Round two

So back to university we go, tails between our legs wondering what deep waters we will be thrown into next.. and luckily it a very intriguing project. The project we have been given is a style of Graphic design that I have never personally worked with before so I am looking forward to what lies ahead.

Brief summery: In the next 2 weeks we will be working as a group of 3 towards creating a 10-20 second stop-frame animation based on Herman Zapf and his typeface, Zapf Dingbats. Using only the glyphs in the typeface to produce the whole animation. We will all be given a slot of 2 hours to produce our animation and no more!

The rules: 

YOU MAY USE NO OTHER ELEMENTS.

YOU MAY REPRODUCE MORE OF THEM.

YOU MAY USE FEW OF THEM.

YOU MAY CHANGE THEIR SIZE.

YOU MAY NOT CHANGE THEIR SHAPE.

YOU MAY CHANGE THEIR QUANTITY.

YOU MAY CHANGE THEIR COLOUR.

For this project I have been teamed up with Charlie.P and Jo.W, two people which I haven't worked with yet on the course so I'm looking forward to seeing how we work together. So... since Monday we have been working on this project coming up with a few ideas for instance creating a beat for the dingbats to pulsate along with however none of these ideas seemed to link in with Zapf. Seeing as I needed to leave early on Monday I came back in on Wednesday, to find that the guys had come up with the idea of creating the face of Zapf using his Dingbats typeface, I felt this was a pretty neat idea. During the day on Wednesday we focused more upon the story boarding technique and how it helps to pan our what needs to happen to get to the final scene. 

We were all as groups set the task of creating a story on the theme of changing a light bulb. We were all given a genre to go by with ours being Musical. After this we then needed to put the scenes that we had just produced in our story now onto a 18 framed storyboard BUT a spanner was thrown in... we were to illustrate our story again using only the dingbat glyphs. This was quite difficult but by the time we figured out which glyphs we would use for each character it began to piece together.

Having practiced the whole storyboard technique we were now to do the same but with our story about Zapf. Before continuing with our story board we double checked to see if our idea of 'Dingbats crawling onto the page from all corners to reveal Zaphs face' would work, and we were warned about the timing and to make sure we move more than one glyph to ensure we create the face in the 240/480 shots. Now with this information we will now begin mapping everything out for our 2 hour slot on the following Wednesday, until then fingers crossed!