Project: Research and script for #3 question of CCR post

 How did your production skills develop throughout the project?

This is the third question of the CCR.

Script

My production skills mainly remained the same. Stop motion, making the sets, camera use, most of the production I already knew of prior since I have experience with stop motion before. The only main difference is the extensive planning.  

 

Before I used to just eyeball it, and just animated whatever came to my head. I had a general idea of what I wanted, but I never wrote down any scripts or storyboards. This portfolio project was the very first time I used a storyboard for my own personal film.  

 

And it is not just storyboarding I had to plan for. I also had to plan for making a list of sound effects, props, set designs, and research on other films and genres. All I have never done before for any of my stop motion films until now.  

 

Research was especially a different approach for me since for most of my films, they are just ideas that pop into my head. And honestly research did not really have a big impact for me since when the project was announced, I already had a few ideas of what films I would like to make, ranging in different genres and stories. I already know of a bunch of space films beforehand, including their production and direction. But I would think that research would have a big impact on me if I was tasked with researching a specific genre I am not familiar with, like romance or comedy.  

 

I originally wanted to do a horror film, since stop motion works amazingly with it. But I heard that Cambridge does not like seeing horror films since they are overused. So then I juggled between a war and sci-fi film. I ultimately chose sci-fi since I hear often that the bridge between war and horror is really close, so I went with sci-fi since it is the safer route, and is the genre I always wanted to work with ever since I got into AICE Media.