Week 1

This was our first week meeting with the full class. We presented our animatic and the notes where very positive. The main critique that was given our way was that the animatic itself was cut very fast. This initial animatic is not cut to time properly with the dialogue, therefore it is around 3 times shorter than it should be. To combat this our team is working on recording dialogue to temporarily place into the edit to get a better sense of time.

After the class we met separately to set some goals for the week. We want to make sure we have down how to tackle each effect before we get to filming the entire short.

I have been tasked with further refining the shadow monsters and collecting some reference.

This horror film by David F. Sandberg provides some fantastic reference for a shadow creature.

I liked the idea of using 2D footage and projecting it to 3d geometry so that it distorts and did a quick test for myself.

The biggest lesson I learned from this test is just how low the light has to be for the shadow to appear menacing. I relayed this to the team and we agreed that a character dropping a flashlight could be used to justify the lighting.

The other task I need to tackle this week is booking a camera and greenscreen reservation.