In the past week and a half i have been making slight changes to the script while we search for actresses. For instance the only actor who responded for the first couple of days was an actor named David Hoffman www.davidhoffmann.com. Big Travis the biker only appeared in animation but David has the look of the leader of a Biker Gang and experience riding. We are finalizing the ending but it will be a mix of the live action being seen in animation and seeing what was predominatly animation in live action, like Big Travis.
Other than David we have an actresses interested in the role and are still casting. We are planning to have a script read through with all interested actors on May 1st. I will post any updates on the casting processs and the flow of animation and live action mixture at the end as soon as we right it out how we want it.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Critique
We are working on locations for our film we have the mood of all the locations in mind but not exact locations for every one. For the interior we are striving for a chaotic victorian style home. We want to achieve the look of victorian drapes and furniture mixed with Daisys everyday living. We are planning on going around to local B&Bs and location scouting, here is a list of local B&Bs with some shots of the interior.
For our exterior location we want a large victorian style house with a porch and fencing up. The coolidge house B&B in ashland epitomizes this style as you can see here //www.coolidgehouse.com/. For the hilly streets in the end of the film we have many around ashland and plan on looking for the best locations. For the interiors we are going to scout B&Bs this week and try to find the best interior we are looking for. If no B&Bs workout we will look into residential homes we could possibly transform. Heres a list of the B&Bs in ashland we would like to go to, with some pictures http://www.abbnet.com/browseinns.asp .
Sarah Week who is handling the animation portion of Pushing out Daisy has storyboarded but has no additional drawings since them. She is wanting to wait till we cast actors to make the animation look like the actors. But i believe at least with daisy the 80 year old version of her and her 30 year old animated self would be accepted to look different. We do have a visual concept in mind of how we want the animation to turn out and want to experiment with many techniques.
We are looking to use the style of pixelation which is a stop motion technique turning the actor into a stop motion puppet. An example of pixelation can be see in the bolex brothers "The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb" here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3YKBOkfmbU&playnext=1&list=PL8CAB607FEDF9BF13
We also want to experiment with the use of cardboard sets and props mixed in with the animation. Like in the flash back with Daisy Driving we would like the establishing shot to have a cardboard background with a lil cardboard car driving. And on the interior shots we would see Daisy and Anne in the car in animation but see cardboard trees outsie the window next to animated clouds. We would like to mix cardboard trees and cars into our animation kind of like in this snoop dogg video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6speA_XhP4 except there are no plans to do cardboard work in the live action but its always a possibility.
We will also be using basic 2D animation to tie the animation together. We are looking at other techniques such as puppets which sounds very cool to do but may not be right for this project.
we are holding an open casting call for actresses and are looking for 2 female leads to play middle aged and elderly women. The photo i am adding is a visual Ad we are including along with a written paragraph on craigslist looking for actors, it will be posted later today.
For our exterior location we want a large victorian style house with a porch and fencing up. The coolidge house B&B in ashland epitomizes this style as you can see here //www.coolidgehouse.com/. For the hilly streets in the end of the film we have many around ashland and plan on looking for the best locations. For the interiors we are going to scout B&Bs this week and try to find the best interior we are looking for. If no B&Bs workout we will look into residential homes we could possibly transform. Heres a list of the B&Bs in ashland we would like to go to, with some pictures http://www.abbnet.com/browseinns.asp .
Sarah Week who is handling the animation portion of Pushing out Daisy has storyboarded but has no additional drawings since them. She is wanting to wait till we cast actors to make the animation look like the actors. But i believe at least with daisy the 80 year old version of her and her 30 year old animated self would be accepted to look different. We do have a visual concept in mind of how we want the animation to turn out and want to experiment with many techniques.
We are looking to use the style of pixelation which is a stop motion technique turning the actor into a stop motion puppet. An example of pixelation can be see in the bolex brothers "The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb" here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3YKBOkfmbU&playnext=1&list=PL8CAB607FEDF9BF13
We also want to experiment with the use of cardboard sets and props mixed in with the animation. Like in the flash back with Daisy Driving we would like the establishing shot to have a cardboard background with a lil cardboard car driving. And on the interior shots we would see Daisy and Anne in the car in animation but see cardboard trees outsie the window next to animated clouds. We would like to mix cardboard trees and cars into our animation kind of like in this snoop dogg video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6speA_XhP4 except there are no plans to do cardboard work in the live action but its always a possibility.
We will also be using basic 2D animation to tie the animation together. We are looking at other techniques such as puppets which sounds very cool to do but may not be right for this project.
we are holding an open casting call for actresses and are looking for 2 female leads to play middle aged and elderly women. The photo i am adding is a visual Ad we are including along with a written paragraph on craigslist looking for actors, it will be posted later today.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Art 450 Project Proposal
The title of my project is pushing out daisy.
One sentence Description: It is a dark comedy about a middle aged woman who must come to terms with the overwhelming personality of her dying mom. Using animation and live action film in a short film utilizing flashbacks to blend the mediums.
One paragraph description: What is life worth living if your vicariously living it through your eccentric, ex-biker, aging mother? Pushing out daisy is a dark comedy about the complex relationship between Anne and her dying mother. Anne must come to terms with the overwhelming personality of her mom. For Anne the lines between the imaginary and reality of her life begin to blur. By showing this relationship in animation and live action we get a view into Annes past and learn about her eccentric mother.
