Major Project Production Development

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University of Portsmouth

Major Project Semester 2

CT6MAJAN

Production Development

Hong Yiu Amanda Sung

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Lecturer: Ms. Eva Palacios


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Idea development

In this project, I used 'environment protection' as the theme to produce an animation. Indeed,environment protection is a wide aspect, and it is good to concentrate on one specific area.Moreover, I would like to challenge the area of humoristic animation, which is a challenge Iwished to challenge myself before, it will be an experimental animation. There will be a

character(s) to lead the progress of the story in general humour films and animations, Ibelieved it would be more efficient to create a small character(s) to my next animation. At the

end, I decided to use 'do not littering on the top of rubbish bin', with two characters.

Audience V.S. Animation

Before creating the story, I was thinking "how to letpeople remember my animation?" One of the observationthat audience will still remember the film after they leavethe theatre is the strong impression of certain scene andthat is the image of the film. For example the bathroommurder scene in Psycho(Hichcock,1960 ). In myanimation, I believe the audience got the experience ofsaw someone littering on the top of bin in public area and

go away. However, did anyone care the feeling of the bin?It is a simple directed storyline. Also, I designed the formof animationin 2D flat surface surreal style, and these are the smoke screen to create thestrong image of my film. Audience would expect the animation was targeted on children, oncontrast, this is an animation targeted on adult 18+. The expectation of the reaction of the

audience after they watched it will be more consider on the behaviour of littering and theimportance of environment protection. Also, the consideration to the content of cartoon-like

animation.


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Animation V.S. Narrative

At the beginning, the story design was only lying on humor genre, however, in order to create a

strong impression of the film, and also the concept of Mondo media, animation which targeted

as teenagers and young adults such as Happy Tree Friends(Aubrey Ankrum, 1999), I tried tocombine 'humor', 'gangster' and 'horror' to see how is it going. The lecturers has a good

feedback after they read the storyboard and the idea, the interaction of three different genres

could be generated new entertainment to the audience rather than only based on one genre.

Moreover, humor is not the area I am familiar to, therefore it is good to create with something

I am good at.

This is a story is concentrated on the interaction of two characters, the bin and the stickman. Itis about the bin get mad after the stickman littering on the top of it but not the proper area.

After that, the bin takes revenge to Stickman. In between, Stickman will also make tricks on

the bin as well. According to the experiences of last project, because of the not clear turning

point and timing management, the outline of the narrative was not good enough to understand.

Audience would be easily to understand the flow of the narrative because the obvious and clear

key frames which helps to express the emotion to them.


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Storyboard


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Character Design- Binny

A little character referencing from a normal rubbish bin generally appear in public area. It isdesigned with human-like expression and two tentacles. He has many facial expression just

similar with human, happiness, anger, sadness and he hates someone not following the rules.

In the animation, the close up key frames of Binny's expression presented the strong

expression of hates towards Stickman and the love of environment protection.

Characteristic: Adorable outlook, environment protector, tentacles, smart, weapon investigator

cruel, bloodthirsty, stingy


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Character Design- Stickman

Basically it is referenced by the symbol of male toilet and the emergency exit. I was thinking to

use something easy to be observed in the public area to create an "organic" atmosphere of theanimation. Just like the composition of the "rubbish gun". Because he was designed in no

features on his face, body movement and behavior are the only ways to express his emotion,

therefore in many key frames such as the bubble gum and mobile phone scene, it expressed

the behavior of teenager and lacking of civic virtues to the environment.

Characteristic: Teenager, obsessive cell phone use disorder, lack of civic virtues, irritable


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CinematographyIn the scene of targeting Stickman, it was referencing from the features of gangster film. It is

generally using first person point of view to create the tension of the scene, and also to let

audience engaged with the animation, just like the audience was targeting the character of the

animation.

For the scene of shooting Stickman, it is showed in frame-by-frame. The camera closed up to

the shooting of the gun on the right side, and then a medium close up to Stickman behavior,


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then the explosion of the gum is also at the right side which reveal the shooting shot has been

completed. The time-lapse between the shooting and explosion to let audience understand

where the gun is pointing and also create tension between shot by shot.

Background Design

The background has been used 2D geometries for building design to generate surrealistic

atmosphere to the scene. Also, a rough white paper used as the base layer to express the mood

of happiness and simple, it is also present a concept of 2D animation is started with paper.


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Props Design

It is referenced by Dragunov sniper svds (shortened variant with folding stock) rifle gun, a gun

usually used by assassins to assassin the target from a distant point. The iron sight can be able

to see maximum range of 1200m.In this case, the mechanical features of the rubbish gun has


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similar with the normal gun, the power of shooting can be penetrate the body of human

although it is a composition of different kinds of rubbish. I have designed the bullets in tissue

form initially and finally it had been cancelled because I would like to leave a space for

audience to imagine it.

Structure of the Rubbish gun

Body and receiver: a used paper box,

a rushed can

Barrel: a straw and a red push pin for

sight

Barrel jacket: a dirty plastic

transparent bottle

Spectral scope: 4 paper rolls

Magazine: a snake box

Pistol grip: a toothbrush

Bipod: Two bike handles


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Editing and Time composition

I used After Effects and Premiere Pro CC of Adobe to the edit of my scene. I have separated the

entire animation into 8 parts after exported from Flash for easily to do the editing steps. For

the movement of Binny chasing Stickman, in order to express the different speed of pace of it,first I created the movement of its legs with a green screen for colour key by Premiere. Then

edited the position and speed on it. It is good to see the different expression of the character

by its movement, the first one the characters move on the same place but the background is

moving backward linearly to present the careful emotion of them; the second one shows the

quick pace reveals the impatient emotion of Binny.

Different parts of the animation has different duration, time duration helps to create the

atmosphere of the story and create the tension between the action of characters and the

reaction of audience. A fast time duration and the cut of frames usually presented the character

has to make decision of their movement in a short time to accelerate the speed of story flow.


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In the story, the cut of scenes of killing Stickman are presented in less than 1s in close up shot

on part of the characters. The last scene just slowly pan out from the body of Stickman. It is

obviously to observe the difference of speed to express the emotion of the characters.

Sound and music

This is a no lines animation. Audience are able to understand the narrative through the

performance of characters and the props inside the scene. Similar with "Minions", the

characters is designed without any specific languages, however it is still a movie people are

able to understand. It is obviously to see without the limit of languages, all people even around

the world still able to get the messages from it, animation are not just relied on lines but the

body performance of the characters. I was also used the sound such as "umm...", "hgh!" torecord the voice of the characters, without any specific languages. Audience are still able to get

the messages from the narrative and other elements of it, in order to enlarge the imagination

of audience to the animation.


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Final output

I have rendered out in 1280x720pixels in mov. by Premiere Pro CC. Finally, it seems more

suitable to be the web advertisement on the pages of environment protection organization. It

is more easily to engage with audience to notice the importance of environment protectioncompare with a page of text, also if the advantage of upload to the website can attract more

different age range audience as well. It is also a way to let people to notice the work and style

I have done, which is a benefit for future career.


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