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I had made the mattress and pillows using sponges glued together with a hot glue gun and the material I used to cover them both was an old table cloth.
Props: Furniture
Here is the furniture for my film. Most of this is to mainly fill up the space in the bedroom and to make it look more like a room too. I used foam boards to make all of the furniture and also used glued together coffee stirrer sticks for the legs of the furniture like the bedside table and the draws. I also used the coffee sticks for the bottom of the bed to show the framing as there will be a scene in the film where my character is searching for something under the bed. For the main part of the bed, I have used cardboard.
I had made the knobs for the furniture out of thin wire. I just twisted it around in a spiral. I decided to use the bigger size as I saw that it fit better and looked better.
Here is the final product of the furniture. I had only done one coat of brown paint (burnt urban) as I managed to get a textured enough that it appears to look like wooden furniture.
Puppet making
I have started to make some progress with making my main character’s puppet. I have made the main body out of polystyrene and have twisted wires for the skeleton and limbs of the puppet whilst attaching it to the body with the plastic cases of biro pens and also using them for the “bones” of the puppet.
For the monsters armature as the only thing that will be visible, will be the limbs. So I had twisted a thicker wire to make bigger and longer hands and claws. For the claws I had sculpted them out of miliput. I had also wrapped the wire in black wool and will be painting it brown and grey to give it a more grizzly monster look and will also be painting the claws greyish black colour.
Film 6: Animatic
Rough idea now
- Monster haunts little girl
- Girl pops under her bed – starts looking for something
- Her hand reaches out and she’s looking for something and moving things around
- Her eyes grow widen as she notices something
- She bounces back up on her bed – eyes still wide
- Then we see her lifting up a toy (wooden) sword and saying “Yay! Found it!” with a bright smile on her face
- She proceeds to turn to the make shift “monster” she made which is composed of random objects piled onto a chair – books/ lamps/ toys etc…
- Play fighting with it, pretending its a monster etc… as if she was a brave knight or something
- In a victory she plunges the sword into the “monster” heart and “yanks” it out screaming “Victory!”
- Only to then realise as she’s got her hands in the air in victory, the sword isn’t there
- Instead it is in the “monster”
- Curious and very confused, she goes to pull it out yet struggles immensely
- As she tries her best to get the sword out – she’s hanging tightly onto the sword
- The sword moves up slightly with her hanging onto it
- She lets go and watches the sword arise from the mess of a “monster” on the chair
- As the sword goes up something begins to emerge from behind the mess – something with glowing eyes and a low growl
- In fear she tries to rush for the door as it seems to come her way
- Yet as soon as she reaches the door knob
- Her fingers barely touch the door knob
- She gets dragged away
- And we see the monsters hand and arm dragging her back down and across the room
- She backs up against the wall where the window is
- The monster crawls towards
- She notices that the only way to get away safely is out the window
- She throws something at the monster as a distraction
- She climbs on top of the box thats placed under the window and rushes out of the window
- Safely landing on the snow
- Straight away heads for the woods for for safety as she hears a loud growl from angering the monster
- As she hides behind a log clutching her knees to her chest looking around to make sure she’s safe
- She closes her eyes tightly shut
- A shadow appears over her
- She slowly turns around
- Gradually looks up and screams as soon as she notices its the monster looming over her
- She slowly turns around
- Loud growl – screen goes black
- The End.
Storyboard
- Monster haunting little girl
- Girl gets ready for bed -becomes suspicious of something in her room
- Parents come in to reassure her that everything is going to be okay and tucks her into bed
- Leaving the door slightly ajar and turning the lights off
- Some peace as the girl slowly starts to fall asleep
- Just as she’s about to close her eyes she hears something drop
- This causes her to be alert quickly sitting up in her bed
- Glancing around the room – panning shot
- To find any abnormalities
- Sees something in the corner
- Goes back to it and seems normal
- This leaves her a little confused
- Her bed shakes
- She pauses – shocked and scared
- Checks under her bed – sees nothing – moves boxes out of the way – still nothing
- Gets back up normally in bed
- Sighs in defeat
- Shadow comes over her
- Behind her
- She slowly turns around eyes wide open
- Looking down at first but slowly looks up to the face of a monster
- Monster growls
- Girl screams
- Screen goes to black
- The End.
Tes’s Workshop – Mindmaps
Test Shots 4
These are some test shots of the underwater close up scene, capturing the moment that the turtle notices something in the corner of his eye – an oil spill slowly taking over the ocean and soon makes its way to consume the turtle.
I had experimented with using various materials to use for the “oil spill”; I had originally thought to use a black bin bag however opted for using a plain black scarf. The scarf seemed to work better as it fit in well with the fabric and soft aesthetics of the film. However, in the end I had decided to just digitally in TV Paint create the oil spill there using the textured brushes.
Experiments
These are some experiments I have conducted with the first scene and figuring out how the pulled cotton wool looks as that foam of the wave. In my opinion, I don’t think it works well and will be doing this scene without them. However it was still very interesting trying this out.
Experiment
Fixing a slight problem with shooting a particular scene – Where i want the crab claw to emerge out of the sand slowly. I have fixed this issue with using a hole in a separate piece of cardboard with a cloth placed on top for the sand to be stable enough and placing a tripod underneath to wound up eventually creating a small sand dune from where the crab can emerge from.
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