Final Piece for The Green Mile Title Sequence

The final piece for The Green Mile Opening Title Sequence before the sound effects are added

 

Backgrounds

We have decided to change our backgrounds as our previous ones looked to clean and crisp so we decided to make it look more dirty and add other elements so they wouldn't look bare they consist of many photographs to create one image like a photo montage. These are some of the backgrounds

 

 

 



Mouse Animations

So for the mouse animations we put together a test animation from the side, 

and from looking at it there needs to be more movement in the body, not just the legs

So we worked on the legs as well as the body and tail movements to produce a more realistic mouse animation

Side View:

Front View:

Overhead View:

Side Angle Back View:

Side Angle Front View:

Side Angle Turning:

Working on Adobe After Effects.

Today I have been working on background scenes for Adobe After Effects. Real Photographs of a wall, floor and bars were used in these pictures. They were slightly edited on photoshop first.

 
This picture will be used in more than one scene. At the start and the end. The mouse will crawl out of it and later back in.

I'm not sure if this background wil be used but if it will be used it will also be in more than one scene.

 

 

 The last image isn't finished yet I still need to take a photograph of a door and add it in.

 

 

 

Working to the Animation

So to work towards the actual title sequence, we worked on the scenes, other than missing the mouse, which is represented by an orange ball

Scene for John Coffey:

Scenes for the director, however we had difficulties deciding on which way it should read

And with the mouse the scenes are coming together

 



MIni Green Mile

The group has mostly only worked on 2D and digital work so I decided to make a model of a part of the Green Mile prison to make up for it.

 

 I painted the wooden boards with acrylics and then glued them together. After that I added wires as the bars of the prison.

Here I have both sides glued.

I then added a circuit with a little light bulb that looks similar to the one in the movie.

 

I will still make a little desk with chair and a little radio on it.

Photographs

 

 

I took photographs of walls and floors for the project which might be later used on Adobe After Effects to create a 3D environment for the mouse to run in.

Here are a few of those pictures:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

we decided to change our aproach to the project we were going to do a stop motion

but we are now doing a photo montage kind of thing were we combine photographs with one another to create a background and also use drawings

 

these are the drawings and test peice we did

 

   

The Mouse

So we have to figure out how the mouse moves so that it looks realistic, one of the movements in the film is where the mouse pushes the spool, so we took a video of a spool rolling back and foward

So we then drew it out to see how to make a drawn object look like its rotating

 



Storyboard

So starting on to actually produce the title sequence itself we started off a with a storyboard, loosely based on the sequence of shots written about in the treatment file, leaving some room to include or cut out what we please or change it completely.

So we then put in to to Premiere Pro to give an idea of timing, originally the track we had considered using was put to it but there wasn't enough in the storyboard to fill the full track so it was left out.

We then put together an animated storyboard combined with the audio, to suggest how we would include the names of the actors and other roles in the animation.

Treatment File

Concept:

Our concept is a stop-motion from the POV of the mouse, Mr Jingles, on a journey through the prison introducing the viewer to the characters.

Technique & Approach:

It’s a stop-motion created with a series of still photographs, using models of the various characters and objects the mouse observes on its way through the prison. We will be using a variety of real objects, such as sponges and buckets, and Photoshop to mimic the faded lime green floor that The Green Mile is named for.

Mood Board:

Audio:

We are considering using another track from the composer of the original score, Thomas Newman, as well as some wind noises, scampering noises and other such noises associated with a prison.

Sequence of Events/ Shot List:

Mouse POV

Camera is set low to the ground.
The shot begins as a close up of a mouse hole. The mouse comes out of the hole and scurries along the prison passing by objects that are hinted to the story, ie. The sponge. 
As the mouse passes through the prison he passes by the cells, there is a hint of the occupant of the cell, eg. Light for John Coffey, urine for Wild Billy, passing by the silhouette of John Edgecomb in the bathroom. 
The sequence ends with mouse returning to the mouse hole, camera zooms out and the mouse hole is actually part of the n in the title ‘The Green Mile’

The background fades to black to make the title easier to read.

The Green Mile

This is the blog for the project for the title of The Green Mile for our Animation and Motion Design Course.

Its a movie directed by Frank Darabont which was adapted from the series of novels by Stephen King. 

The movie is told from the point of view of Paul Edgecomb, played by Tom Hanks, who was a Prison Guard for the prisoners on Death Row, often called the Last Mile but they called theirs the Green Mile because of the faded green colour of the ground.

So after deciding to do this film we tried focusing on some key elements of the film such as the long corridor and recreating it.

We also tried recreating some of the textures on some of the walls in the prison.

For audio, we looked at the composer of the original score Thomas Newman, and looked at his other work. This is one of his pieces from another film.

We decided to do a stop motion from the mouse, Mr. Jingles, POV we did some drawings looking at some of the poses the mouse would be in.

here are some models of mice we done in modeling clay

 a brown and white one for experimental purposes

 

 

here is the one we might intend on using

as it is more realistic than the other two

made with fur and modeling clay.