Production & Post-production work~ filming and stuff

I really enjoyed filming but it did take a lot of time due to the fact I was doing stop motion. There are a lot of things I would have done differently to make everything go more smoothly. One of the main thing I would do differently is use a tripod instead of an pile of books due to the fact that I would not have line the pictures as often when editing. I would also have liked to have  a better camera so I could have done a real life stop motion instead of just animated but I got the effect I wanted and am happy with it.

Other things for Pre-production

-Crew/Talent list~ non(animated)
-Art Department~ me
-Locations, permissions~my bedroom, I gave permission :D

~Research~ xP

My main inspiration was the song 'Don't unplug me' by the All Caps which gave me the story line for the film. I then discussed it with people in class and modified it to suite my title sequence which would not be explaining the idea but introducing the concept .I also googled images of male and females robots together to see popular styles of images and based my design on them.

Treatment +--+

Cheerful music springs up, the screen is completely black.a small white square appears on the screen and gets larger and larger until it is full size. Using stop motion a drawing of a fem-bots head starts being drawn onto a clear piece of paper. Then the male robot is appears in the same manner (POV shot). The page clears and drawing slowly changes to the fem-bot and robot holding hands. As the two robots stand their holding hands the title is written around them (still in stop motion) then they start walking along the page until the male comes to some flowers. He picks one up and gives it to the fem-bot. There is a close up on the flower and as you watch it, it starts to deform (instead of building to an image it does the opposite process) as it disappears ever fades to black and title sequence finishes. during this scene the credits will be written across the screen eg. director Tui Guy-Williams.

Production! Production! Production! thingy...

  
love in binary

01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00001101 00001010

My producton is going to be in the genre of sci-fi romantic comedy. It is a story about two robots that fall in love but the male robot(walter) does not think he is good enought for the female robot(Xenia). He decides to get an up-grade but when his systems are re-booted his memories are erased. Xenia then has to teach Walter how to love again. With this film I want to give the impression of a cute lovey dovey teenage love film.

Parallel Action



During the rolling of the credits parallel action is use constantly to portray both main actors as children. One of the things I like about the way the shots are set up is unlike in a normal situation when using parallel action both the children would have been on the screen simultaneously but it switched between them. One reason for this was to allow room for the credits but it also allows the  viewer to focus on one thing at a time. Having Parallel action of the two characters switching like this gives of a fun playful feeling which would not have been felt had the scenes been played one after the other or at the same time. This is because the images where filmed to counteract one another which gives them that playful feel.  



Music

The song 'US' by Regina Spektor plays during the introduction to the movie. The song is a bit quirky with its lyrics but i believe it fits the movie really well. The song 'US' (in my opinion) is about two people trying to do great things but getting caught up in life. This mirrors the relationship between Tom and Summer. They look like a great pair but life sweeps them up and they have to move on with there life's and find someone new.
One thing the music dose at the beginning of the title sequence is it keeps in time with the changes in credits and in the images. This gives more impact to the movement that each  credit and shot creates bringing focus to the characters.