Unit 66

Risk assessment:

To prevent any risk when animating I will be sure to practise some safety precautions. To prevent eye strain I will not only take 15 minuet brakes every hour to look away from the screen and rest my eyes but I will also ensure the room is well lit so my eyes are not straining to look at the screen. To prevent RSI and blood clots I will walk around and exercise my joints during my breaks, so that I am not doing the same repetitive moment for too long.

Calls sheet:

There will not be a crew as I will be creating my animation by myself. I will use a voice actor for one of my characters so I will ensure that I have an agreement form signed by the voice actor which gives me the permission to use there acting in my animation. I will create as many of the audio files as I can but any other audio needed I will source royalty free on the internet.

Genre
A two minuet short story. The genre is a western action film. The style will be in a pixel art as I like how stylised the art style is and I feel it is achievable.


Daily Shooting schedule

Week 1 -Monday to Friday
Create assets for shots 1 to 12 (doing more complicated ones on the weekend)

Week 2- Monday to Friday
Creates assets for remaining shots 13-20 (Finish any uncompleted ones on the weekend)

Week 3- Monday to Friday
Start making Main character walk cycle (scene of Steve riding horse over desert), stationary pose (Coat blowing in the wind) and actions (pulling out his gun and aiming it). Finish any of the animation that are not complete over the weekends and created Ricks stationary pose)

Week 4- Monday to Friday
Animated Ricks Actions and walk cycle with horse

Week 5-  Monday to Friday
Animate shots 1-11 (this includes the most complicated shot of Steve riding his horse over the desert and shot 11 is just before the duel)

Week 6- Monday to Friday
Animate shots 11-20.
Source music and sound effects over the weekend.

Week 7-
Monday: Get actors to record their Voice over on this day (and sign release forms) and begin editing into animation
Wednesday and Thursday: Finished editing voice over and edit any animation that need to be changed / finished. Add sound effects and music.
Friday:Create finial edit.


Narrative/ Character development
There will be two main characters (A good guy and a bad guy). The story follows the good guy, Steve, who is looking for the bad guy, Rick, because Rick took something from Steve and so Steve sets off to find Rick to get his money back.

The main character (Steve) Is about 30 years old in the animation  and I will need an adult with a stern voice to voice his few lines. The character is meant to sound as though he does not like to beat around the bush and likes to get to the point. An example of the ideal voice actor would be clint Eastwood from The good the bad and the ugly as his voice and character match my characters profile. The bad guy Rick will have a sinister look and will need a deeper more imposing voice. The voice will make it clear that rick is a bad guy and I will try to reflect that in the way he moves by him having his head sightly tilted down when he talks.