, eye blink (now on last mask) 
25-27 : One colour, strange camera angle of him getting dressed
- Second skin pulling up  
- Onesie (zip face) 
27-28 : New colour, show him brushing hair from behind
-  Hair brush as passes over hair changes to a brown texture (leather)  
28-30 : Same colour as above, brushing hair from front, now isolated no background, he starts to fall behind and blur and warp
30-32 : Music sheet dripping, melting away
32-33 : Making breakfast character black and white still image in a blue tint real life room that slowly pans out
33-34 : Zoom out, pick up bowl, show copies of the room layered over the top, just different colours, slow pan out
34-35 : Further zoom out, facing table
35-37 : Zoom into face, bringing spoon up to mouth as mouth opens go through into next scene
37-39 : Him sitting, bathroom walls slowly spreading through to fit together (Paper cut out)
39-40 : Looking down, walls solidify together 
40-44 : Main character freaking out, background abstract insane
- Hand reaching forward
- Slow motion, background super speed
44-45 : Show his back (colour/black) in warped background room (bathroom)
45-47 : Show his face brushing his teeth, Zooming out
47-48 : Show character in bathroom, bathroom isolated in black space, music surrounding, flowing around the room almost hugging it
48-49 : Splashes water on his face and stands up straight - Water masks as another layer
49-50 : Character : Jacket 
- Layers, man shifts over onto jacket  
50-51 : Keys : Briefcase : Character(now in Jacket)
- move items onto page
- When he's in jacket have live action sewing video playing on jacket 
51-53 : Open door and drown in the white light and outside noises
53-55 : Falling backwards random noises floating by that slowly turn into a neat pattern everything else warping
55-56 : Show his eyes blinking slowly un warp
56-57 : He floats in water towards the light
57-59 : Breaking water and breathing in
59-1.01 : Timeskip - Music gets faster
- floating in water 
1.01-1.02 : Slow motion foot lifting off ground neon colours
1.02-1.04 : Faceless people walking in street clothes changing as they walk
- Piano street
1.04-1.06 : Standing outside a door, goes to knock on lion and it roars interrupting music flow
1.06-1.07 : Him standing open mouthed
1.07-1.08 : Door opens from inside looking out at him (lower half of body)
1.08-1.09 : Pan up his body to show his face, him in Black and white and people walking behind in normal clothes
1.09-1.11 : Series of doors open in real life, go through a door this is another door etc.
1.11-1.12 : Him looking through an open door and seeing a hat swinging, slow zoom out to show replica hats and walls, Background is video hat and him animated
1.12-1.13 : His P.O.V show one room but lots and lots of hats (double mirror effect)
1.13-1.16 : 8 snaps of the hat hidden in the video
1.16-1.17 : Close up of eye side angle, show his brain cut out with music escaping
1.17-1.19 : Him lying on a psychiatric couch, the couch changing pattern musical notes flying down screen
1.19-1.20 :  Zoom in on his face as he buries it in the couch, the couch still changing
1.20-1.26 : Show a dull world within him standing in the middle, music and colour inside of him, that is the released and everything becomes colourful
1.26-1.28 : Him standing Black and white against colour background, soothing image, slight breeze very soft
1.28-1.30 : Lying in musical ocean sun glare slowly rising across screen as sun rises and fades to white
1.30-1.32 : On fade to white have a slight glitch showing the hat

Animatic - 1 

Music started by Isaac Page who will be working with us on this project.

Feedback 1 -
Camera continuity
4x3 rule
Perspective

Week 1 - Owl and the pussycat : Romance/Thriller styles : Draft 1

 Further ideas and breakdown

• Animation over video
• Paper boat with writing on 
• White owl, Black cat
• Boat rising from water (reverse video)
• Water,boat,owl,cat,honey,money,stars,guitar,sailing,pig,ring,shiling, marriage,turkey,mince,quince,spoon,dance,moon.
• Moving tattoos? Long distance relationship?