One page description: What is life worth living if your vicariously living it through your eccentric, ex-biker, aging mother? Pushing out daisy is a dark comedy about the complex relationship between Anne and her dying mother. Anne must come to terms with the overwhelming personality of her mom. For Anne the lines between the imaginary and reality of her life begin to blur. By showing this relationship in animation and live action we get a view into Annes past and learn about her eccentric mother. In order to show how these lines blur for the charachter of Anne the short film will utilize a combination of experimental animation and live action film sequences. Through the use of flashback and dream sequences we see how Annes life is with daisy. We see how Daisy has made her crazy and how this pushes Anne to finally find her own life. With an eccentric cast of charachters including Anne the middle aged woman who puts up with Daisys ways. Daisy the crazy octogenarian Ex-Biker and we meet her biker gang of followers and their leader, Big Travis.
What i want to complete this term: During this term i want to produce a sharp 30 seconds-1 minute trailer. This term i want to have the actors cast and all video recorded. Meanwhile the animation is being drawn and not all will be done this term but we will have an animation sequence in the trailer. I want to be prepped for post production after this term so i can edit the film together over the summer with the animation as it is completed.
Technical and Research Issues and visual research: This term we will have multiple things to research. I am casting and in a search for actors i am also constantly looking for possible locations. We are working with a musician in San Francisco and working on a score for the film. Technically i am looking at many diffrent forms of animation and combination techniques using live action. I have been watching old disney films in which live action is mixed with animation from mary poppins to alices wonderland. It is making me want to combine animation and live action in the same shot in at least one of the scenes of the film, possibly the ending. The science of sleep was also an inspiration in working on this film with its lack of a firm sense of reality and its transitions.
Timeline: I am in the process of casting actors and location scouting. I would like to have the actors and locations by the 22nd of febuary or earlier. Once we get these done then we will immediatley go into shooting when we can. We dont have a date when we are shooting yet but it should be 2 days of flming with most of the film taing place in one indoor location. The animator for this porject is attending art school and working on this project at the same time. The animation is coming in as fast as she can animate but we are expecting it to take longer than the live action. So we have selected a few scenes we want animated first and we plan on using those in our one minute trailer which im planning on having finished by June 6th. After the trailer is done we will have all live action recorded and animation should be almost finished so this Summer if all goes to plan we should be in the editing phase and hopefully done by August 17th.
If you would like to see my charachter designs and storyboards scroll down and check out my blog, all of my pre production work is on here.
One sentence Description: It is a dark comedy about a middle aged woman who must come to terms with the overwhelming personality of her dying mom. Using animation and live action film in a short film utilizing flashbacks to blend the mediums.
One paragraph description: What is life worth living if your vicariously living it through your eccentric, ex-biker, aging mother? Pushing out daisy is a dark comedy about the complex relationship between Anne and her dying mother. Anne must come to terms with the overwhelming personality of her mom. For Anne the lines between the imaginary and reality of her life begin to blur. By showing this relationship in animation and live action we get a view into Annes past and learn about her eccentric mother.
One page description: What is life worth living if your vicariously living it through your eccentric, ex-biker, aging mother? Pushing out daisy is a dark comedy about the complex relationship between Anne and her dying mother. Anne must come to terms with the overwhelming personality of her mom. For Anne the lines between the imaginary and reality of her life begin to blur. By showing this relationship in animation and live action we get a view into Annes past and learn about her eccentric mother. In order to show how these lines blur for the charachter of Anne the short film will utilize a combination of experimental animation and live action film sequences. Through the use of flashback and dream sequences we see how Annes life is with daisy. We see how Daisy has made her crazy and how this pushes Anne to finally find her own life. With an eccentric cast of charachters including Anne the middle aged woman who puts up with Daisys ways. Daisy the crazy octogenarian Ex-Biker and we meet her biker gang of followers and their leader, Big Travis.
What i want to complete this term: During this term i want to produce a sharp 30 seconds-1 minute trailer. This term i want to have the actors cast and all video recorded. Meanwhile the animation is being drawn and not all will be done this term but we will have an animation sequence in the trailer. I want to be prepped for post production after this term so i can edit the film together over the summer with the animation as it is completed.
Technical and Research Issues and visual research: This term we will have multiple things to research. I am casting and in a search for actors i am also constantly looking for possible locations. We are working with a musician in San Francisco and working on a score for the film. Technically i am looking at many diffrent forms of animation and combination techniques using live action. I have been watching old disney films in which live action is mixed with animation from mary poppins to alices wonderland. It is making me want to combine animation and live action in the same shot in at least one of the scenes of the film, possibly the ending. The science of sleep was also an inspiration in working on this film with its lack of a firm sense of reality and its transitions.
Timeline: I am in the process of casting actors and location scouting. I would like to have the actors and locations by the 22nd of febuary or earlier. Once we get these done then we will immediatley go into shooting when we can. We dont have a date when we are shooting yet but it should be 2 days of flming with most of the film taing place in one indoor location. The animator for this porject is attending art school and working on this project at the same time. The animation is coming in as fast as she can animate but we are expecting it to take longer than the live action. So we have selected a few scenes we want animated first and we plan on using those in our one minute trailer which im planning on having finished by June 6th. After the trailer is done we will have all live action recorded and animation should be almost finished so this Summer if all goes to plan we should be in the editing phase and hopefully done by August 17th.
If you would like to see my charachter designs and storyboards scroll down and check out my blog, all of my pre production work is on here.
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