I have now started the lip sync rotation. For this project, we’ll need to produce a 1 minute animation in pairs using unscripted audio, with a heavy focus on how we can creatively come up with situations to match the dialogue and how we can use body language to bring the characters to life.

To begin with, we had to record a minute of unscripted audio in randomized pairs about a random news subject. After this, we were sorted into different pairs, and together we had to choose a total of 3 audios and come up with rough initial ideas and loglines for them, before narrowing the decision down to just one audio. Me and my partner chose 3 audios; two about house prices in the UK and one about a crazy elon musk experiment. For each idea we came up with rough concepts, using a website called miro to document a few pictures and notes for our ideas;

We chose to go with the musk idea, as it was the most visually interesting and we seemed to be mutually most interested in it. We developed the logline for this concept after choosing it, and then tried developing it further;

We started to look more into visual cues we could use to communicate our dystopian future setting to the viewers in an effective way. Upon the recommendation of a teacher we looked into propaganda posters from the war, and thought about incorporating them into our setting’s design. As for the setting itself, it would be a futuristic but run down bar here on earth, but many years into the future. Musk has somehow lived this long with the aid of technology, and rules over all of mankind, who don’t view him very favourably.

Over the course of the week, we added a few more things to the board; reference images for art, links to the news story so that we could understand it better and some rough ideas. I look forward to seeing how our idea will progress in the following weeks.