DV2900 The Chase (Digital 2D Animation) - Pre Production

Ideas Generation

In order for me to come up with ideas for the theme ''The Chase'' I had to look into existing movies/clips relating to anything that leads back to the word ''chase''. First of all I wanted to find out whether I want to approach an idea with the literal meaning of the word or an idea that symbolizes the meaning of the word.

Here are some of the ideas I came up with:

- Cops and robber (animals chasing each other)

- Chasing love

- Cars chasing each other

- Racing against time

- Monster chasing a protagonists

In order to narrow down my list, I then had a look at some videos and here they are:

although not a 2D animation this links to the idea relating to chasing love, however instead of the person chasing for their other half it is a supernatural (cupid) being that does it for him, and does his best to correct his mistakes and chases the long lost partner for the clueless man.

This video does not actually show a very active chase however the sense of trying to catch someone is captured in this 2D animation. This piece is very musically driven which means the animation follow the lyrical meaning of the song. Which reminded me to look at soundtracks that will be incorporated into my final piece.

The video produced is a stop motion animation by another college student which took the non literal meaning of chasing time, and turning it literal with the power of stop motion she literally took the clock and embedded it to the video as if it was another challenger for a race. Although I am not doing a stop motion i looked at this video just to gather some sort of script within my own.

Finalising Idea

Before moving on to producing a story board, I have finally decided that I will follow a literal approach to the theme '' The chase''. For my idea I will be making an animation of a guy getting chased by a monster and ends up being eaten. This monster will go through a City,

For the actual animation I will be doing rotoscoping due to the fact that I found a video reference which shows a man parkouring on top of a roof. I will also be doing frame by frame animation for the intro. all of this will be produced and compiled using softwares such as Adobe Flash Cs6 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. 

Here is the video reference that I will be using for my final piece and for my rotoscoping. This video will be edited so that I can easily rotoscope it, this can vary from changing contrast to brightness and maybe some colour correction.

In addition, I have found my soundtrack for my final piece and this will be compiled with different sound effects that is suitable for my final piece. 

Storyboarding

Before producing the actual animation, I needed to produce a story board which simplifies the story line in which I can present to the class. Also the story board will remind me of my main idea, although I believe that throughout production there will be some changes within the story board,

Here i have used arrows to display the different camera shots that I will be using in some scenes.

These story board is just a rough reminder of what my ideas going to be.

Production Schedule

I have produced a basic production schedule in order to keep track of how much work I have got to do and to stay on task.