Course: Concept Development II
Storyboard/animatic assignment creating a 40 second limit story idea inspired by a fable or fairy tail and incorporating visual transitions, an editing technique we learned. No more than two characters and one environment due to the importance of treating this like a possible senior thesis.
I rustled something up using Jack and Jill and Jack and the Beanstalk. The setup of this story idea—Jack being small and the giant being huge—provided lots of opportunity for dynamic camera angles and 3- to 4-point perspective.
Dialogues of Jack and Jill are my voice (my professor loved how Jill’s voice turned out :D ) and the dumb giant was voiced by Andrew W. Sound effects, piano notes, and fanfare are from freesound; the real giant’s voice at the end was from the movie Jack the Giant Slayer and slightly edited by me; the other music were “Call to Arms (Part 1)” by Steve Rucker and Thomas Jones Chase and “Super Hero” by Mark Russell (slightly edited by me) from Killer Tracks; and the choir singing was from a soundtrack in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and I created the pitch drop in Adobe Audition (inspired by the Prince Herbert scene from the movie [“I’d rather… just… si~ing…!”] XD). I thoroughly enjoy sound design even though it wouldn’t be final in the senior thesis anyway. XD
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Done in Photoshop, Adobe Audition, Adobe Soundbooth, composited in Adobe Premiere.
Completed in 2014 February 24.
