Today we began work on our Out Of Your Head project. The team I chose to work with consists of myself, Amelia Fell, Saf Choukah, Akila Fahad and a later addition of Yi-An Lu. Our team feels quite well balanced and although we don’t know Yi-An that well he seems to share our vision and I think he will be a huge asset to our sound and music design. I began today’s session by figuring out when our screening and submission dates were so we knew exactly how many weeks we’d have. Then, at home I drafted out a timesheet with vague estimates for when things will get done. This absolutely will be edited on Wednesday with input from the rest of the team.
Then we had a bit of a brainstorming session we began, as advised by Jess, by picking the words we were drawn to (highlighted below) and quickly writing out ideas. We repeated this a few times throughout the session.
By the end of the session we had our basic concept and an idea of the main character. Below are all the notes of our session and I will try to upload a higher quality scan before our submission.
Our basic idea follows a little porcelain doll who wakes up broken and missing a piece. Her goal is to find her missing piece and mend herself while recovering her memories in the process. We want the environment to be dreary and somber juxtaposed with a colorful tender flashback the doll experiences when she finds the broken piece. The doll recovers memories of a family who cared for her and mended her when she broke. But now as she tries to piece herself back together she can’t keep it together and falls back apart. We would like it to be ambiguous whether the doll actually had this previous family or it is simply a wish of hers to have had a family. We want to focus on 2D animation with some possible mixed media with photo cutout.
Next class I hope to revise our timeline and assign specific roles to each person. I am looking to do background drawing/painting as well as compositing/editing because I am quite confident with After Effects and Premier Pro. I would also like to work on drawing in-betweens.