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