#sequential structures

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For the final part of the animatic, I put it all together in a video for editing. I recorded the voice lines for the animatic, and after this it was smooth sailing. There were a few scenes where I had to reuse certain panels, but overall it was a smooth sequence from start to finish.

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The next step was to make the storyboards for our animatics. We started out with thumbnails for our films, and continued on by polishing up those thumbnails in A2 storyboard templates. Putting them on the templates helped make clear a lot of the movement and shots, and even made room for dialogue and actions at the bottom of each cell. After that though, we moved on to redrawing and coloring each of the cells on the computers. I had some trouble at first, as I didn’t have access to the computers for a few weeks, but I managed to catch up with the rest of the class soon enough, even managing to color and shade the backgrounds.

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The intro to storyboarding was started by being given different scripts from movies and choosing how we would storyboard them, and from there acted out the storyboard. Making the storyboard itself was fairly easy, but finding compromise between team members was a little bit harder. We managed to find an agreement, but it took much longer than we expected to film the storyboard. Putting it together afterwards was fairly easy, although I did feel like we were being overseen more than necessary and a lot of the editing was done for us. But we managed to put the film together, and present it to the class.

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The next step in the module would be to write up a script for the short animatic we’d be making. We studied how professionals write up their storyboards, and how they would incorporate not only the dialogue, but camera shots and movement as well. We were given templates to work with, and were instructed on how each piece of it came together to make a script. I managed to finish mine up, along with the summary, a little later than the rest of the class, but was still ready to come in for making a storyboard the following week.

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The first part of the Sequential Structures course was learning about character design, and for that first week we visited the Fitzwilliam’s to study design shape. We studied and sketched the numerous exhibitions around the museum, and were instructed to find different shapes that would help us build our character. At the end of the lesson, we were each given a decade and a character trait to base our character around. I had received the Edwardian Period and petty, so I had done some extensive research on both the time period and connections and symbolism behind pettiness. I eventually connected pettiness to jealousy, which was often symbolized by frogs. And so I went forward with making my design a frog woman with a Gibson girl style hairdo named Rahna Vrosch.