Film Studies and Cinematography
24.9.2024 - 12.1.2025 (Week 1 - Week 15)
Vanessa Kei Kurniadi /
0360525
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Film Studies and
Cinematography
INSTRUCTION
Project 1: Develop Short Story
The first task required us to make a short story, and we needed to plan every
detail. We need to know what the story is about, what we as an author want to
convey, and the specification of the characters, time, and even space.
The story that I made up is actually inspired by me and my sister, so it is
fairly easy for me to create the whole foundation and the background of the
character's personality.
Here is the overview that I made of the short story:
fig 1.1 Overview of my story, Dear Sister
Project 2: Pitch Bible
fig 2.1 Pitch Bible
The pitch bible serves as a way for designers and collaborators to see and get
a feel of the story itself by introducing details like characters. I'm not
quite sure how detailed it has to be, but I tried my best to have as much
possible information put into there.
Project 3: Animatics
For this task, Mr Kamal asked us to make 3 things: A thumbnail, a storyboard,
and the final animatics.
As my understanding, to explain it simply, a thumbnail is the roughest
visualisation you can make, as long as the drawings can be understood and the
drawing order is clear. It is just a simple drawing if you do it.
A storyboard is a more detailed version of the thumbnail, where you start to
apply shots and angles, and maybe make sure the story is flowing properly. I
had spent a long time working on this to make sure my storyboard could be
understood and the flow was clear.
And lastly, the third one is an animatic. This one requires more detailed and
careful work since it's like a balance between an animation and a static one.
For this part, I just used the many panels I had prepared for the storyboard
combined with some audio and music.
fig 3.1 My thumbnail
fig 3.2 My storyboards
fig 3.3 My Animatics
REFLECTION
Experience
This module has given me a bitter-sweet feeling of the process of making everything. Making he story was not a hard thing for me in the slightest. but I noticed my progress got extremely slow in the later part, especially when it came to drawing. My perfectionist side just won't stop taking second looks and fixing on so many parts. And even then, I ended up not being able to make the animatics properly due to the lack of time.
Nevertheless, I learned a lot in the process of making a movie, and I'm glad that I was able to have this module.
Observation
I didn't manage to take a look at many works from my peers, but I did notice that we are all doing so many themes. Some decided to make something happy like a unicorn, and some decided to take darker themes where all the characters perish Some people took a long time asking for feedback in the consulting session too. I personally asked very few questions regarding this module but it ended up causing more confusion towards the end.
Findings
I found out how people used to be given briefs about the story. I've seen actors in Korean drama use scripts, but a pitch bible is something I've never seen or heard d efre
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