Group Project 2

We have been given another group project, the brief is to create a one minute b-movie. We were split into groups of 4 and had a week to do the project.

With my group we went straight into brainstorming, researching black and white movies, how the titles look, the type of music they played. We found inspiration in old style cut out animation, scary video games and also old movies.

We then decided who was to do what, one of our members unfortunately had to go away for a week so the three remaining members went on with the task. My part in this project was the actress, some of the filming, some of the editing, cctv scene,titles and sound design.

The original story: A was a man was walking to the chemist to pick up his medication, when he picks it up he takes one and on his walk back starts hallucination that the trees are going dark and eerie and he starts seeing creatures and zombies, he ends up going mad and curling up into a ball in the middle of the street, eventually when he opens his eyes he looks at the medication and realises its the wrong one and looks around and sees everything is back to normal, he gets up and throws the medication in the bin on his walk back to his house. 

With out other team member gone it made us change the story a little bit as he was going to be the actor. We all went home after the first day and took images of where we lived to see if they would fit as the environment of the filming. The next day we took into consideration that we would have to film in a chemist, and weren't too sure on how that would work with the time we were given as we all live in different areas so all the filming needed to be done in class. In the end we found a street and kept referring to the storyboards one of the team members drew and tweaked the scenes as we went.

Second Story: A woman going on a walk and stopped when she notices the street cracking,when she looks up there is a monster. She runs away scared, not knowing what the monster is,as she is running more of the monsters are appearing. She turns a corner to find more of them and realised she is trapped. She runs to a wall and crouches down in fear. It switches to the CCTV cameras and they slowly go off, she has been caught by the monsters.

I liked how this turned out and am surprised with my sound design, I enjoyed working on this project I thought all of the team members got on great and we were all taking everyone's ideas on board and had a meeting every morning before starting work to see what everyone wanted to change and if they wanted to add anything. 

This is the final animation we did. I am happy with how it turned out, the sounds I used I found on free sound websites and  to create the CCTV scenes I used after effects, also for the titles I used photoshop for the font. To put it all together we used Premier Pro. As always, more work can be done to it as in editing, I think some of the scenes showing the monsters coming out from behind the walls could be a little longer and also I think the scene where the cracking concrete is can be tweaked as it jumps a little bit. Apart from that i'm happy :)