Meeting with John

The meeting today with John was really helpful. He had a look at my animatic, and thinks there is a lot of stuff that could be used. We have looked at each scene, and the different shots, and named each scene. The only concern is that the animation length is long, and could be shortened down. we need do it in a way that keeps the audience interested, and makes the same impact in terms of the character emotion, and the advertisement message. We have our next meeting in two weeks time, and for then John wants me to look at the the scenes I have and shorten them down to roughly 15 secs per scene, and revise the storyboards I have, also thinking about the end scene, and how the impact could be made slightly differently. The main sections I have are:

Jaime's Aspirations
Jaime's encounter with the bully/fast cuts/dramatic piano music
"The Change" - Ageing - Look at age morphing
The Message - How will it come across?

I have to look at how characters are established

Look at examples of character shots with time passing

Try and think of different ways this could be done.

Look at shocking scenes, and look at how they are cut.

I'm going to try and aim to get all this done for our next meeting...

I will look at some of these things today... and re schedule my log to give myself time to do this... This research will also help with my dissertation, and maybe now would be the time to gather all my reference material, and gather more stuff that will help me to actually get started on the dissertation, I will schedule all of next week to do this. It also means I will feel more confident talking about the project, in terms of the theory and the practical side combined.