Evaluation.

Over this module I feel like I have gotten more insight in the making of storyboards.
When I first made the storyboard I had gotten a lot of advise from the lecturer about my drawings and concepts. One of the main points is that I can get into the habit of drawing in too much detail and that I drew the story board too slowly. I then decided to try and draw them as fast as I can without making a complete mess out of it and it actually looked like an idea.
Out of those whole module my favourite part was analysing a movie or animation clip because I liked looking at all the different shots and reading into them to see what each of the shots are depicting.  I chose to write about a scene in the film Tarzan because it's a very fast paced action scene.
I think my strengths in this module was being able to take a story from a peer and getting it down in drawings, I did draw them in a bit too much detail but I learned to just loosely draw the images. 
I think I still have many weaknesses to improve on but I no exactly what they are and intend to continue these skills after the module to practice them.
My weaknesses are getting things done in time because I tend to take too long on the wrong things, I also need to follow through projects without starting new ones before finishing my old ones.

In conclusion I think to improve my skills from sequential visual communication,  I need to continue practicing my skills by making story boards every excuse I can and actually finishing them. I think I will also try to count shots while watching films and animations too because it will help me become more aware of shot composition and what the angles and perspectives mean.
Finally I think I really need to make a time plan when I start my work so that I am able to get it all completed in time.

Presentation

This image to the left is the first shot of the story board of the whispering horses,
I've still spared some of the background details in this one because it's pretty much any generic war time stuff, I've drawn two men rolling a cannon up a hill and a tench with some surrounding barbed wire, but the fact that people are out in the open and working on these things shows that there isn't particularly a war yet. in the image that I was working from this is basically the things that were going on around the two horses as well, except the men weren't wearing a completely fictional uniform that I made up in my mind. 

The first shot is a mid shot of the two horses, the two men sat on the horses are still as much detail at the horses because they are the focus of the horses conversation. I believe to make this more interesting I should have made the man sitting on the horse complaining a little more stockier so the reason he is complaining is clearly depicted. 

Task two, Learning objective 3 and 4. Analysis of editing and shot composition. TARZAN.

The scene that I chose to write about is from the film TARZAN ( 1999 ), I chose this scene because it's my most favourite scene from the film and it is fantastic in its shot placement for reactions, and emotions expressed throughout the scene.
I thought that writing about this scene would be rather easy, but then looking at just how many shots there were from the point where Jane ( Lady in yellow dress ) gets in danger, till the point where she is safe.
There are approximately 72 shots, I'm not too sure of the exact number because I accidentally made duplicate images while taking screen shots of the cuts.

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This image is quite expressive that the baboons are very angry at Jane because of the way they are positioned with the tufts of hair on their backs being raised, and the way they are high-up, looking down with their teeth bearing, looks like they are trying to intimidate her.

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Clearly in this picture you can tell the intimidation is working as this is an image of Jane being very startled.
As you can see too, she is down in the floor, looking up at the baboons.



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The baboons almost look rabid the way they are bearing their teeth when they pounce..
There is always that intimidating pause before animals just pounce without notice.




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In this image it shows that she is very scared because of her facial expressions,  and that she is clearly not familiar with the environment as she is just tripping up and is all over the place.





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Before this scene Tarzan was following Jane and showing curiosity towards her, but then shows even more when she's in danger and like a quick thinker, instantly jumps to help her.





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This shot looks like Tarzan's point of view to what is going on, and it looks like it is only fair that he should help her as the image clearly shows that she is out numbered by far, I think that this shot's purpose is to show the real extent of the danger as the first shot only looked like around 20 baboons ( Not saying 20 isn't deemed out numbered either, because it most definitely is!! )


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 Here Tarzan looks like he's made his mind up and is going to help, the previous shot of him just looked like her was merely getting a closer look, but by the look on his face, he looks quite angry (possibly at the baboons, or at Jane for getting herself in danger over a silly mistake).



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I think the purpose of this shot is suppose to show Tarzan's strength and speed as he is faster than the baboons, this is the first scene where you really get to see him action, as previously, he was left out by his friends because he "could never keep up". Then he began to prove his worth.



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I like this shot, I like the perspective of people running head on, because when the danger gets closer, it gets bigger and that is rather scary, I think the aim of this shot is to show the fear, she's moving quite slow compared to them, but she's also the main focus of the screen and the thing you can see first when watching this, is her face.


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This is a shot of what looks like a huge crack in the earth or some sort of crevice that never ends, the shot zooms in very quick with some sort of bounce to it, this is typically done as a point of view shot to something the person spots that is scary or dangerous, in this case, it's very dangerous as it's pretty much a dead end... or die falling, or die being mauled in this case.


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 This is another shot of her running, and she looks even more scared, and the baboons are much more closer to her now, I suspect that she looks even more scared now though, because of the cliff that may or may not stop her.



