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Rough animation needs to be in the leica reel by 7am Friday morning, for my brother, Ryan, to begin music!

Keeping this in mind, there are some technical issues that people need to be aware of…

HAINE
Beginning sq.1 sc. 25
Sq.1 sc. 37 too short
Talk to Matt about the hook-up with the TV (Death’s TV vs. ES’s)

NABZ
· Pea scenes, watch length on all of them

MATT
· Scene 11 takes up some of scene 10 (talk to Jack, make sure this works with his scene)
· Sc.5 too short
· On your first Death scene, when Death says “Defying!!” this is when his arm should come out for the first time.
· Talk to Haine about the hook-up with the TV (Death’s TV vs. ES’s)
· Death dialogue scene too short

SIYEUN
Sq.2 sc.1 just a fraction too short (maybe just 1 frame!)
Sq.2 sc. 14 too long (watch timing)
We might need to shorten the chandelier scene, check the leica for the new timing
I readjusted your ending on the Viagra scene, it’s all good, but ES needs to appear sooner so he reads better
Watch hookup with sq.3 sc.10 & 11 (Veronika’s scene) talk to each other!
Watch hook-up with sq.3 sc. 9 (Kayla’s scene) to 10, talk to Kayla

JACK
· Talk to Matt about his scene 10 (it takes up some of your scene 11 time)
· Talk to Tracy about hook-up sq.3 sc5 to 6 (Tracy’s scene). Your scene is taking up some of Tracy’s time.

TRACY
Talk to Jack about hook-up sq.3 sc5 (Jack’s scene) to 6. His scene is taking up some of your time.
Scythe scene too short
Look to Igor’s “death monolog” scene (sq. 1), gestures should be visually similar

VIVIAN
Sq.1 sc.36 too short, watch your timing
Sq.2 sc.34 way too short, watch your timing
Because Jack’s sq.1 sc. 35 shoots out of frame, maybe apply this to the very beginning of your sc. 36 (like he shoots into yours or has the after effects, squash and stretch)

JASON
Sq.2 sc. 26 too short

KAYLA
Pan, make it longer

VERONIKA
S3. Sc. 11 too short
Watch hookup with sq.3 sc.10 (Siyeun’s scene) & 11 talk to each other

IGOR
Sq.1. sc. 9 too short
Watch the hook-up between sq.1 sc. 15 to 16 (arm)

KAYLA – all scenes in
HAINE – all scenes in
JASON – all scenes in
VERONIKA – all scenes in
JACK – all scenes in
NABEEL – missing 1 scene (DQ scene)
TRACY – missing 1 scene (ES falling)
VIVIAN – missing 3 scenes
SIYEUN – missing 1 scene (chandelier)
MATT – missing 3 scenes
IGOR – missing 3 scenes
RORY – missing all scenes
FRANK - missing all scenes

MEETING FRIDAY AT 11 BE THERE! ON TIME!!!!

READ ME!

So everyone knows...

NEXT WEDNESDAY ROUGHS ARE DUE!
and your scenes MUST be put within the leica before the meeting at 1.

THE LEICA REEL

I have gone through and FIXED the premiere problem, it will no longer ask you for EVERY single file (only one) READ the following to make your life easier!

TO USE THE AUDIO IN MAGPIE

1. open Premiere again
2. import your newly exported audio clips
3. one by one re-export them through file>export>audio
4. open magpie
5. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE SETTINGS TO 24 Frames/Sec or your frame rate will be wrong!
6. rememeber magpie includes the zero frame, so if it finishes on 24 it really means you have 23 frames.

HOPE THIS HELPS!!

WORKBOOK

Here are some of my wrokbook ideas. Tell me what you think!

MEETINGS

from now on we have meetings...

WEDNESDAY @ 4 (after Tony's Class)

FRIDAY @ 12 (an hour after Natalie's Class)

but this Friday we are going to meet at 11 so we can view the leica, then see DQ at 12 to talk more about it.

This is EVERY WEEK, not just this one so be prepaired to meet every Wed. and Fri.

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Coming up Deadlines...

• Week 4: Leica Reel
• Week 4: Design Pack

Death's character

During the final leica viewing, alot of people loved or film and there were alot of good reactions and like any film bad reactions. Some of the less successful were... (not to be nevative nancy, but these are stuff we can consider taking out...)

