Paranoia, Sandeepan Chanda

I was shown this a while ago and it has stuck in my mind as I have been thinking of my visual style for this piece. I love the use of flat images as well as the animation over the top. A group of 4 students created this as part of their final degree's. It's a story about a passenger who is paranoid about a criminal he has read about and think he sees the criminal sat opposite of him on the train. There is no speech in the short which but it still gets its message across. That shows how good the writing is, as anyone, any nationality can watch it and appreciate it. It shows how everything doesn't have to be obvious and that sometimes images and reactions can speak louder than words.

Paranoia

As well as the short they also created a trailer for it to get people excited about it. I like this idea and I am seriously considering doing the same for my Final Major. I would like to do the full package. Titles, credits, trailers and the promotional posters. This would look great for my final show. My section could be like a promotional stand for the short. It shows I can work in a verity of media as well as considering all possible directions I can take and work.

Paranoia Teaser

I also put in the animatic for this piece as it is probably one of the best animatics I have seen. It shows exactly how the final outcome will look as well as getting all the timings and movements exactly right. It also highlights what exactly needs to be animated and what can be still images. This therefore makes the final outcome a lot easier to produce. This is definitely something I need to be doing for this project to get the best outcome possible. Now I just need to decide on the imagery and what scenes I'm going picture. I'm already getting really excited about how I can do my piece and what the outcome could look like.

Paranoia Anamatic

Tomb Raider Underworld Trailer

I've been thinking of focusing on the possessions of the main character to introduce him and give us a little about his background. I thought of the possibilities of using Ed's gun and as he approached it he to show his memories or even future events. When thinking of this it reminded me of this trailer released at comic cons in 2008.

This short promotional video is a teaser for the game and plays on the idea of seeing the outcome first. I like the focus on the 2 guns at the beginning along with the mysterious soundtrack. This adds to the mystery of the viewer trying to figure out what we are looking at.

Jon Maxwell

Introducing Jon Maxwell...

This is the director I have been in contact with that Tim McLean told me about. I have had great communications with Tim and after I explained my project to him he sounded very interested. He gave me loads of background information on the plot and characters and has been a great help to my research so far. This being said, he has also helped me move on. After telling me about Jon Maxwell I then sent him an email telling him who I was and my plans for my Major Project. He got back in touch with me a couple of days after saying how he thought my project sounded interesting. I sent him my showreel which he looked at and asked if I wanted to collaborate with him and his team on his film! What an opportunity!!!

He wants to enter his short film into competitions all over the world so if I got my work on the film and my name in the credits it would be great for me just starting out and going into the industry. It would be a great thing to have on my CV and in my portfolio. I'm looking forward to working with Max and his team and hopefully the project should be a good one.

Here is some of Jon's (Max's) Past Projects...

One Night in LA

Laura

Walking Dead Titles, Daniel Kanemoto

Romantically Apocalyptic

Recently I was shown this web comic called Romantically Apocalyptic. It's not the style that I want to replicate the direction in which I was thinking of heading but I have put this extract up here to show how I could use my own footage/photography and develop it in photoshop and after effects. I can create the settings and compositions I want and change it to my needs. I like the dark lighting are dark nature of this strip but I think it is too dark for my narrative.

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Dan McCarthy

When coming to look at different style to create my title sequence I looked at many different medias to look for inspiration. Recently I have been looking a lot at illustrators to get inspiration. I came across this guy called Dan McCarthy and loved the way he used silhouettes within his work to create landscapes such as these below. As I want to do some to do some compositing within my final major. I could have the opportunity of using backgrounds like these with other mediums animating in from of it. I like the use of silhouettes and they featured in a lot of my work in my foundation work.

Homeward Bound

I especially like this piece as it reminds me a lot of the story "Fall North" and the last line of the piece:

"The trees hurtling by were at peak colour, like in postcards."

Its the fact its the end of the story and in the piece the car is driving into the distance with the autumn colours filling the sky. I like that fact it is dusk too as it is the sun setting on the story.

Some other examples:

A Plane Passed Silently Overhead

It Felt Good To Be Lost

A Kiss From Tokyo, Kevin Dart

In my sketchbook I have spoken about Kevin Dart and his fake movie trailer. This is that movie trailer which is in-fact advertising a character from a series of books. This is similar to the Richard Montanari Ads that I showed earlier on my blog but these are a bit more creative in the way they have been approached. I like the use of 2D media to create the composition. The grading they have used is very similar to some the classic titles we have seen in the past. A large influence for these titles was the titles from the James Bond series of films. I like the way they have given it a vintage look with the coloured layers over the footage as well as the rounded corners which suggests it is more like a 13mm piece of footage or/and something projected.

James Bond Poster

Making of "A Kiss From Tokyo"

Titles Grading

Film grading to create vintage look.

After Effects structure of the outcome