Production Diary

Production Diary

Firstly I planned what I was going to include in my vine, first I decided to use Rotoscoping but I felt like that would be far too time consuming and I would be able to make my vine a higher quality if I did Frame by Frame animation.

I then decided what the plot of my vine would be (A teenage boy worried about making friends and being reassured by another female student)

I made a mind map of what I wanted the aesthetics to look like.It included:

·        Bright Bold colours

·        Esher College Logo

·        Shows the diversity of the college (through music taste, ethnicity and gender within the character)

·        College mise en scene

·        Colourful bold attributes of the college flashing up on the screen using motion tweening

·        Esher College Logo popping up at the end so the audience are fully aware that the Vine is about Esher College

·        Comic like speech bubbles

·        Bold writing in the speech bubble

·        Used the college colours as the theme (Yellow,Grey,White and Black)

·        Simplistic character drawings

To create my animation I used to programme Flash.

I then drew my setting using the 2D shape tools to give it a simplistic feel and to save time for the character drawings and soundtrack as planning was more time consuming than expected. Whilst filling in the background I used the college logo colours so the target audience know which college the vine is talking about.

I later started drawing the main character in my vine:

To create the characters I used a variation of pre drawn shapes from the programme and the paint brush tool. I used the pre drawn shape for the boy’s head and hat and drew the body, legs and shoes with the paint brush tool to create a friendlier and more realistic body and the same for the females.

To make sure only the character moved when I pressed F6 to copy the frame I made sure all the characters were on different layers.

Sound Track

I then went on to create my soundtrack for my vine on Garage band. It was quite time consuming choosing what sounds to use. I wanted to have very upbeat music so the audience felt like Esher was a happy place to be.

Editing

I used the editing software Adobe premier pro as I have had experience using the programme with previous projects. I then imported the animation and made sure that the soundtrack and animation was in sync and the animation looked fluid. I then exported the animation and my task was complete.

Strength of my vine:

1.      It was well planned and thoroughly thought through.

2.      The soundtrack denoted the atmosphere of the college in a positive light as wanted

3.      It was fluid

        Weaknesses of my vine:

1.      As my planning took so long I didn’t have enough time to go forward with my original idea so my animation was slightly more simplistic then originally hoped