• Parachute
• Chandalere (I was suprised, but no one liked it)
• speed of the actual jump (way too slow)
• too much dependence on dialogue
• TV (where annoncer is talking, liked announcer, but didn't get where it was coming from)

I sat down with Emslie (who came to the screening) and we talked about the two options of death's character. He seemed to really like the new and revised death, mainly because that blasted parachute could be cut). He also felt that because death ultimately wants ES to die that when he does, both character essentally win; Death kills ES and ES finishes his jump.

I think if we go the route of Death wanting ES to die but it too wimpy to actually get the job done, then we'll have to really think hard about how to describe ES and Death's relationship. We need to, in simple terms, tell the audience that death, altho death, is not as strong as folk tales make him out to be, this meening, he can't just touch ES and kill him.

so finally my vote: I vote to work with the new idea of DEATH WANTING ES TO DIE.

STORY IDEAS....(if we go new route of Death)

• Completely take out Parachute. (YAY!!)
• no more chandalier :(
• when ES is doing jump, I was told that the announcer sounds like he already knows what is going to happen, Instead we should make the announcer moreunaware of what comes next, make his lines more too the point and quicker, this will speed up the jump. We need to make the jump more climaxtic, not through obsticles (we've already done this) but through pace.
• Death changes to casual clothes, but instead of him walking to the TV he can mention he's going to watch his soups and ES then immediately interups him with the success of the mock jump and the pea.
• If Death's character changes, do we really need the part when he talks to himself about "where will I go, Ill be a widow". This doesn't work with his new character. we can still show his finger being cut off, and instead, yes is scares him, but then it sparks the whole fact that he's finally gonna get ES. He can maybe point out parts he might kill ES "Oh I'll totally get him there, yes, hehehe!" This might help the audience understand their relationship . When ES interrups him with the phone call we can splice a bit of dialogue off of this bit.
• we can rethink the dialogue at the end, make it a bit more to the point to drill the fact that ultimately they both won, but maybe ES won a bit more, seeing he doesn't care, can I maybe see the script at this part?

That's all I can really think of right now...

the not-so-monday meeting

guys, as im sure everyone has noted, the meeting didn't happen. Between 13 people 3 of us, including myself, showed up. I understand that everyone has things to do or are too far away, and that's fine but if this is the case you should have let everyone else know like some did.

I personally went into school at 8 in the morning, because that was the only time I could get in, and had to stay until 7 at night. So I basically wasted my entire day for something that was planned and yet still people didn't show up to.

I'm not trying to rant guys, but I thought the dedication to this group project was one of the best and Im starting to have my doubts. IF we are going to reschedual, I must have a promise from you guys that you'll actually show up, cause Im not wasting another one of my days for nothing.

Do we want to reschedual?

MEETING!

MEETING DECEMBER 17th

starting @ 11 onward

Come prepaired to DRAW!

MEETING!

MONDAY DEC 17th

starting at 11 onward

be prepared to draw!

Meeting Times

hey guys, I was talking to a few of us and I think everyone will agree that we need Monday to ourselves, so...

NO MEETING MONDAY

but

MEETING TUESDAY 2pm (during our used-to-be Co-op class)

Lately we've all been guilty of being a little 'laxed when its come to the meetings, but we need to get back on track before it's too late. So PLEASE ALL ATTENED.

We want to make a great film?! Then we better start getting into gear, production is just around the corner!

sorry guys, im tryping on a spanish keyboard, and are on a timed internet browser so I cant read much, but i hope all is well and youre all having fun with the lieca! see you soon, Kayla

group folder

I talked to Aldines about getting the group folder, she said Mario would do it the next day, but from what I saw the folder was still not there. If you guys need the communal folder go back downstairs and talk to Mario again, maybe he forgot or the papaer was lost.

I hope you all have a good week, and I can't wait to see the reel!

-Kayla

characters

MEETING

MEETING WITH DQ

MONDAY @ 1

ALSO...
bring photocopied artwork (both old and new) to the meeting so we can put together our funpack! Remember everything counts!

meeeeeeeting

FRIDAY MEETING @ 10

Meeting

MEETING AT 1 MONDAY (re: thumbnails!!!!!!)

PITCH PACKAGE

Caricatures

Just a reminder guys, if you want yourself in the BG characters for the package, get drawing! I need the images tonight!!! Posting them on the blog is good enough!

Caricature YOURSELF!!!

Evil Stevil Development

Here are my development pictures!

BG Characters and Bimbo's

These are for the BG Characters (being done by Nabz)



These are for the Bombo's and Prodiums (being done by Tracy)



I emailed these images to both you guys!