Romance style : Draft 1 

• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea
  
  Two people with tattoos
• In a beautiful pea-green boat
  Send notes to each other (paper boat style)
• They took some honey
  Honey heart? Flutter in like bee's
• and plenty of money money money money Wrapped up in a five-pound note
  Note = love letter
• The Owl looked up to the stars above
  Blink owl eye/cat eye 
• And sang to a small guitar,
  Show stars in each eye
• O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,What a beautiful Pussy you are,You are,You are!What a beautiful Pussy you are!"
  Musical ladder created when owl sings (sheet music)
• Pussy said to the Owl,
  Background of the two people lying in fields looking at stars
• You elegant fowl!How charmingly sweet you sing!O let us be married! too long we have tarried:But what shall we do for a ring?
  People move their hands to go over one another.Creatures climb towards each other over music. Breaks away on ring
• They sailed away, for a year and a day,
  Hands walking background changes to show passing of time getting faster and faster
• To the land where the Bong-tree grows
  Smoke (bong) creates a tree like image. Hands clasp together 
• and there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood With a ring at the end of his nose,His nose,His nose,With a ring at the end of his nose. "Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your Your ring?" Said the Piggy,
  Someone elses hand with a pig ring gives them the ring they need for marriage
• "I will."So they took it away, and were married next day By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
  They put the rings on each other, blurred wedding background. Characters through confetti then real life people through confetti 
• They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
  Toasting/drinking as it comes down from lips turns into runcible spoon as they eat
• And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand
  Blink owl eye/cat eye
• They danced by the light of the moon
  Show moon in each eye
• The moon,The moon,They danced by the light of the moon
  Hand in hand, they dance together
  
  
  

  Thriller/action style : Draft 1 

• The Owl and the Pussycat went to seaSplit screen, both looking at "mark" which is each other 
  
• In a beautiful pea-green boatTwo animals para shoot out into the sea, Boat rises from the water just in time to stop them getting wet 
• They took some honeyLoads a gun
• and plenty of money money money money Wrapped up in a five-pound note 
  Flash fake money, Id cards as they check they are all in place. Snap it shut in a note book. 
  

  
  
• The Owl looked up to the stars above

  Blink owl eye/cat eye 
• And sang to a small guitar,presses a button on boat and a guitar appears (show shot of the back of the guitar covered in weapons)
• O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,What a beautiful Pussy you are,You are,You are!What a beautiful Pussy you are!"starts serenading the cat, getting closer to her, knife hidden on the back of the guitar 
• Pussy said to the Owl,Eye glint, show cat vision that sees really well in the dark,
• You elegant fowl!How charmingly sweet you sing!O let us be married! too long we have tarried:But what shall we do for a ring?Start to fight, gets very intense, then the owl is on the floor and cat is pinning him there, whispering in his ear "too long we have tarried" but what shall we do for a ring, bringing his claws around the owls neck
• They sailed away, for a year and a day,Sailing
• To the land where the Bong-tree growsSmoke bomb released on ship and they are inside a tree hide out
• and there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood With a ring at the end of his nose,His nose,His nose,With a ring at the end of his nose. "Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your Your ring?" Said the Piggy,Pig is head spy, sitting in a swivel chair, food on the table.  Ring in his nose. 
• "I will."So they took it away, and were married next day By the Turkey who lives on the hill.Turkey puts the ring around the owls foot so he can be tracked from now on 
• They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
  obscure 3 cut pictures, owl slowly becoming more distressed 
• And hand in hand, on the edge of the sandOwl tries to escape, but is being tracked
• They danced by the light of the moonCat has mechanical wings and is chasing him
• The moon,The moon,They danced by the light of the moonBoth fall into the sea

Week 1 - Written storyboard first draft

Taking the notes from today's meeting, shots, techniques and timing from the videos we found I created the first draft.

