Victory Take 2

Victory Take 2

 

So because of my lack of time management and technical problems, I have to start Victory again. So let us begin!

 

This is a live project where you are required to design and produce highly creative animated projections for a theatre production which will be performed at The Space theatre, Kingsway Campus, on the 24th, 25th, and 26thApril 2013. This project will require you to work closely with your client to analyse their intentions to inform your interpretation of the brief. You will need to work proactively and collaboratively throughout to inform your identification of what the project requires, generate your own ideas and modify them according to feedback, and ensure a highly creative though prompt delivery of appropriate material and subsequent adjustments.

This challenge has been designed to test your ability to demonstrate the knowledge and skills that you have gained throughout the first year of your course at Dundee College. You should think very carefully about how to provide yourself with the best possible chance of achieving a high grade based on your evaluation of your strengths and abilities. Your performance throughout this project must clearly demonstrate your enthusiastic, organised, highly creative, and well informed

approach as a self-directed animator. There are 3 key phases to this project Planning, Developing, and Evaluation. To pass the Graded Unit you will have to gain enough marks to pass each phase. You must pass each phase.

In exceptional circumstances time may be given for re-mediation when a phase is not passed (If given this will be strictly limited to a maximum of 7 days: In such circumstances only one attempt at re-mediation will be allowed).

• Planning (15 % of overall marks for this unit) : 1 weeks

• Development (70 % of overall marks for this unit): 7 weeks

• Evaluation (15 % of overall marks for this unit): 1 weeks

In the unlikely event that you don't manage to pass a stage on re-mediation you will be required torestart the Graded Unit from the beginning with a significantly different brief.

This is a Graded Unit and as such lecturers are permitted to give you guidance only. You will be provided with 3 mentor meetings throughout the project, every one of which you MUST attend. The times and dates for these are provided within this project brief package. It is your own responsibility to ensure you keep these times clear and make sure you are punctual. If provided meeting times are not suitable you must notify your Group Tutor immediately. You may request help at any point throughout this project though you should understand that if the help sought is

likely to be of a nature beyond general guidance you will be warned this is the case and informed that if this help is accepted this will be recorded and may count against your results. This project is graded out of 100 marks and you must pass each stage with only one resubmission attempt each time. The final grade you will receive will be allocated as follows:

A = 70% — 100%

B = 60% — 69%

C = 50% — 59%

You must pass each stage of the project.

Victory is an epic piece of theatre written by Howard Barker. This adaptation by Jonathan McGrath (a theatre Director with a history of delivering powerful and edgy theatre with a strong visual impact) will be developed and performed as a collaboration between Dundee College's HND Acting Students and HND 3D Animation students (both 1st and 2nd year animators). This version of the

play will be driven by dynamic and energetic projections to create a set that brings the environments of the story dramatically to life both as an integrated, animated, element of the performance with which actors’, lighting, and sound interact.

You will be required to engage proactively in collaboration with your Mentor, the Director, and Acting students to develop a detailed and realistic interpretation of the project's requirements. Working alongside other animation students you will be responsible for designing and producing animated and video generated content to create a rich tapestry of animated projections that help bring this show to life. Jonathan McGrath will be leading the actors and yourselves in exploring the different possible interpretations of this play and these explorations will be developed into what will become Jonathan's adaptation of the play. Jonathan is very keen to encourage your own highly creative input and is very much looking forward to hearing about all your ideas. He has identified a variety of sources that must influence the direction of the visual style of this work:

• Japanese Shadow Fighter : Kagemu

• Amon Tobin ' ISAM' Live : Mutek Premier e

• The work of Theatre Director Robert Wilson including ' The Life And Death Of Marina Abramovic '

• 'Undance ', Directed by Wayne McGregor

• ‘ For A Second I Stood ’, a production performed by previous Dundee College dance students (available to view through Moodle).

3DS Max Render Settings Final Export Settings

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72 dpi Codec: H.264

Tif image sequence

Format: Quicktime: .mov

30 fps 30 fps

The 9 week time-scale of this project must be adhered to, you should be realistic about your ambitions relative to your current skill-set. You will be assessed more on the quality of your

decision making, the quality and professionalism of the completed animation you submit in meeting the requirements of the brief, and your working methodology than on the complexity of the technical processes you undertake.

1st Year Animators: Your challenge is to design and produce video and 3D animated projections, inspired by the above examples, that will be projected as the set for the 11 environments the play takes place in. You are also required to design and create artistic, illusionary animations to link on set action between scenes creating scene transitions inspired by those that can be seen in films such as Don’t Look Now (1973), Nicolas Roeg, and Punch Drunk Love (2002), PT Anderson.

I was asked to work on Scene 4, which was the Bank of England vaults.