FINAL ANIMATION
ANIMATION OBJECTIVE
Length: 108 seconds
Compose a short animation based on a poster of your choice.
STORY For my poster, I chose an event poster of a typical London telephone booth (as seen in the image at the top-right). The purpose of it is to bring laughter to the viewer and convey emotion. I had fun with my story and created a prank call scene where the person inside the booth called a random number and proceeded to act like the person they were on the other line with was their ‘partner-in-crime’. While the innocent & confused reciever still isn’t getting answers, they begin getting angry. It only becomes worse when the caller brings out a siren to act like the police are after them. It ends in the caller hanging up leaving the reciever engraged and baffled by the incident. Instead of having actual audio of two people speaking back and forth, I wanted to convey emotion in a different way. First, I recorded a friend making muffled, cartoon-sounding noises to match the length and tone of the words that were spoken. Secondly, the color of the left side of the video changes. This is on the side of the reciever. At first it is blue, becomes darker, then it quickly changes to orange, and finally turns to dark red. This is to show the emotions of anger and confusion being felt by the reciever of the prank call.
SKETCHING
Hello?
TELEPHONE
It’s done. What’s done?
I hid it... No one will know. Pardon me? Headed your way. Got you on GPS. Wait... What? Who are you?
You better have my money.
Huh? Who is this? Quit being dodgy.
But I don’t! Who is this?
TELEPHONE
Stop acting like you don’t know. BUT WHO THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU.
Oh! Wait. Ok, I see what you’re doing.
What? I haven’t done anything! You’re bloody mad! Already practicing what you’ll be saying to the bobbies if this whole thing goes badly, eh mate? Jolly good.
The police?? What...who... What did you do?
TELEPHONE
WHO ARE YOU?
Ok, ok. You can quit the joking. I’ll be to you in 10 minutes.
But I’m not joking! Sod off!
BLIMEY! You can’t say that now. This whole thing was your idea anyways. TELEPHONE
My idea?! What did you do? Who are
OH SHOOT MATE. Do you hear that?
Hear what?! Huh?
The bobbies are after me! BLOODY HELL! THOSE BUGGERS ARE AFTER ME!
WHAT
TELEPHONE
AHHHH! They’re right on my tail! Mate, you’re gonna have to run for it. They’ll see my last call was you.
THIS IS RUBBISH. WHAT THE
GRA 422: Fall 2017 Motion Graphics / Interaction Design
Student: Allison Gardiner Instructor: Scott Curtis