Week 4: Production Schedule

Hey guys, I've updated the production schedule for the week, obviously changed it because Matt has finished his modelling and rigging, Also I think we would like to spend a little longer on modelling considering how good the results are, and we can obviously spend less time on texturing now because we found it will be easier texturing on the large flat planes we have for the sides of the buildings. Anyways heres the plan.

Week 4: Modelling

This is a screenshot of the first piece of modelling I did. I started from this as a central point in my alleyway. I will then start to develop around this. I have also worked on a roof for this overpass area. I'm also working closely with Jeff as he is modelling alot of the smaller features such as windows and doors so we may use these again on different buildings in both our areas.

Week 4: Storyboarding

This week we brought our final storyboards together to see how the narrative would work. We each storyboarded our own designated section and then linked them up and we agreed this was working well. Here are my storyboards I illustrated.

Week 3: Production Schedule

I've whacked up this as a rough production schedule. It might be different to the one we put together as a group but I think we can use this until next week and then re-evaluate it then. Its got a section for each person and its very rough and sketchy at the moment. Also I've noted down the lectures we have on each of the days and a progress tracker for individual tasks on the right hand side. I'll post this on the main blog aswell as my own blog.

Week 3: Finalising Our Narrative

After returning from Barca we decided to finalise our narrative and bring together any new ideas we might have. I drew up a new map sketch that I felt would work well for a 1 minute piece and we also have had some new ideas incorporated into the narrative.

We have basically divided the narrative into 5 sections and by Week 4 everyone will have storyboarded their section and we will re-evaluate our idea, although we think it will fit together nicely as we only need to storyboard 12 seconds each. These are the sections that have been assigned:

Section 1: Matt, Cat walking out of hole in side of house after dragging ball of string down, then exploring street
Section 2: Jeff, Cat exploring down street and examining alley and turning into it
Section 3: Harvey, Cat going through alley taking in narrowness and darkness and then emmerging out the other side
Section 4: Kanika, Cat going down a new wider street going towards an archway which is entrance to a courtyard
Section 5: Sam, Cat going into courtyard with shot widening to show the whole city and all the destruction.

The big change we have also made has been not to having the ground cracking like an earthquake is happening, but have it more like an earthquake has occurred and the cat is investigating it. Also in the final shot the city will pan out to show the city practically ripped away on a kind of cliff edge. This will be better explained in Sam's storyboards later on.

Week 3: More ideas for style and architecture

These were a couple of postacrds I picked up in Barcelona showing off some good back alley areas from the gothic quarter. I really liked the style of this especially with the texturing. I also liked the lighting and the intensity on one of the postacrds and would like some of our own shots to appear like that. Also this will act as extra reference to our own photos we took while in Barcelona.

Week 2: Barcelona Study Trip

In Barcelona we collected alot of photographic visual research, we felt this would be important to work from for building design and texturing later on when we returned home. In my own photography I have tried to work towards getting some images that could potentially be used as flat textures like the ones below:




































We also found some interesting buildings which we think really suit our style we are going for some we maybe be referring to these regularly for inspiration and ideas. Some of the really run down buildings are really what we want to aim for and we might even have to use these for textures if they work well enough.



























Also this was the moment Matt realised he had had too much cheap wine!