Jasmine Masters, BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts, UCA Rochester.

Moving forward with designs for the environment I am creating, I looked at developing some propaganda posters for the Science Lab and The Anti-Nuclear Regime (the ANR). For this I looked at a lot of Soviet space propaganda that was around in the 1950-60s where new developments in space travel were just becoming known. Here I also looked at the types of propaganda that we against the Atomic Bomb and used the tension and drama each poster embodied to fuel my ideas for The ANR campaign designs; aiming for a dark apocalyptic mood to in still fear in society. On the other end of the spectrum, for the Science Lab I looked at creating a lighter mood it it's ANR counter part. With this I looked more at science propaganda that emboldened and encouraged science, as well as looked at conservation posters to combine with the science theme and support what the Lab does (environmental research and conservation). Premise: Propaganda Visual ... by Jasmine Masters Below are some of the...

Going off the mind map I came up with I started to design some layouts and and sets for this post nuclear world to exist in. Before I started to sketch out some scenes, I looked into how I want to shoot the environment I am creating. As seen above in the mind map I contemplate either shooting through the frame of using the camera as a person or using the camera as a drone in an observational piece to explore the set/world created. In the end I've decided the camera would be a mix between a person and drone point of view. So, the pair would travel through the decrepit city scoping it out to see what remains and to try and find out what happed there. I plan for the key focus to be solely on moving through the damaged city and into the science labs where the scientists are planning their escape showing a generator room, plans for the conservation ship and hub pods for growing plants. Ultimately leading to the camera coming across a break in the labs window to see the conservati...

Looking at my proposal ideas I started to think about whether I wanted to do them so that they were going to be 3 separate ideas or as a cohesive set of environments that all have one event in common to link them together. From this I decided to see how I could link all 3 together; noting how all have a science theme and how I could use this to form a storyline to base the environments off of. So, using the last bullet point from each proposal to form my base concept. I came up with the outline of a rebel/activist group planning to abolish all nuclear power from existence, using ideas from the Duck and Cover era to show an anti-nuclear regime. In addition to this I thought it would be good at add a group of scientist that are striving to protect earths plant life by taking into space where it would then be safe from the rumor's of the rebels planning to attack the power plants and shut the plants down. The story/world would be set years into the future and lack any form of huma...

From further discussion with my tutors, I have decided to scrap the idea of using folktales to retell a story and instead have chosen to focus on environmental storytelling. By doing this it will allow me to focus on environmental design and world building to help communicate past/present events to the viewer. Through this approach it will really allow me to focus on modelling, texturing and lighting as these are the areas I am most drawn to. With this in mind I can see this project stretching over the premise project, through to the minor and major projects to come in year 3. This is because I can break down the sets into 3 areas – interior sets, exterior buildings and the world these building exist in.  Below are some of my initial environment ideas. For this I used the idea of ‘what if’ to generate these outcomes as well as the use of initial visual research to help support ideas. Initial Environment Premise Proposals - Visual Themes. Premise Initial Visual Prop... by Ja...

To kick start the new premise project I began by looking at the brief to see what is required for this new project. Through reading the criteria, I will be looking at the pre-production stages for creating an animated short. This will entail looking at story ideas, concept designs, world building and production designs. Premise Brief by Jasmine Masters For my Premise, initially I feel unsure on the direction I should take my ideas. From looking looking at animated shorts and the stylistic choices I wish to follow, I feel that I need to choose a storyline that suits the aesthetics I am aiming for. This being that of a silhouette, dark Vs light concept. Mind Mapping ideas: With the above mentioned ideas, I started to think of rough story outlines for my premise proposals.  With my second idea I thought of how narrated stories tend to work quite well with this silhouette aesthetic; which brought me onto looking at folklore stories. With these stories I find there is always a dark un...

 To better wrap my head around the character we as a group are trying to create, I started to look at different comedy characters personality, traits and overall look and how they come across to others. With this I started to gather imagery I thought to best suited to the character we as a group were trying to create. With this came watching clips to help getting a better understanding of how other characters are formed; for this I watched clips form Fawlty Towers, Monty Python and a Thin Blue Line. Basil thrashes his car - Fawlty Towers – BBC Fawlty Towers: Top Ten Scenes (Part One) Whose Fault is It? | Fawlty Towers | BBC Comedy Greats Monty Python - Military March A Thin Blue Line - The Best of Constable Goody So using traits from the video's above, I started to plug in these characteristics/ideas alongside my own ideas to create the initial fleshed of Character Profile for our Collaboration Project. With this idea there is still work to be done to consolidate the char...

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