0090

0090 is the intern reaction shot to the zombie. Originally in the animatic the intern was just frozen with a shocked face but I thought this shot would need a bit more depth and that it if didn't have some kind of movement in there then it wouldn't link very well with the plans I have for the shot after this which is a long one that going to require a lot of thought. I think the strongest idea that I had was that he would stumbvle backwards out of shock, and it seemed the most straight forward option. Below is the block of the shot:



As the shot is a medium of mostly the upper torso I wanted to show that he scares himself off balance and then ctaches himself again, whilst converying complete chock and terror in the process. I think that it's defintely going the right way but I've got to be quite careful with the flailing arms in terms of the timing because it could look really unnatural if I get the timing wrong. Below are some screen shots of the main poses from the animation, because it happens very quickly and relies very heavily on the poses looking very natural so that the audience won't pay explicit attention to his body language but they will feel it instead.

I continued to work into 0090 because I was had a lot of ideas for the timing and the positioning of the breakdowns that I wanted to explore quickly before I forgot them! I wanted to make the arms a really smooth arc, which meant that I was really going to have to make the movements shine in the polishing stage of the process, which I hope has made a big difference to the shot and the finished version is below. I was very conscious of not drawing too much attention to the poses directly as I mentioned before, which I have hopefully pulled off. I showed it to everyone and they seemed to like it so I guess it's worked!