Hello hello.
Due to having no internet at home, my last what, 5? posts are on paper floating around in my room somewhere. They will reammerge soon and be posted up here.....eventually everything in my room reammerges.
Right now I'm re-reading the script for the animatic. It's weird how sometimes, when you read a script over. you notice so much more. (Sometimes, it all blurs into a mush.) Just taking notes.
I'm excited about the next assignment, because it's fine art woohoo!!! I'm imagining this amazing book at the end, glossy and coloured and spiral bound....beautiful. we still need to pick a tale. It will be easier once this next week is over. How does it get so busy???
It will be interesting working in a group 1) as no one has any time, let alone meeting-up time 2) we'll have to listen to other people 3) we'll not only be responsible for ourselves. This kind of thing makes me feel like being an experimental animator, haha...I am not a very organised person, and this screams
"ORGANISE!!!!"
The storyboards for the animatic.....when i look over them, you have to think about the overall flow of the sequence, every action, every scene, every panel, and then every background layout and movement within the frame that will need to be taken into account with layout...every specific effects the whole. If something is off, then even if an audience member can't articulate exactly whats wrong with the composition, it will look wrong and feel wrong and distance the audience. This is not brechtian theatre....that is a bad thing.
I was talking about colour value at midnight with my housemate (who's doing the film course). The fact that you don't need to percieve a particular colour, only value, to understand a form doesn't devalue colour to me at all. Black and white pictures are sometimes even clearer than a colour version. But it is interesting to me because that means value's purpose is to dictate form and communicate physical features......which means colour has an entirely different purpose, an entirely different perception. Colour dictates MEANING. Poisonous animals are brightly coloured. Evil guys wear dark suits. I was watching the movie Garage Days last week, and in one long shot, you see the character Kate standing in front of her bathroom mirror, leaning on the sink, looking at herself in the mirror. In the film, you could say it's showing her being introverted or thinking deeply.....but about what? The shot by itself has no particular meaning. But as I watched the camera truck out, I keep thinking "What's with the long red skirt?"
It wasn't out of place or strange......but I knew it meant something. a scene or two later you find out she's pregnant. If that skirt had been green, or blue, it would not have made any sense....we would believe she's pregnant because the film stated it, but it wouldn't feel right...it would seem out of the blue (haha).
I love this film grammar stuff.
Animation fun.
