Glammies Prep!

I had an amazing time at the Glammies 2014! So much talent in Screen 8 yesterday! Well done to all of the winners, their work was incredible. But as first years, we had the important job of creating the stings for the show, we had to make funny little videos that played in between the main parts of the show - whilst keeping the audience entertained and laughing! I can definitely say we were successful.

So Team Stop-Mo, the "Good Eggs!" were obviously one team. We had the themes of 'Growth, Fusion, Flourish' so that was interesting. So we threw some ideas about and suddenly were weak with laughter when we thought of our final idea! 

We planned out who would do what so we could work effectively as a team and get the job done quickly and efficiently! 2 week deadline! But our idea literally 'blossomed!' So we decided each of our roles...

Sophie Lewis - Props & Sets

Bailie Lovell - Storyboarding & 2D Drawings

Nicole Brookes - Felting Character Puppets, Animatics & Editing

Sarah Trigg - Felting Character Puppets

Nicola Bilbie - Animating 

We have to give credit to my friend Amy Thomas in third year, as she did her Final Major Project film with felted puppets, scenery and props. We wouldn't have thought about using that technique if it wasn't for her! Check out her blog here; http://amytanimation.blogspot.co.uk Thanks Amy!

Above: I did some planning sheets to give myself an idea of how the two sets would look and work, but firstly! Here's some of Bailie's initial storyboards...

So we went down the route of using fruit and vegetables, in a... well, strange way!

Our first idea was Corn Star. A corn that has a profession of being a stripper! And our other idea was Dreaming Tomato. A tomato that has lots of thoughts of how is life is going to turn out but unfortunately things don't go exactly to plan!

Check out my next blog update for felted characters, building sets, Photoshop sheets and final stings!