Monday, May 12, 2008

Crewing Up

Breakfast : me - toast and jam, Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, orange juice/ Luca - 2 x pastries and a white coffee.

Morning - Today we took a workshop for any students interested in helping out with the film. First of all I talked about working on a pitch for a commercial, through pre-production, production and post, using projects that I have directed for Slinky as examples. I briefly explained what crew may be needed on a job and why, and described the different units that may be required on shoot.


Luca and I then moved on to talking through the project that we are doing for AIR Newport 'The Life of an Apple'(working title) from preliminary storyboard and conceptual artwork, through to the final animatic. We discussed our design inspirations, and the idea behind the over all aesthetic of the piece. We also talked about and the importance of sound and music, and involving a sound designer or composer from a very early stage.

Luca took the students through the processes of designing the apple character and building it in Maya, and I talked about creating the ink artwork for Shots 1 and 3.

After lunch we sat down with each student to look at some of their work, and discuss what they would like to do on the project. Luca and I then went through the animatic and found sections to allocate to each student. We are meeting in E4 studio tomorrow morning at 10.00 am to allocate jobs.

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