Visual story boards

Over the last week I have been developing the actual look of the film. I have settled on a combination of photography, hand line drawings on brown paper and solid colour shapes for the mini morris and the other cars in the film. I will be using a combination of TV-Paint, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro and After Effects.

Pre-titles design

I have spent the last week animating a pre-titles sequence to introduce the idea of audio letters in the context of What Love Sounded Like. This short 25 sec introduction will be a mult-purpose beginning to each episode that contains reel to reel recordings. I see each episode as having a different animation style but the films that share a particular sound recording device will have the same pre-titles sequence. I hope this will help gel the episodes together and also explain a little about the origon of the recordings themselves. This version is to serve as a pre-title for "Just The Two Of Us" (Letter to Col - working title)

Having just spent a week animating it. I am a little nervous about testing the film on an audience to see if it conveys the meaning I intended.

We will see.

New moving story board

After another session of script writing with Sytske and a review of the story board with both Maartin and Sytske I have made some changes. The film is now 50sec shorter and I also made some action changes. While these changes may be subtle I feed the film has a better flow and is tighter and more focused. It makes sense to make these changes at this stage. The tighter my story board the better I can be at planning and scheduling the animation over the next few months.