Technical Difficulties Redux - Cushion

Here is a close-up of the cushion I have added to the Living Room environment, complete with colour swatch.

Technical Difficulties Redux - Living Room Extras

I have added a cushion and a rolled-up newspaper to the "Living Room" set, to make it look more lived-in.

I will be posting the cushion on a separate post, to show it off in more detail, along with the colours used in a swatch.

Technical Difficulties Redux - Hospital Storyboard

To add more depth and world-building to the Hospital scene, to make up for cutting the first OBS Section out, I have added this part to the storyboard - the camera starts outside the doors to a hospital room. It travels forward, through the window of the door, and turns round to face the OBS Machine.

Technical Difficulties Redux - Characterisation -TV & Cash Register

I have "characterised" the Television and Cash Register more, taking inspiration from The Brave Little Toaster, giving the TV Glasses and face lines, as well as giving the Cash Register lips and Crows' Feet.

Cash Register

Television

Technical Difficulties Redux - Characters

My approach to this piece is rather different in that I firstly sourced the voices and then built the characters around them, as opposed to creating the characters and then giving them voices. No actual script was written for the piece, either, as it evolved from the dialogue created by the characters involved when speaking to them on their subject matter.

I am hoping to achieve a comedic effect with my piece whilst highlighting the difficulties that different generations come across due to technology.

Characters:

• TV
  An older model, who is content with the 3 channels he can get. He doesn't see the need for any more, as they only show repeats of what he's already seen! He's quite an opinionated fellow - and that's putting it mildly!

• Cash Register
  A manual, old style model without any modern computer components or technology. She is happy to use her own brain to calculate prices, rather than having a calculator do it for her!

• TV Remote
  A jovial character, who likes to have banter with his friend, the DVD Remote. Quick-witted, he takes every opportunity he can get to mock his friend.

• DVD Remote
  A slightly disgruntled character, who doesn't fully understand the need for the latest technological fad of streaming services, such as Netflix, rather than using him and his DVD discs - although he wasn't particularly fond of the My Little Pony DVD they put in him the last time...

• OBS Machine
  A much younger character, who embraces the newer technology, and is glad things are moving forward in the hospital they work in. They are eager to see where things progress to next, helping the environment they are in and enabling them to be valued.

Technical Difficulties Redux - Antique Shop Mood Board

I have created a "mood board" for different items that can/will appear in the antique shop, to make it seem more alive and populated.

I will go on to create "mood boards" like this for each setting, so that I can get a better idea of how to flesh out each location.

Technical Difficulties Redux - OGR

DESCRIPTION

For my Premise Project, I will be creating an animation in the style of "Creature Comforts", but instead of animals, different pieces of Technology from various eras will be interviewed, being asked what they feel about the modern state of Tech and how it affects them personally. The Characters within this piece will be an Old-Fashioned Cash Register and TV, who reside in an Antique shop and are very stuck in their ways, a DVD Remote and TV Remote, who live in a modern suburban home and are vary wary of services like Netflix and Amazon Prime putting them out of business, and an OBS Machine in a London Hospital, who weighs up the pros and cons of Digital vs Physical patient records. 

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TV COLOUR KEYS

These are the Colour Keys I have produced for my TV Character. I will more than likely go for the more dull, drowsy brown/beige colours, as they fit the character and the scene much better, although perhaps going for a lighter or more playful colour will provide a necessary contrast in the scene.

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MARSH ANTIQUES EXTERIOR + INTERIOR

This is the first Exterior shot I have created of the Antique shop, which the TV and Cash Register Characters will be situated in. I have drawn it at this particular angle so that the image is slightly more dynamic, rather than just being a more boring, flat-on image. I will create other angles of the exterior to cut between when visiting this location.




These are the first two interior shots of the Antique Shop that I have created. They show an ornate wooden box, and a Metal Jug. I have created these shots to add something in to catch the viewer's attention, otherwise, like with the aforementioned flat shot of the exterior, it would be particularly boring, and would not draw them in to the scene.

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ANIMATIC EXCERPT


Technical Difficulties Animatic Redux OGR from Joe Warrilow on Vimeo.

I am working through creating an Animatic for my piece. Following feedback from Alan, I have used cuts between wide shots and close-ups to help keep the audeinces attention, rather than just leaving the piece "flat" - I will also be trying to think of ways to make the characters mve as I go along. For The Cash Register and TV, they will most likely stick with the "Squash & Stretch" style of animation, whereas the Remotes will roll on their respective surfaces and use their faces more.