Week 1: Group 1 Is A Go!

We were given the brief from Axis on Monday as we really wanted to hit the ground running so we've already had 2 meetings to start fleshing out our initial ideas.

It was quickly decided that Kaitlin would be PM, which means we could have clear direction off the bat, and ensure that decisions were being made quickly and that the project doesn't run away from us!

Meeting #1 - Ideas 'n' Stuff
We brainstormed ideas and took a lot of inspiration from the suggestions posed by Axis in terms of the story we wanted to re-tell (mainly fairytales).

There were quite a few ideas, but the general consensus was that we wanted the re-telling of our story to be quite left field of its original. Once we narrowed down to our top 4 ideas we decided to each generate a moodboard on one of the stories so we could start to visualise what direction we could see our production going.

We've also been thinking ahead in terms of deadline and skill set, and thought it would be best to try and avoid over complicating the story in terms of script and production - aka, avoid lip-syncing where possible! This would also free up up to focus on the overall look and movements of the characters without living in fear dodgy lip-syncs and timing issues.

Meeting #1, smashed.

Meeting #2 - Show 'n' Tell
We regrouped to showcase our moodboards and pitch potential ideas, themes and styles to the group. Off the back of this we decided on our story - Billy Goats Gruff (and piñata's)! Natatsha pulled together the moodboard for this, and we though that it would work really well visually, especially if we go down the low poly, colour everywhere look!

We also used this meeting plot a rough script and storyboard, and discussed potential roles and Amit's plotted our production pipeline which is VERY useful to those of us who haven't worked on a project like this before.

Kaitlin's working on the script, and once this is finalised we'll allocate roles and start getting into design pre-production mode.