Expressing my idea as a sequence of 5 stills.

Here's me expressing my idea as a sequence of 5 stills..

Script (point form)

Puppet Jealousy

• Old, poor puppeteer. (optional character possibly just show hands)
• Two handmade puppets made from same tree.(optional)
• Good puppet was popular with the audience. Being the hero in the puppet show, he gets to slain the villain in most endings.
• Evil puppet got jealous and upset.
• Plots against Good puppet after the performance.
• At night, when the puppeteer is not around, they can actually move.
• They usually untie themselves and walk around as they wish.
• They tie themselves back onto the strings before the puppeteer returns.
• He loosens the strings tied to the wood at the top.
• Good puppet finds himself in a situation where he had to choose
• Move and tighten the string
• Expose his live identity, ruin the show & scare away the audiences.
• Don't move
• Get badly damaged.
• Good puppet chose NOT to move, got badly damaged and broke his leg.
• Evil puppet sniggers and hid the missing screw/pin that is crucial to securing the broken limb of the good puppet.
• Without a choice, the puppeteer cast the evil puppet as the hero.
• The response to the show wasn’t good without the usual hero.
• The evil puppet realized his mistake and fixed the good puppet.
• They swap around secretly taking turns to play the hero n villain in future.
• END

Final Concept Task Brief

Choose ONE of your 4 ideas. Then Recreate it according to ONE of the restrictions below:

• Express your idea as a telephone conversation (dialogue only).
• Express your idea as a sequence of 5 stills.
• Plan your idea as a gallery installation - physical objects in a gallery that the audience can interact with.
• Express your idea as a ‘Post Secret'. See http://postsecret.blogspot.com. You could imagine this were created by one of your characters - or make it from yourself.

This version of your idea should stand alone. It should come as close to expressing your idea as it can in this alternate form. Please include the outcome in your Workbook.

Interrogated Ideas..

Interrogation of Puppet Jealousy:

• What kind of background/foreground going to be use?
• simplistic flat background mapped onto a plane like those of a budget box theatre.
  
• What's the over all style?
• 3D, simple, Pixar/Toy Story/Tim Burton kind of look.
  
• Are there going to be any texture?
• possibly very subtle texture mapping like wooden surfaces etc.
  
• What is my target audience?
• kids and their parents.
  
• What do you want them to feel?
• ..that unity is strength.
  
• ..to learn to share.
• ..to learn not to be selfish.
• ..to empathize with marionette that felt left out eventually.
• What is the animation style am I going to use?
• 3D, simple, pixar/toy story/tim burton kind of look.
• What is the purpose of the animation?
• to learn how to animate in 3d convincingly.
  
• to tell a story which children with siblings can empathized with.
  
• What is the length of the animation?
• approximately 2mins
  
• How do I make the sound scape?
• Will attempt NOT to have the marionettes talk. However, music & sound effects will be available.
  
• How many characters are there going to be?
• Two & a Half? (Mainly the two marionettes and a pair of giant hands..)

Interrogation of Regretful Son:

• What is the visual style I want?
• 3D, semi-realistic, similar to "Nancy's Morning".
  
• Who are my main characters?
• An ambitious young man, who has unknowingly neglected his family, in pursuit of a successful career.
• A retired father who loves his son.
• How much of this will the audience know? When will they know it?
• Impatience - from constant checking of wrist watch.
• Rudeness - from mannerism in conversation with dad.
• Unintentional neglect - from photo in car dashboard.
  
• Regret - from rushing back to dad.
• Despair - from falling to his knees upon sight of his dad on the floor.
  
• What is my target audience?
• Young people in the rat race.
  
• What do you want them to feel?
• ..not to neglect family.
  
• ..see a part of themselves in the son.
  
• ..learn not to make the same mistakes.
  
• What is the purpose of the animation?
• to learn how to animate in 3d convincingly.
  
• to tell a story which children with siblings can empathized with.
  
• What is the length of the animation?
• approximately 2mins
  
• How do I make the sound scape?
• Record dialogues and source for royalty-free sad, depressing sound online.
  
• How many characters are there going to be?
• Two & a Half.. Dad, Son and the lower body of a passerby walking by.
• Scope of my environment?
• at the side walk and front door of a house.
  

Week 4 Homework?

Interrogate one of your other ideas.

Choose AT LEAST ten questions from the lists generated in class by all the groups. (Some additional questions might be provided for you to choose from.)

Ask and answer them of one of your ideas.

You should also be working towards your concept presentation (Week 7).

Class Task 4: Interrogating Our Ideas (Melvyn, Michael, Jen-Hwa, Edward Wan)

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Name: Melvyn Soong

Concept Synopsis:

PUPPET JEALOUSY
Tim & Tam are a pair of handmade marionettes belonging to Wang's string-puppet show. All is well until jealousy sets in between the marionettes during a performance one night and left Tim seriously damaged. Wang's performance lost popularity due to the loss of one of his key characters of the show. With the show on the brink of closing down, Tam realizes his mistake to save the show.

Project Type:

• 3D animation
  

Are you Stuck with anything?

• Achievability?
• Length? maybe 1:30?
• Ending
  

Interrogation:

• What kind of background/foreground going to be use?
• What's the over all style?
• Are there going to be any texture?
• What is my target audience?
• What do you want them to feel?
• What is the animation style am I going to use?
• What is the purpose of the animation?
• What is the length of the animation?
• How do I make the sound scape?
• How many characters are there going to be?

