We had to decide wether to do Post-Production or Pre-Poduction. It took me a long time to decide. I thought doing post would be better for me but I would rather do pre. In the end I chose to do post but after going to a few lessons I changed my mind. I was able to move to Pre-Poduction however I had to catch up on the work I missed.
Animatic Project
We got give a few things that we could take inspiration from then we had to create an animatic between 60-90 seconds long. I chose the words "keep your eyes open" and the genre was Film noir.
We then had the project to create a pitch bible. We would be doing many character drawing and backgrounds. We had to keep it in an artist style however. We all got given artist to work from.
I got Eric Ravilious. I did some research and collected some images together of his work that I liked.
We then had to come up with characters, story and practise drawing in our art style.
I thought I would have to change a few things in my animatic. My main characters would need to look more different. They looked to similar and its better to have them stand out with a difference. I thought the best way to do this was make one of them a different animal. I also changed the names to the other way around so the one who is know as the detective is called Richards (last name) and his partner is called Dean.
My Logline
A remote stray Labrador investigates a
series of murders in his home town. Working with his partner, a brash young
fox, they must uncover the truth together even if they don’t always see eye to
eye.
My story briefly in pitch form
Crime rate is on
the increase, the local town animals are becoming victims to murder. Finding
cats as the culprit of more than one case Richards, a stray dog who became a
detective after the loss of his owner, starts to believe there is a connection
between the murders. He thinks someone or something is behind the murders and
is driving the cats to commit them.
Working with his
newly formed partner, Dean - a young fox, they must try to solve the case
before it is too late.
However, when
working together they have very different approaches and this causes conflict
between the pair. Richards must find out what connects the murders but he must
also convince Dean that there is a connection.
My Character/Background drawings for this project trying to keep close to Eric ravilious wood cut style.
