VIZA 613: Animation Final: VIZA

A Completed short animation titled 'Patience is a virtue' for my 613 animation class,
theme; idioms.
Thanks to every one at the Viz Lab, Do Enjoy!

music/sound effects: freesounds.org
Animation: Adenuga Yomi #WA

Patience is a Virtue

My VIZA 643 Final: Absent

a completed short film about a schizophrenia, for my Time based media class. Do Enjoy!

The concept of the short film is based on a lady's sleeping disorder with severe complex schizophrenia, who constantly hallucinates a lonely environment where she is been haunted and taunted by an imaginary unknown monster (predator(s)), out to take her life, the visual layout of the short uses the audience and their point of view as that of the predator(s) after this lady.

Hint: Figured out who died...and comment!

Thanks to everyone at the Viz Lab. Gig em!

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Absent: a short film

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Binocular's POV
The idea is to help the audience be aware when the are looking through the predator's POV

DREAMY EFFECTS LOOK 

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Intro Scene: Script for Voice-Over Conversation

Conversation between Mary Sullivan's Psychiatrist and Two Police Officers

Two/Three characters are present :

1.      A Police Officer: Officer 1&2

2.      A Psychiatrist: Dr. Roman

*Knock on door*

Dr Roman: Who's there?

Officer 1: Mr Roman, Bryan District Police Dept, we will like to ask you a couple of questions

*door opens*

Officer 1: Mr Roman?

Dr Roman: I'm Dr Roman, and how can i help you officer?

Officer 1: Officer Keane from Bryan Police Dept, my colleague and I would like to talk to you about a  Mary Sullivan.

Dr Roman: *sigh* *hmmmmn* come in...

*footsteps*
*door closes*

*cushion seat sounds*

Dr Roman: Can I offer you a drink?

Officer 2: No thanks

Officer 1: Not on the job sir. Lets cut to the chase, Mary Sullivan, a patient of yours is a high profile suspect in a homicide.  Can you tell us about her condition...?

Dr Roman: Mary is my patient, she suffers from severe dissociative Identity disorder, symptoms of schizophrenia and somnambulism......

Officer 1: somna-what?

Dr Roman: sleep walking...

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Dr Roman: Mary has a lot of demons tormenting her...she may have conquered these so called demons, and might have won this battle in her head...but the war is not over...

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Lighting Keys

VIZA 643: Sample Treatment:(Updated)

SAMPLE TREATMENT UPDATED
NEW LOCATION: Hallway (NOT AN ALLEY)

- The opening scene starts of the film with typographical info on the symptoms of the main character and what disorders she may have(insomnia, sleepwalking, hallucination), followed by a voice over conversation between the main character’s psychiatrist and two officers from the police department discussing the history, trauma the character went through, the symptoms she exhibits and how she may be a suspect of an unsolved murder case. (During the voice over scene, the visual establishes the main character(Mary) sleep walking down the hall way....

*Knock on door*

Officer 1: Mr Roman?
Dr Roman: Dr Roman, and how can i help you officer?
Officer 1: We are from the Bryan District Police Dept, my colleague and I would like to talk to you about Mary Sullivan.
Dr Roman: *hmmmmn* come in...

*door closes*
Officer 1: Can you tell us about Mary...
Dr Roman: Mary is was my patient, and she's a sleep walker...

Scene Shots Summary
- Mary's sleep Walking down the hallway, shots..from a low angle

- Mary's subconscious, becomes conscious of her environment and then stops to look around, and then she
reacts to movement of blurry shadows around her, and spots blood stain on the wall/ground, Mary screams:
"what do you want from me?" and then freaks out and starts to run

- Reverse shots of Predator's Point of View and 3rd person POV, )hiding behind walls, watching (through the Camera Mary as she freaks out and runs from shadows running around from different spots

- In Predator's POV, Mary falls, hurts her self, now she is bleeding and she then gives up running, hides
behind a wall, on the other side of the hallway, she spots a baseball bat, and reaches out to grab it, as she approaches to grab it, she looks down the hallway,and for the first time, she catches a glimpse of the predator; she quickly grabs the bat, and goes to hiding...(reverse shot to show from predator's POV as he realizes he's been made and then goes into hiding,Still in predator's POV, then camera cuts out into a 3rd person POV, to reveal that there is no one by the wall hiding and also Mary's location down the hall

- continuous shot from Mary's POV before she decides to run and then runs to go hit the predator with the bat

- Reverse camera cuts back to Predator's POV as he is looking "SIDE - WAYS" he then comes out of hiding and Mary is there just as he(predator) turns to looks down the hall to smash the predator/the camera screen/ the audience with the baseball bat.