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Name: Edward Wan

Concept Synopsis:

Video Content
The audience will see an artist is dancing in front of a wall. And at the same time he is listening to the other musician’s music from headphone. And at the same time the musician is watching some sea wave video and he plays music randomly. And at the same time there are two projectors are projecting video on the wall, one is projecting the sound wave from the musician’s music, the other one is projecting the sea wave video that the musician is watching.

Concept & Outcome
Firstly, this project is an experiment. It is showing a new form of listening (looking) to music and using a different form to perform music. By using visual form to look at music. In addition, video and dancing will be the part of the experiment and they will help the audience to understand the idea.

Secondly, some the teammates of this project such as the dancer and camera man will be some normal students (don’t know about art very well), so the final product will be unpredictable. Because not everyone can see this experiment in live so it is going to be recorded by video cameras so it will be easier to let people know about this project. And hopefully it can inspire more people to try to do more interesting things.

Project Type:

• Experimental Video

Are you Stuck with anything?

• budget
• equipments

Interrogation:

• What equipment do you need?
• Where can i shoot?
• Are you going to use dynamic?
• What is my target audience?
• What do you want them to feel?
• How many camera do you need?
• What is the length of the video?
• Are they any depth meaning?
• How many people will be in the production?
• How long is it going to take to film?

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Name: Michael Hall

Concept Synopsis:

The third idea is sort of random; it’s a experimental video type concept that I think may be great for a TV add of some sort, would sit well in that medium. The basic plot starts off with objects falling from the sky. TVs, cupboards, glass windows, all fall from the sky from a great height. There will be lots of quick camera cut shots, close ups, wide shots etc, hence the chaos feel.

After all these random objects fall from the sky smashing into the ground the camera will turn and pan to the perfect degree (which will be the top view), to reveal a picture from all the smashed objects.

The chaos has created unity with itself creating a very calm pleasant picture of the product being published.

Product may be my name, title of production, logo, or maybe just a cool picture of a dragon fighting a man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWnj7ZNxa_M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bb8P7dfjVw

The Sony Bravia Ads are a perfect example of what I would like to head towards with this concept. The Ad of the explosion of colours starts off with a calm atmosphere then transforms into chaos as all the colour explosions set off. Once the chaos is complete the calm atmosphere returns, a pleasant outcome that restates the product being published. The use of the chaos actions has produced a clear calm product outcome. The same kind of feel/ motion I would like to take to my experimental video.

Project Type:

• Experimental Film

Are you Stuck with anything?

• How to pull it off?

Interrogation:

• How will I create the camera movements involved?
• How many cameras will be used to shoot with??
• How big is the crew/ how many people needed?
• Why do I want to create this piece?
• Target audience?
• Sound scape that will be used?
• What's the location that will be filmed at?
• How will I get the equipment to be used throughout the piece?
• How much will the production cost?
• How do I want it to be interpreted to the audience?

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Name: Jen-Hwa Tung

Concept Synopsis:

Calm 心靜
In a small little Chinese temple, a little monk is meditating beside his master. They are both sitting under a big tree calmly. While they are still meditating, a mosquito flies beside the little monk’s ear. The sound of the flying mosquito is making the little monk unable to concentrate. The little monk swing his hand left and right trying to scare away the mosquito. Shortly the little monk opens his eye and ready to attack. CLAP!! The little monk got the mosquito. The little monk is happy and he returns to his meditation. Out of the blue, three more mosquitoes are flying all around the little monk’s head. Almost immediately the little monk lost his patient and jump right up to scare away the mosquitoes. He swing his hands everywhere CLAP!! CLAP!! CLAP!! More and More and MORE!! Mosquitoes appear. Soon the little monk run out of breath, he looks at his master, then he realize there isn’t any mosquitoes around his master. The little monk quickly sits back to his position and meditates. Magically the atmosphere change to very peaceful and calm, and all the mosquitoes are gone. The Master peeks on the little monk and smile.

“更宜调息净心，常如冰雪在心，炎热亦于吾心少减。不可以热为热，更生热矣。”故越是天热，我们越要“心静”，遇事戒躁戒怒，心平气和.

Translated phrase from above:

“When the mind is still, you will be calm, cool and collected”

Project Type:

• 3D animation

Are you Stuck with anything?

• skill of making it

Interrogation:

• What kind of background going to be use?
• What's the over all style?
• Are you going to use dynamic?
• Are there going to be any texture?
• What is my target audience?
• What do you want them to feel?
• What is the animation style am I going to use?
• What is the purpose of the animation?
• What is the length of the animation?
• Are they any depth meaning?
• What is the character's characteristic?
• How do I make the sound?

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Class Task 4: Interrogating Your Idea

The more you can flesh out and understand 'the world' of your idea and its details, the more natural motivation there will be for the action and form of your piece - even if some of these details do not end up in the finished work. It is also likely to appear more complete and convincing for your audience.

This task is to be completed IN CLASS and results published to the blog. Spend about 1 hour.

Groups of 3. Try to work with people who will not already know your idea well. Then each person should:

(1) Pitch ONE of your ideas to your group.
(2) Explain where you are up to with your idea.
(3) As a group, talk about what the ‘next step(s)’ for developing this idea are.
(4) Are you stuck with anything? What?
(5) The group should then ask questions about the idea with the aim of finding ways to develop it. All group members should ask questions. If it is your idea, try to think of some questions you don’t already know the answer to.
(6) Come up with a list of at least 10 questions.
(7) The questions could, for instance, be about character, environment, look and feel, context/ audience, user interaction, purpose/ intent, themes, method, form, story, etc.

Repeat these steps for each person

Outcome: A blog entry. See post below for format.

Then, individually, work on answering the questions. Hand in your Answers in digital or written form. Publishing them to the blog is optional.