@Alan Little Monster - Moving on and editing

After feedback from my major project and talking to Alan it has been decided that editing and tweaking my film will be needed in order to make sure that it is ready to send to the graduate show and other film festivals (if they are still going ahead).

One suggesting was to create screen wipes or cuts to make it so that the audience do not become bored of watching the character run around to the different areas within the set. For that, I have come up with one idea:

  • When I say, "Later that evening..." - A clock comes up to the screen and then back (like in the old batman series, but the background does not spin), this would represent the change in time from being at the Natural History Museum in London to going to my GP.
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I may need more help as to where to place more cuts/screen wipes as towards the end of the animation I feel that adding cuts/ screen wipes could change the flow of what is being said by the voice over.


I have also decided on bits of the animation to cut out, shorten, speed up, add and change through editing.
  • When Diabetes picks up the suitcase
  • Diabetes walking to the hospital bed
  • Diabetes sitting down angrily
  • Before "Would you like to explain?" - Length of time that Diabetes pauses
  • "Would you like to explain" - Length of time before Diabetes shakes his head
  • When Diabetes stands looking at the water once he has thrown it
  • "Sometimes you can have hypoglycemia...." - Diabetes bored and moving
  • Add a 'puff' of smoke behind Diabetes when the toilet and screen appears
  • Move "Better?" from after Diabetes has been to the toilet, to when he actually nods
  • The pause when Diabetes is looking at the camera and I say, "Here, have this", make it so that I say it when the energy drink is thrown.

Comments

  1. Alan PostingsSunday 31 May 2020 at 01:31:00 BST

    The clock idea is fine - Its more in the execution than whether it works or not. For example, you could have just the clock hands grow from the centre of the screen to the edge (from nothing) and then do a clock-wipe as the minute hand swings roung 360 to reveal the next scene, before the hands shrink back to nothing. Likewise, you could do the Batman spin, but not have the whole clock spin just the hands. The body of the clock moved towards the screen (rotating very slightly from left to right) as the hands spin round much quicker. As I said, its more in how, than what.

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