drive thru evaluation

My brief was to recreate a scene from dude wheres my car when they drive to a Chinese takeout place and the person behind the speaker thing just keeps saying and then after the place every order the minimum time the video has to be is 20 seconds my idea was to do the Chinese takeout place but without any talking and just run some stuff over, I intended to meet this by doing the time limit thing i went to about 36 seconds with titles and credits.

My target audience was college students aged to 16-21 because it's adult comedy based so i wanted a more teenage age rating that adult no violence or swearing so thats why i didn't do 18+.

I needed to produce a clay animation about 20 seconds long with either an orignal story or recreate an existing one making sure no copyright was breached.

the requirements are a little long but they were:


Software – Istopmotion, garage band
·      Hardware – Mac PC, Hue HD Webcam, Colour Printer.
·      Background Images - Kind off a fast food restaurant drive in background behind the intercom, nothing else big for the background everything do close up shots mainly so not that many background just random ones and there isn’t one for the floor.
For the plasticine it’s to make the models you can mould it to look how you want and I chose to use this because it’s a lot easier to create instead of Lego. Where it’s already made for you so you can’t design the characters yourself you have to find Lego models that look like the people you’re recreating in the animation. So that’s why I chose plasticine because can create the characters and put them the size and shape and make them look the way I want them to look.

The music I chose was - first song was nerd rage sang by your favourite martian which I a youtube channel the person behing the youtube channel is called Ray William Johnson and that music is for most of the clip for the credits I chose the song #Selfie sang by DJ artist The chain smokers.


The software is IStop Motion this software is used for these kind of animation (stop- motion animation) and I chose it because it’s on the computer. I am using to create the clip and it’s quite easy to use it’s not that complicated all you need to do is set up the camera place it where you want to frame the models and press a red button on the software and that take a. Frame and every frame you slightly move the models or do something with them and when you play it back it looks like there moving normally for my animation there not going to be moving that much but still I find it simpler to use. And for garage band I have never used this software but my teacher tells me it ‘s quite simple to use so I chose it well because he told me it’s easy to pick up.
The hardware is not that complicate to describe it’s a mac PC in a college classroom but the Hue HD webcam is a bit harder to explain it’s a sort of webcam. But not the usual kind you can adjust it to where you want with good quality and easy movement for the actual camera so I picked it because it’s what the college offers but I have had past experience using that hardware so I am use to using it.

I planned for this through a blog post doing the usual stuff storyboards and other pre production documents that tie into my animation the planning didn't really help me with completing my project I didn't look at the plan that much and threw the project I changed my idea a  little so some of the planning dosent even tie into my video. I dont think I should of spent longer on my planning because as i said it didn't help me in producing my project that much and i didn't create a time plan so i cant really comment on my time management i just got on with it when I got into lesson.

My final piece did meet my brief I wanted to create something new out of an existing idea because the end product wasent that complicated and it was original and tied into dude wheres my car sort off. as I said previously i changed my plan a little my original idea was to do a voiceover but neer the end of the project I didn't have the time so I had to improvise but with that I just rewrote my plan.

The software didn't help me at all because the college computers are horrible in the room that I work in and adobe kept on crashing I stop motion crashed and I had to do the final bit separately and when I finished editing it on some computers the video was laggin and on other it wasent so i had no idea what was wrong with it.

I am satisfied with how it ended up I didn't enjoy it because I dont like clay animations they take too long and you have to clean stuff up when your finished so i cant really comment on what works well i didn't put that much effort into it if i had to say overall I am just satisfied and content with the end product no more no less.

my overall clay ability need improving other than that i am good at editing it was just the project theres some stuff I like and some I dont but I like to just try some different things. If i was to do this again I would like to just do a complete original idea I wish I did do it this one where I could create my own creatures and own story that would get me more involved in the project.

To finish I didn't like the problems that the software gave me the end product I am content with I dont feel like improving it I am just glad I got it over and done with.  

