Showing posts with label production schedule. Show all posts
Showing posts with label production schedule. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Production Schedule- Excel

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Production Schedule

Act division:

Act 1: from title to entering hotel

cut1: thunder rolls (1st time)

cut2: the protagonist's shoe enters and leaves screen

cut3: thunder rolls (2nd time)

cut4: protagonist running, her face introduced the first time

cut5: thunder rolls, huge lightening (3rd time)

cut6: she stops, breathes heavily

cut7: she sees something, amazed expression

cut8: the hotel introduced in the background, her hair flying

cut9: close up expression shot: amazed but unsure what to do

cut10: lightening

cut11: she is astonished, covers her head

cut12: she sees the direction of the lightening for a second, then determines to go into the hotel

cut13: close-up of her starting to run again

cut14: she reaches her hand and grabs the handle of the hotel.

cut15: black out: transition

Act 2:

cut1: she enters the hotel, stumbles a bit

cut2: show the hotel interior from POV

cut3: suddenly a lock appears from the top and locks the door

cut4: She hears the lock clinking, turns around

cut5: Close-up of her hand on the handle

cut6: she panics and holds the door handle trying to open it

cut7: She sees the lock glowing and touches the lock

cut8: chandelier's candles blown off, turns into a small light ball

cut9: she sees the light ball and think that following it is the only way that can help her to get out

cut10: the light ball goes into the corridor and enters a door

cut11: transitions to side-scroll mode. she runs to the left, enters the corridor on the left hand side of screen

cut12: she sees the old wooden door and pushes the door in

cut13: transition: black out

Act 3:

cut1: when she enters the old door some ash falls from the top

cut2: she sneezes one time because of the ash

cut3: transition to side-scroll mode. she looks around, the walks to the left

cut4: she investigates the boiling pot

cut5: close-up of the key hanging on top of the pot

cut6: she slowly reaches her hand trying to get the key

cut7: a white hand formed by smoke grabs her hand

cut8: scared by the hand, she have got the key in her right hand and now protects it in front of her

cut9: the hand of smoke tries to get out from the pot

cut10: she turns her back and pushes the door open

Act4:

cut1: a scenery of a waterfall and a suspension bridge jumps onto the screen.

cut2: She hesitates for a second,

cut3: but seeing that more and more smoke has came out of the pot, she steps onto the bridge.

cut4: close-up of her foot running

cut5: she looks back

cut6: the smoke that has turned into a figure, sad and crawling on the floor

cut7: Seeing that the figure doesn't seem to chase her, she hesitates for a moment

cut8: her foot gets stumbled by a piece of wood

cut9: she almost fall but grabs the rope on the side of the bridge

cut10: the wood board falls into the waterfall

cut11: She relieves, but has one last glance of the sad figure

cut12: Feeling complicated, she moves forward slower this time

cut13: full shot of the suspension bridge and her running

cut14: She finally reaches the other side of the suspension bridge, where there is a cave.

cut15: She runs into the cave, and she can see light from the end of it. POV

Act5:

cut1: She returns to the hotel from the door she first entered the little dusty room

cut2: she now has the key, so she walks to the front door

cut3: she puts the key in

cut4: chains fall to the floor

cut5: door opens, bright light fills screen

Act6:

cut1: camera pans from sky to the protagonist on the floor.

cut2: she wakes up, close up of her expression

cut3: full shot showing that the hotel has disappeared

cut4: bird eye view showing that she is close to the edge of a cliff and waterfall, like the one she has seen in the hotel

End


total cuts: 59
unfinished cuts: 47




Production Schedule:

time left: 15 weeks

January

Jan 12-18

Act 2-6: finish one key pose for every unfinished cut (47 cuts)
Finish Act 1: cut 10-13

Jan 19-25

animating act 2: cut 1-10
Sketch out ideas for press material

Jan 26-Feb 01

animating act 3: cut 1-10

Feb 02-08

animating act 04: cut 1-15
Sound design

Feb 09-15

animating act 05: cut 1-5, act 6: cut 1-4

Feb 16-22

colouring act 2: cut 1-10

Feb 23-Mar 01

colouring act 3: cut 1-10

Mar 02-Mar 08

colouring act 04: cut 1-15

Mar 09-15

colouring act 05: cut 1-5, act 6: cut 1-4

Mar 16-22

ending roll
All composed: music&sound design added

Mar 23-29

catching up, test rendering

Mar 30-Apr 5

catching up, listening to advices

Apr 6-Apr12

catching up
Problem solving

Apr 13-15

final render

Apr 20-26



Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Production Schedule

December

Dec 15-21: Cleaning the lines and colouring the walkcycle, turn around, picking up item etc.
Dec 22-28: Continuing with the walkcycle: add more key frames, solve scaling issues etc
Dec 29-Jan 4: Watch movies, game videos and animations to learn cinematography. Decide the title of the film (Very Important)

Finish colouring the walkcycle, turn around, picking up item sequence by the end of December

January

Jan 5-11: Collecting sound materials. Finish the sound design (4-5 minutes). Make a list of all music used for the credit roll
Jan 12- 18: Have the full animatic by this time. Make a list of names for the credit roll
Jan 19-25: Continue to work on backgrounds (at least 2 of them finished)
Jan 26-Feb1: Finishing the backgrounds of the rooms (at least 5 finished by this time)


February

Feb 2-8: Refine the animation in the animatic
Feb 9-15: Animating in-betweens (at least 5 seconds)
Feb 16-22: Animating in-betweens (at least 5 seconds)
Feb 23-Mar1: Animating in-betweens (at least 5 seconds)

March

Mar 2-8: Get feedbacks and continue on in-betweens
Mar 9-15: Colouring in-betweens (at least 10 seconds)
Mar 16-22: Colouring in-betweens (at least 10 seconds)
Mar 23-29: Compose a After Effect project of the whole film, Organize the files

April

Mar 30-Apr 5: Check how is my progress;
if not catching up on schedule, catch up using the beginning of April

Apr 6-12: Render the frame by frame animation in Premiere in high resolution and import them into After Effects. Test render the whole film: version one.
Apr 13-19: Continue to compose the materials using After Effect.
Apr 20-26: Show people what I have now and get feedback.
Apr 27-May 3: Hopefully the film can be finished by this time.

May

May 4- May 10: Put up an introduction entry for the film on my blog.