Ss2- Don't complicate things Story wise

Stan & Oliver (acting & re-acting)

Story

Story wise currently cutting things down and looking at reference, this project has had many changes along the way but the story has been the hardest job of deciding what would be best and look best to bring across the humour and acting that i would be happy with.

Recently realised not to focus to much on making sure to much about the audience liking something and more on working on something which i will be happy with and with that there will be more likely chance of lessons being learnt and be happy with the outcome.

Also the most of the week has been taken up with sorting out the story and deciding what the Goal was and found the importance was keeping the story simple and to focus the story around an object doesn't have to close down the ability of the acting.

referencing other material to learn things

Reference

As you'll have notices the two references to one man band the Pixar short,which wasn't till after i finished writing a story which i was happy with the similarity's to the Pixar short that is not is not to the extent of making a remake more of the structure of the story how the characters act and then re-act.

Till i have drawn out the final storyboard i won't be talking about it in detail, but with my learning outcomes set by myself i would more than anything like to improve my animating skills not in a technical way but acting with characters re-acting to each other.

Reacting to loosing her money becomes a twist in the story.

Ss1-Storyboard pipeline & Final Storyboard

Ss1-Storyboards, 3 ideas which help produce my final narrative below

The idea above was my initial storyboard

The problem with my initial idea was that the redbull can didn't really play a good enough part in the story and well i found it was the weakest out of the three when asking for peoples opinions.

Second idea 

This was my favourite

The storyboard above had everything but i found it just missed that little piece in the story which linked the energy drink to the character that made the narrative really worth watching.

Third Idea

Basic but to time consuming and not sticking to brief.

This storyboard had character and would have had a lot of slapstick but was just going off the point of what i wanted the story to have. The main meaning of "How do you drink yours" would have been a bin more of a marathon and thats why i didn't end up finishing the storyboard.

Final Storyboard & pipeline how i got to it

When coming into some difficulty with the storyboards i spoke to my tutor and was recommended to look at Popeye for a scene which needed a little work. In this scene currently had my character lifting weights to be able to lift the can of Redbull but found that wasn't needed and if i put a way of the character having some Redbull then cundgering up the energy to lift it the narrative would make a lot more sense but would still have the slapstick in the earlier scenes as i wanted.

Then came across this advert starring the Popeye man himself advertising an energy drink.







From watching theses Popeye clips above and consulting a friend who is on a creative writing course, we managed to figure out the riddle to the puzzle of the storyboard which ended up making me think why didn't i think of that earlier but the journey got me to it.

The final storyboard

Discription of shot and character action to the side then explanation of shot to the bottom.