Week 4 Meetings

Hi everyone,

Since I didn't get individual emails out for each of our meetings this week, you all get a condensed version.

First, here's some important information for those who may not want to read the rest of the post: Group meeting! Sunday, 5pm, at the lab! Bring story beat development and initial visual concepts!

In Wednesday's meeting with Mark, everybody presented their personal take on our story direction, showing new story ideas and conceptual art. Mark commented that we have a lot of feature-style work, and that we need to simplify it to a more manageable state. For next week's meeting, we should work individually to get 4 panels of basic story direction to show to the group.

In Thursday's meeting with Tony, we discussed story length versus the reality of production limits, proper memo-writing skills, and critiquing skills. We then worked in groups to develop a pre-production pipeline for the group to follow for the rest of the semester. I will work our final pipeline into a document to send to Tony this weekend.

In Friday's group meeting, we decided to lock down a more focused story idea because of the in-class story presentation in Natalie's Monday class. We went back over Ban and Daphne's story ideas from the Wednesday meeting, then brought them to a vote to choose a more defined story. The votes were 0 for Daphne's idea, 9 for Ban's idea, and 2 who said they didn't care either way. The basic synopsis of our current direction is as follows:

Group of explorers trying to get a treasure.
They have to fit in with a group of partying natives.
After getting the treasure, they try to escape, but get caught.
It appears that they've been caught for stealing, but the twist ending reveals otherwise.

We then spent the rest of the meeting time brainstorming for ideas. Because of the short time between the meeting and the Monday presentation, we have scheduled a group meeting on Sunday, September 29th at 5pm in the 3rd year lab. For this meeting, everyone needs to work on developing story detail ideas to make into a beat script, and do some initial research and conceptual design so we can get an idea of where we want to go visually. Hosung will not be able to attend, and Kal will be late, but otherwise everyone should be there.

I think we've made some significant progress this week towards nailing down our idea, and I'm looking forward to see what everyone will have for Sunday.

-Adric Worley