Stage of Pre Production
- Story Development/Brainstorming
Story development goes into a range of things because story development is where you get started and how you started off is the main thing because you have to have a clue or an idea of what you want to do for a story and how you would like your audience to react to the way your story gives them different types of emotions and feelings. Also when making a story, everything has to be in sync so that the viewer gets what is happening because if thats not the case, then the viewer wouldn't understand where the story is heading and would be confused on what your trying to tell here. So whenever making a story always make sure, even if the story goes into a new day to always have a little remembrance of the day before today.
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Brainstorming is when you get a range of ideas and use these to create a final piece of work or many different pieces of work to go into your final project, this helps a lot because you need ideas to bring a story or a character to life and these ideas can generate anything because your ideas are just ideas but when you start drawing the characters and you think of what they should wear and how they should look then, you will be wanting to create a story for them out of the ideas you had, all these things will help you create a better story for your character.
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This image shows you the type of brainstorming you would be doing in your own time and how it would look, but brainstorming can used for a range of things because its not just for animation, if you need some ideas for anything then brainstorming can help you out with anything, like if you are having a discussion and everyone has their own ideas, brainstorming can help anyone out.
- Script
Script includes, titles, headers, subtitles, character names, dialogue, all these things are important in a script because these all help the story come to life and also helps the audience understand what's going on and know what is happening. Scripts help the creator a lot because it helps this person know where he would put his character and how he would create every individual scene in the story so that different pages could be special and unique to each other, every scene to have their own theme and excitement in them, also not everything has to be the same as the script but some bits can be modified, so that the audience can be surprised about the story and want to know where its
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This image symbolises what I have explained above. All the characters names must be written down so the audience knows who is talking and also there must be certain parts where the story is being explained and the viewer is getting told what is happening in that certain day or moment in time.
- Style
Styles can vary from different things like the type of style you use to draw different items or objects, the way you create your character and how you work on improving that certain character, because styles if way of life as you may you say, because by using different styles you can understand how you can change your characters appearance or how he could look and so on. Moodboards are created to portray the overall style that the art director wants to create. (See below).
- Character development/Model sheets
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Character development is when you get your ideas and make them into one character or a range of characters and also have to create a range of emotions and poses for your character that you think you would like to use for your story and also different scenes where your character could be doing something, for example; smiling at a mirror etc. All this can help the story become better and greater by making different emotions in different scenes and activities that the character is doing like playing a certain game or playing a certain sport, which could be used in the story that you have put out for your own character. Model sheets helps you understand what you would like your character to look like and what type of stance he/she would have in the story, this also lets you find out what type of outfits you would like for he/she to wear in every or certain scenes & Expression sheets this lets you know what type of expression your character would use for any scene their in, for example if its tense they would use an expression or a funny scene another expression.
- Environments/Background/MoodBoard
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These images were used to symbolise what I have explained about mood boards and backgrounds/environments, they also show different feelings in both, like the first one symbolise happiness and calming because it tells you this and the second image shows earthly colors to put into more simple words, the colors; Green, Blue, Yellow and Black. Creating a mood board makes you think of creating a background just like this for some scene and different type of mood board for another scene.
Environments are very important because your character needs an environment where he could be either a hero/villain or civilian, backgrounds and environments can be anything as long as they go with your character and s tory because if they don't, the audience will notice a difference in the story and sometimes change isn't always a good thing. A Mood board is basically all the colors you would like to apply to your story and to your characters clothe-wear, which helps because you don't want your character to look plain, you do want him to stand out and not look the same as everything else in the scene or story.
- Story Board
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Storyboard is when you apply a certain idea to paper and create different windows for what you think is appropriate for a page or scene, this helps a lot because when it comes to creating the story the animators are not confused about what you want to do first, but already know what you want to happen in those scenes and sure of what you should do for every part of the story. Storyboards are used to help the client or studio manager know what is happening and what will happen next by adding little notes to the side letting the client/manager know what this certain scene or part of the story is and also the scenes have to be in a flow because if they are just zigzagging then no one would really understand what their supposed to understand. Helps if you work in a team, cause everyone can know what the plan or idea is and can also add to it if required.
- Anamitc & Sound & SFX
Sound and effects include a range of things from background sounds, dialogue and special sound effects, these all help make the animation look and sound great, because sound is needed for when you want to have some interesting sounds in your animation and this also helps make your work great in every-way, instead of it being muted and dull. The use of sounds creates an environment to your work and also can create different types of emotions.
- Production Schedule
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Production Schedule is so you know when and where you will be finishing off your current work and how you will be creating the project in those certain days. It includes different dates and times and different subjects that you will be doing in your own time or the time in your workplace, this helps you a lot because it lets you know what you have to do that certain day and what you haven't done on that other day. It makes life much easier if you do have one of these production schedule, but it does have to have your own information and not just information from another person that you have copyrighted.
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