Draft 1 

0-1 : Closed eyes 'The man who mistook his wife for a hat' written on eyelids. Eyes snap open, music on his iris everything changes to a trippy colour.
1-2 : Hand slams down on Radio alarm
2-4 : Him lying in bed sailing in a musical world, slowly becomes darker, into a storm, real life hands crumple it all up.
4-5 : Calm close up of him going into slippers
5-6 : Slightly energetic medium shot of him putting the dressing gown on
6-7 : Energetic bright long shot of him tying the dressing gown belt
7-8 : Just his face standing still, different textures playing over the top. Background moving showing video going from bedroom to kitchen.
8-10 : Video, him turning the kettle on. Camera zooming in, as he touches the kettle colour changes on just the object showing water bubbling and the steam.
10-11 : Kettle clicks, noise stops, fast zoom into his face (Click breaks the music)
11-13 : Goes to use kettle but unsure how
13-15 : One colour, Slow zoom into kettle and slight distort/tilt
15-17 : Man looks confused at kettle, kettle wipes across screen
17-19 : Someone else puts a cup in front of him
19-21 : Drinking cup of tea walking up stairs, piano stairs he himself is black and white and everything else is colourful and trippy.
21-22 : Long shot, standing in bathroom, reflection shows blurred faceless image of himself, slow zoom in
22-23 : Standing outside shower (positioned in same place on screen) drying off, slow zoom out
23-25 : Super fast zoom in on his face, eye blink
25-27 : One colour, strange camera angle of him getting dressed
27-28 : New colour, zoom into mirror in the corner of the room show him brushing hair from behind
28-30 : Same colour as above, brushing hair from front, now isolated no background, he starts to fall behind and blur and warp

30-32 : Music sheet dripping, melting away
32-33 : Making breakfast character black and white still image in a blue tint real life room that slowly pans out
33-34 : Zoom out, pick up bowl, show copies of the room layered over the top, just different colours, slow pan out
34-35 : Further zoom out, facing table
35-37 : Zoom into face, bringing spoon up to mouth as mouth opens go through into next scene
37-39 : Him sitting, bathroom walls slowly spreading through to fit together (Paper cut out)
39-40 : Looking down, walls solidify together - Mirrors
40-44 : Main character freaking out, background abstract insane
44-45 : Show his back (colour/black) in warped background room (bathroom)
45-47 : Show his face brushing his teeth, Zooming out
47-48 : Show character in bathroom, bathroom isolated in black space, music surrounding, flowing around the room almost hugging it
48-49 : Splashes water on his face and stands up straight - Water masks as another layer
49-50 : Character : Jacket
50-51 : Keys : Briefcase : Character(now in Jacket)
51-53 : Open door and drown in the white light and outside noises
53-55 : Falling backwards random noises floating by that slowly turn into a neat pattern everything else warping
55-56 : Show his eyes blinking slowly un warp
56-57 : He floats in water towards the light
57-59 : Breaking water and breathing in
59-1.01 : Timeskip - Music gets faster

1.01-1.02 : Slow motion foot lifting off ground neon colours
1.02-1.04 : Faceless people walking in street clothes changing as they walk
1.04-1.06 : Standing outside a door, goes to knock on lion and it roars interrupting music flow
1.06-1.07 : Him standing open mouthed
1.07-1.08 : Door opens from inside looking out at him (lower half of body)
1.08-1.09 : Pan up his body to show his face, him in Black and white and people walking behind in normal clothes
1.09-1.11 : Series of doors open in real life, go through a door this is another door etc.
1.11-1.12 : Him looking through an open door and seeing a hat swinging, slow zoom out to show replica hats and walls, Background is video hat and him animated
1.12-1.13 : His P.O.V show one room but lots and lots of hats (double mirror effect)
1.13-1.16 : 8 snaps of the hat hidden in the video
1.16-1.17 : Close up of eye side angle, show his brain cut out with music escaping
1.17-1.19 : Him lying on a psychiatric couch, the couch changing pattern musical notes flying down screen
1.19-1.20 :  Zoom in on his face as he buries it in the couch, the couch still changing
1.20-1.26 : Show a dull world within him standing in the middle, music and colour inside of him, that is the released and everything becomes colourful
1.26-1.28 : Him standing Black and white against colour background, soothing image, slight breeze very soft
1.28-1.30 : Lying in musical ocean sun glare slowly rising across screen as sun rises and fades to white
1.30-1.32 : On fade to white have a slight glitch showing the hat

Week 1 - Second meeting

Second meeting we went over more what we wanted to actually happen and came up with a sort of structure for the animation.

