We’re making movies

Well, last week we started on the scenes for the two films.

With a mix of live action and silhouette animation, one of the movies has a linear narrative. We all have our fingers crossed for a continuation of the sunny weather we all enjoyed this weekend, as we need to continue outdoor filming. The filmmaking team have all had a chance of animation, acting and being behind the camera, and now everyone has chosen their roles. We’re setting up several light box stations, so the animators can keep working on the silhouette scenes, while the live action is being filmed.

The other film is more abstract, and considers what scares people. Everyone is still in some debate about how it starts, but this one will hopefully be more light hearted, while still showing what scares us all … and there are some really odd bits and pieces in there!

Mood Boards, Monsters and Eyes

Another successful week’s work all round.

After some discussion about the mood boards which everyone had created, Madevi turned the attention towards creating monsters: what makes something scary doesn’t have a simple explanation. Is it the colour? Is it the shape? Is the thing reminiscent of something else?

In terms of our groups, it turns out all of these things were very important.

Unsurprisingly, dark colours (browns, greys and black) were identified  as being important, when the monster is to be scary, but cold colours – blues and greens – were equally popular. When the monster is a little more friendly, brighter colours were used.

Horns, fangs, claws – sharp shapes – were very popular. The bug-type monster which has been created, and we reckon the twisting antennae are also part of these sharp shapes.

Most of all, however, scary eyes took pride of place. One, three eyes, blood-shot eyes, wobbling eyes. There are eyes all over these monsters – and they’ll be watching you …

We created 8 monsters – of different  shapes, textures and demeanours – and they’ll be running riot in some pixelations very soon, once the paint, glue and glitter has dried!