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.
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
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
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.
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.
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