The Coffee Cup

Shot List >> Intro

1: Mid Shot > Side View– Church doorway
2: Mid Shot > Side View– Perry walking towards church door
3: Mid Shot > Front view – Perry Walking up church steppes
4: Mid Shot > Front View > Inside Shot – Perry walking through doors, towards camera

Treatment

The frame is filled with a side view shot of an arched church doorway. The frame is split into three panels, one large complete image of the actions in the middle, with two narrower close up shots of the motions in images on either side. These panels are separated with a thick black line.

From the left hand side a man with long black hair strides confidently into view and proceeds towards the doorway.  

We then cut to a straight front view of Perry walking up the church steps and taking hold of the door handle

From inside the church we see Perry open the door and stride through them towards the camera. All around Perry in this last shot, a flickering ghostly motion is happening on the walls, creating an eerie and surrealist effect.

A strong backing beat begins when Perry first walks into view and then continues through until the end. This sound track is the song ‘Hello’ by Martin Solveig.

Shot List >> Outro

1: Mid Shot > Side View – Church doorway and surround walls

2: Mid Shot > Side View – Church doorway and surround walls > Perry walking out of doorway

3: Tracking Shot – Following Perry as he walks towards and past camera

4: Long Shot – Front view of Perry Walking towards Camera

5: Mid Shot > Tracking – Perry walking past camera

Treatment

The Film opens with a side view of another church archway, only this time the door is completely out of shot. Again the frame is split into three and the same proportions apply.

We see Perry turn out of the doorway and walk towards the camera. A smooth tracking shot is implied as he walks past us.

The frame then switches view so that we can see Perry Striding towards us again down the rugged pathway.  Seconds before he reaches the camera he swerves off to the right and disappears out of shot.

Perry comes back into view as the camera is repositioned around the corner and another tracking shot is used until he walks out of sight and the screen is left on the view an empty bank.  

Again a strong backing beat begins when Perry first walks into view and then continues through until the end. Only this time the song has been slowed down slightly so that it has a deeper sound to it and a sharper melody. Again, this sound track is the song ‘Hello’ by Martin Solveig.

Evaluation

The ‘Coffee Cup’ project was divided into two separate briefs – A live action brief and an animation brief. As I wish to learn more and experiment properly with the ways of animation, I chose to follow the animation brief, along with Michelle and Perry.

 After a deliberation with the rest of the ‘animation team’ me, Perry and Michelle were set the task of creating the beginning and the ending of the group film.  Perry came up with the idea that we could have a character walking into a church to start it, and then back out of one to end it again. He had very good reasoning behind this idea (which tbh I can’t remember – hence the explanation not being included) so me and Michelle both agreed to base the animation on this sequence. We then decided that we would be base our animation on the ‘A Scanner Darkly’ film directed by Richard Linklater in 2006, which is a 100 min long film that has been rotoscoped from beginning to end. In order for us to rotoscope our project, we first had to plan and then film some footage for it.

We chose to film the intro at St Andrews church because of its impressive architectural design and it being within easy reach of the college. The filming at this location went well and we quickly finished the filming for the Intro animation.  However, cars started turning up and parking just outside the front door of the church, when we were just about to start filming the Outro there, which as you can imagine was really quite annoying! Because of this we had to find a different location for the ending. This was when we decided on filming at the church opposite the park up behind the college.

 It wasn’t an ideal location, the outside was littered and dirty, and all the doors were locked up so we couldn’t film Perry actually walking out of a doorway. Instead, we devised an angle to film from in which the arched doorway was visible, but the doorway itself was out of sight, this way Perry could walk out of the arch and it would seem as though he had walked through the actual door. We then filmed his walk several times, from three different angles until we obtained all our desired footage.

The rotoscoping was surprisingly easy – Rachel showed us an easy way to batch edit the images, which meant that we didn’t have to apple the ‘Poster Edges’ effect to each one individually, which managed to save us a lot of time and effort.

However, there were a few images from the Intro video – From when Perry entered the church -that the sides of were really dark, and had to be photoshoped separately. I took this task upon myself due the fact I have Ps on my laptop so I would be able to work on them at home.

I used the clone tool to fill up the dark areas with sections of wall and then used the blur tool to give the walls a kind of impression that they were melting. We wanted these effects because we thought we would look nice if the film would flicker after he went inside the church, and using these tools, every image would be slightly different, giving the required flickers!

Birdie

After we finished our CC Animation, me and Michelle decided to a make a mini animation playing with stop-motion animation. We created it by printing a black and white stained glass window design from the internet. Then using a rostrum set up we coloured in small sections advancing around the picture taking an image between each movement using Monkyjam. It took us around two hours to make it efficiently.