Folding Videos

Letter Form - Pan in

First story board

includes a zoom in (indicated by pink arrows)

But not rotation of camera.

Second story board, on post it notes making it easy to rearrange or rectify mistakes.

This one includes a 90 degree camera movement as well as a zoom in.

The folding movement proved difficult to render by hand.

I preferred this method of stop framing where possible, as the subtle highlights and shadows created by the camera made it so much easier to follow what was happening.

Letter Form - vertical/horizontal movement

Taking the initial folding animation, I tried to storyboard a possible horizontal movement across the frame. As 

always, start simple and get the rubbish ideas out first.

Considering ways in which the circle could move

Trying to make it resemble the 'O' o the word FOLD a little more.

Folding and moving? This idea would need a lot more refining if were to work.

The folds would need to coincide rotation of the rolling I think..

I decided to take photographs of the actual process of the paper unfolding.

I think this better explains my intentions, as without a lot of hard work shading and 
colouring the story boards, it is hard for others to see what I can in my head!

Design for Digital - Storyboards

Initial words drawn from the 'randomiser' were 'ting', 'fold' and 'cold'

We had to interpret each word as best we could, using gestures of line etc to suggest movement, or convey a feeling. I was pretty disappointed with my work, though we did have a very limited amount of time to produce these pieces and I was feeling particularly uninspired!

Fold is a little difficult to see, though I liked the concept of working with folding letters, and decided this was the word that would offer the most potential as far as a piece of motion graphics goes. So this is the word I decided to move forward with.

Stationary animation

Horizontal movement (above)

pan out (below)

Different concept

These 3 story boards are the result of the first workshop with Fred, where we explored the very basics of camera movement. I still wasn't happy with what I was producing here, though I think it's evident that I at least understood what I was doing!

I loved working on post it notes, brilliant idea, simply because it allowed you to commit to drawing in a frame with the knowledge that if you did it wrong you could pull it off and start again, or rearrange the frames into a better sequence. I also feel it allows for more experimentation, and ideas generation. Super.