Category: Term 2

Incorporating the feedback, I retimed the scenes.

I added pauses at moments of serious story moments to let the audience take in the feeling. I also decided to remove some moments from the storyboard as they were redundant and not adding to the visual story.

Over the 2 weeks, I worked on adding props and detailing the environment where needed.

1. Cars and flying ships to define the setting and steampunk aesthetic.
2. Massing of buildings to define the backgrounds in the scenes.
3. Architectural elements like arches and columns to improve the compositions and form a focal point.
4. Furnitures and Props to set and identity for the protagonist as a wood toymaker.

I started working on the pre-vis, keeping the storyboard as a guide. For the 1st draft, I just positioned characters and camera in basic box environments and necessary props only.

To understand the rules of composition and ‘mise-en-scène’, I worked on some still frames. From my storyboard, I picked a few main story points, positioning placeholder characters and environment props to get a sense of the story.

I decided to work on the first story for my pre-vis. After making some changes to the story, I redid the storyboard and worked on a moodboard to define a theme and setting.

This unit was interesting for me, as I have struggled with story writing in my works. I wanted to experiment with basic stories for the storyboards and focus more on the story circle for each of them.

Story 1 : Johnny One-Arm

Storyboard 2 : Farenhiet 451 – Montag

Storyboard 3 : Brand within

This week we covered the theory of Mise-en-scène and world building.

To develop a world in a story, these questions need to be addressed:

• Where is this taking place?
• What era?
• Future, past or present?
• Space? Western? East Asian? Steampunk? Etc
• What governs your world? Laws? Gods/religions?
• How do these things effect your story?

For the compositions we studied the rule of thirds and golden ratio and which composition is suitable for which scenario.