Pre Prod Plan

Brief:

The second project we're going to try and tackle this trimester is helping an animation student with his 1-2 minute animation, it's a short animation about a young girl who loses her brother and goes on an epic journey through space and possibly time to get over her pain there is no dialogue however the soundscape that we need to create needs to differ between several different scenes that will need to be unique and stand out as a different stage of grief.

Isolation/Denial Anger

Depression

Bargaining

Acceptance

Isolation/Denial, it starts in a sandy desert wind blowing across, it’s a harsh wind. Blowing the sand around a large wooden pirate shipwreck. The ground shakes and groans as mounds of sand head towards the ship from all angles, they converge around the boat as the atmosphere gets tense. They break the surface and explode with black light, shooting up and around the boat as it engulfs the screen to the next stage.

Anger, starts with the black light, zooming out the black light becomes cracked and hard like a tree, then becomes several trees and then a forest, the trees a pumping. Like veins they begin to pump faster, as the girl touches the tree, it comes alive and tries to lash out at her, hitting the ground around her. She crawls through the tree branches and into a stream of blood.

Depression, As she stands up she sees a huge wave of blood coming towards her, destroying trees in its wake. She runs frantically away from the wave, the trees scream as they die. She makes it to the entrance of her cave. Safety. She runs deeper and the wave follows, flooding the cave and filling it up with blood. Swirling around, it crystalizes.

Bargaining, She walks up to a crystal and touches it, and it resonates with a pure tone and lights up the entire cave of crystals in a symphony of pure crystal notes. She touches it again and she sees her lost brother, and the bracelet he left her. She offers the crystal the bracelet as her hand warps through the crystal and gets stuck inside. The crystal beats like a heart and the bracelet is at its centre. Her brothers image appears and she goes to hug him.

Acceptance, the final scene is on her bed in her room, holding a photo of her and her brother. Light shines in as she sobs.

In Scope:

To create this dark atmosphere throughout the whole 2 minutes that will change between the grief stage or "world"

To re use sounds from existing library (footsteps in sand)

To mix and master a final copy for the creator.

To create a copyright document for my sounds that i make and to protect myself against infringement.

2 week polishing period at the end because scope may change towards the final product.

A large list of foley sounds for future development.

Out of Scope:

Composition of the music.

Animation work

Distribution of animation and peer review

Learning outcomes achieved by this project.

CLO1 - upon reflection CLO2 - upon reflection

CLO3 - This blog post

CLO4 - by the end CLO5 - by the end... hopefully CLO7 - during this and every project

CLO8 - i will get there with this one CLO9 - possibly, will have to talk to team. LO2 - still working on this one... LO3 - in the final product LO4 - planning on helping during the recording phase LO5 - potentially - will update with future blogs

LO6 - also potentially LO7 - in the final product LO8 - there will be live recordings needed and will adapt the audio from those recordings. LO9 - sounds for an animated trailer for a game. media-ception LO10 - definitely and will probably post something about my home set up also. LO11 - in the final product LO12 - yes but i feel my other project will deal with this much better.

LO13 - still to come LO14 - will research industry standards for game trailers LO15 - will include in seperate post

LO16 - will work on the contract separately, but may update this post with it. LO17 - by the end. LO18 - also, by the end.

Group members: Dylan Crause - Mix engineer, sound designer, Master engineer David Kormany - Live room tech, Producer, Team leadership Peter Jackson - Mix engineer, sound designer, Master engineer Fraser Williams - Client Liason, sound designer, mix engineer

Asset list is as follows. (to be updated via google doc)

BUDGET

The facilities and equipment available to us fortunately renders this projects cost to the team as nil, however, to emulate real world practice the budget is as follows:

Overall Cap

$2600 for Project Completion

Studio Hire

$990.00 –

• 2x 5Hr days for recording and editing

Equipment Hire

$210.00 –

• 1x weekly hire of the F8 Zoom Recorder

$470.00 -

• 1x Microphone

• 1x Windshield

• 1x Rode NT5

• 1x Headphones

• 1x Boom stick

Food

$400.00

• Food for on-site recording and studio breaks

• Food for artists and outsourced assets

Transportation

$500.00

• Weekly hire of transportation

• Fuel costs

• Transportation between studio and on-site recording

How Will Success Be Measured?

▪ High quality productions

▪ Each group member are happy with the standard and quality of the recordings.

▪ Tracks are to be recorded with: correct gain structures with level balancing and no extra sounds present in the recording.

▪ A recording session and production plan will be developed before each recording session out lining the events of the studio sessions.

▪ Effective time management.

▪ Professional team communication.

▪ Efficient identification and resolution of issues during the project.

▪ Each member has an understanding of their roles.

▪ Each member is to stick with their primary roles discussed at the beginning of the project.

▪ The group is to acknowledge the bands expectations

▪ Group meetings are to be held regularly.