#log line

premise | A travelling guardian pursues a thief in possession of stolen magical artifacts across her frozen home country while attempting to train an unwanted apprentice and uncover the secrets of her people and their powers.

It's rough, and a bit of a mouthful, but it conveys exactly what I want it to, which is the overall story and a bit of the tone. Feedback and suggestions welcome, as well as just general excitement.

Beatboards, Logline, Production Schedule

10/2/19

Can’t believe it’s already the month of Halloween! How time flies :)

I’ve written this down before, but the homework slide said we have to have our loglines done today, so here’s mine:

Two strangers mix up their bags on their morning commute and spend the rest of the day caught in a whirlwind search for the other.

Lighthearted and comical, “Morning Rush” is a 3-minute 2D animated short about fateful encounters and the interconnectedness of us all.

Please clap.

Moving on: beatboards! The above beatboards cover the first 7 scenes of “Morning Rush”; beatboards for scenes 8-11 will be completed by the end of the weekend, and scenes 12-17 will be completed by the end of next Tuesday. These are very rough, so I’ll clean them up as best I can this coming week.

Above is also my production schedule. The main thing that’s blocking me is that I don’t know how long it will take me to actually animate each scene, and I don’t know how to have a rough estimate. If I animate 10 seconds per day of a 3 minute film, that’s 18 days. If I only work 5 days a week, that’s 50 seconds a week. So it should take me almost 4 weeks to get the rough animation done ? I also want to devote a lot of time to cleanup; I intend on having my animation be super rough so I can focus on the motion and timing, and then in cleanup I’ll go back and make everything be on model and pretty. So I could give myself 6 weeks for that?

However, this semester is busy for me. So if I can squeeze in 5 seconds of animation per day, that’s 36 days. If I work three days a week, because oh my god I’m dying I have so many essay to write, that’s 15 seconds per week. Then, during winter break, I can amp it up to 10 seconds per day. I like math but man oh man this is stressing me out. I don’t know how to count.

To put things simply, I’m still working out how long it will take me to animate the scenes, and I want to give myself at least 1.5x as much time as it takes to animate for cleanup.

On a related note, I’ve been thinking of taking an extra semester. I have five classes left, and while I’ve been taking 15+ credit semesters for the last three years, I’m feeling very burnt out about it. I need to take two honors classes, an English class for my minor, and two animation classes (one of which is the senior project). I really, really don’t want to spend the semester frantically juggling three essay-heavy classes with the things I want to actually spend time on. I’m already doing that this semester—would not recommend.

So that means: 1) I get more time to work on this! Yay! but 2) I have to readjust my production schedule! Oh no!

Honestly, now that I look at the schedule (is it too optimistic?), I feel like I could get this done by May. But then I remember my breathtaking ability to stress myself out to the point of physical illness, compounded with my lack of an after-graduation plan, and I think...nah. Nah. I’ll take the extra semester. I’ll talk to my advisors about it before I make any real decisions, but...that’s the direction I’m headed.

Anyway. Yesterday I actually sat down and watched a TVPaint tutorial, and I messed around in the free trial. I like it a lot; I think I’ll use TVPaint for my animation. I was going to try ToonBoom Harmony, and I downloaded the free trial, but then I forgot to/ran out of time before the trial ran out. Whoops. So I’ll either sign up with another email ?? or I’ll look at some YouTube walkthrough videos of it and try to see if I’d like it, maybe?

Edit: so I lied. Taking an extra semester would just draw it out, and it turns out I only need 4 more classes (including the senior projects class), so there’s no point to delay. The real reason I liked the idea of it was so I could put off experiencing the real world and looking for jobs. HA. No. Yeah, no.

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loG LINEEE

LOG LIIIIIIINNNE

My story revolves around the theme: Inheritance and Legends never die.

With the main character being a strong, female warrior. My current log line is:

Theme: isolation, self-discovery, loneliness, haven, acceptance

When I was in middle school I was turned against and bullied by my own best friends but I always felt better whenever I was ice skating. It took away my loneliness and sadness. And I had a lot of great skating friends there. The ice rink always made me happy somehow even when I was having a bad day. It was where I felt safe and where I could be myself. It was where I was around wonderful people. The theme is ‘your haven.’ Finding the place where you feel like you belong and brings you happiness and security. Everyone has a place where they feel like than can escape to when things get tough. I found my place on the ice. What’s your haven? Even if it feels like your surrounded by darkness, there will always be light somewhere. You just have to find it.