set planning

i have been planning my sets, i started with the tube train here are the tube plans, i made several versons and changed things due to size, practicallity of making etc. i found the measuremts for a 1972 service tube online, each carriage is 2.87 metes in hight, 15.98 meters in length and 2.64 meters in width, seating 44people per cariage. with my armiture being 20cm high, divided by 5 makes 4cm= 1 foot. this is going to be the rought scale i will be working with. so h = 2.87m = 9.41 feet = 37 cm. L = 15.98m = 49.21 feet = 196cm. W = 2.64m = 8.61 feet = 30cm. the length is much too long and would be impractical to buildit at that length. so as much as i want to stick to the correct measurements i will be scaling the length down to about 80cm, i is alot but its to make it easyer to construct, paint in detail and transport.







i have now started building the tube, i used these plans to work from and measure but its size has shrunk quite abit due to the practicallity of making the tube, the materials available, thickness of the materials, after moulding and trimming the materials to the right size and shape i lost alot of the original scale however i am hapy with the construction and it would be very difficult to handle if it where any bigger, so i am now reworking my scale, so it is now more like 1.5 cm = 1 foot. due to this new scale my armiture is now much smaller but this does make some things easyer and some things more difficult but i am pleased with this, i have re worked the scale and am now drawing up plans for the rest of the sets and plan to have the basic structures all compleate by next week.

another mock up set

i made this basic mock up set to help me decide on the final styles of my film.
i have decided really want to combne card cut out backgrounds for the 'real world' with a puppet character still, maybe wth ghost like card cut out people walking around the streets and station. i think this will help convey the fact that she is meant to feel compleatly alone and slightly removed from her 'real world', i want this feeling to be a big part of the film and will do some tests with card and the armiture girl soon.

sounds

i have been finding sounds on the iternet to add to my animatic, as im going to have no diolog i will probably want some non-diegetic music for the entire film with added diegetic sound effects. here are some of the websies iv been listning to sounds on.

http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/

http://www.freesound.org/

http://www.sounddogs.com/

thinking about styles

i have been thinking about styles and i found this video on youtube, i really like the style and i might try and do something similar for my cut out real world, i especially like the stairs and the mix of 2d and 3d is something i would like to experement with.




and i really like the collarge effect of this video

animatic 6

i made another animatic, using the mock up set plan to aid me with some of the shots, i decided that it would be cleaer if i shot them again. i am very pleased with the timing and the whole feel of this animatic, ithink it conveys what i wanted much better, im going to look into adding sounds and tweeking some of the timing but genrally i am very happy with it and i can focus more on defining what style i want as i am not so sure that i want to stick with my original cut out to stop motion idea, i want to do some more research into how i could go about incorporating a cu out style with keeping my puppet gir throughout. i really think i should keep the same puppet for continuety of the film and for the audiance to easily recognise and relate to her.

set planning

to help me understand the set and how the characters will move around and also to help me in the making of the sets, i made plans and mock up set plans, wich helped me alot in understanding the layout, made me think more about the style and gave me a better idea of how i would build the sets.

animatic

looking at my colour chart and treatment of the animatic, and getting feedback from my tutors i decided to change the beggining and the end (as they are the same..) of my film to make it clearer what happens because i wasn't very happy with it, i didn't think the animatic really made sence how it was and some scenes that needed working on to make it clearer to the audiance what is happening. i also wanted to create a better atmosphere and draw the audiance into the film more, making them curiouse about what is happeing and what will happen, drawing them into the film and making them want to watch the rest of the film.