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Tone Death Day 24

Date: 7/02/2019
Hours: 8:30am-10:30am, 11am-2:30pm, 3pm-4pm (6 hours 30 minutes)
What I did: Today I focused on doing more research for my journal and thumbnails for the storyboard.

Why I focused on doing more research was so that I could add more quotes to my journal, this would be so that I can external quotes to explain why something is important or describe something I'm using or going to use. This is so I can either back up what I have said and also make sure that it doesn't look like I'm making anything up whilst I go along with the journal.

We are reaching the of visualising how the animation will act out, me and my teammate focused on adding some thumbnails between other thumbnails. The reason why was to help explain more was is happening, thumbnails that I drew were shots of Charlie's dishes. Why dishes was to show that time has passed, so these dishes would be stacked, dirty and not been cleaned for some time, also a shot of a cereal bowl with milk still left in it. Then I made shots of a tap, this was to then show that Charlie was in this scene and he was gonna do some dishes. A question that came up was where was the pile of letters supposed to be, so I made an establishing shot showing where the pile would be. An establishing shot "is used to establish the location and environment." This is why the shot is quite far out too. I then drew a shot of Charlie holding the envelope in the first act, why was because there was a sudden jump of him looking at the letter and then reading it, so adding him holding it would add more structure to what is happening.







I then made digital sketches of how death could show their face to Charlie in the animation, I did 4 different possibilities and asked my team which one they felt was best. In the end everyone felt that number 2 was the best, so I will continue into making a more detailed piece for that angle and look.


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