Process

After the initial brainstorming part of this project, the three storyboard words my tutor and I chose was 'knit', 'chase', and 'cock'. As immuture as the word cock sounds, It has multiple meanings and a little humour also which I really wanted to do. Tastefully of course.

All of my storyboards are on 2x A4 pages, this has been agreed with my tutor as acceptable even though the brief states one A4. All of my words had a lot of story/action going on and I did not want to compromise the story by having less frames, and I also did not want to make the letters too small to show effectively what the stories would be. Knit especially needed to be large as the 'stitches' need to show and it is very detailed. Cock of course needed two A4's as it is displaying three different animation ideas in the same storyboard effectively as it has three different parts.

Chase. I wanted the word not be written until the end of all of my animations. Keeping the audience guessing what they think the word is until the end is definitly a good thing as I think it will keep them interested. I liked chase, but it didnt seem strong enough in terms of detail.

I really liked this word and took a long time to decide on cock over knit. Showing the word though negative space was a great feature of this animation. I also loved the kitten aspect. I wasn't sure the actual art of knitting would show up well in an animation - as I knit myself I know the process and to make the animation actually look like it was knitting was going to be very difficult indeed (not to mention each stitch being a seperate layer!). As well as this I did not want to bite off more than I could chew in terms of skill when I had not used the programme before.

My final storyboard, and word chosen is cock. I really wanted to choose a word with lots of meanings, and cock had some interesting and different aspects like guns, roosters and of course the penis. The font I chose was basic, I wanted the font be the same for each section as a sort of tie-in, and so didnt go too far into typography differences specifically for this reason.

For the sound aspects of my animation I wanted to have some aspect have sound and others not. I feel like I have added sounds to the most important peices of the clip to add impact where necessary. I also think the animation can work without the sound as well which was my intention.

The tranformation and composition of letters took a lot of time - although the decision on where to have the pictures come from, or form to on the stage made life easier in terms of individual letters and layers. The rooster for example was walking on from the right hand side, and the letters have been tranformed to fit specific aspects of the roosters body. Each letter is a seperate layer and  follows an individual path to get the best impact.

In terms of the speed and rhythm of the clip, initially I wanted to have some dead white clear stage area between each part of the clip to let the audience digest each part before the next started, but it just didnt work, so I speed up the spaces between each object and it works much better as a final product now. The rooster is perhaps the slowest of all three objects, and this is modelled off  videos I have watched of roosters and how they graze.  Obviously the man stands in the centre with his feet on the bottom of the stage, and the gun is held in the middle. The rooster has the most sense of direction by walking on and flying off the top left hand side of the stage.