Scheduling and Role playing

In our last meeting we had also briefly discussed devising a work scheldule which was then summerise quite well by Bev on our group blog on face book.

Bev's Summery-

- Scheduling -
The issue we have is time. We did a very rough schedule which looks like this:

1. Research/idea gathering - looking at the images or water/rain (where we are now)

2. Visual concepts - looking at characters, scenes, time of day: visual cues for creating a synopsis

3. Create character scenarios

4. Write synopsis or just a simple beginning, middle and end

5. Create character sheets

6. Storyboarding

7. Animatic and sound

8. Animation production (separate schedule to be done)

This process totals around 7 weeks work if we have a week for each item (apart from the initial research). That only leaves us with 7 weeks for animation production.

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This is a rough schedule for now which will eventually become more detailed. 

Roles and responsibilities were also mentioned but not dictated, though it seems that everyone is agreeing on allocating roles according to what we all want to achieve as individuals. I personally want to be taken out of my comfort zone and work on the story telling, so storyboarding narrative and scenario development. I shared this with the group and Amy also expressed a similar interest, so I hope I can work with her on that.

However, it has been agreed that we should all also feed into the concept art/scenarios at this beginning stage. As we feel that If we can all bring our ideas to the table and pick what we feel are the best bits we should end up with a very strong project.

Bev had noted that she was particularly interested in animating movement but again we all agreed we have to play a part in animating the production because of the amount of work. Anna had said that her strength lies mostly with scenarios and storys but believes visual representation of story is not quite the same as writing it. However, she said she would be meeting her challenges the most by animating movement, so thinks it would perhaps be best if she joins Bev in that.