Minor Project - House Layout Version 2 and Storyboard

Adaptation B - The Sound Collector Storyboard Revised

There were some small changes regarding camera distance I needed to do to a few individual shots after discussing the storyboard with Alan. Now on to the animatic!

Adaptation B - The Sound Collector Storyboard

I have finally finished a fairly refined storyboard for the 'The Sound Collector' animatic I am making alongside my completed 3D character. Apart from some small tweaks that are bound to come up, I feel that I am ready to begin work on the animatic itself.

Also, the numbers for each shot correspond with each line of the poem, I will put the poem at the bottom of this post for reference.

The Sound Collector 

by Roger McGough

A stranger called this morning   (1)

Dressed all in black and grey   (2)

Put every sound into a bag   (3)

And carried them away   (4)

The whistling of the kettle   (5)

The turning of the lock   (6)

The purring of the kitten   (7)

The ticking of the clock   (8)

The popping of the toaster   (9)

The crunching of the flakes   (10)

When you spread the marmalade   (11)

The scraping noise it makes   (12)

The hissing of the frying pan   (13)

The ticking of the grill   (14)

The bubbling of the bathtub   (15)

As it starts to fill   (16)

The drumming of the raindrops   (17)

On the windowpane   (18)

When you do the washing-up   (19)

The gurgle of the drain   (20)

The crying of the baby   (21)

The squeaking of the chair   (22)

The swishing of the curtain   (23)

The creaking of the stair   (24)

A stranger called this morning   (25)

He didn't leave his name   (26)

Left us only silence   (27)

Life will never be the same   (28)

Adaptation B - Design and Story Ideas

Design Influence Map

After talking to Phil about the style and design of the animation and the assets, he pointed me towards the original Paddington Bear TV series.

Poem Breakdown

I have begun to think about how best to tell this story and how to break it down succinctly. My main ideas so far involve very simple still shots of the objects as they make their sounds. Another idea I have thought about is having the sound collectors hand and a Dictaphone in shot as it happens and either just turn it on and off during shot or have him drain the sound using it. The latter would work much better with the final two lines of the poem;

Left us only silence
Life will never be the same

When thinking about the poems simple structure, having a lot of separate still shots makes sense when trying to convey the collection of all of these sounds. Either that or a single long dynamic shot where the camera moves to each individual sound and pauses while the sound happens.

Storyboard Revisions (Leaf Trail and Showing the Slime Mold Eat)

@Phil Completed Storyboard

 

I'm quite happy with this storyboard, but any feedback would be helpful before I finalize it and create my animatic. Hopefully the storyboard isn't too messy to read.

Storyboard Shot Changes

After these small changes to current shots and one addition (3.13b), I'm confident to take this forward to the animatic.

From Script to Screen - Storyboard Page 3

The 3rd and final page of my storyboard.

From Script to Screen - Storyboard Page 2

Here is the first part of scene 3. The 3rd page should be the last.

From Script to Screen - Storyboard Page 1

This is the first of a total of three pages of my storyboard. This shows scene 1 and scene 2. The next two pages will both be scene 3.

Character Design Session 4 - Storyboarding

Like For Like Storyboard - Fifth Element

The specific scene I used from Fifth Element is when Leeloo is cornered by police on a ledge after escaping from the lab. I'm quite pleased with the overall outcome here but I struggled with the faces somewhat.