OR

- Reverse camera cuts back to Predator's POV as he is looking "SIDE - WAYS" he then comes out of hiding, runs down the hall towards Mary's hiding spot, and Mary pops out to smash the predator/the camera screen/ the audience with the baseball bat.

- predator's reaction to the hit, camera frame falls as tho its a human being.

- Camera's POV pans from the ground up to to look at Mary from a low POV (from the ground), Mary seemed Victorious for a moment, drops the bat, and muffles the words: No! No!! No!!! and then a shadow runs behind her, and Mary turns to look behind and she doesn't see it...

The End...

*Voice-over from Psychiatrist continues*
"Mary thinks she's killed it, whatever "it" was that was after her, she... believes she's healed, and that she was victorious *coughs*" - Voice over by Psychiatrist (Dr Roman)

Ending words by a voice over, or text "Mary is still Schizophrenic, and terrified of the dark, she
sleepwalks till today, she wasn't victorious...She never did, She never will be."

VIZA 643: The schizophrenia Experience, Take #1 : Test shoot/Final Look

This is a test shot of the opening scene and an edited version of a similar shot showing what the final look would be.
Location Change: Alley is now a corridor/hallway

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fisherman Material Sheet

Schedule: The Schizophrenia Experience - VIZA643

Schedule 643 Final Project

Adenuga Yomi

Thursday, October 31^st: Today: (Schedule, List of Equipments Required, Talents, and Set, Sample Treatment, Storyboards

Tuesday, November 5^th: Finalizing on actress Casting/Shooting of scenes

Thursday November 7^th: Shooting of scenes

Tuesday, November 12^th: Re-shoot of Scenes

Thursday November 14^th: Addition shoot of scenes and Recording of voiceovers for opening scene

Tuesday November 19^th: Compositing/Editing/and Final selection of scenes

Thursday November 21^st: Compositing/Editing/and Final selection of scenes? 1^st Rough review of film

Tuesday November 26^th: Short film completed by due Date

List of Equipment Requirements

-          DSLR Shoulder Mount Rig 2 Hand & Follow Focus

For the chasing scenes in order to ensure focus pn the actress during the running  Scenes .

Shoulder Rig Photos are copyright of CowBoy Studios

- A Camera  and a  skater dolly with rotation(personal and from the lab)

- One Key Light, to light up the character during close-up shots

Talent

- An actress to play the role of Mary (the main character)

- Three (3) voice actors to play the voice overs of the conversation between the main character's Psychiatrist and two police overs.

- A makeup-artist to make up the main character for blood scenes.

Set

A dark alley with existing lights in Bryan Texas or a similar alley on Texas A&M campus.

StoryBoard: The Schizophrenia Experience - VIZA643

STORY BOARD
Story board is for a scene in the short film; where Mary finally confronts and kills the predator(audience)
Storyboard by Adenuga Yomi
DATE: 10-31-2013

VIZA 643: Sample Treatment: Final Year Project

SAMPLE TREATMENT

TITLE:  The Schizophrenia Experience or DID: (Dissociative Identity Disorder), or What did she do?

TIME: 4~6 min

WRITER: Adenuga Yomi 

DATE: 10-29-2013

The concept of the live action short film is based on a lady’s sleeping disorder with severe complex schizophrenia, who constantly hallucinates a lonely environment where she is been haunted and taunted by an imaginary unknown monster (predator(s)), out to take her life, the visual layout of the short uses the audience and their point of view as that of the predator(s) after this lady.

For instance, a scene where the lady is running for her life down an alley, the camera follows her from a rear view, and also from the side view, acting as the predator’s point of view.

The opening scene starts of the film with typographical info on the symptoms of the main character and what disorders she may have(insomnia, sleepwalking, hallucination), followed by a voice over conversation between the main character’s psychiatrist and two officers from the police department discussing the history, trauma the character went through, the symptoms she exhibits and how she may be a suspect of an unsolved murder case. (During the voice over scene, the visual establishes the main character’s bedroom displaying her pills, a disorganized room and finally revealing the main character in bed)

The first scene starts off with the main character (herein referred to as Mary Sullivan) in bed trying to force herself to sleep, but she feels uncomfortable, rolls around on the bed, till her eyes blinks and she finds her self in an alley at night, dressed in the same pajamas she had on in her bedroom…feeling lost, isolated, terrified and hallucinating sounds 

Next, Mary hears (hallucinates) quick movements of some sort of animal as it runs behind her, a blurry shadow of an unclear predator runs from left to right, she still doesn’t catch a glimpse of what the monster looks like, wind blows and sound of environment, taunts her…the predator makes a scratching sound on the wall, Mary turns to the wall to see blood drip off its surface and she gets terrified.