Ideas we liked most from previous meeting

• Visual differentiation 
• Switching realities 
• Different elements for different realities
• Eyes
• Sheet music
• Textures
• Layers

Technique/Mask ideas

• Video
• Paper cutout
• Stop motion hands
• 3D
• 2D
• Claymation
• Ink water
• Sand animation
• Photography
• Reverse video
• Whiteboard 
• - One main technique that the others feed into

Further ideas

• Street modern - no faces videos
• Camera walking affect
• Faces where there are none
• Objects humanised, humans objectified 
• Object blank, music plays, notes break it and create a real object
• Reverse a video, breaking and then bringing it all back together
• Chain of notes, wrapping together
• Scrunch up and show a blank page - hands
• Piano
• Not recognising himself in the mirror
• Ripping into reality 
• Hidden items 
• End with blink
• Music : Flow > Jitter to silence (Viewer being kicked out, Breathing in, Blink) > Return flow slightly all seems normal > End with a small jitter and bang. 
• Mood : Anxious/Scary/Serious 
• Real world black and white his world colourful because that's what is more real to him - Things are under the influence of him

Story 

• Traditional narrative (what not to do) = Status quo, something interrupts that, they try to deal with the problem and fail, seek guidance, train, deal with problem and succeed, return to status quo but at a higher level. 
• Start singing all time then destroy everything by the end
  
• Initial Idea for the start of the video : 3rd person - Eye moving around - Blink twice, show music on iris and a hidden object on the lid - camera moves into black pupil - come out in a first person view.
  
• Waking up eyes open
• Walk through day
• End with him in a counselor's office "Music has been your center" Show inside his body music "Now make it your whole" World explodes into music sheet.
  
  Main setting from A-B
• Open eyes - Messy Room 
• Snooze alarm - Radio alarm clock
• Put on Slippers 
• Tighten dressing gown belt
• Kettle on
• Cup of hot drink walking up stairs (Piano stairs)
• Shower
• Dry towel
• Get dressed 
• Brush hair
• Prepare breakfast
• Eat breakfast
• Brush teeth
• Wash face
• Back downstairs
• Put on Jacket 
• Pick up case and keys
• Open the door to a white light
• Close up of eyes - Walking to clinical room
• Show in clinical room
• Music life - Maybe voice over

Week 1 - First meeting

Initial ideas and looking at both inspiring images and videos, some notes from the group discussion.

Styles and Ideas for the animation

• Layers converging
• Paper cut
• Sheet music
• Broken random shapes that fit together to make an object
• Cut over layers different shapes - Follow over video
• First person P.O.V 
• Abstract no character
• Featureless humans
• story?
• Title very important
• Shorter videos spread better
• Strong 10 second start.
• Advertising out skills, get good marks, for fun

Places to publish the animation 

• Reddit
• Imgur
• Abstract bloggers
• Abstract art website
• Museum
• Radio (Sound and image)
• University blog
• University TV
• Email abstract animators asking for both tips and then feedback

Our target audience 

• Blog direction - Group blog by November 5th - Jess on Tumblr
• Sunday November 30th deadline
• December 1st Publish 
• Release on a Monday or Tuesday so adults can watch at work throughout the week
• Uk Americans 

Lesson 1 - Initial ideas

Nursery rhymes and exploration 

Unit details 

• Hand in just before christmas 
• Look into history of the stories 
• No literal interpretation 
• To become David Attenborough and start to create a visual/motion library
• Audience : Children/Historic Film/Game
  E4 short? Festivals? Childrens TV? Uni TV? YouTube? 
• Work may be shown at City of Portsmouth museum

Initial ideas 

Paual the koala vs Owl and the pussycat

• Students in Edinborough/Australia collaboration?
• Call Zoo
• Go to Edinburgh Zoo 
• Online 
• 40 seconds long
• No real history to it
• Finding your home
  
• Have a cat
• Easy to find stuffed owls
• Lots of owl and cat footage online 
•  1m - 2m30 seconds long depending on version 
• A lot of analysis but pretty much a nonsensical fairy tale poem
  Example 
• Impossible love story and not letting go
  
  

Initial inspiration 

Interested in have a live action animal and then creating an animated world around them.

