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Tone Death Day 14

Date: 28/01/2019
Hours: 8:45am-12:45pm, 1pm-4pm (7 hours)
What I did: Today I focused on sketching out possible thumbnails for the storyboard. I aimed to use what I learnt from watching the films and put it into concepts of my own, along with this I did sketches of Charlie, the reason why was to get some more facial expressions of him and also use colours to further express his current emotion.

My first sketch of Charlie is him surrounded by darkness and only half his face is seen, the reason why I did this was because I wanted to try and convey the sense of him being secluded and lonely thus him being surrounded by darkness. I will continue to work on my lighting since for this sketch I wasn't too happy with how it turned out, I will do more research to help to get some references.
 After his encounter with death, Charlie wakes up in the morning. How I aimed to portray it was that the camera would get up with him, this was something I was inspired to do after watch "Under the Shadow". I ran into an issue where rotating the image would cause the entire image to appear smaller, so I will look into how I can stop that from happening.





With some sketches I wanted to do add a colour to the background, the reason why was to practice on my knowledge of colour theory and also what I learnt from "Blade Runner 2049" where the lighting can represent a theme. I drew a sketch of Charlie yelling with a red colour to represent his rage, one where he's looking up with a blue colour to show fear. The final one was him looking distraught with a purple colour, this was to show his confusion, I wish to find to a different colour for this sketch, why is because purple doesn't seem to fit with confusion.



 I also aimed to use what I wrote in my notes that the viewer can be the camera, how is by placing the camera to look through doorways, gaps in doors or windows. So in some of my sketches for the storyboard I had the shots looking through the doorway that looked into the kitchen, looking through the window at Charlie. I like this idea so I will continue to use it for thumbnails and expand upon it.















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