Today in lesson we showed our process to Martin and Sara for feed back.
Their suggestions were that:
- We didn't need the intro bit - just have a sign introducing the farm. I was quite happy to cut this bit as he open diolog lasted 15 seconds and we were stuggling to think of ways for the animation to last that long.
- Too many characters. Do we need the farmer? - They thought we had planned too much for ourselves as we had over 10 characters, they say cut it down to 3 animals. We initionally had the farmer to introduce the problem, and the animals to talk a little extra to how it effects them. But Sara said to have the chracter so that with sopmething like 'oh it's a bit hot...' 'I remmeber when all this was grassy fields...'
- Establish the environment for the characters - a few seconds of the characters before they speak, will introduce the audience to the characters.
- Do they have to be on a farm? - I quite like that they are on the farm, because it means we don't have to create several sets, I did like the suggestion of an animal being in a rubber ring floating in a pool, but this can be set in a puddle in the warm weather.
- Voice over - it's best to bullet point the sentances so we get the pauses, because as Martin said, it's eaiser to get rid of a pause than add on in. also have a run through before hand so you can give direction to voice actor if needed.
- script - Have a begining, middle and end, and have more action to support script.
- animation - mbp, it's more believable if u blink and by delaying the audio by 2 frames creates better lip sinc
All of this was really helpfull feed back, and we straight away decided on what characters we thought would be best for the script (Sheep, Birds and Newts) and started deviding speech up into a beginning, middle and ending. Ciara is now going to go and write up the new script and from this I'll create a storyboard, and we also plan to get audio this wee to work with the storyboard/animatic.
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