BDM126: Mad Mozart poses are finished! 26 March

BMA142 Poster Development: 26 March

I spent an hour fruitlessly trying to quick clone the suitcase layer in Corel Painter.  I gave up because the results weren't any more in keeping with the style of the poster than the photo.  I did use the clone stamp to remove the old travel stickers.  I've chosen some signs of photos that I took on my trip to make new travel stickers. The text 'U CAN ALWAYS GO BACK LATER" will be put on the stickers in appropriate fonts.  No time to change the hot pink for red and purple for dark blue.  I can do that this weekend.  I forgot that I also have to write a 500-word paper on the development of this poster... I think that I've taken enough notes on my blog to be able to do this.  The poster is to be 99% done on Wednesday for digital turn-in during class.

BDM125 Storyboarding: Final Draft

revised 26 March, 2015

Glen, Ryan, Madilyn and Megan from class read over my second draft and suggested some revisions.  Mainly, clarifying what and who are involved when the words "painting", "painter", or "pictures" are used.  

MONKEY SAVES THE DAYPAINT!

by Traci Meek

EXT. PARK SQUARE-EVENING

A small, European park square.  An old brick building covered in graffiti and an art museum covered in windows face each other across the grass.

A TEENAGER works tirelessly with a bag of spray paints to create a mural of a GRAFFITI GIRL holding a canvas and paints on the side of the brick building. 

THE FOLLOWING MORNING

The square comes to life, people are passing by in a hurry, and children are playing in the park. 

Smoke billows out of a small café.  As the local fire department tends the fire, a crowd of latte drinker’s watch on. 

The TEENAGER puts the final touch on his mural of GRAFFITI GIRL and a wealthy museum patron, MADAME LE SNOB, shoos him off. 

GRAFFITI GIRL opens her eyes, looks around and excitedly begins to paint her canvas with what she sees going on around her.

INT. MUSEUM HALLWAY-MORNING

A row of large imposing famous paintings adorn the main gallery.  They stir to life.

A MILITARY HERO polishes the buttons of his coat with his horse’s tail and a TRIO OF LADIES warm up energetically. 

At the end, a small picture sits off to the side, small and forgotten.

ARTIST MONKEY sits in his painting working on a canvas of his own.  With his tail, he swipes a banana from a painted bowl of fruit and paints a moustache and eyes on the horse’s butt; he’s bored. 

EXT. PARK SQUARE- MORNING

GRAFFITI GIRL sees the paintings through the museum windows and waves at them.  They are polite, but too busy posing for the patrons of the museum. 

She makes eye contact with ARTIST MONKEY. 

SERIES OF SHOTS:  GRAFFITI GIRL and ARTIST MONKEY show their paintings and make silly cartoons of MILITARY HERO, TRIO OF LADIES and the patrons of the café.

The ARTIST MONKEY beams and feels a swell of creativity that he hasn’t felt in a long time.

INT. MUSEUM FOYER-AFTERNOON

MADAME LE SNOB marches up to the MUSEUM DIRECTOR.  She gestures through the windows at GRAFFITI GIRL outside.

MADAME LE SNOB

                   UGH!!

    

                   MUSEUM DIRECTOR

                   Ehhhh?

He shrugs apologetically.            

She opens her purse and throws money at him.

MUSEUM DIRECTOR smiles and gestures for the PAINTER to leave the wall he is painting and to follow him. 

EXT. PARK SQUARE-AFTERNOON

The PAINTER begins to whitewash the building with a very small brush.  MADAME LE SNOB taps her foot impatiently. 

GRAFFITI GIRL and ARTIST MONKEY laugh.  GRAFFITI GIRL uses her paints to undo PAINTER’s work. 

MADAME LE SNOB

Faster!

PAINTER reluctantly brings out a roller and brush.  The paint begins to cover GRAFFITI GIRL’s legs and she waves her arms to signal for help.

INT. MUSEUM, CLASSICAL HALLWAY-AFTERNOON.

MILITARY HERO sees her! But, the public is here to take his picture and he can’t do anything right now.  The TRIO OF LADIES shrug apologetically.  ARTIST MONKEY can’t believe it; they’re letting her disappear!  He pulls himself up straight and energetically swings out of his frame.

SERIES OF SHOTS:

ARTIST MONKEY flings himself from painting to painting, changing to fit the style of the paintings he’s traveling across. 

He stops in the foyer.  The exit is ahead of him but there is no more paint for him to use as a stepping stone to the outside.  ARTIST MONKEY looks worried; can he do it?  Can he really go OUTSIDE?

