Additional Work - Film production Graduation film SPILT MILK - Storyboarding

Below is a partial shot list from the film with more shots that need to be drawn up. This is going to take some time doing but will be done. As apart from my grad film D-eb31e these films are the most and longest storyboards I have worked and will expand my portfolio further.

Spilt Milk- Director James Dunstan
Spilt Milk partial shot list: If you scroll down the highlighted shots is what I have drawn up sp far

Partial storyboards - Hand Drawn

Rough


Final Shots - Hand Drawn

13 - Part 1 - Animationn tests

From the concepts that have been drawn up below are tests of some of the animated body parts. Produced in Maya. The notes and step by step process of how this was produced will be on another post.

Rough Foot animation version one:

This version being too fast and the movement didn't seem to work . Due to it being to restricted. 
 


Foot animation version Two:

Amended foot design having different movement giving it a loose and experimental feel.



Hand animation:

Need to amend the thumb movement on the hand. As it isn't accurate when the hand clenches the thumb goes outwards which I need to amend to make it seem more realistic and accurate.

D-eb31e - Indiegogo shoot

Shootool - Camera Slider

Indiegogo shoot part 2

Before we shot the trailer for D-eb31e myself and Tom had an Induction into Shootool Slider which acts as an great tool for capturing good stablelized footage. To which Tom and I had tested out a few tests shots. You can find these test fooatges on Thomas Doukinatsas blog.

Stills from the Slider tests

D-eb31e 

To promote our graduation film D-eb31e we had created an indiegogo page to help fundraise our film as well promote our trailer through this as well. With lucy explaining the films concept and why we needed the budget.

 The first attempt of lucy's talk was shot in the photography room with a DSLR, however due to some complications with the Audio we decided to reshoot it on the same day we would be shooting the trailer, using the URSA to better show off our production values.

The URSA was a pleasure to work with, however the battery only lasts about 1,5 hours and the card can record 25 minutes, and takes about 40 to unload. It was good that we figured this out on the test day as i believe now Laura has added in the rental of a CFast card in the budget to be more efficient

This was also an opportunity to test out the actual workflow that we will use in the final film. The footage was offloaded on to a hard drive using ShotPutPro, a file transfer software aimed at digital imaging technicians which also verifies that the copy was successful without any errors by comparing both sets of files.

The trailer shoot itself was a really nice opportunity to test out the high speed feature of the URSA, filming up to 120fps for a full hd shot. We managed to get some really nice results and hopefully the trailer will be compelling to watch and instructive for us as a crew.


Here is the Trailer:

Beyond the Boundaries: Camera Workshop 2

During our second camera workshop we had a more indepth look at the CanonC300 and the URSA, using the the lens kit of the two cameras, the matte box, and the follow focus. Using the Ronford heavy duty tripod and the TV Logic monitor.

We learnt about the two professionals cameras and how to set them up properly, and had a chance to compare and test the two cameras.

Being the Director of Photography on graduation film Debbie alongside Thomas Doukinitsas the Cinematographer on Debbie and also being in charge of the post production side you can find the comparisons of the two different cameras video on Thomas blog.

Being the grader on Debbie i am leaning more towards  the URSA due to its much sharper image quality, and will have better colour managent handle, as the ideal software I want to use to grade is Davinci.

Beyond the Boundaries: Anxiety Dance - Storyboarding

Working with the same crew members from D-eb31e  Laura and Lauren, Anxiety being Laurens and Lauras idea. To start storyboarding I got as much information from lauren about what she wants and how she wants the visual of the film to be so taking the shot list created by Lauren I created the storyboard also looking at the reference moodboards that Lauren used.

MoodBoards and Visual Set put together by Lauren Fox - Director

MoodBoards -

 Set Visual and Style -

So before I started on the storyboard I throughy anaylsed the moodboards and set visual to give myself an idea and a gist of how Lauren wanted the dance film to visually look like.

Shot List


Storyboard produced from the shot list, created digitally on photoshop.

Beyond the Boundaries: Anxiety Dance - Role (Storyboard Artist , Animation)

Anxiety (Graduation film) - A short contemporary dance film, that mixes live action with animation based around the notion of anxiety and the movements associated with it. The main focal piece will be the movements  and the animation that will consist of branches , that interact with the dancer, until they ultimately restrict the dancer's movements.

Anxiety Short Dance Film - Role

- Storyboard Artist
- Animation/ Animator

Beyound the Boundaries: D-eb31e - IndieGogo

Wednesday 4th November 2015

Dallies of D-eb31e part 1

We had G12 booked out to shoot our promo for our IndieGogo page for the films fundraise page. Then we tested and shot a few scenes for the D-eb31e trailer.

Below is the footages from the day -