Final StoryBoard

So there's quite a few changes from the initial plan. I really didn't expect so many panels to take so long. I chose to use tangerine and burnt sienna paint underneath the black pen because a lot of the scenes involve sunrises and sunsets, and let's just be honest everything looks magical in magic hour.

The storyboard were hand drawn on paper just larger than A2, I think all together they look really effective but individually don't work as well. I'm so proud of this story, I feel like it's one of my top ones. I think if it was to be made, as a storyboard it fulfils its purpose it explains exactly what needs to happen, I think if I was to make it, there's a few things I would add to it. I think that as a storyboard/comic strip it works, but visualising the animation, because there's no dialogue, I think their would need to be a few more scenes to give the words away. I'm not sure there's enough of the man before the robot to show that he doesn't talk to his family. I think you could also really push the emotional range of the characters because of this lack of dialogue. It'd be an interesting project to make.

Now the sheets were too big for the large scanner as they quite a bit larger that A2. So please see physical hand in for the storyboard.

Mini Evaluation of COP:

I found it really difficult to discover what I wanted to write about for my essay, because I didn't feel inspired by the lectures, but once James sat down with me and dicussed what I was interested in, I found it really inspiring to read about the craftsman, and Eyes of the Skin was such a good book. I think for next year I really need to decide what my dissertation is going to be on before summer starts so I can do the reading early because some of the books are so difficult to read, it's like every other word you have to look up in a dictionary. I think that's what I've found hardest this time round, and also getting an inspiring idea to commit to for the practical.

Idea 3 Narrative

So it starts off with a man that obsessed with whittling wooden objects, normally characters, animals etc. He is so obsessed it's like a drug to him, and he doesn't have any friends, he's driven all his family away, and one day he makes a character that's a wooden robot, this wooden robot comes to life (lightning/electrical sparks) and when this happens his body lights up with mechanisms inside. The robot waters plants and we see time lapsing by them all growing and only then does the man notice that one of his whittles has come to life, and he stops whittling and has a moment with the little wooden robot, the man can't believe his eyes, and the next day he wakes up and thinks it's all been a dream. Until he hears scurrying in the corner and it's the little robot fixing something broken. The man doesn't whittle today, instead he spends the day watching the robot. There is no dialogue. A few days pass like this until the robot get's him to get in touch with the family, and then later on there is a knock on the door the robot watches from another room and sees the old man welcomed by open arms, the whittle is no longer used and is starting to get dusty, the robot leaves him a message and takes one of the whittled gnomes sticks with a handkerchief and walks off into the sunset.


Storyboard Panels:

1. wood whittle
2. hands at work
3. gnome one with the watering can being made
3. man's face scrutinising through glasses
4. the shavings on the floor
All above close ups with credits on top

5. pans through corridor with family photos
6. to a medium shot of the man whittling and the sunlight setting on him shot fades to black
7. fades to the same shot with the sun rising and the whittling continuing
8. wood whittle
9. hands at work
10. shavings on the floor
11. the robot being made being made, then it pans across the table to reveal, shelves filled with whittled creatures
12. goes to the robot being put on the shelf tracking shot camera moves with it
13. whittling machine with furious noises, fades to black


14. from black shot of the man asleep in a camp bed with the lamp in the far corner still on next to the shelves with the tiny robot
15. close up of the robot under the lamp and the light bulb explodes and the wooden robot comes to life,
16. several shots of the insides of the robots mechanisms growing
17. seventeen cuts black long pause

18. whittling noises before but is another close up of the whittling scene
19. a medium shot of the set up with the sun rising on the man
20. close up of the robot's eyes opening and him stretching like he's lost.
21. the man puts another creature on the shelf and continues to start another
22. the robot runs in and out of all the creatures and notices the plants on the windowsill
23. goes over to the plants and sees they are all wilting and walks around humped shouldered and mimics drooping plants
24. has an idea points finger and breaks off a watering can from one of the gnomes and water the plants
25. waters the plants
26. goes to sleep in the nuck of one of the wooden creatures fades to black

27. time lapse shot of the plants thriving and the robot every now and again watering them with constant noise of the whittling machine in the background fades to black again

28. from black scene opens with the man about to sit down at the whittling machine but he looks and notices the plants
29. close up of confused face
30. close up of him touching the plants, zooms out and he has a subtle smile
31. shot goes to the robot sat with a whittled woman drinking tea focus changes to see the old mans confused face drop the whittle and walk over the the shelf
32. close up of the man's face inspecting the little wooden robot zooms out
33. medium shot of the moment - either dancing or inspecting or weird swaying still to decide
34. man pulls up a chair and watches the robot whilst smoking a pipe.
fades to black

35. from black the scene opens with the man waking up and heading to the whittling machine until he hears scurrying.
36. close up of the robot fixing the light, old man blurry in the background and the depth of field changes and the man looks confused and doesn't whittle today
37. man pulls up a chair and watches the robot replace the lightbulb
38&39&40 sequential shots of the two doing things together during the day
41. as the sun is setting the robots drags a phone cord across the table and points at the picture of his family
42. the man reluctantly dials, close up of fingers
43. close up of robot putting himself to bed and the sound is mumbled voices fades to black as the robot falls asleep


44. from black, medium shot of the robot watering the plants and the man sat at the table drinking coffee.
45. sudden knock at the door and the robot scurries to the shelves,
46. shot of robot peaking through the whittled objects and in the distance the old man opening the door and
46.1 his family hugging him.
47. skips to a front shot of the robot looking sad yet happy and he scurries round and scratches something onto the gnome takes his stick with handkerchief
48. shot of him walking through the plants and out the window as the sun is setting with the stick over his shoulder.

49. shot of the inscription “A man should never neglect his family for business.”
– Walt Disney

Read more: http://www.keepinspiring.me/famous-quotes-about-family/#ixzz3XoCAFfMB

Idea 4

For Idea four my inspiration really comes from my insights into the future of animation with Occulus Rift. It was brought to my attention that google have a kit you can buy to create a headset with your phone inside.

I think there's a real future for this, because the occulus rift is still completely unaffordable for the working man, but the concept of being immersed into a game or film that fools your senses will give a new experience to the pleasure of the digital world and experiencing animation. I think the idea of handmade headsets really adds to the craftsman inside people, and I think actually people would get an equal satisfaction from making the headset.


https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/get-cardboard.html

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/02/22/mattel-teams-up-with-google-for-high-tech-view-master/


So now I've given a bit of background about the inspiration itself, now I shall explain the idea. So I'd have some printed nets to make a headset and rotoscope some of the rooms in LCA like the library and the canteen, in 360degree format. See link below for the best 360degree photo taking apps that could be used to rotoscope from. I think I do each one in different mediums to really push the Leeds college of art feeling, and then do promotional stands for people to take the net and experience the college from another art student's point of view.


http://appadvice.com/appguides/show/best-panoramic-photo-apps



As much as I love this idea, there is no way I would want to do it half heartedly. I also think that this project would be so much more fun if I could get other people involved to really draw the craftsman out of them and put it into the digital age. For example if a textiles artist would want to sew a 360degree drawing of one of the room, or maybe if a threeD student wanted to create a replica of the image out of cardboard. I think this would make this project work a lot better, but I just don't have enough time to organise it, but I think the concept would be so cool.