Premiere Pro Fun

 

Sharing our Storyboards

 

Time to put this thing into premiere!

 

We took pictures of Erin's storyboard and adjusted the timing in Adobe Premiere. After some fiddling with, it flowed like an animatic should. However, it still needed some fixes. 

We then examined Erin's and Emily's similar storyboards to determine which scenes and shots conveyed the story most effectively. The two storyboards were a little different, but close enough to the same general storyline it was possible to cut-and-paste them together.

 

Taping together the storyboards

Literally.

 

We added in a few frames in red pen to fill in gaps that formed between the storyboards when we merged them. The clearer the story, the better!

 

Taped-together storyboard, looking spiffy!

 

 

Some of the frames we added.

 

Then we put our new-and-improved storyboard into Premiere and edited the timing once again.

 

My personal favorite part, where Nessie slurps sailors up her nose

 

The animatic was nice, but what might the finished product look like? Andrea (the middle person in the above image) advised us to make concept art: a few drawings of colored, finished-looking scenes and characters from our animatic. Erin and I drew line art of a couple scenes, and Ashley outlined it in Adobe Sketch on her ipad. Then we took turns coloring the scenes.

 

My drawing of Bean stuck to the kelpie

 

 

Erin's drawing of Bean walking in the forest

 

 

Ashley's Adobe Sketch tracing of Erin's drawing.

 

(Tip: don't use black as an outline color! It makes the drawings look flat.)

 

 

A colored scene by Ashley.

 

We spent a while discussing and testing out colors for our main character Bean and decided on a light gray tone. I changed some of the colors in the concept art and drew  and added cast light and shadows from the moon and lantern.

 

The visual concepts of the final product looked great, and so did the animatic-in-progress.

Now it was time to add audio...

Final Roughs and Style Studies

 

Style study by Erin, Wonder over Yonder

Well, we have decided on a final rough of our animatics. Both Erin and Emily had a list of the final qualities we wanted in the animatics, that being woeful tale of Bean's demise. He is traveling in the forest, comes across all or some of Scottish mythical creatures (Bean Nighe, Nessie, 

Mermaid, and Kelpie). The Kelpie being the main creature that kills off our character. His objective is to find the Fairy, and it ends in his death. 

From this final list, Erin's tale begins in the day with him jumping from a tree in his search for the last ingredient, a Fairy Leg. He is searching through bushes and trees. He hears something and comes across Nessie who is a bit derpy, (Her method of snorting people up her nose in stead of her mouth is a great testimony). He's disappointed, next while searching near the water a siren tries to entrance him with her voice, though Bean knows this and plugs his ears. She has some anger issues about this and starts to scream, but Bean continues on along with river. As the day wears on he's being disheartened, then notices red throughout the river along him. Looking up he seas a Bean Nighe that's high on the creep factor as she washes blood from clothes in the river and has our protagonist screaming like a girl. As darkness descends he pulls the lantern from his head and lights it up, upon finally having some light, he notices he's almost run straight into a horse. As his eyes travel up and he sees a tempting sign telling him he'd be taken to the fairies, he's trying to figure out why she doesn't seem to trust this so much. Then with a flash, he see's the Kelpies true form and let's out a breathless chuckle. Off he takes, screaming like a banshee the horse shakes off it's illusion and gives chase. Right before being overcome, the fairy deciedes to tease young bean with showing up and letting him know he was right there. 

Emily's begins with an intro of hooves and mermaid tales, then an over shot of the setting. He is searching for that last ingredient. He's looking high and low, leaving no rock unturned. He comes across a serpentine Nessie who's just swallowing people whole from a boat, then after hearing some beautiful music Bean runs off and gazes upon a mermaid. The mermaid isn't the best of singers and on a particular high note breaks his lantern attached to his hat. The rest is lite by moonlight as its been dark the whole time. Then he to, comes across the Kelpie and at first almost falls for it's charm. Upon figuring out it's true form Bean throws his sandwich at the kelpie and takes off, chase scene ensues. Finally in slow motion, the fairy shows up and zips past him, he tries to reach him but is unsuccessful. 

In the end, our storyline changed even more when abserving the slight differences in the storylines. We then cut up the physical paper and started to combine favorite aspects of each story; like Erin's Nessie slurping up it's victims, Emily's chase scene with the Kelpie, Erin's intro to the kelpie, Emily's lantern cracking and breaking. So we combined and took away, the Bean Nighe scene disappeared all together, and then figured out where new scenes needed to be added so as to better connect the story. We changed it so his goal for the fairy isn't for an ingredient, it's because his magical lantern on his head is dying out and he needs a fairy to help recharge it. We kept the setting mainly at night with moonlight and his lantern to light the scenes. We reinforced his magical ness by adding in him making his map appear and disappear. Certain scenes had to be flipped so as to keep the directionality alligned. 

Overall we had a Final Rough we all enjoyed and had part in.