Monday 16 July 2007

New Thoughts on the Process

14/2
This brings me to what the process should be:
  1. Imagine in my mind
  2. Basic shot list
  3. Hand-drawn storyboard of shots. This starts to focus on what may be possible or not
    - If needs be use Antics to model some of the more complicated shots
  4. Review storyboards with Parms to chat through alternatives, discuss difficult bits and resolve potential problems
  5. Create a more detailed shotlist with updates. Break this down into a shooting schedule
    - Decisions here will include understanding easy shots & sets, what we want first, what might be re-used.
    - Chunk the shotlist into a timebox plan with specific deliverables for each stage
  6. Work to the shotlist creating and dressing sets
    - Potentially take a basic "Mastershot" recording of the set zooming through it for a review with Parms
    - Add cameras and characters
    - Add all necessary animations, props, etc
    - Add any tracks for cameras anticipating where stuff will move
    - Record all start poses
    - Record any sound
  7. Working through shotlist, record action, add sound then cut between cameras
  8. Output avi's
    - These will need to be saved in Set (location) libraries and clearly labelled, etc
  9. Iterate steps 6-8 for each chunk of plan
  10. Rushes should be pulled together with basic editing for each chunk of the plan
  11. Once all avi's in then the "Big Edit" can start.
    - Presume this could start before if all the chunks for a section are in

Not sure how sound fits in with all of this. Needs to be added in for specific avi's but not sure when overall sound is put on - probably editing?
So need to plan out the score for the film as well as sound fx.

Can avoid this process but it seems to be sensible. My question - what to do right now?

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