Assignment #6 A
Reference Reel Revisions
1. Lighting GROUP
Questions: How can you best distinguish the old men's world from the
card's world?
With color?
With light?
Select someone from your group and write the voice over for the
lighting reel. Have one person tell the story of the lighting.
Justify your lighting in relation to the story.
Develop and show a set of color swatches for each sequence in the
film. Use a minimum of 10.
Select many more photos and try morphing between them to give a
better sense of the lighting shifts over time. Try using several
photos per shot.
Render the lighting reel much larger than the story reel.
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2. Motion GROUP
Questions:
What 2 animal's movement would best serve as good reference for
Solitiare ( Saul) ?
What 2 animal's movement would best serve as good reference for
Shuffles?
What 2 animal's movement would best serve as good reference for the
Jack of Hearts?
What 2 animal's movement would best serve as good reference for the
Queen of Spades?
What 2 animal's movement would best serve as good reference for the 6
of diamonds?
Your old men are 70 years old. Find images and film clips that have
the following actors in them to use as motion reference:
Add them to what you already have.
John Gielgud -- in the movie "Arthur"
Lawrence Olivier -- in Marathon Man
Peter O'toole -- from Lawrence of Arabia
Maurice Evans -- from Rosemary's baby
Matt Smith from 322 Sieg :-)
Ralph Richardson -- a Shakespearean actor -- and in the movie Greystoke
Nixon from his resignation speech.
Your young men are 18-27 years old. Find the following young men as
reference for your cards:
Any images of recruits in the Iraq War
Images of young men in the documentary film "Bagdad ER."
Find at least 20 photographs of young men who are recruits to use as
reference.
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3. Character Design GROUP
Write the commentary and select someone in your group to voice over
your reel with the emphasis on
telling the story with character design.
What 2 animal's looks and personality would best serve as good
reference for Solitiare ( Saul) ?
What Bird?
What Dog?
What 2 animal's looks and personality would best serve as good
reference for Shuffles?
What Bird?
What Dog?
Design both old men in two styles -- Deco and Nouveau.
Design our dining car set in two styles -- Deco and Nouveau
Redesign the cards with innocent soldier recruits in mind. Use full
body designs. Try nouveau and deco styles for the card's body designs.
Have your character design for each of the main card characters shift
as the soldiers get more and more desperate as the story moves
forward in the story reference reel. Draw the changes in the
characters face and body.
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4. EFX Group
Write the commentary and select someone in your group to voice over
your reel with the emphasis
on telling the story with character design. Tell us your ideas for
how to tear the card(s) for crowd simulations and for smoke and dust.
Board out the various fx in the story as best you can. Do not copy
the story boards but instead start to draw out the efx you would like
to see in the story based on the live action reference you now have.
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5. Story Group
Finish the story bible. Finish the elements list.
Add a statement of purpose to every shot, a length of the shot, and a
camera and lighting statement. Use the story reel for reference.
Finish the story bible for the signature shots first tomorrow. Send
it out to the class for review.
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6. Boards Group
Write the commentary and select someone in your group to voice over
your reel with the emphasis
on telling the story.
Identify the card world with red tones and the old man's world with
blue tones.
Flesh out the war sequence as carefully as possible.
Finish several boards per shot for a total of 200 boards to tell your
story. Make sure that your board style is consistent.
se Matt's and Dan's drawing style as reference.
Finish the Story Reel.