Final Project Update 3

Final Project Update 2

This is my cartoon so far. I may add some more scenes. I still have to make transitions between scenes and add audio.

Final Project Update

My final project is finally moving along. I ended up having to completely change the concept because things weren't working out. Creating a flipbook is hard enough when you're just doing a ball bouncing for example, and trying to make a whole cartoon is nearly impossible. I had starting making the drawings for this and then I realized that I was never going to finish by the end of the semester. I decided to just do a regular cartoon with the same idea and script, it just won't be a flipbook. I am still working on the drawings, but it is coming together nicely.

Shooting Script

There is no actual dialogue in my project. I will be adding music and sound effects (that are not copyrighted). I will be including thought bubbles at times for the characters and adding text to narrate certain scenes. Since I have to draw each movement of each scene individually, I really want the video to be short and sweet, and it will be about 3 minutes long.

Characters:

Fred: Zombie boy

Georgina: Zombie girl

Background zombies will be used as needed.

Scene 1: Fred is shuffling along the highway looking for food, when he sees Georgina walking up from the other side of the highway.

Scene 2: Fred thinks that Georgina is the most beautiful zombie girl he has ever seen and decides to share his brains with her.

Scene 3: Fred and Georgina enjoy a romantic picnic near the highway.

Scene 4: Fred and Georgina fall in love. They continue shuffling along the highway in search of more food.

Scene 5: Fred and Georgina are shuffling towards the sunset holding hands.

Production Schedule

Group Project

Video can be seen here.

 

Roles:  Director                      Stephanie Zak

            Scriptwriter               Daniella Connelly

            Visual Affects             Richele Young

            Composer                   Michael Lapolla

Script: A day in the Life of a Dog

Summary:      A short film that captures the everyday life of a dog. The script will
                        take on the dog’s mind and bring you through a typical day. In
                        doing so the story hopes to open up the mind of the viewer in a
                        humorous way to show how differently life is perceived from different
                        creatures.

Characters: Dog

Scene 1: Daybreak

Opens with shot of dog lounging in his bed. It is morning.

Dog:                Oh bother! Is it that time again? I guess I must wake from my slumber
                        and go greet master in the food lounge. I wonder what will be
                        prepared this morning for my breakfast.

[Shows Dog walking towards kitchen.]

[End Scene.]

Scene 2: Master greetings

Dog wags tail and is being pet by his owner in the kitchen.

Dog:                Oh how nice it is to see you this morning. I trust you slept well master? I slept quite lovely.

[Shows dog eating out of his bowl and his owner eating at the table.]

Dog:                What an exquisitely delightful food. So rich in taste I must say!

[End Scene.]

Scene 3: Looking through the Glass

Dog is sitting looking out the window

Dog:                I wonder what nonsense the squirrels will play today. Surely they will be entertaining.

[Doorbell sounds.]

[Dog looks alarmed.]

Dog:                Oh my! The house has summoned a visitor! It is much too early for
                        this. I have not even had the chance to have my morning tea. What a
                        dreadful interruption to my morning viewing of the squirrels

[Dog walks to the door.]

[Dog jumps up onto the windowsill to see the mailman walking away.]

Dog:                I should have known it was that gentleman who brings us all those
                        pieces of paper.  I must be getting old! You’d think I was ten instead of
                        two!

[End Scene.]

Scene 4: Warm Welcome

Dog lies in front of the fireplace relaxing. Sun is setting outside.

Dog:                What a splendid fire! I do believe master should be arriving shortly.
                        Especially since that brilliant yellow ball outside has fallen quite a bit
                        since morning.

[Dog looks out window and sees the owner driving up in his car outside.]

Dog:                Ah yes finally my companion has returned from that mystical moving
                        device.

[Owner walks in door and dog wags his tail smiling to greet him.]

Dog:                Master! Master! You are home!

[End Scene.]

Scene 5: A Day’s End

The dog is lying on the master’s lap on the couch near the fireplace. The owner is reading a book and the dog lay nuzzled in his lap.

Dog:                I believe this is the life if I do say so myself Master. What a lovely way
                        to end such a splendid day. Now if you don’t mind I think I may just
                        doze off. Good night Master.

[End Scene.]

Group Project

I want to add that the default time in the program I'm using for each picture is 7 seconds. Let me know if this is too long or too short and I can change it. I can always add or remove pictures.

M3 Media Arts Process

 I think that with any project you create, there is a process that you go through. You have an idea, you think about what it takes to make this idea happen and plan for it, then you do it. This is my process for creating anything, it always has been and it probably always will be. I usually think of some rough idea for how I am going to put something together and just start. I am Queen Procrastinator and I do everything last minute. I could have 20 years to complete an assignment and I will still do it at the last minute.

