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animatic

Animatic from monica porucznik on Vimeo.

so here is my animatic...it is for an anti-spyware company called AVG and the premise behind it is "don't let spyware run your life" which will be said at the very end when the main character lays on the couch in relief that the "spyware" is gone

The Graph...

For the Across the Universe scene I chose.

If anyone wants to be in the chase video (I don't need to have only 2 chasers, can have many more!) definitely let be know. If you can't provide blackish chase clothing, I'm sure I can help out. As well, if anyone has a suitcase I could use, it would be appreciated! :)

If you are interested in working with me on the chase, my email is jrn5627@rit.edu and my celly is 207-649-2006, and I can receive text. Thanks guys.

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Ordiway Animatic

HEEERE we go.

Here is my animatic for the sunchips contest/class.\

HVZ Animatic

A while ago some friends of mine and I were watching a series of action movies for background noise. Humans vs Zombies from the fall quarter had just ended so we started jokingly talking about what a Humans vs Zombies movie would look like. This is the result, a short trailer for that movie.

I cut some of the clips too short, so I'm missing about five seconds from this animatic.

The basic premise is that a military team is dropped into a city (for the sake of this film, it will be the RIT campus) to investigate why the city was put under quarantine. They run into an intern who was working for a doctor who apparently accidentally released a toxic chemical into the water for the city turning its residents into Zombies. The team get the intern to a safe location and run a series of missions to get him the supplies he needs to make a cure and the supplies need to get themselves extracted out of the city.

SunChips Anamatic

The Upper Harmony

Title: The Upper Harmony (working title)
Author: Skybase (yes, it's Yuya T.)
Music: Skybase - The Begining of All

Note: The character's a fill in for now (his working name is Kai.) I don't know who's acting or not as of now. If anybody would like to take part, I'll appreciate it. If not, well, I have backup.

The Story:
One day Kai, alone in a café (or some sort of place) receives a call from a mysterious source. Curious, the boy decides to decider the code after noticing it was morse code. He finds that it said, "come find us." Moments after he decodes it, he gets another message, "Can you hear us?" where suddenly he hears a loud, obnoxious hum that seems to only affect him. He is quickly told to find the source of the sound by the mysterious messenger. Kai goes on a journey to find the source.

It's 3:10 AM and I'm falling asleep.

Oh hai, here's the high quality version
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/833722/Finalh264.mov

Chase Scene Animatic

First of all, don't laugh, I know it sucks. :P Took about an hour and half to think and draw out all of this, and even from here I can tell I'm going to be doing a lot more shots than this.

The basic idea is a chase scene. Everyone in the video will be wearing black (tracksuit or otherwise), and the suitcase I'm imagining will be metal, or also black. Thinking I might want to film it sepiatone or black and white, give it a rusty or grungy sort of feel. The song is a song on depthcore made by a friend of mine, I spliced it up a bit.

I want the film to appear in ways elegant and simplistic, with many long shots for the first few setting scenes. In scene 4 the camera will actually follow the guys as they are walking down the stairs (MS). The fact that the chaser is above the chasee in this scene will make the threat seem more present. In scene 5, The guy in the hoodie is waving at someone on the bridge (where the first scene is shot), beckoning him to join him in the chase. The camera will zoom into this person and then back out to watch the person leave. At this point no one is running yet.

Scene 7, our chasee realizes he's being followed and starts running to the SAU. In shot 9 the camera pans to follow the chasee, and then pan-zooms back to where the other two are in scene 10. The camera follows them as well.

Scene 11 is broken up into multiple parts but cut in one shot. The camera follows the two as they enter SAU and head into the lobby, and decide to go down the hallway, which ends up being the wrong move. The chasee appears and gives the suitcase to a person who has been in the scene and was first believe to have been a passerby.

Scenes 12 to 16 show the two chasers earlier, now behind the fireside lounge. The person who had the suitcase handed off too exits the Fireside Lounge, goes down the stairs, and is held at gunpoint and made to drop the suitcase. He is then executed. The last thing he sees (scene 16 is shot from his perspective) is the suitcase, and then one of the chasers as he waves goodbye and leaves. Then red is seen, then fade to black. Sad ending. :( All of these shots happen pretty quickly, but the last shot is suspended for a while in order to show resolution- the man accepts he is going to die.

I'm thinking dark, black clothes, and grungy. The gun will likely be a squirt gun painted over in black, and I will need a suitable suitcase. I've wanted to make a chase scene for a while now so I think it'll make a good assignment.

Sweeney Todd [issues addition]

Here is the emotional chart and part of the original video for Sweeney Todd. Unfortunately the video I created is gone and will need to be redone at some point. T~~T

Youtube Doubler

In case there's people who don't know about this, it helps a lot to show the similarities/differences in your work. For instance, here is my video back to back with the clip i took it from http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4sKgBRElEbw&start1=0&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D_ZQIeqLVabA&start2=0&authorName=Real

Across the Universe - Little Help From My Friends

(around 1:53 in)


Scene goes as follows:

1. WS 2.5 secs
2. WS 3.5
3. WS 3.5
4. WS 1.5
5. MS 1
6. WS 2
7. MS 1
8. MS 1.5
9. VWS 5.5
10. WS>MCU>WS 7
11. MCU>WS 7
12. MCU 2
13. WS 2
14. MCU 3
15. WS 3
16. WS 6
17. MCU>WS 7

I didn't follow the original in it's entirety but I believe I followed the structure and it worked. The video is still processing but should be up soon. I'll have the graph up shortly, friends. :]
Update: Just discovered my video has been blocked by youtube due to copyright violations. Doh! A low quality version is going up now...

Romantic climax of Pride and Prejudice.

Recreation of a scene from Mean Girls.

There is one shot that switches awkwardly to the next shot, but other than that I'm happy with it.

I couldn't get my video to upload to the blog, so here is the link to my vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/10268393

1. 6:12-6:27: MCU to MS

2. 6:27-6:30: MCU

3. 6:30-6:45: MCU

4. 6:45-6:53: MS

5. 6:53-6:57:MCU

6. 6:57-7:06