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In this shot it shows that she is just seconds from being caught by the creatures, It also looks like she's running too fast to make a decision on whether she is to jump or not, so it's obvious that she's just going to do it anyway. When your pumping with adrenaline, you make either ballsy or stupid decisions. But I suppose an imminent quick and painless splat is better than the slow and painful mauling.


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Here it looks like her leap of faith paid off and that she'd braced herself for the worst as her eyes are squinted shut.....   Lucky the big buff monkey man was there though.. That would have been quite messy.




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This is a shot from near where she is hanging of the crack she would have fallen down, the crack appears to be no problem for the baboons, so even if she did make it or not, the worst would have happened.. I assume that this shot is after her opening her eyes slightly to peak.



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In this shot she is clearly confused and I recall that she says something along the lines of "whuu? I'm flyin- Whuuuu!" I can imagine it is a very confusing thing to happen, when you prepare yourself for the worst and then you're mysteriously floating in the air.



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 This shot is rather scary looking, from this angle it does look rather like he's just kidnapping her or something so her scream after seeing him is quite understandable, but it is also quite a startling angle too, his hand is like the size of his torso in this image, so seeing some man suspending you super high up with his meaty large gorilla hands is rather daunting.


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 Here she is rather startled, and you know this is her being scared, as we've just seen like ten of her scared faces.






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 This shot shows that the baboons are just savage towards her, teeth bearing, their trying to tear her shoes of, dribbling all over the place...  These fellas are not going away anytime soon.





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 In this shot she is trying to bat it off with her umbrella, which she seems to have an amazing grip as that thing is STILL in her hand, whether it's for the fear of losing her foot, or for the fear of losing her boot, I'm not sure, because all of this is over some personal belongings to start with, and she seems the type of person to care too much for personal belongings.


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In this shot, it just shows the anger of the baboons so very much... They are just livid, falling to possibly die upon landing... and it just really wants to rip the crap out of that shoe, either that, or the animal is so primitive it's not even realised it's falling just yet.. .... Aaand the penny drops.


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As you see in this image she is some what distorted and Tarzan is in the back ground, still dragging her. The way that her hair is pointing upwards and the way her arms are suspended in the air shows that she is falling downwards possibly and that is more than likely the reason for the expression on her face.. It seems the priority for Tarzan is getting her out of danger, rather than caring about how he actually does so as he's just carrying her like she's dead weight, the way she is flailing around like a rag doll.

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I like this image, it shows Tarzan's skills as he practically defies gravity, he must have taken quite strong leap to still be holding her AND propel both of them in the air like that.





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In this image it I just see a woman who is far too scared to move after the experience she just had, but in this case it was just a tiny calm before the storm. I also like the placement of her toes, the big toe is rigid and the smaller toes are are curled up... Which is usually a reaction to things like pain, pleasure or being started. Though, I highly doubt she is getting any pleasure in being chased by savage baboons.

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Which is more than what I can say for the baby baboon who seems to be really enjoying the fact that his/her family are trying to tear Jane to shreds! The baboons look almost like they did in the first scene, like they are trying to catch Jane and Tarzan off guard by moving slowly before they suddenly pounce!



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Jane told Tarzan to let her go and acted offended after her help, but after the baboons are back again, she leaps straight into his arms instantly, I  think she's not all that ungrateful of his help. He is a strong figure and she is already relying on his skills. This was quite a long shot, and continues to him sliding on the branches.



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This tunnel like image looks rather scary, and it also looks rather hard to get through. Just the sharpness of it too makes it look somewhat painful to attempt.





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Tarzan looks very unsure of himself in this shot, mainly from the expression on his face, Jane too, doesn't look too sure either.






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Story boards

The entire class were given an image each and told to make up a story from the image, we then passed our story and our image to someone else and made up a story board based on what our class mate told us.

In this image there are two horses talking to each other (whispering), one about how heavy his passenger is and then talking about how they hate being there to carry heavy soldiers and that they wish they were free.

One horse refers to his wife as "his old lady" I chose this phrase because it's quite an old fashioned term and I wanted to make this sound as fitting with the war time as possible. I looked this up online and it's a phrase used a lot on the 40's.

When we talked about my story board I was told for a first draft it was too developed and seemed like I'd put too much effort into detail, so I made another, I think this new one has more detail as you can quite clearly see that the horses are now whispering. 

I also had some guidance on how I should position the horses, I found two images online to use as examples and comparisons to demonstrate the guidance I gained. 

This image to the left is a perfect example of how I was planning to depict the horses whispering, I thought since they are horses they could be talking like they do in films, English to the viewers, Horse to the on-screen characters.

Image found at: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/28/article-2054707-0E93EABB00000578-229_634x430.jpg

This is how Bec drew the horses afterwards and reminded me the point of horses whispering, is that they have to actually look like they are whispering, in the story-board above you can see the last image is the example he gave me. 

Image found at: https://tau0.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/horse-whispering1.jpg

This image is the second, first draft of my story board.
As you can see I've made things much simpler and easier to understand, I have also taken Bec's advice and changed the positioning of the horses.