The most important part of the process is the 'how' part: How am I going to put this project together? This is limited by three things: what I know how to do, what I can learn from the Internet and what is so far over my head that I shouldn't even attempt. More often than not, I figure out 'how' as I go, which has made me able to problem solve very quickly.

Below is the process shown in the Frick textbook:

1. Information Architecture
2. Define Media Elements
3. Define Naming Conventions
4. Define Directory Structure
5. Create your Flowchart/Logic Chart
6. Create Wire Frames
7. Define Possible Future Content Structures

Essentially this process is illustrating 'this is what we are doing and this is how we are going to do it.' I don't think that my process is too far off. If I actually sat down and planned things from beginning to end, I think that this is what my design process would look like. I don't think anything necessarily needs to be added or improved. Some steps could probably be condensed, but overall I think this process could be applied to many fields of design.

M3 Script Writing

The Story of the Boy Who Cared Too Little

There is a point in everyone’s life where something happens, where life changes and you began to see things differently.  School becomes work, partying is now catching up on some extra rest to cope with your new hectic schedule. After school activities are now working some over time to pay the bills, but not everyone makes this transition easily as I did. By the age 18 I had already worked 5 jobs all ending in the same result “you are fired” or “you are permanently laid off.” 

            Having failure in life is not all bad. I believe in the saying its only a mistake if you don’t fix it so I did it, but not without the great advice I was given by a man I worked with, Eric Novosat.  Now I show up to work early, work harder and sometimes stay late to get the job done and make my boss happy. It did not happen overnight. I gave up the partying and staying up til the late hours of the night. finally realizing that with hard work and dedication you can achieve anything whether it be receiving that raise you have been wanting because people will notice or increase your standard of living a great amount. Now I am much more happy and I feel more stable now that I have a steady career.

Script:             The day I realized there were changes to be made  

Characters:         Ryan, Eric, Ron

Plot:       Ryan learns that his job is in jeopardy and if he does not decide to make changes he will no longer be employed with this company he very much enjoys working with

Scenes:                Scene 1- late again

                             Scene 2-The return

Scene 1-Late Again

Ryan has been up all night at a club downtown on this Thursday night and was unable to wake up on time for work and shows up 3 hours late .

Characters:         Ryan, Ron

[Ryan walks into the shop and sees Ron sitting at his desk fixing the mistakes Ryan had made yesterday while he was working]

Ron: What happened late again?

Ryan: I know this is inexcusable.

Ron: I was going to let you work today and fix your mistakes but not after I see the carelessness you have towards this job.

[Ryan standing there dumbfounded.]

Ron: I don’t like what I’m seeing. Therefore I am going to give you five days suspension. 

[End Scene.]

Scene 2- The Return

Characters:         Ryan, Eric

[Ryan once again returns to work an hour early after his suspension]

Eric: Hey Ryan how’s it going how was your vacation 

Ryan: [Ryan sighs] It was good I guess I did a lot of thinking.

Eric: You know Ron was pretty fired up that day I would hate to see you get fired

Ryan: Yes im sure he was all this made me realize how good I have it here and how much I would like to stay here 

Eric: Sounds like you need to get your priorities together and figure out what is more important; your job or this path of destruction you are on.

Ryan: I know, I know it will not happen again 

Eric: I would hope not because now you are under Ron's radar and if anything of that sort happens again he won’t think twice about firing you.

Ryan: Right I guess the only way I can prove to Ron is to show him by being punctual and paying more attention to detail in my work

[End Scene.]

 

M3 Sound Assignment

BEFORE PLAYING THE VIDEO please note that I couldn't figure out another way to upload my sound project on blogger. I used trakAxPC (which is supposed to be like Garage Band for PC) to create my sound project. The program was pretty easy to use, but there is supposed to be a feature to upload straight to youtube but it didn't work. Next, I tried to host my project on Sound Cloud and use an embedded code, but that didn't work either. Then, I uploaded my sound into Movie Maker and the program won't let you upload sound until you insert a picture, so I just used some of the pictures that came on my laptop. The pictures have absolutely nothing to do with my sound project, I just thought it might be more interesting to look at instead of a blank screen. If anyone knows of better way to upload audio to blogger, please let me know.

Moving on to the assignment, I wanted to create something that sounds like my house when I get home from work. Usually, I'm on my laptop in my room listening to music and checking email, Facebook, and things like that. In the background, there is usually the dishwasher or washing machine is going, my dog is barking and walking around, and my mom and stepdad are walking around doing stuff. I downloaded all the sounds from www.freesound.org.