A close-up shot shows the terrified expression on Mary’s face, she hears (hallucinated) a similar scratch even closer in distance to her, Mary panics and screams: “what do you want from me?” she gets terrified even more, Mary freaks out, and takes to her heels as the location of this predator remains unknown to her. But she senses the predator running/chasing after and taunting her every step of the way. (in the running/chase scene, the visual approach being experienced by the audience makes use of the predators’ or predator’s point of view from at least 2 camera angles(two predator’s point of view)).

As Mary is running, she trips over an object, she falls dramatically, hurts herself in the process, now she’s bleeding on her head, minor bruises all over her body. She picks her self up, continues to run around this alley, she runs by a tree and gets scratched, she turns to look behind her, to see the predator but doesn’t catch a glimpse of anything, the next step she took was on a piece of glass, the falls again, the scene gets bloody, this time she is agonized…she limps gradually by the corner of the alley, and tries to hide right next to a dumpster, Mary can feel the predator getting close as she hears(hallucinates) its voice getting louder as it approaches her.

Mary enters a transmute and gets defensive, she spots a huge stick/baseball bat by the dumpster, she reaches out of her corner to grab it, (the next shot shows the predator’s point of view as he watches Mary from a close corner, as she grabs the stick/baseball bat), Mary becomes aware of the predator’s location,(finally!) she turns to look at it, but the predator moves quick and hides behind the wall on the other side.(this shot shows the predator’s POV and a swift movement of the camera from right to left to indicate the predator’s movement as it hides behind the wall, and then slowly transitions the audience out into a 3^rd person’s POV showing the location of the predator and a focused shot of Mary)

Mary pauses…grabs the stick/baseball bat and swiftly goes back into hiding, the Predator soon realizes it’s been made, charges towards Mary….and….*insert anticipation here* (camera cuts back and forth between the predator’s POV as it charges towards her and Mary’s facial expression as she prepares to defend herself with this stick/baseball bat)

From the predator’s POV, he finally gets by the dumpster, pounces….and Mary appears in the predator’s POV swinging her stick at the predator’s face (the audience’s POV; the camera)…Bang!!! Blood splatter over the screen as Mary knocks the predator dead.

The Ending scene shows Mary from a low point view exhibiting superiority, as she has conquered her fears and killed the predator, (the camera pans from the tip of the stick as blood drips from it, all the way to her face as she breathes heavily). A close-up shot of Mary’s face as the environment changes back to when Mary was in bed with her pajamas, camera zooms out revealing Mary looking cleaner, but with cuts and bruises on her skin, the cut under her foot from the glass she stepped on while running, and ends at the bloody/baseball bat under her bed. Mary rolls over and goes to sleep. The End.

Visually, the film look and style will use a tint of greenish-blue tones with dark orange low key lit scenes; it will be edited to have fast cut scenes. Very little human dialog will be present, however a lot more of ambient sounds, foley, and sound effects will be used for the environment, the predator’s movement, the cry of the wolf, scratch sounds on the wall, etc.

Lighting; the scenes will be lit on low key, using more of the existing lights in the environment, and when required a key light on the main character for close-up shots.

The film’s narrative graph is to keep the audience at climax for the most part of the film.

On Continuity, a lot of reverse shots, 180 degrees axis, establishing shots and motion shots will be used to exaggerate space, and distance

I don’t  really intend this to be a solo project, however collaboration in class is welcomed.

FINAL TREATMENT:

Theme:

the hallucinations of Mary Sullivan as she is gets haunted by her fears; the schizophrenia Experience

Setting: To simulate a dead alley environment in Philadelphia.

Concept:   

A 3 minutes live action of the experience of a schizophrenia with sleeping disorders who hallucinates a lonely environment where she is been haunted and taunted by an imaginary unknown predator out to kill her, film is shot using the audience’s point of view as the predator after the main character as she runs for her life in an alley.

AND/OR

A trailer of the film.

Visual Treatment:

Dark scenes with low key lighting, orange tone for lit areas and characters, buildings all edited to a greenish blue dead tone.

VIZA 613 assignment 1 - Presentation