 

drive thru

I have finished my animation and named it drive thru as the title indicates below is the finished video

list of what I need to do

currently what i need to do to finish my animation is:

1. Create my storyboard
2.Finish of creating my characters
3.Finish planning
4.get backgrounds

what i did today

I created the head and an arm with no motivation at all

What i done today 21/01/2014

started creating my character

what i need for my aniamtion

Animation list

·      Materials- plasticine

·      Music/Audio- script form YouTube clip (voiceover) music at the start bloodhound gang- the bad touch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xat1GVnl8-k)

·      YouTube clip for the voiceover for script (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp5nUQkgWIc)

·      And the music for the end – (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5-3MSmvKwA)

·      Software – Istopmotion, garage band

·      Hardware – Mac PC, Hue HD Webcam, Colour Printer.

·      Background Images - Kind off a fast food restaurant drive in background behind the intercom, nothing else big for the background everything do close up shots mainly so not that many background just random ones and there isn’t one for the floor.

For the plasticine it’s to make the models you can mould it to look how you want and I chose to use this because it’s a lot easier to create instead of Lego. Where it’s already made for you so you can’t design the characters yourself you have to find Lego models that look like the people you’re recreating in the animation. So that’s why I chose plasticine because can create the characters and put them the size and shape and make them look the way I want them to look.

For the audio and music I chose them two pieces for the start and beginning of the clip so for the title sequence I chose a funny song to tell the audience that the clip is going to be comedic style. So I chose the music video the bad touch song by the bloodhound gang and for the end sequence I chose a nice ending and fight song sort of I took it of yugioh so it is a bit out of the comedic style element that I aimed for but I love the song it’s took out of yugioh. I don’t exactly know who sang it but the YouTube clip called it YU-GI-OH millennium battle (music).

The software is IStop Motion this software is used for these kind of animation (stop- motion animation) and I chose it because it’s on the computer. I am using to create the clip and it’s quite easy to use it’s not that complicated all you need to do is set up the camera place it where you want to frame the models and press a red button on the software and that take a. Frame and every frame you slightly move the models or do something with them and when you play it back it looks like there moving normally for my animation there not going to be moving that much but still I find it simpler to use. And for garage band I have never used this software but my teacher tells me it ‘s quite simple to use so I chose it well because he told me it’s easy to pick up.

The hardware is not that complicate to describe it’s a mac PC in a college classroom but the Hue HD webcam is a bit harder to explain it’s a sort of webcam. But not the usual kind you can adjust it to where you want with good quality and easy movement for the actual camera so I picked it because it’s what the college offers but I have had past experience using that hardware so I am use to using it. And the colour printer is for the background image and I am using it because it’s the one in my college classroom.

Like I said before I am not using that many background image but I have had a think about what ones I am going to use. Which are below and there are only two.

For the background behind the intercom prop and I picked this one because I couldn’t find a good street background for the prop so I chose a Chinese menu to place behind the intercom so it looks like there at a drive threw

Animation

This one is for the behind the car and models I picked this one because there isn’t any cars or anything in front of it so it just look like a wall behind the car.

The title for my animation will be drive thru

Basic outline of the story. Since I took the main story of dude where’s my car and I am only changing some of it you get the main story but the story is basically two dudes go to a Chinese drive in they try and they order but the frive thru machine isn't working so the decide to smash it and run it over.

The genre is comedy and my target audience since it is comedy and got a few bad words in I am going to say 15 to 21 for the age but the audience is young people because it is a comedy and I want to base it at people that will find it funny so I am aiming it at the younger generation.

final formed

I did the video and the video was off the cutout guy forming up thats why i called it final form dragon ball z style but unfortunately when i exported the video there were technical problems so the video can not be seen because it did not export correctly i exported it using i stop motion 3 which is the program i use to create the cutout movie and i got placed with a group so all i did was move the cutout pieces

to capture it we use a hue camera and the software was i stop motion 3 very simple software to use very easy as well we set it to large widescreen - 12 frames per second and it was just about 5 seconds long

overall i did not enjoy doing the project i didn't want to it but it was for the rest of the class i wanted to get on with my actual work and not waste my time doing this to evaluate the project was done badly i rushed doing it i would not like to do it again because i think cutout animation is the worst type of animation there is so to end i didn't enjoy doing it the overall movie was bad and i would not like to do this again.