Kodak Awards: Auditions

So now that we finally had our location to shoot at we then needed our actors, so i begun searching on both Facebook and acting agencies like Star Now. i received no replies from Star Now and for a while didn't receive any from the Four Bridges Facebook page. We then did discover another Facebook page in which we found several actors and thanks to Janice's connections with her daughters classes of actors we had started a Facebook group chat with around 20+ actors.

After informing them of the dates we were planning on shooting we then decided to set up the auditions which lasted most of the day, we had 5 turn up out of the ones in the group chat some better than others, we recorded the sessions and tried them out for both Time and Popcorn. We had found our actors and were still in need for extras especially for the Popcorn advert. We managed to get a hold of a class at teesside uni that were willing to be extras for the shoot.

Of the actors that showed up for the auditions we chose to have Susie Flinton, Toni Elwin and Tony Winward. we are now moving onto the process of lighting tests and maybe a practice test on the following week. We are still in need for a fourth male actor, in which i have contacted one of the actors on the digital live stream.

Kodak Awards: Popcorn

We have now established the groups that we will be in for our projects. To start three ideas have been chosen, Brads "Time" concept, Jamie's "Window" concept & my "popcorn" idea. I'm happy with the role i have been given as i pitched to be a producer on any of the following ideas above, I am very excited to be producing my own idea and have full trust in Jack as director on my concept to bring it all together. The first thing that has been assigned for me is a location, but before we got the location we decided to remove the bar scene at the beginning of the advert and only focused on the cinema as the main location because of the advert only being 30 seconds long.

Jack started on his shot-list and storyboards whilst i started to search for different cinemas in the north east area i found a website that had all the closest cinemas listed in which i could grab the email and other contact information. after emailing several places i decided to go over to VUE cinema, though it was a long shot in which i spoke to the manager and got shut down half way through asking, i tried Showcase cinema in Tees side park as well but again i was told "No". I did not ask Cineworld as they are a major cinema that was always packed and considering being told no by the other two smaller ones.

Below i will list the email screenshots i took to show the responses i was receiving from different cinemas, though some didn't even reply. I then decided to try the FE as that was our last resort.

Kodak Awards Introduction

For our first semester in level 5 we have been introduced to what we will be creating for our first project. We have to create a few ideas for the Kodak Award briefs, The first is for the company known as Paper chase in which the theme is valentines day. They asked for a creative advert that is cheeky and playful, i came up with a few ideas which i created with a power point presentation. below i will post the screens of the different ideas i created.

The other brief was for the Centrepoint charity and revolved around the homeless at Christmas time as the theme. i had a few ideas for this brief, they were looking for something that got the the audiences attention to donate to the charity to help these poor souls on the streets and show them what they can do for them just by donating a small amount of money.

the last brief is something that i did struggle for ideas for as i did not fully understand the concept of WeSwap. I did not come up with any ideas for this brief but i think i established some good ideas that could work for the other two briefs.

Hey Presto: Main Segment 2

I had the same issue with this piece i am not sure if it was to do with the length of the animation itself or something else entirely but i do have the stop motion bare without the drawings over the top. This was the hardest piece to create as the duration was the longest and each from being drawn over took a long time, it was easier with the graphics tablet though that was a big help. It was a very handy tool to have when trying to do something different with the animation. Though it does not have the drawings over the top which i am annoyed about, i am still okay with how the stop motion looks like itself. I know there was not suppose to be a chair in shot but as i have explained keeping the model upright was very difficult even with the wire skeleton that was created for the model. I think the models work well with the background and the effects used do give the animation a nicer aesthetic than what was first created. I'm glad that i created this in stop motion as i think that the quality looks a lot better then cut-out animation.

Hey Presto: Main Segment 1

In the video below you will the stop motion of the 1st major segment that needed animating to complete the story. What you will also notice is that it does not follow the same style as the video before. this is due to an error when exporting in adobe animator, the stop motion by itself tells the story but i am annoyed that this has happened as the time it took to draw over every frame was extremely tedious. I did however still have the stop motion animation edited on premier in which i will have to submit without the drawing over the top, i hope this does not effect my markings for my referral but i will have to wait and see. 

Hey Presto: Telephone Animation

Below you will find one of the simpler animations which is the telephone that was needed to incorporate a voice over. I decided to make the animation itself look cartoon as i thought kit matched the demographic that the film was aiming for. This animation was created using a few motion tween's and classic tween's using the graphics tablet to draw out the extra detail. I am happy with this animation this was definitely the easiest of the animations but serves its purpose for the story, overall i am happy with the outcome. 

Hey Presto: Cockroach Animation

In this animation i was suppose to include this animation into the live action media i caught whilst as camera - op in Janice's team. But as i did not have the film i decided to give another blank background colour as an example to show how the animation would look. I created this animation again using adobe animate drawing a few different types of the cockroaches and then copying them onto different layers then creating key frames in order to make them follow a clear path in the multiple motion tween's i would then have to make to give each roach there own path.

Again i am happy with the way this one turned out, i did take the finished animation into premiere to clean up some of the sticky bits but overall i am happy with the outcome of this adobe animation. I would like to see what it would look like incorporated into the live action film that i captured earlier in the module.