Life Drawing
Author: Christine Chen
Production Principles:Animation arts ‘Paperwork’
Week 1. Straight Ahead and Pose to Pose
Exercise 1 Dinosaur’s practice before going to bed
There is a simple movement in the first class of paperwork. It is about a dinosaur’s practice before going to bed.
Due to the fact that it is in-class exercises always very sudden without any clue.I dramatically overindulge in clay sculpture recently and did a lot of works with dinosaur.I chose 2 of them in my in-class work.
Exercise 2
Week 2 Bouncing Ball& Ease-in and Ease-out
Exercise 1 Bouncing Ball
Exercise 2 Ease-in and Ease-out
Week 3 Walk Cycle&Head Turn
Exercise 1:Walk Cycle
Exercise 2：Head Turn
Production Principles :Visual effects Cinemagraph Storyboard
Shaking
Introduction
The main aim of this project is through nuke and shot design to storyboard my ideas and edit them into a’cinemagraph animatic’.To learn how to use lens language to describe my story clearly in image.
In line with the brief, my first reaction was Charlie Chaplin.Due to the word “cinemagraph” described being silence which I understood.To me,I’d like to put the series of the cinemagraph gathered into a short film which can put my story into co-movement and bring the sense of engagement to audience.I connect this project with mime artist Charlie Chaplin always acting with little speech.What’s more, miming is distinguished from silent comedy.By watching Charlie’s film, “The Gold Rush”as an example which consisted with simple and clear plot followed relaxing atmosphere around all the time line.These points strongly influenced my inspiration which reminds of my flat mate’s interesting habits.
Due to the idea is inspired by what I have seen in my daily life, most of the elements are based on my subjective observation by living with my flat mate.Like my flatmate’s “brilliant hearing”,she always hard to hear our calling and she is interested in music.All of these started me thinking how can I put them into my story and how to amplified the personality.
Mind Map
Plot：My flatmate is a fanatical fan of Band , unable to extricate herself.However loudly I screamed at her , she was still immersed in her own world of music,I did not see.What’s more,wore the headset silently and shake to the rhythm.
Research
‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ is a main reference in my storyboard.The movie characterizing several roles with sharp contrast characters.I found it used a lot of Medium shot and tight medium shot to show the environment, action.clothes explicit what are they doing now, where are they.
Many part like the picture below looks like static image.Just simple movement in.
Close-up always use to emphasise something, an object, an action…
Research Mind Map
Storyboard Draft
4 main shots
I chose the medium full shot which can include 2 important elements, leg and arm.Due to the movement focus on the arm and leg.
And the close-up shot of the key object and key movement ‘wear the headset’
Color Test
In order to separate 2 states ‘before listening to music ‘and ‘after it’,I found colour temperature is important.Through the warm and cold to indicate the feeling of music which can turn her into a new side with colourful world after the monochrome part.
Final Work
cinema graph
short film
About me
BA Animation Year1 Student.