Monday- digital architecture part 2, learned and made notes about chroma subsampling and inter vs intra frame compression . Production principles storyboards, discussed what a story board is and watched a side by side of the story board and finished product for the really sad sequence in “Up.” Also discussed composition shots including the 180 degree rule. was told to make a story bord based on a coffee shop scenario.

Tuesday- Worked on the homework, thought about having two characters argue over the bill but decided on a spy scenario. planned the events of the story board in bullet points and begun sketching the panels ending with about 30 in total using basic star people to show movements.

Wednesday- sketched 4 scenes from an old black and white film trying to use values to show shape rather than outlines. also tried live drawing the rest of the room on connected pieces of paper, found this difficult.

Thursday- continued to work on my story board by adding some basic shading using an ink pen. Finished the story board and was overall quite happy with the result however i want to improve on the designs of the two main characters as they are very simple and the only real difference is one has a hat.

Friday- intro to animation workshop where we presented short introductions to animated films including “a is for autism” “Screen play” and “jumping” as groups to the rest of the class. history of animation, looing a early stop motion films such as “the electric hotel” which used people as stop motion puppets and “the camera mans revenge” which used dead, modified beetles as puppets (the film is actually quite charming) . storyboards