ARTIST MONKEY sees a patron wearing a colourful graphic t-shirt.  He leaps “into” the shirt and rides the patron out the doors.

EXT. PARK SQUARE-AFTERNOON

MADAME LE SNOB has had enough of this and brings out a super spray gun powered by a generator.  She directs the spray gun at the wall and squeezes the trigger with determination.  

The spray of white paint comes out thick and fast.  GRAFFITI GIRL is now literally up to her neck in paint.

CAFÉ SIDE OF SQUARE

ARTIST MONKEY leaps off the shirt to a truck to a window to the yellow painted curb, just across from the park square and GRAFFITI GIRL.

ARTIST MONKEY is stuck! He doesn’t have his brushes and paint.   A LITTLE GIRL sits at the café colouring in her book. 

They lock eyes and she holds up a fistful of crayons for his inspection. 

He grabs a crayon with each paw, and his tail, and busily colours himself across the street.

BRICK BUILDING SIDE OF SQUARE

GRAFFITI GIRL’S last eye has just been covered with paint.  ARTIST MONKEY has worn the crayons down to nothing and can go no further.  He slumps in defeat. 

He re-opens his eyes and sees the hydrant.  He remembers the fire fighters using it that morning.  He grabs the plug and sets off a torrent of water. 

MADAME LE SNOB is blown away, then the PAINTER.  The water washes off most of the paint, freeing GRAFFITI GIRL.  ARTIST MONKEY raises his arms in victory! 

MILITARY HERO and TRIO OF LADIES cheer as GRAFFITI GIRL smiles down at him.  MADAME LE SNOB, drenched in water and white paint, shakes her fist at the wall and the PAINTER.  ARTIST MONKEY and GRAFFITI GIRL lock eyes: is it over?

EXT. PARK SQUARE- THE NEXT MORNING   

PAINTER and MADAME LE SNOB return to find a crowd gathered in front of the mural and more people coming from inside the museum.  A big gold frame encloses GRAFFITI GIRL and a bunch of brass plates adorn the bottom of the frame.  The TEENAGER poses for pictures in front of the mural and GRAFFITI GIRL and ARTIST MONKEY beam down on the crowd. 

BMA142: Poster Development: Poster One in Progress

At the far end of the colour spectrum, my eyes have a problem differentiating between indigo and violet.  I think it's a very dark blue and then discover that I've painted my kitchen aubergine.  Ooops.  That seems to be what's going on here.  I knew that the coat was going to be a cooler red and chose a "blue" to go with it, but I seem to have gone too far.  It looks ok, it just isn't what I thought I was doing.  I'll change those colours out tomorrow and see which version I prefer.  That's the really great thing about being able to work in layers and multiple copies:  no mistakes, just the opportunity to give it another go.  I could leave the suitcase as a photo or I can put it into Corel Painter and see what auto paint makes of it.

BMA142: Poster Development, Colour Thumbnails, 25 March

I experimented with colour schemes on my favourite thumbnails and have added a photo of my old vintage suitcase to the bottom poster.  Still on the fence as to which one is my fave, so I'll just pursue both, probably, and decide which one to print and hand in on the day.

BMA142 Poster Development: Thumbnails 24 March

Based on my research, I want to do a travel-themed poster in red/white/blue.  I'm going to play with font placement and creating my own travel stickers for the suitcase.  I can't decide which of the bottom 2 thumbnails I like best, so I'm going to mock up both of them in color and see which one appeals to me more. 

BDM126: Mad Mozart's Parts

In order to achieve the spin animation, I had to create 8 drawings of my character.  If he was perfectly symmetrical, I could have re-used 2,3 and 4 and just flipped them on the horizontal.  He has a wonky eyeball, tooth and hair bow, though, so 2 and 3 needed a few adjustments.  These elements were then layered on top of each other in photoshop so I could look for proportion issues.  Once those checks, and re-checks were complete, I imported them into Flash.  It's going to take me awhile to get used to Flash.  I rely on the quick keys a great deal and they seem to be different in Flash and I wasn't able to replicate my turn a few times for the mini movie.  In the end, Glen from class showed me how to save it as a gif and that worked.

  My next step is to develop other poses for Mad Mozart.  He's had a accident in space and time and since then has been wiring up his instruments for electricity with the help of Ben Franklin.  The poses to the far left and right are attempts to develop a clear silhouette with a drum.  Three more poses with glockenspiel, harpsichord and triangle are left to do.