Big bang!

Big bang video, on a timeline with narration. Ideas are based around certain theories. Totally helpful.

Amelie

I also found a pdf of the storyboard for the film Amelie here which looks a bit like this.


I really like the look of this storyboard and the way that instructions don't infringe on the images, but it is also more important for me to remind myself how things will work.
It is really interesting to see the different methods and techniques though!

Storyboarding

I found this great site for information on storyboarding.

I'm not really sure what the site is / for, but it seems super useful. At the moment I am currently converting a choice of initial ideas into very basic sketches / storyboards. But I realise that looking at some of the images they do not convert so well to explaining movement and as this is a longer animation than usual it will be important for me to plan out the time and know what is going on.
So tomorrow I will have a look in the library to see if they have any books on storyboarding, and perhaps ask will in my crit who seems knowledgeable about such things.
Hopefully after these initial sketches, I can start building up the first storyboard of the ideas...and do it properly.

frames
passed around

reflection in glasses?
camera?
magnifying lens

---> makes things grow

See view

Things multiply

things move out of the frame.....

maybe everything gets jumbled up at the end?

picked up and put in a box?

"GREATER BEING" (that moves things, hands, arms, legs, picking things up)

Last go with the poster. I think the text works much better like this.

Unity poster

Today I thought I would have a stab at the Unity fundraiser event poster.
I had to work very quick on this because they want it asap. So decisions were made super quick.
There wasn't really very much to go on, just an abundance of information to put on the poster and that was that.
Here is how it developed anyhoo...









I basically wanted to use an instrument in the initial design and I always enjoy images where something usual and a bit twee becomes more interesting hence the spiders. I found that i really needed a way for this to sit on the page better and looked for a bright background but found that plain colour clashed too much with the blocky colour of the vector violin so opted for something in colour but more simple, i.e. patterned and translucent.

I always find it very difficult to use text, and at least I have been getting more practice with it recently. I found that creating a less busy space for the text worked better especially placing it between the exploded view of the violin.

Because of the amount of information needed I decided that the bottom image needed to be more subtle so that the text could overlap.

After a bit of feedback I seemed to find that the left aligned text worked better with the bordering to break it up. Christian also said that the text needed to be divided into 3 parts, which I then did with the bordering system. Which I think now allows the poster to be read properly.

Also what was mentioned was the relationship between the text and the image:
This is the final poster (i think) I have tried to make the image / background and text more harmonious by using the colour of the background as a way to highlight the text and make the sub heading more subdued than the heading. I have also made the blocks slightly translucent so that it seems less in front of the image and more part of it (the top image).

I have tested the poster out on people and it seems to read much better now. As in each block is read in order. Yay.

Royksopp - Remind Me