Group Meeting on 8th February
So we have decided that we would have three different acts because there were three animators int he group. This meant we could all focus on whatever music artist we wanted and didnt have to compromise. I liked this idea because I thought it was fair for each person to bring to the table what they were interested in as I felt I was running the ideas before and wanted it to be a more group decision now.
Tina had mentions she might use references from Cold Play band with different instruments. This sounded great as it was different from anything we had spoke about but was a lot more work. I mentioned that if she had more people to animate then we could always help out each other if one idea was more work than another.
Marinana said she was interest in using references from Michael Jackson which of course was a brilliant choice as he is an amazing performer despite his personal history.
We spoke about speaking Medhi to see how we could easily and efficiently create crowds and flags in front of the stage to get the sense of ambience.
We also wanted to discuss with Luke what would be reasonable goals in the respect to lighting, VFX and cameras. I have just emailed the VFX tutor, Christos. I had one student called Jane from their course who was interested but then decided to make her own group which was fair enough. However, I am determined to find someone as I think there is so much room for experimentation with the different effects created for stage performance. It would be a missed opportunity. Hopefully someone is interested.
Also we need to ask Luke how we will be working together as the files might be too large.
We also wanted to talk to the tutor KK about the strobe lighting effects and projections. This would be an amazing skill to learn also creating an exciting performance to accompany the artist.
We decided that we needed to choose a rig for the performance we wanted to do and also look for props that would be useful for everyone e.g. microphone, decks. I have already found the concert stage in the UAL drive library which is perfect!
Collaboration Unit Catch Up on 10th February
Luke spoke to use about motion capture and how to use it to save us a lot of time which is perfect for our crowd in our project.
Group Meeting on 10th February
Mariana had brought up the idea that maybe we only use one stage which makes a lot of sense as it would be so difficult to produce all the cameras and crowd etc on our own. This would mean that we could decide and spend more time designing it where it would actually work. I think my idea was quite ambitious with what we have to do in 10 weeks. I think this is realistic so we can focus more on the animation and visuals.
We decided to talk about the areas we all wanted to focus on so we can get the most out of this project.
Mariana:
- Animation
- Splining
- Lighting
Tina:
- VFX
- Animation
- Crowds
- Lighting
Myself:
- VFX
- Lighting
- Set Design
Kenneth:
- Music
- Ambient music e.g. crowds
I wanted to animated a DJ set as this what I really interested. I know Kenneth makes his own music so wanted to give him rule of the using his own music as I think he is really talented and a great way for him to exhibit his own work. He has sent some of his recordings and I love it. So did everyone else. I think. it would be cool if he made a mix of a few of his tracks so he can get more of his work in there.
Kenneth musics generes:
- Lofi
- Elector punk
- Techno