Thursday, 22 May 2014

White Wednesday - Short Film


In my second year at the AIE of the Advanced Diploma of the Screen and  Media, our last project was a short film assignment where we had to create a short film through using the skills that we have learned through our time at the AIE where we were specialising in 3D Animation and VFX and much more.

I worked with the 6 other students in my class to create White Wednesday. In the beginning of the project we all had to come up with ideas for the short film. The script used for White Wednesday was created by one of our group members, Rebecca Lyons Wright. Seeing as this was her script, she became our director for the film.

White Wednesday is about a pigeon pooping on several statues until he reaches a statue of a woman holding a dove. The pigeon falls in love with the dove not knowing that this is a statue and not a real bird. He flies down to her where he tries everything to impress her, to win her love and affection. When everything else fails, he figures out that she is in fact a statue. He's whole world comes crashing down and he falls asleep on the statues hand next to the dove statue. In the late afternoon a real female pigeon flies in and captures his attention where he immediately falls in love with her.

The style of the short film was set out to be cartoon like and unrealistic; something that would appear within a children's television program. The style for the environment, was initially meant to be very simple, such as blocks with sharp edges for the buildings and the textures were meant to look slightly grungy. Where the pigeon was initially going to look as if has been made out of clay.

The film turned out to look a little different to what we thought it would be at the start of the production, but it has turned out to be quite a production piece. We've all had a great deal of fun creating this film; I know I have. I worked with an amazing team as we created something extraordinary, especially when you consider the time frame that we were working within. I've learned a lot through this short film and had great fun working with the team.  I just want to thank the team and everyone involved in creating this film for all their efforts. This film just wouldn't have been the same without all of you.

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