#scenesetting

The sun was setting in the kingdom of CrownHelm. The year was 1433, two years before the great war.

Rumblings of the rebellion had begun in the streets. It started with whispers...

King Aurthius, Googi's father, had signed a peace treaty with the neighboring kingdom, Lorith. A peace treaty was what the royal officials had called it, but the townspeople knew better. Aurthius had not expected to inherit the crown and as a result was not educated in the ways of ruling. He had slowly trickled away the kingdoms treasury on a never-ending flow of lavish indulgences until Crownhelm had nothing left. The townspeople took the brunt of it, descending into poverty while the members of the royal family feasted in the palace, prancing around in their gaudy robes and jewels. When Aurthius realized there was no money left, he had no choice but to turn to Lorith -- a kingdom known for their wealth, although more notably their cruelty -- in a desperate attempt to save his kingdom. This was no peace treaty. Aurthius was selling Crownhelm into servitude, they would never be able to escape the shadowy fist of Lorith. And of course, the townspeople would be ones to suffer.

The whispers started quiet at first, there was a nervous tension in the air. The crown had a fierce group of loyal followers, and if you said the wrong thing to the wrong person, you would find yourself hung in the town square and left as a feast for the crows.

But as conditions worsened, the whispers grew louder, angrier. The townspeople were living in filth, it was as though dirt and dust covered everything in sight. As if to rub salt in the wound, on the mountain that overlooked the poorest of the kingdom's towns, sat the palace. Through the muck they lived in they could see the polished turrets of the ebony castle glistening in the sun, taunting them. Everyday the sight of that castle made them angrier. The word rebellion was now being whispered in the streets

5th October:

In our last inanimate objects lesson we scheduled the dates in which we are to practice our scene setting and both of the filming sessions we are to do. Today was my practice session, in which I got to test out my lighting ideas and how my objects for the animation will be Placed in scene. It was also a time we were to test how our rigging of the moving objects would work, so we went to the studio and each took turns to create our scenes and figure out the rigging and placements of our objects.

The above picture is of the hole I carved out of the eraser for the brass tubing.

And this picture seen above (looks silly I know) is of how well the tubing holds. However, this was just a test, so the tubing is going to be cut down and glued in.

One thing I did find hard was how to rig a bendy ruler, something I have never thought I would be doing, but alas I was. The problem I had was how to hide the wire rig on the back, as I already knew how to attach it (with Sellotape), but the ruler was see through. I tried to stick on paper to the back and tape the wire behind the paper to hide it, which worked, but the paper wouldn’t bend well with the ruler and kept falling off. So this is something I will have to figure out before my filming session.

So, the above picture shows the wire sellotaped onto the ruler, a great idea at first, and the picture below shows that it bends well and holds. However, you can also see the wire coming away from the ruler, which is a problem indeed.

The picture below shows how you can see the wire through the ruler, another problem I need to solve.

I had the ingenious idea of using paper, as seen below.

And the wire still bent, but not shown in this image is that it actually failed and the paper kept coming away from the ruler as well.

I was able to figure out where I will place my objects, but I unfortunately ran out of time to test out the lighting, so I will come back another day to see if I can quickly test that out.