17/11/17

For DGA 210 I listened through the new narration that had been recorded by a friend of Rebecca's. The 1940's style narrator works amazingly well for the humorous atmosphere we were trying to create for our advert so I feel that this is a success and we've decided to use this recording in our final edit. We've also settled on using the soundtrack for The Incredibles as our scratch track since we don't have time this late into the module to record an original score. On my own I've also been assigned two more shots and have been making the finishing touches to shot 3.

For DGA 220 I have spent this week researching my topic. I've also used this week recording with Katy for our presentation on open source software. We finished our scripts and set aside a time for recording, and it took a few hours but we've officially recorded all of the audio we need for our presentation. We decided that Katy is going to edit the audio together and I'm going to create the presentation and export it.

For DGA 230 I'm behind with concept work so I've spent this week designing a background for my proof of concept, finishing off the character turnarounds for the mom and dad, and also doing rough sketches for a concept piece. This week I also keyframed my proof of concept shot. I've decided that I'm going to animate the pivotal moment where the mother falls to her knees to rescue a picture from a photo frame, and the alien is going to leave her, representing the moment where the children (and also the audience) realise that she isn't possessed by an alien, but is actually just feeling lonely and struggling to adjust to her old life. I think the visual symbolism will look really good animated in our chosen artist's style, and also it is the most emotionally impacting moment of the film and I wanted to demonstrate how the minimalistic style will still be able to portray that sadness.