Editing

Today all of the footage was uploaded onto the mac and I created a folder for the Final Cut Pro document to save in to. It was very quick to put together because the clips were separate and I just had to refer to the storyboard for the order of them. Once this was complete, we searched on Soundtrack Pro for extra sound effects along with the ones we had recorded ourselves. Then we had a problem. We couldn't find our voiceovers. So, we had to get a voice recorder and re record the narrative from the script! It turned out to be fine because some of the narrative needed tweeking to match the pace of the edit.

Filming

Back after half term and ready to go! We had a tight schedule in which all of the filming had to be completed. The sets were clamped in place as were the props and anything else that would move. Lighting was then set up and had to be adjusted so that the wallpaper in the set wasn't showing shadows from the creases. We needed to get all of the shots from one camera angle done at the same time, it didn't matter about being in order with the script and storyboard because that comes together in the editing process. Professional companies like Aardman have to use this technique so that lighting and prop positions in each shot aren't affected or look any different. We had to work up to these professional standards on order for our animation to met the criteria of the task and just for the animation to appear much cleaner and smoother and much more enjoyable to watch.
In the making of the Nytol advert which was by the company Aardman they used a similar box set to the one we used. Although theirs were a bit bigger in size and this did turn out to be a slight problem for us but we resulted in cutting up the box of our set to get a better camera angle.
We also tried out our storyboard and script by acting it out ourselves and filming it. This is a technique that Aardman used when making Nytol as it helps to give a good idea of the timing and it helped us to adjust the narrative for it to fit in each frame.

The set:

Sets

Last day before half term and we were hard at work trying to get all of the preparation complete for the first day back, ready to go straight into filming our animation. The sets had to be complete and we printed out the props, wallpaper and flooring. We wanted it to look pretty realistic so it would look quite cool with the style of the character in plasticine. One of my group booked in the studio time so we had two solid days of filming so that nothing had to be moved and affect anything such as lighting and the positions of the camera shots which would ruin our grade and not show to be producing at professional standards. Looking forward to filming!

Preparing Our Presentation

Today we had to type up our proposal that we done on Monday into a presentation on Keynote. We each had to produce three slides each from the paragraphs we has each contributed into the pitch document. With each slide I summarised each point with a short bullet point and typed up in more detail what I would elaborate on in the presenter notes at the bottom. These will appear once I print out the slides for when we have to present next Wednesday. I included graphics to make the presentation look more interesting and images that illustrate the points on each slide.