Today we were meeting up at 11am. Sarah Pollard and Tom showed us a reworking of the script, tweaked from the input of Phil and others yesterday. Sarah managed to book the sound recording studio and even get Al (second name here) to give us a run down of using the controls. The sound studio has been refurbished since last term, since the room beyond the computers was full of junk, mess and such.
With my camera at the ready, me, Tom, Kamil and Phil cracked on with a necessary task towards the project - studying the mens lavatories. Actually it was more or less to take photos of them since trying to actually design the scene will be tricky without some reference shots. The first one we found and already a woman came past and questioned our motifs. Trying to explain our reasoning for investigation was tough because, well, we couldn't really give one. Even then, this is the University for the Creative Arts, so people should expect students to be undergoing inane antics like ours. With each lavatory we found, they were thankfully empty. I hustled with the shots to make sure no one would walk into 4 men standing around.
Reporting back to Sarah Pollard, Andy Joule came around and gave us some advice towards time management - mainly to organise what to do each week rather than specifically go into detail for each day. It's true, since our plan is to evaluate what we've done from the previous work and from there onwards, plan what to do.
We went on a lunch-break and at 2:00pm, met up at the sound recording studio to put the draft of the script into action. Doing so, we can get a better feel for the visual input and progressing narrative once the voices come into play. Ben Greenwood was there to provide some assistance in voice work - he's in fact a Director for another group but stealing him payed some good money! The sound technician arrived shortly and (re)taught us the basics of setting up the sound studio. He also showed us how to tweak the audio output until the levels were just right, and didn't question our animation subject.
Speaking of our animation, the beginning is going to have a woman of high-cultured, posh background to present the film's namesake and teach the audience. Initially, Sarah Pollard was going to be the voice behind this character (for obvious reasons) but after hearing Ben Greenwood's first few lines of delivery...we were settled. Ben has to be the voice! It's too spot on for anyone else - at least at this stage.
Tom voiced the awkward Australian man that invades the protagonist's personal space - and his friend voiced the protagonist himself.
Group 3 initial work on sound recording.
Due to Ben's performance we've decided to change the visual look of the presenter to a sexy broad, Jessica Rabbit type for now.
Tomorrow, we're going to film some basic facial expressions as well as acting to help get the subtle gestures down in our animation. Also, the character designs will be further developed and Kamil will of sketched up some designs for the scene.
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