How to: Sleep - Pre - Production - Week 5

 

 Hi guys! 

Welcome to Week 5... 

It's been a bit of a weird one.

Monday: Meeting Madness

Monday's meeting was another big one and we had both in person teams and some joining remotely, it was a really good point of updating everyone were were in terms of progress over the last week and explaining the new adjustments to the script and story. Everyone responded really positively and actively engaged in working out what tests we can facilitate moving forward. Eli and george explained the new elements wihting the storyboards and how the narrative follows and i checked in with everyone one to one, just to check that people are alright and how they're progressing with workloads. Overall, it was a very positive meeting and we came away feeling great aout where we're at :)

 
Tuesday: Presentation Panic! 

We had our first project milestone today of the story-beats, we formed a full presentation explaining the story from start to finish and then showed all the relevant tests we've started doing along with the development towards looking at what effects, designs and how we want morris to move 

It was a lot but so far so good there were a few suggestions from our peers and staff about clarity and adding a couple of audio and visual nods to add some further suspense and dread but overall it was a great mile of initial progress and really brilliant to see a collated quantity of everything that the team had been putting into the project, Which is a lot. A super proud moment to stand up there with everyone just showing how hard we've kicked this project off.

Rest of the Week:  Homeward Bound + Animatic!!

So Thursday was pretty Milestone-y as we finally had our first draft animatic. which is brilliant. amazing. super exciting. but...

We've had to make some changes. (Not great)

As director Eli started editing together our storyboards to form our first draft of animatic we noticed two things, 1. It was too long and 2. not all of it was quite flowing right. So whilst reviewing, the story bit by bit Eli changed the order of some sections and cut a few things out, which wasn't ideal but definitely necessary, in the end, we've got a brilliant first look at what our film is shaping up to be.

Next week is a little different as we have our reading week at the university which means for some students including me and some others on the team this is our time to go home and visit family. 

This is why towards the end of the week we've been preparing to return home or cracking on with other work, we'll still be clocking on the hours working remotely from home, or with parents and some of us will still be in the studios like our Dedicated Director Eli!

If you'd like to learn a bit more about our team stay tuned for Week 7's post where we'll Meet the rest of the Team!

but till then...

Cait Out 

Have a great week everyone!

x

How to: Sleep - Pre - Production Week 4

 Hi guys! 

Welcome to the "How to: Sleep" production blog

This is where we'll informally update weekly with developments in the project for anyone who's a bit more interested in the whole pipeline of the project or just wants to know a bit more about what we're actually doing from week to week 😊

This is written up by me, Cait (The producer) just as a little record about what were up to behind the scenes about what's been going on 

Monday: Our first full production meeting- Oh my God!

So, to crack off the week we started with hosting our first big production meeting in the studios with all of our core team and freelancers! This was great to have everyone in one room just discuss some announcements and plans for the week. We talked a bit about the expected schedule and workflow and took some suggestions about the future marketing along with hashing out some of the ideas for the script.

Tuesday: Script Reviews - We need coffee....

Eli, George and Cait had an intense meeting to review the script and story beats over a well needed coffee, we discussed and brain stormed ideas to change the flow of the script. Eli felt that there was a lag in tension throughout the latter half, so we sought and rearrange some of the steps. making it more coherent but also adding some padding the areas that were slightly weaker

Wednesday: A Knight of Honour and more Planning

Oscar became anointed to sound supervisor "Sir Oscar of the Sound" as we start to think about how we want the film to sound

Thursday: The studios are alive with the sound of Sleep

 We've started our first draft of storyboards and had our first Sound meeting! so were liaising with multiple courses as we work through the project and a student on Postproduction reached out to review the sound. We had a Mini meeting just introducing them to the concept of the film how we'd like it to run and possibly even sound with effects. They'll be reviewing some of the work with Oscar to look at the sound plan for the project and how we might move forward with our animatic (The rough cut of the film) in the future.

(No Badminton Rackets were hurt in the process of this meeting...)

Friday:  Storyboarding into the week's end

 

By the end of this week, we've been pretty wiped, and it won't be a quite weekend in by the TV for any of us, even if we're in the studios when we get home we're still cracking on. George and Eli, our directors have started drawing out our storyboards, reviewing alongside the script amendments so that our visuals are flowing with our narrative. So, when we come back next week, we should have a visual look of what the film's going to look like!

^^ Exciting!!!!

As we head into the weekend the team are finishing up more tests, everyone's had a go at drawing our main character Morris Stay tuned Next week for some Sketches and concept art!!

Cait Out 

x