Studio Brief 2-Telling Stories (Final)

 Telling Stories-Final                       Jack and Jill

 This is the final storyboard of Jack and Jill. I have added subtle colours so that what is going on in each panel is clear and can be understood by whoever i show it to. I have written the camera movements and basic stage directions in the lines at the bottom, this is for whoever i would give this to as they would need to know the directions and angles to shoot each panel with. I have also put the rhyme in the columns so that it can be understood more for motions and movements.

 If i were to do this task again i would do the whole thing digitally to try to practise using it more often as i need to get used to tablets. I would also add more arrows indicating directions because even if it is obvious to me it might not be for someone else so that would be to stop any confusions or questions from the animators.

The audience i was aiming at would be all ages, even if children would not catch onto the relationship between the two, they would still be able to grasp the core concept that the rhyme was showing. Older people will be able to fully understand this sequence and all that it is telling them about the people and story.

My media choice is pen and coloured pencil in areas. i chose these two as the colours add subtle details where they could be lost otherwise, like on the cotton wool there was blood from his wound. The pen is just a good medium to show characters and whats happening in a scene very easily. 

For lighting i had the scenes set during the day apart from when Jill is helping Jack home as it is night when they go to bed. I have also used crosshatching where needed to show light, for example when it is looking at his desk as there is clearly a lamp from the shadowing shown.

When drawing the  scenes i really tried to concentrate on where the camera was and how i could make each shot interesting but also relevant so there were no slides that there didnt need to be and none that were too similar which would be boring to look at if they were all the same.

Studio Brief 2-Telling Stories (Second Draft)

Telling Stories- Second Draft                   Jack and Jill

This is the second storyboard sketch in  pen and more detail so the characters can be seen more and the story looks more developed overall. I like how the story is coming along but i still need to tweak sections and panels to make them look more professional. 

 In this panel you can see the introduction of the characters, scenery/ location as well as what jack is doing. I have changed the story to my interpretation where Jack and Jill are together as i felt that the story held more drama and is more of a love story than just about someone falling.

 These two next sections are full of motion and camera movements as Jack is falling down the hill with the camera tracking his movements, but also Jill is running down after him so the camera is moving about making the whole scene look more dramatic if its movments are done the same.
I have also included little effects, like when Jill  sees Jack fall, the whole scene goes dark to show that all she can see is Jack on the ground and nothing around her, this adds tension.

 This panel is showing their relationship in more detail as Jill is running to Jack and she falls into the hug to make sure hes ok. In the first panel i will also zoom in and show the wound as this is to show what happened in the fall as this view is too far away to see.
The sillhouettes of Jack and Jill walking home is from behind as its like your following behind seeing what they see just so the viewers can see the location. Jill is then helping to fix Jacks wound.

This last two frames are just to show what Jill was using as it is an old method of bandaging someone, the light makes it also look like it is on his desk just to make it clear that they are fixing the wound in his room like in the rhyme.
It then ends with the two falling asleep with Jacks head fixed and the camera from above shoing the them both.

Studio Brief 2-Telling Stories (First Draft)

 Telling Stories-First Draft                        Jack and Jill

 

This is the draft work i did for the storyboard for the nurcery rhyme Jack and Jill. As this was my first initial thoughts, the post it notes were very sketchy and didnt hold much detail as that would have taken too long. Post it notes were used as they are good for mixing round panels where needed and they can be easily thrown away if something needs redoing.  

Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill when up the hill,

To fetch a pale of water.

Jack fell down,

and broke his crown.

And Jill came tumbling after.

Jack got up, And home did trot

As fast as he could caper.

He went to bed and bound his head, 

With vinegar and brown paper.

Studio Brief 2- Storyboard Artist- Peter Paul

Storyboard Artist

Peter Paul is a storyboard artist i have found that has done many storyboards in his career. These include Lilo and Stitch, How to Train your Dragon and Piglets Big Movie. I  have included these 3 movie panels because it really shows his different aesthetics. 

 This first one shows how he has done the whole panel with minimal detail do the background but the character Stitch is very detailed as it is important that the animators can see what he looks like. This is also done because they are the key people in the scene so the wrest is less important.

 The way he had done the storyboards for this movie are very different, they look at basics of what is going on so the motions and face is the most important detail he has payed attention to on each slide.

This also shows that he does some of his work digitally, this is because it is faster and easier to edit if something needs tweaking on one panel.

Finally these are from Piglets Big Movie and show his work with coloured pencil to show more clearly what is going on and who is who. It just shows you how flexible you have to be as a storyboard artist as you will have to use all different types of mediums for different projects.

Studio Brief 2- Storyboard Artist- Hayao Miyazaki

Storyboard Artist

Studio Ghibli is a Japanese company set up in Tokyo. They have released many movies like Ponyo, My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away. Many of these movies include messages about the country and its way of working like pollution and nature. Hayao Miyazaki is an animator who is very well known in japan much like Walt Disney is in this country.

One of the reasons i like him as a storyboard artist is that he doesn't let the box restrain his designs. I also find his use of colour, bold pencil work and detailed scenes make it easy to tell what is going on within this shot but also it makes it very easy for the storyboards to be brought across to become an animation.

These two panels are showing other ways he works, either using yellow to sketch and then adding pencil to make them more clear, or adding very colourful backgrounds and scenes to make sure the animators can see how he wants the overall composition to look.

This shows just how many notes are made by Hayao Miyazaki just so that they can be followed and understood.

Again he also shows how if a scene is from far away and showing the whole scene, he went outside the box and made the scene long showing the camera shot.

Studio Brief 2- Storyboard Artist-John Canemaker and Michael Sporn

Storyboard Artist

John Canemaker and Michael Sporn have done many storyboards together throughout their career together. Some of these include Dumbo and Wind in the Willows. I really think that Dumbo is really well drawn for the storyboards, shows you just how much time they put into each slide and how long it could have taken for them to complete them.

Each slide shows every small movement that is made by the two characters shown of the mother and child. Not every storyboard artist puts this much detail into the slides as you only need to make them as detailed enough for the animators to understand and sometimes the time constraints don't allow for a lot of detail to be included.

Wind in the Willows would have been a very hard one to do as it was all hand drawn by the animators so every slide had to be clear and understandable for movement, characters and what was happening overall.
http://johnkstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/michael-sporn-and-john-canemaker.html
This is a site that talks about how the two worked together and what they worked on.

Studio Brief 2- Storyboard Artist- Charles Ratteray

Storyboard Artist

Charles Ratteray is another storyboard artist i have found that is very different from how other story boarders work.

Within his boards he holds a lot of drama and dark shades for certain backgrounds and scenes which makes them easy to understand emotions but also easy to understand what is happening within the whole scene.

Charles Ratteray has done storyboards for mostly movies which include Captain America, Wrath of the Titans and Jumper which is why he needs to do the slides dramatic, as all the movies he does are very fast moving and hectic.

Studio Brief 2- Storyboard Artist-Joe Ranft

Storyboard Artist

There are thousands of storyboard artists in todays industry because if you can think of how many slides need to be created in an animation, each one needed to be planned out and drawn up, so many people need to help with this process.

Joe Ranft is a story board artist i have found have been included in many Disney Pixar movies like Toy Story, Bugs Life and The Night Before Christmas. Here is his aesthetic that i feel really shows the animators what emotions they need to be capturing, what camera angles look the best and how to show the moment needed.