Catch & Release

Summary:
THE SCHOOLPROJECT OBLIG 12/PROJECT12

MOVIE TITLE CATCH AND RELEASE


I am this time finish with this project making a short animation movie as a school project. I started the idea about this movie as a combination of a fun movie and a serious movie. The serious is I dont like the fishing style clip the hook, catch and pull a wild fish to land and then relase it and fish it again... It is a bad thing to do this. To be sportsfisher and catch a fish and kill it fast to eat it can be accepted, but not only have fun with living wild animals like this.

So I deside to make up a short animation where I first used the camera in a position where the fisherman look big (big ego) and his wife smaller (she needed to follow here husbands egotrip). I placed then the smaller wife longer away from the camera and him and started the movie where she looking up to him and asking him nicely if she cud play music, if it would disturb the fish? (she did not interested in the husbands strange hobby at all, but afraid for his strong ego) She then start up a rytmic music and dance and then turn the back to him and walking out in the river to bath and swim. He also turn the back to here and then cud not see what the wife doing. His ego to big, only the strange hobby consern him.

My next camera shot was then planned from a higher level and down to the husband since I would not make him to a hero place the camera in a low position when he do this strange fishing style and when he now get the wife on the hook. Here I get many good advices from our teacher to make different camera angels and also close up shots show the facial expressions, also make the shots shorter then I did in the beginning. I just wounder if teacher did`nt understand the serious part of this movie, but had to much focus only on the fun part of it? Reason is that I following all the advices and cut down the movie 50% and also get comment of use of my high camera angels on the fisherman, and the first placing of female character had a low position as I have explained the reason upon here. Results of my hard cut of the original 2,5 minutes long movie is that my serious point at this movie get cut away and we sit back with a short animation movie around 1 minute who seem little "flat", still if it is little fun in it when he start pull in the wife with fishing rod and she scream start shaking here boobies.

The original moviemanus and storey board was made to keep the serios point to the end of this movie, including she scream " RELEASE ME!" and he just took his knife and cut the fishingline, he get panic of the angry wife (he is now in a lower status then his wife) Wife should fall backwards into the water and then start run after him, he is the loser this time...

Maybe it is my mistake this, that I should said very clear from the beginning my two different goal with this movie, but I will always try make up storeys and movies with some good points if possible and it is not normal for artists to explain in detail why they have made exactly that piece of art. It is up to the audience to self find it out and some do and other do not see it. It will always be like that in future also :-)
This movie was finish couple of weeks before the deadline because of the hard cut down on the duration. Suggestion about then start extend it again is not possible since I losed the interest and motivation on this movie early when I cud see I cut away the original point with the movie. My goal then was just to do it finish to get the needed grade and pass the examen.


When teachers will consider grades on this project I hope they also thinking about and study my 2 characters I made up for this movie and I made the rig to it and I have working with 2 characters on the scene and then it will be double up with everything including animation. In 3D max file teacher need to understand that I have render each scene out with different light settings and moved the lights around there to each scene + hiding and re-hiding objects after whats match each scene rendering.


I also used V Ray rendering and that render option is not similar as they other render options in 3D Max. Gamma is strange on that and the the light settings in light control and invoirments are not function the same. But use of V Ray fasten the rendertime, reason I used it.

Thanks to NorOff Instituttet and to the teachers for this project and all the other nice projects we have done in the last 2 year, I have learned plenty and will still do my whole life. I learned here that I need to be very clear as a moviemaker, telling everyone in the next production whats the point with the movie. This is what I failed on with this movie I can see.


A youtube version of the movie you can see here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrMoseid?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/wvwO3qFlI3w

Have a great day , Alf