New Storyboard: Final Storyboard

Animatic Story Reel Edited

Claire and I talked over my animatic and I made changes to it, we had discussed. We thought it would be more effective to take out the part of the hanging girl from the monster because it tell rather than shows the story.

The first animatic:


Second animatic:

I feel I also improved the timing with the music in the second animatic also. 

Made Imagery

I made all of my imagery on photoshop drawing with my tablet. I really wanted to achieve that sketchy, messy style that Tim Burton successfully portrays really well. 

Close up: Before I added tears

With tears added (subtle colours to not distract) 

Full body

Hanging feet

Girl looking up: Transition

Bird eyes view of Girl 

Holding the noose

The grey of the Shadow monster has its opacity down to give a shadow effect

Closing in Monster

Chosen Song Meaning

When I finalized my idea for this project I knew what music I wanted to have in it. I knew this song would be perfect because it is such an emotional and raw song. I knew it was about sadness and being alone when I heard it (even though the lyrics are in Korean). I researched up the lyrics today for it and it means so much more now. It relates so much more than I thought to my story I want to portray.

I wanted the last chorus to play during my animation. Chorus lyrics:
"Now I cry without tears
Just like breathing, I cry again
The sadness that became a home
Though I try to take a step out, I cry at the doorstep
Without knowing, I cry"

(Go to 3.40 for that cut I'm using for my animation)


I am immensely happy with my song choice and how the lyrics fit my ideas perfectly.

Font Influence

I'm not sure if I'll create my own font yet or use a readymade one. These are a few fonts I think will suit my animation style and story. These are from dafont.com. (Each font is spelt in its name. Hence the random phrases.)

 The fonts I really like are Nightbird, Oh No, Oh Shit, I Still Know and Lakeshore Drive. I don't want my text to be in capitals so I hope that the fonts Nightbird, Oh Shit, I still know and Lakeshore Drive have lowercase letters available.

I wasn't planning on animating my text because it would just appear with the plain background or just fade up. However I found this example and I think it could look quite cool with my animation if it was done at a slower pace and with a simple, scary font I have chosen. 
 
The second example could also work if my text went from a faded red to whatever coloured text I want to end with.
The third video I like the flickering of the text. It is simple but really effective and could go really well with my animation. 
Fourth Video: Another example of the flickering effect. I think I will go with this idea because the smoother animated fonts won't go too well with my theme or style of animation. The flickering will look very effective and not distracting from the animation also.

Final Style: Flickering Animated Text. 

Elements I'll need to Create

Backgrounds:

• Grungy wall with floorboards, longer format for sideways panning
• Birdseye view background of floorboards (for when monsters close rotate and close in on the girl)
• Black background for all text with subtle texture
• Same background as the start but high enough resolution to zoom back from (hanging girl with monster shot)

Drawn up Characters:

• Girl looking down
• Monsters shadow creeping up
• Monsters shadow grabbing the girl
• Hanging feet
• Birdseye view of monsters (all on separate layers)
• Birdseye view of girl
• Text: Ring o Rosie
• Full body shot of girl
• Extreme close up of girls face (separate layers for tears, separate layers for tears)
• Hand holding noose (birdseye view)
• Girl hanging by monster (hanging girl, shadow monster holding rope, rope)
• Text: We all fall down

Animatic Story Reel

This took me way longer than I expected... I also added the music I wanted and it fits perfectly. I am worried that 49 seconds is too long though.