The first process of creating our ideas was Discovery, in this section we explored themes we were passionate about in the world and within ourselves. We looked into elements from our culture and past, what is happening now in our lives and where we are in the future. From this we researched visuals that were inspirational to us, though we also touched on sounds and visual effects, as we came to learn these were also very important factors in creating a story!

DISCOVERY STYLEGUIDEMermaid out of Water

A mermaid at heart, Leukothea feels she has to find roots on land though she knows she belongs in the sea. She travels the earth to find a home and becomes friends with nature. Each time the land (personified) leads her to the the ocean, and by the sea she builds a home = the best of both worlds.

The Mythology of Leukothea is a Sea Goddess who aids sailors in distress.

In the story she represents human instinct to help.The hand that guides the blind through hardship.

Yet her fingers tingle with the need to create.Now She is in-between homes, neither here nor there.There is a feeling of ambiguity that the audience can relate with.

It asks the question of who guides Leukothea? …. Nature

Her Culture is of French heritage with English Roots.An English Rose who is trying to connect with her home land.Reflects that everyone has a cultural background though not often connected to it so strongly.

In the future there is a sense of resolution

Her heart and Nature keep leading her back to the sea.

Realization that she does not need to fit in, she can create her own mold!

She is able to see the beauty of both worlds, rather than making a choice.

Realization she can have both, she does not have to leave either behind.

She knows she needs to create her own home not to fit into another.

Reconnection with the elements of the world.

COLOUR – Sea Dark blue tones

Showing waterfalls – how she can have water on the land! Her place of peace

Dark but feeling of security Cool – the moon

Refer to Blue Environment – Gradients of tones

COLOUR – Land Bright warm tones

Oranges / reds

Earth tones / greens

New vibrant colors

Presents uncertainty

Negativity

Powerful – the sun

PURPLE – Resolution The combination of red/orange with Blue

A balance Symbolism of being a mixture of things

The moment of resolution / purple storm – when the two collide Mystical

CHARACTER: Leukothea Purple carries though to the color of Leukothea Clothing that presents the flowing elements of

her nature Lucid - Vulnerable

Flowing Translucent – effected by other colours

Absorbs other colours / mimics them to try and fit in

CHARACTER : Nature Personified The leaves whispering

The Grass waving The looming sun she fears

The cool calm moon – as her guide The dancing stars

The sea – as comforting BLUE (SEA) AND ORANGE (LAND)

ENVIROMENT The mysterious elements of the land

Desert and Forest From Open space (scary)

Through a sandstorm into clarity Covered Shelter (Beauty) Nature becomes alluring

ENVIROMENT The comfort of the sea

Calming Cool

The Moon / Night time

LIGHTING Natural Light and dramatic light

Dramatic Changes to show changes in emotion Reflects stages of her life / decision making

Mood lighting Opaque / translucent to show layers and brightness / shadows

Bright/ fresh / dark and unnatural

VISUAL EFFECTS Seeing through her eyes

Like a child seeing the world Low down angles to show her

vulnerable perspective Hazy Layers/ Atmospheric Perspective (getting lighter at

the back, detail in the foreground)

Linear perspective/ vanishing point

scale

FRONTS / TYPOLOGY Like a child learning to write

Diary style As it comes out of her head onto

the paper- Flowing

Naïve / perfect form

Introducing bold water marks for new ideas When a new event occurs

The colors of her mind exploding on the screen

MUSIC REFERENCEClassical Music – represents the mythology, her calm state and the motion of the waterMusic with reference or using water as sounds effects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEEZ5jB5pWk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=110Jl_JK9VE

Fast tempo (AC/DC, Disclosure – the meaning in the lyrics)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8fZeaUHsjw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q72v8_QBxHE&index=9&list=PLZl6dMgPPhG_YbFU36WSwP8wpStK-nKun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSDssvF67Mw&list=PLZl6dMgPPhG_YbFU36WSwP8wpStK-nKun&index=1

FILM REFERENCE The Little Mermaid,

Disney films ( the use of colors, the feelings from childhood, the idea of a happy ever after

Avatar – the extreme beauty of nature, how the land could be shown as a whole new world in itself.

ILLUSTRATION Fantasy

Hyper reality

Stimulates the senses

After discovery I began to plan the visual structure of the story, and how I would present the ideas from my mythology elements into a story.

From our story oard we created our animatic, the first basis of our film in motion, we imported out files into Adobe Premier and could then see the time frames and the shots in order in a more similar way to the end product.

My tracing document for keeping track of the different shots and shot descriptions, also knowing what sound and visual effects were being placed where

We created a color script to highlight the different changes in tone and mood. Since Discovery the idea behind my story had been simplified, and instead of the meeting of colors through the story there would be a reveal of color at the end, to show the feelings of resolution and an uncovering of new emotions and feelings, these would match with the music within the story.

The color became a very important factor in conveying the message of our ideas, and even from what I was inspired by I was able to see this.

We created an Ident or bumper based on the themes within our mythologies and also using the After Effects skills we had just learnt.

First we created a story board of the frames and the different elements of the shots.

INDENT / BUMPER STORY BOARD Reflects the 3 colours: Blue, Red/Orange and

Purple Shows the transition from

one to the other to reflect on Leukothea’s transition in the story

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SKILL

Making objects and text move by use a path, starting to grasp how key frames work and how to create smooth transitions for the object.

Also learning how to create backgrounds and solids as simple way to create a scene within After Effects.

SKILL

Merging paths together to mask out different parts of a shape. The different elements can be reversed so that the two shapes can be merged in different ways.

SKILL

Creating a precomposition using the motion tile effect and using effects to make shapes move, also using key frames with these effects.

SKILL

Using the wiggle effect to create movement in an object, again the path of the effect can be created to predetermine where the object moves to.

We introduced a 3D camera into our After Effects, and made our layers 3 dimensional so we could move them on x y and z axis.

For one of my shots I had to create and octagon out of different images, that were in effect a 360 degree shot of a landscape, I then had a camera attached to a null object to rotate within the octagon to capture the turn.

Keying out the background of the green screen to put two files together to create anew scene

Roto scoping to follow movement, here there is a mask following the figure.