CPS week 9 3 Rules

By Jiayi Shao (Jenny)

Context:

3 Rules:  

1. Motion Blur;
2. No Color;
3. Create Using the Only Option //pbt.generator.org.uk/story-ideas------(Luis is a killer fuelled by regret, who murders old people and keeps their thumbs in a jar. Mrs Hughson, a gardener from Prague, knows she has to stop him. The killer inspires multiple copycats across the globe, and the death count continues to rise, exponentially.)

I have to say the third rule is a super big task for me. I didn't expect to get a full random story with a complex plot. So it seems that I have to create a dynamic storyboard. I kind of narrow down the story to one plot to animate, which is a killer murders old people and keeps their thumbs in a jar. I start from a thumb is threw into the jar which is  full of thumbs. Then, we see the killer hide in a hood. Behind him, we see a dead old man whose thumb has been cut. The old man get a bullet on his head.

Method:

I draw the storyboard in Photoshop in black and white, because of the second rule -- no colour. Then, I save as images and add motion blur transitions in After Effects. In terms of motion blur, I animate with the movement of charaters and cameras to get the distotion and zoom.

Response:

This is my fisrt time trying to make a dynamic storyboard of a murder mystery. With the rule of no color, I pay more attention on light and shadows, as well as composition.