Since it's really a friday, I don't have a fixed schedule for our final year project, but since I've dedicated myself to a new sleeping cycle [6am-6pm: School, 7pm-12am: Sleep, 12-6am: More work] I don't really want to break it. Once you break your circadian cycle, it just makes you more tired anyways.
To kick off the project, we read through the scripts and as a team decided, this needs a bloody good revamp. I wasn't voicing my complaints about the 'script' as vocally and passionately as some of my team members were, but hey it's bad. The script is bad.
Anyways, we decided to cut off the least feasible idea of the four scripts we are given. Reason being, it has no plot at all and involved a few friends imagining things. Fabulous.
With three scripts on hand, we zeroed in on one of the scripts that could work without dialogue, about the character concentrating on an air conditioner while his teacher was teaching.
Instinctively, we knew that the script was too short and more elements would be needed to be added in to reinforce the idea that our character is autistic.
Some so-so ideas were thrown around and finally I suggested that the character, Auton while looking at the aircon, would notice a butterfly fly into the snarling traps of the air con and die. That was accepted as a group as something that should be added in.
Gekkie came up with the idea that we should show Auton being totally systematic in the way he prepares for the lesson (For exp. the specific routine order he used in unpacking)
The following is the storyboard I've drafted, it needs alooooot of improvements!
To kick off the project, we read through the scripts and as a team decided, this needs a bloody good revamp. I wasn't voicing my complaints about the 'script' as vocally and passionately as some of my team members were, but hey it's bad. The script is bad.
Anyways, we decided to cut off the least feasible idea of the four scripts we are given. Reason being, it has no plot at all and involved a few friends imagining things. Fabulous.
With three scripts on hand, we zeroed in on one of the scripts that could work without dialogue, about the character concentrating on an air conditioner while his teacher was teaching.
Instinctively, we knew that the script was too short and more elements would be needed to be added in to reinforce the idea that our character is autistic.
Some so-so ideas were thrown around and finally I suggested that the character, Auton while looking at the aircon, would notice a butterfly fly into the snarling traps of the air con and die. That was accepted as a group as something that should be added in.
Gekkie came up with the idea that we should show Auton being totally systematic in the way he prepares for the lesson (For exp. the specific routine order he used in unpacking)
The following is the storyboard I've drafted, it needs alooooot of improvements!
Cripes.....it's bad......Okay I know it looks freaking boring but this is gonna happen within the span of around 15-20 secs and the purpose is for people to realise through the repeated takes of different days, was to show that Auton was definitely different. At first you have all three students doing the same thing but then, as time goes along you realise that the only one sticking to his guns about this routine was Auton, he stands out like the sore thumb he is.
But of course, I do recognize the problem of it being too repetitive, and Boring for the introduction to Auton's world. We don't want audiences falling asleep on us within 10 seconds of watching it, no sir!
To improve the states of my storyboarding skills, I had borrowed a book titled 'The art of movie story boards' and while what we are doing is not a movie, but it is close to what I want to learn. So hopefully, I could get my mojo back on that.
After that dreadful storyboard, I moved on to something a bit more easier, a turnaround of our main character, Auton. As well as a turnaround, I have revisualised the colour of the character as you can see in the following:
But of course, I do recognize the problem of it being too repetitive, and Boring for the introduction to Auton's world. We don't want audiences falling asleep on us within 10 seconds of watching it, no sir!
To improve the states of my storyboarding skills, I had borrowed a book titled 'The art of movie story boards' and while what we are doing is not a movie, but it is close to what I want to learn. So hopefully, I could get my mojo back on that.
After that dreadful storyboard, I moved on to something a bit more easier, a turnaround of our main character, Auton. As well as a turnaround, I have revisualised the colour of the character as you can see in the following: