Animatic

We have been trying to split the work for the animatic as evenly as possible. However to avoid complexations, Liam is doing most of the editing and animting for the assignment. By having just one person putting together the final product for this assignment, we hope to avoid problems that might be caused be trying to editing the animatic sperately. While I admit Liam has done a lot more work than I have, I haven't been slacking. We decided around week 3 - 4 that Liam would work on the thumbnails, first half of the story and the timing of the shots and I would work on character design and the last two scenes of the animatic. We have also both taken time to search through the sound files provided by SIT for this project, and find the ones we would like to use.

I feel like the work relationship I have with Liam is currently a bit unequal. For a lot of the impactful decisions on the animatic, he has asked for my approval. I'm not sure if he sees me in the director's role for this short film or if this whole sencionro is all in my head, but I feel like I end up with the final say on what goes and what is cut. While I am perfectly happy as a director, but I also don't want to take away Liam's creative influence on the project or have him do all the work. It might just be that I am not used to working with others on creative projects, but as I mentioned before I feel like I haven't done as much as Liam has on the animatic. I believe this stems from a problem we have. It is that Liam lives outside of town and doesn't have an easy means of getting to and from SIT whenever he wants. This means that Liam and I have to work apart outside of class hours, so we can't be sure of what point the other is up to. It could also be that I am just use to carrying the whole work load by myself, so I could be mistaken and this might not actual be a problem. After all, I did a lot of the conceptual work for the story, before we even begun the animatic.

Characters
After a long discussion with Liam, we have decided that the best style for our stop-motion would be best created using crafted puppets. While I am a bit disappointed, it was important that we got the style sorted out as quickly as possible so we could work on the animatic and material list. Anymore delaying would set us behind.

I have been working on the character concepts when I can find time. So far I only have sorted out the look for the police officers. While I don't have a finished sketch for the Magician or his assistant, I have an idea of what they should look like. The Magician should be a slender man in a suit and bow tie. His face is a sharp triangle with a point for the chin and a long pointy nose. Some examples of this would be Count Olaf from Lemon Snicket or the magician from Pixar's "".

The assistant is a beautiful 'well built' woman wearing a long red dress. She has big blue eyes and wears make up. Her face is much rounder, like an oval or sphere. Some influence's on her look include 'Meg' from Paperman and 'Sally' from "A Nightmare before Christmas".

The police are muscular tall men in stereotypical british police uniforms. While aren't overly buff, the police men are much taller and stockier than the magician. Their faces are very hard and are rectangular in shape. For the design of the police men, I used examples from a new video game called "We Happy Few" as a reference.