Production Diary - Knee-Wigs

8/13/2019 Production Diary - Knee-Wigs

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Production DiaryKnee-wigs

Josh Gleaves, Curtis Keeble, Elia Magar

+ Dammy de!anmbi


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"ee! #$

%n the &irst wee! we were as!ed to get into grou's o&

&our, and con(ure an idea &or a commercial &rom aselection o& categories) My grou' consisted o& me *Josh

Gleaves, Dammy de!anmbi, Elia Magar and Curtis

Keeble) traight away we started thin!ing o& some

ideas and by our way o& thin!ing we !new we wanted

to create a comedy 'iece) t the end o& the day we

came u' with the idea o& either ullshit Detector or

Knee-"igs)

"e started brainstorming each idea to see which had

the best structure, gags etc) %n the end we &ound that

!nee wigs had the most 'otential)

"e also decided to have an advert within an advert

ins'iring our 'rotagonist towards the 'roduct) "e also

set an environment &or our advert where we decided it

would be good in a train station then develo' &rom

there)

&ter much discussion, we embar!ed on the idea to

have .d animation over a /d environment, byrotosco'ing live action &ootage)


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"ee! .$

y wee! . we had a basic storyboard in 'lace) 0rom

here we would (ust need to develo' it) Dammy drew

the main storyboard &rom which we were all ha''y

with) 1o all our ama2ement he got e3actly what we

were thin!ing onto 'a'er4

Josh$ %n this wee! % brought some !nee-wig

illustrations or conce'ts o& what they might loo! li!e in

the ad and a slogan which were then integrated into

the advert)


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"ee! /$

t this 'oint we had a strong storyboard o& our idea,

although basic, all it needed was a bit o& twea!ing) Joshsu''lied the storyboard o& the advert, Dammy got to

wor! on the &inalised storyboard, Curtis &inished his

train station and then started wor!ing on the inside o&

the train) Elia elected himsel& to wor! on the scri't)

&ter all this was done, we could get started on the

animatic, which we were all eager to do4

lso, we decided to ma!e Elia the 'ro(ect Manager, and

Dammy the Director as he has a good understanding o&

where the advert can go)


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"ee! 5$

"ith the 6 wee! 're-'roduction deadline in . wee!s,

we started creating bac!grounds and characters to addto the animatic) "e decided &or the animatic we will

use Photosho' layers, then animate those layers by

im'orting them into dobe &ter E&&ects) 1his made it

easy &or us to dis'lay our a''roach to the audience

rather than using &lash and have di&&ering camera

shots7&rames &rom the last)

Josh$ "hilst % continued wor!ing on the advert, the

rest o& the grou' s'lit u' shots they 'lanned on

drawing themselves)

% had &inished my #8 second advert within this wee!

and was glad to hel' the others with anything they

needed) ll % was waiting &or was sound to synchroni2e

the advert to, but that came in the &ollowing wee!)


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"ee! 8$

"ee! 8 was 'robably our most stress&ul wee! in terms

o& 're'roduction) "e had to &ind music to relate to the&eel o& which we wanted the commercial to come across

as) &ter scouring a &ew 9ou1ube scores we &ound a

good &ree to use score which wor!ed 'retty well, ne3t

was the voice over &or the ad4 Elia said his &riend had a

strong, clear voice so we gave it a go) 1o our

astonishment his voice was 'er&ect and we couldn:t

than! him more as it made our commercial stand out

but also made it what it is)


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&ter a stress&ul getting together we managed to get

our animatic to a standard we &elt we could show theclass, sat down and com'leted the 'resentation with

'lenty o& time be&ore the 'resentation) 1he

'resentation went well and we all believe we

success&ully got our conce't across to the audience

with ease)

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Production tarts4 "ee! B$

&ter we had com'leted our 'resentation we had slow

wee! at beginning 'roduction) "e &irst too! some time

out o& our timetable and sat down as to how we would

wor! at it) 1his was our 'lan in shots$

hot #-Curtis /d model, Josh animate and .d animate

hot .-Curtis /d model, Dammy .d animate

hot /-Dammy .d still characters, Elia .d animate

hot 5-Curtis render shot

hot 8 dvert, *we decided that the advert used in

the animatic was good enough to use in the &inal

animation so Josh s'read his wor! across 'roduction

hot 6 - Elia .d animate

hot B - Curtis /d model, Josh te3ture, Josh .d

animate

hot - Curtis /d model + Curtis .d animate)

=ere we 'lanned out the wor! using the length o&shots, e)g$ Elia has the longest shot + Josh and Curtis

have shorter shots) and i& someone &inished their

animation always hel'ed others i& they needed it)


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"ee! $

"e needed to start animating and &ast4 y this time all

o& our environments were almost set u' ready &or

render when needed)

During class time we decided to use the o''ortunity to

get some &ilming done &or the rotosco'ing *as this will

ta!e the longest to do) ?sing some loaned eui'ment

&rom the C1 de'artment and Curtis: camera we were

able to get our shots s'ot on to what our director

wanted)

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@otosco'ing started, we came to a decision to use

dobe 0lash to :draw: over the video and use the 'en

tool rather than the 'aint brush as it gave us more

control and 'recision) 1his way o& wor!ing started o&&

slow but once everyone got used to it wor!ed out

nicely) 1he basic bloc!ing o& movements were

im'lemented)

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y wee! # we were on to' o& our wor! and on trac!

&or the deadline) Everyone was wor!ing on their shots

which were all loo!ing very 'romising, getting more

detail in their shots, and some even moving onto

colour)


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Josh$ % stayed away &rom the .d animation &or this

wee! as % had to ?


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"ee! #.$

1he &inal wee! had come and we are under a lot o&

'ressure to get everything done, it (ust came u' to'utting it all together) &ter collecting all the video &iles

we decided to meet u' the night be&ore the

'resentation and sync the music and sound e&&ects with

the video &iles) ;nce done we only had a &ew twea!s

and shots to add the ne3t morning but when we had

done and needed to add the shots to our almost

com'lete animation the &iles wouldn:t o'en) %t was a

disaster, so we ran bac! to the com'uter we created

the &iles on a than!&ully it was where we saved it and

contained all the necessary &iles we needed) &ter the

render was com'leted we were already hal& an hour

late but we couldn:t 'resent with no &inal 'roduct)

>uc!ily on arrival it was our turn to 'resent a&ter thecurrent grou')

&ter all the mayhem we endured we managed to

dis'lay our animation which only had a &ew editable

&laws) =ere is our &inal animation in which we ho'e you

en(oy$

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