Production Log Week 4

This was originally a long post, explaining my thoughts and ideas behind the short sequence im making for the assignment, with my trademark babbling and going off on tangents, but for some reason Blogger.com decided it didnt want to post that, and just wanted to post a blank post with just the title...ah well.

Production Log Week 2 Monday

My production diary is starting on week 2, since I was absent for week 1. I've decided that im going to use the image of the destroyed house as my source of inspiration. I've already come up with one idea which I'm pretty happy with. I always thought the idea behind monster films were fantastic, especially the older ones. Newer monster films put to much emphasis on the realism behind it. I loved the idea of Godzilla just strolling into Tokyo and tearing up an extremely fake looking city and not a single person getting hurt, just a hell of a lot of Collateral damage. Its almost like people didn't even notice it going on. The damage in this picture reminded me of this, combined with the random still standing kitchen. It took a while but an idea started to form in my head, and when Chris mentioned using flash in his movie during the class discussion it clicked. I've decided that I'm going to create a sort of "weird" monster film. There will be no story to it as such, but I do want to show it from the perspective of characters. Im hoping to film the short from various locations in Brighton, places people commonly visit, such as the lane and from inside a few buildings. After filming these shots I hope to add a very sort of rough, outline animation of monsters, terrorizing and rampaging within these scenes. I don't want the animation to draw to much attention and at the same time I'd like it to look quite sketchy and rough. The challenge is going to be making these animations fit in with the scenes I'm filming them in.

I'll think further on this and update the log when i've finally decided what I'm going to do, how I'm going to do it, and have it all set in stone. I'll also post up my Treatment, when I figure out what exactly that is.

Thats all for now.

Ciao.