Mr.Tv - Super mario cat (in real life)
Again I have a cat, but more to the point it would be possible to draw over in flash, create masks involving different techniques.

Phoebe Halstead - Derek and his shells
Video interaction with real life.


On a side note - Nothing wrong with a little bit of paint music video with tests?

The poems 

The Owl and the Pussy Cat went to seaIn a beautiful pea-green boat,They took some honey, and plenty of moneyWrapped up in a five-pound note.The Owl looked up to the stars above,And sang to a small guitar,"O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,What a beautiful Pussy you are,You are,You are!What a beautiful Pussy you are!"
Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!How charmingly sweet you sing!O let us be married! too long we have tarried:But what shall we do for a ring?"They sailed away, for a year and a day,To the land where the Bong-tree growsAnd there in a wood a Piggy-wig stoodWith a ring at the end of his nose,sHis nose,His nose,With a ring at the end of his nose.

"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shillingYour ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."So they took it away, and were married next dayBy the Turkey who lives on the hill.They dined on mince, and slices of quince,Which they ate with a runcible spoon;And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,They danced by the light of the moon,The moon,The moon,They danced by the light of the moon

Paula the koala
She moved to Guatemala
Cuz she heard the trees there were a little taller
Turned out they were smaller
So she moved to lake eufaula
Then to Walla Walla Washington
So if you live in Walla Walla
And if you see a koala
You can bet your bottom dollar
That koala’s name is Paula
Paula the koala
Who lives in walla walla
Walla walla Washington
She’s cute
She’s kind
She just might be the best marsupial that you could ever find
She’s sweet She’s smart
She’s a smalla with a great big heart

Lesson 1 - Initial ideas

The man who mistook his wife for a hat

Sections and overview that I liked from the book upon first reading

• Lack of recognition for objects and people
• Eating songs, bathing songs, dressing songs
• Interrupted and loses the thread, he comes to a complete stop
• All sense of concrete,reality being destroyed 
• "Well Dr sacks" he said to me " you find me an interesting case, I perceive. Can you tell me what you find wrong, make recommendations?"
  "I can't tell you what I find wrong" I replied "but I'll say what I find right. You are a wonderful musician and music is your life. What I would prescribe, in a case such as yours, is a life which consists entirely of music. Music has been the center now make it the whole of your life"
• His body music

Initial ideas 

• Sheet music forming lines to create objects
• Sheet music wrapping around 
• Animate on skin (living tatoo) 
• Blink, show music reflected in eyes
• Blur and warp edges, the sharp 
• Static 
• Outline an image and inside have code/error image not found/sheet music
• Shadow music sheets
• Experimental
• Rip reality to show how he sees (pencil vs camera)
• Blank pages/faces

Initial research 

• 虞雅婷 : Out of sight 

Shows the view of a blind girl and I feel this is in someway similar as although he is not blind his perception of the world is also altered much like hers.

• Phoebe Halstead : Derek and his shells

1.24 The 2d interaction over the top of the video.
Image research

• Ben Heine : Pencil vs Camera 

I really like his work, and the idea of ripping into reality to show something not seen by others.

Overview

Deadline : Hand in just before christmas

How much : 30 seconds each 

What it is: Music video inspired by book

Target audience : Adults - Trendsetters - something new

Marked on : Techniques, Team, Creative, Effort 

Timetable

* * Mon * *	U20201	Production Contexts	09:00 - 11:00		Friedman,Ya	Lect	EL W 1.08
* * Mon * *	U20330	Sound And Visualisation	16:00 - 18:00	Gp01	Palacios, E	Comp Pract	EL 1.125D
* * Tue * *	U20214	Advanced Visual Research For Animation	09:00 - 11:00	Gp01	West, J	Studio	EL 2.30D
* * Tue * *	U23949	Animation Group Project	14:00 - 16:00		Charisse,Pa	Comp Pract	EL 2.31
* * Wed * *	U23491	Cartoon Animation	11:00 - 13:00	Gp02	Garth, T	Sem	EL 2.30C
* * Thu * *	U23949	Animation Group Project	09:00 - 11:00		Bisineer,Me	Studio	EL 2.30C