Lecture Three - Week 8

Narrative/Storyboarding etc.

Knowing the beginning, punchline and end. Absence of information brings us in. Make the audience bring things together - the way to hold our attention to stories.
These are all models of narrative -
Beginning > middle > end
Eejit’s shark theory - bite, boy, tail. Exposition, initial conflict, reversal, climax, falling action, resolution. Don't want ‘and then, and then’ Story good vs. evil. Tell two parallel stories.
Storyboards bring the script to life, start with the script, what you want to get across - think about what audiences would want to know, they may be ticked into coming to your site. Work as a team - each do a part - by establishing key scenes - using templates of styles previously created. Storyboards interpret the ideas from inside the artists head which can be used to show anyone what is intended. Comic strip version of the movie - underdrawings of the entire movie. Storyboarding - documenting together to ensure you are on the same page.
Establish key scenes first, then introduce totally different arguments. Work fast when drawing storyborads, simplistic small thumbnails. Use lots of pages, make big, change the ordering etc, work along side the voiceover, the track, etc. Keep this in mind and research the intended music to backup the video.
Listen to the music - design around the sound
Wondering what is this on about then bang relating it back to what you can do.
Danny Yount - motionographer
Great use of FADPS
CocaDigi - blog for some interesting things about class
Critique of design concepts and mood boards
Continue designing start storyboarding and planning / refining

Tutorial advice looking at webpage samples I have mocked up - 

When using wireframes make sure you use a visible grid behind the work.
Make sure the website style works together - have a cohesive background and use panels on the page to make text sections to stand out further.

Storyboarding motion graphic - 

Starting to storyboard the motion graphic - Timmy wasn't in class so I have had to go ahead with the initial ideas and create a much more defined plan to develop further. - Website is also to be developed.

Website design development from critique in class - 

We need to start mocking this up and trailing some coding using brackets to see how difficult this design will be to execute overall. 

To Do - 

- Tutorials lynda
- Start a mockup webpage according to the design concept
- Create more illustrations for the video (including a logo for the beginning and end of the graphic
- Start to incorporate illustrations into aftereffects to form the start of a motion graphic