We are set to Make a 30 second film in any media on any subject you feel passionate/strongly/angry about.

Pre-production:

Inspiration:

While I When I was browsing through the project pdf, I saw there are inspiration words “global issues” “environmental crisis”. It reminds me of one article I read before. Which is about light pollution, so I decided to show the audience how light pollution leads to ecological problems. I wanted to show when people enjoying their night life, how struggling the animals are because of artificial daylight.

Research:

First I did some research to get to know more about light pollution, which helps me to think about the whole story and choose characters. As I decided to be concentrating on ecological problems, the research is more related to animals.

I chose sea turtles, moths and birds as my characters eventually. I actually thought about owl and nightfogs or something, however the film is 30 sec so there is not allowed to have so much contents. So I picked those typical and people is more familiar with.

Storyboard sketches:

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Some simple sketches of what I want to show.

I think it’s a bit monotonous and would like a video title, and I came up with a sentence I think matching the theme which is:

this sentence is showing how god gave the world light, And I changed some words of it, to show how people gave the night light to make it a bit ironic.

Colour:

In order to show the night scene, I chose to use black and white. And the black would be the background colour and white would be the character and objects showing in the film.

Production

In first place, I want to show the light we have in the daily life, to say sometimes we would ignore the light but it is everywhere. So I shot some clips of the light in my life, to make them in a quick flash to enhance visual impact. Then I started drawing.

I used procreate to draw the plots one by one. There are so many problems came out:

For example, I didn’t realise there were only 40 layers in my setting, so I had to draw one Movement in separated parts which was really complicated. And also, sometimes after I finish drawing a movement I found it was not what I wanted, so I had to delete them to redo it, I think that situation must happen in lots of animation production process. We have to be patient in face of failures. And the most difficult parts, must be drawing these animals, I got some references from internet and to find their body structure and how they move, fly, it was really easy to get wrong.

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I got feedback from Jane, she said maybe remove the background music and to have more try on sound effects would be better. So I tried that way to have a little change. And I put my name in the end either.

Here is my final work: