This week has been filled with meeting after meeting. I am really happy that the teachers seem interested in our project. It kind of gives me reassurance that we didn't come up with a boring story. Nonetheless we had many plot holes we had to fix so we kept asking for advice from teachers and coming up with new ideas.
Can too much advice cause harm instead of good?
I kept asking myself that as we were overwhelmed by all their constructive feedback. The teachers pinpointed the problems with our stories and we came up with solutions. However, these "solution" made our film short film very long.
We came up with many different versions of Underneath that amongst ourselves we didn't know which to pitch to teachers. It was frustrating because we felt like we were going in circles.
Thankfully on Wednesday, one of our teachers told us to only to concentrate on Stanley and she gave us a graph with 3 climax and it became much clearer after that. Still I felt really panicky because we haven't started on any concepts yet or any story beats and compared to the other groups we were trailing slowly behind.
By Thursday we got our rough final story beats down, and I decided to make a 3D Stanley monster character for my rigging class, to give me extra practice and also if my group ever need the pose in the future it would be a good reference for them :D
Sadly on Friday our teacher informed us that one of our climax, the smoking scene where Stanley burns his fingers off won't do as Singapore is against promoting smoking, this kind of bummed me out as that was my favourite part. So thats another problem we have to fix.
Back to the drawing board, at least I get to start on floor plans. Overall I'm really excited because this project does challenge my animation skills. Yet I am also afraid that we have set the bar too high for us to jump over.
Goals for next week : Confirm story beats and start on storyboarding!
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