Planning

The next task was to begin planning the animation. The first thing I had to do for this was to decide on my 11 second section of audio. I ended up choosing and extract of dialogue from a film called Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. The next step was to decide on the rigs that I would need for my animation. After auditioning a few different rigs I settled on using two custom designed versions of the Norman rig. I chose them both for there excellent rigging which made them very simple to animate, but also because the look of the two rigs in question fit well with the dialogue.

The next step in planning was to right up a script for the animation. For this I looked at each line of dialogue individually, and wrote the basic movements of the characters involved. The first draft of the script was just this but for later versions of the script I also added notes on camera movement and shot composition for each line.

Here is the final version of the script for my animation.

Animation Script Final Draft

“if you hold back anything, I’ll kill ya”

Speaking character begins walking towards camera, looking off to the left of camera. Makes stabbing gesture towards character out of shot at end of sentence.

Camera pans to the left, keeping speaking character to the right of shot.

“if you bend the truth or I think you’re bending the truth, I’ll kill ya”

Continues walking. Speaking character raises one finger on the word “or”,makes gun shooting gesture towards left of shot at end of sentence.

Camera continues panning left, following speaking character but begins to pan back. Speaking characters moves into the centre of shot.

“if you forget anything, I’ll kill ya”

Continues walking. Second character appears into the shot from left. Speaking character taps head then makes cut throat gesture.

Camera continues pan. Speaking character is moved back towards the right with second character appearing on the left of shot.

“infact, you’re gunna have to work very hard to stay alive Nick”

Moves face to face with second character, prods other characters chest on “you’re”. Second character blinks repeatedly, worriedly. Moves close to second characters head near end of sentence. Second character backs away slightly.

Camera stops panning left, zooms in on both characters until mid chest of both characters is at the bottom edge of shot.