BSA324: Skyway Robbery (Progress blog) - Chris Sutton

June 16 - Mapping Did a quick mapping exercise of the scenes in my story. Just trying to figure out where my camera will be so I know what I need to render and what I can get away with. Julia's Room seems to have the most camera angles and shots. Should look at putting most of my effort into making that scene. Scene 1: Julia's Room Scene 2: The Bridge Scene 3: Escape Pods Scene 4: Outdoors walkway Scene 5: Roof Fight

June 15 - Retrospective view Posters While I like the posters, I think there is a lot to improve on. Dean's poster is probably the worst as I don't feel that I didn't do the foreshortening right. The posters for Julia and Dennis came out alright but there are still plenty of small things that I could improve on such as lighting, texture and posing. Something to keep in mind for next time. Animatic  I finished the animatic for this exhibition, although it is very rough. As soon as I have the assignment for BVA 303 out of the way, I'll go back and fix up the visual and add a scratch sound track. I was thinking about adding another scene at the beginning of the story but I feel it might break the flow of the narrative. Will have to talk it over with Rachel. Voice actors and music Starting to see some responds from the voice actor, music and audio posters I put up. So far two people have contacted me expressing interest. Talked to one this morni...

May 31 - June 2 - Storyboards, Film type and new idea Storyboards Storyboards are coming along, down to the last few frames. Talked to De le ray brief, he thought I was going a bit over board on details. He might be right, but I'm basically finished at this point. Pretty happy so far, managed to cut a lot of the nonsense. Still a bit worried it is too long but I can fix that. Film type I have been watching a lot of video essays on YouTube about movies and storytelling. While watching videos from the "Just write" channel, I noticed the creator talking a lot about film type and the misuse of storytelling techniques. In a number of them, the creator mentions "Bathos", when a serious moment is undercut or made into a parody, and how that can ruin a serious film. After a bit on introspection about the story and tone of my project, I can say that while my film has a fair bit of bathos, that it doesn't harm the film as it is intended to be a lighthearted...