Making of Clip 1

The making of Land and Power Clip 1 Wood print test from tim Wheatley on Vimeo.

Land and Power: Character Development, Sketchbookpages

Animatic_version_1

here is the first version of the animatic for my short film Land and power,
currently im working on a short test that will put together the pixielation animation with the 2D flash animation and woodcut animation to see what it will look like.


Animatic Landpower 002 from tim Wheatley on Vimeo.

Land and power - stopmotion/pixelation

A large section of Land and Power will be animated in a stopmotion style but using a real life hand, Matt Scouler is going to direct the animation in this section. This film below shows the style we want the movement to look like, We are going to try and get the extream exagerated movement that we couldn't get if we just filmed the hand.

 

http://vimeo.com/33480080

Land and Power: Pitch document

Land and power: Character Design

Below are the designs for the lead charater in this film, she is a farmer who depends fully on her land and the income she makes from farming the land.

 

Storyboard Feedback

I sent me story boards to my client 2 days ago, and this morning I get there feedback;

Overall they likedit,  they really like the greneral concept and they picket out a list of element they thought were really great.

 

They also gave me a list of points to think about and possibly change;

-they want the main character to be female, lots of farmers across the contries that are being affected by land grabs are female. I happy with this as it wont really effect my story that much.

 

-There not sure about frames 6/7 (a young boy planting the seeds) it could look like child labour and detract from the real issue. so possibly we could have the childs father/mother planting the seeds.

 

-They would like more close ups of the family, to get there facial expressions

 

-Have the family shaken out the frame as well

 

-Cut frames 26-28 (plants growing into family) and replace with shots of the family living on the land

 

-Rework the market scene as its nothing like what markets are really like. They are going to send me some reference material for that.

 

-The man should use a lorry to take his crops to market as this is more like reality

 

-In rame 18 the man protecs the crops from the rain, it might be more effective if it was locusts?

 

This feed back has been really usefull, I don't agree with it all and i've sent back my thoughts on the changes but its really helpfull to have this input to make this film acurate aswell as powerful. Below are my storyboards with new notes ontop about the possible changes.