Cowboy Kids Extract for Submission

Final Animatic

Please See Submission Folder:

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Shot 019

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see mov file in submission folder for rough lipsync.

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Gifs 8&9 too big to upload see in folder.

Audio Commentary for Shot:

Audio Blog Scene 2

So because I haven't finished the animation for all of the scene's, I have given commentary on why I've made certain decisions for shots so far and as well as what's inspired them a little plan for the future.

Thankfully due to the nature of this module, both Cassie and Sam have offered to help get the project finished for the end of year show so with the support of others I have no concern that it won't not get finished as they wouldn't let me show an animatic!

Here's is my audio track for Scene 2.

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Background Sounds

Background Sounds:

Noise for tumbleweed

Ambience wind noise

Horse footsteps

Horse drinking

gunshot

horse bucking and commotion noises

footsteps running over in dirt

graveyard ambience - both nice and then spooky

digging noises

dirt dropping on coffin

vultures/birds

sheriff entering scene footsteps

bags of coins being buried.

repeat horse walking noise.

Outside Saloon ambience noise - wind maybe ? 

Noises of a horse being tied up

Background noise of horses

footsteps of heels on wood

coin jingle in pocket

noise of a coin being flipped in hand

outside bird noise maybe?

• need background noises to cover the audio pop of Friday’s Maybe I can - Maybe I can't

Royalty Free harmonica playing sad tune

Royalty Free Piano honky tonk.

Cancan kicks

Poker Chips

smoking noise

Bar Noise Ambience

Glasses Clashing together.

Footsteps going down wooden stairs

Drink being poured

mic dropping

gun with no bullets going off

growl - angry man

unfolding table

air punching noises

gasp as man gets lift up - have audio for this need to edit

gasp from crowd as man is lifted up

man going through table

cheering from crowd

friday cheer - have this audio needs editing

man being helped up noises.

impact noise of tommy moon saulting off fat sam

impact noise of tommy kicking roy in the head

hifive noise

repeat saloon door - have this.

footsteps on wood as sheriff enters

kissing noise

ambience noise for inside jail cell

rocking of a wooden chair for when sheriff is asleep

snoring for the sheriff.

key jingle as they are grabbed by fat sam

air whoosh grabbing noise by fat sam as he takes keys.

rattling of bars as roy clutches them and shakes them in jail cell.

footsteps on wood as fat sam approaches cell

lock turning by key

digging with hands 

ambience/music for five second shot of digging with hands

Also need a new coin jingle for when fat sam is burying bags of coins and a horse bucking and kicking.

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Work in Progress

An updated version of the animatic with a few shots so far.

 


Premiere File:

Feedback:

Follow up on changing the background on the horse walking, add more background sounds, source music.  finish storyboard panels in scene 4 so even if it doesn't get animated for submission someone else could finish it if they were given this project. Add End Credits.

Works a lot better with the background sounds in scene one and two just need more!!

Caris (Best Friend, obviously bias and only going to say nice things):
That looks awesome! I really like it. I think the colours for the sky look really nice and the story is cool too smile emoticon think it will be a masterpiece when it's done lovey xxx

Naomi (Creative Advertising - Photoshop Wizard)

Right. I think the credits are good but the cowboy kids part is too long, unless your name is added there.

I'm assuming the black outs are change of scenes?

Apart from that I can't really say anything because it's not finished. What is animated, coloured and has sound behind is good but I can't give much feedback to something that is half done.

The story is good and the lines are funny

Yeah I might fade them

It just needs work

To get it finished

If you do it how you've done the rest I have no doubt it will be good

From these comments, I've cut the length of the pan sequence of the graveyard, and added fades to the black parts of the film. She's a bit of a brutal honesty kind of person. I just need to keep plodding on with it.

Chloe's Comments (Graphic Design -Bristol)
Hello peach, sorry been working like crazy. It's looking bloody great! Well done! One thing I would say is, can you make the clops of the horses hooves in time with them the horses foot hits the floor in the animation? Can you slow the sound clip down so it matches?



It works so much better slowed down so I've done this too!

Sam's Comments (Classmate and Friend - Slight Bias, but always tells the truth):

Okay so I really love the horse feet like it looks really and lovely colours! Think the sounds really make it work they sounds really good. The voice over is really good too with cool accents!

Ooh and the saloon background is great

HeadSpace Cowboy Animations

I've included these that I've just come across because they look like they are done in after effects and it's a different style of an animation and has a cowboy in. I think it's cute, really simple. A part of me likes it, it has a really corporate style. Which is nice, and I'd like to justify why I didn't do my animation like this, because I could have and I could have probably had it finished by now if I'd of done it this way. For me this project represents the last time I'm going to have time to have creative freedom on a big project, and when I graduate I"m either going to go into assisting productions/being a producer and so I won't have this amount of time again so I wanted to make the most of it doing my long winded painterly style, because I know I won't get to again. This meant sacrificing the quantity of the entire film for a small chunk for submission. But I remain confident that now I've got a good start on the project that I can finish it for the end of year show. Although I like this style of animation done in these video's I just don't feel like it's personal enough because there's no auteur signature stamp on it, any corporate studio could have made it.

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^This is in time with audio in mov file in submission folder.

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STORYBOARD-BOARDS

 I had a Job Interview in London and one of the job requirements was Storyboarding so in order to present my Storyboard I put them into nice boards that match the font of my CV and Covering letter, because they hadn't asked for a showreel or examples of boards etc they were really impressed with my preparation and extra impressed with the high level of detail of the storyboards, so I'm really grateful that I spent so long working on these rather than rushing production, because I think it might have swung me a second interview, I find out the 6th of May so submission day is either going to go really well or please don't talk to me! Ha!

NB: Limitations of this font are that it probably wouldn't print out well as you can see the res has been reduced to go online and it's not very legible but on my macbook screen it was perfect and looked super neat so I am aware of this.

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Initial Animation Test:

Hollywood in Two Frames by Andrew Bowler as discussed in the AudioBlog.

http://blog.abowler.com/