Sequence Development

There is a sequence in our film that relies heavily on the lift light flickering on and off to the point of being almost a strobe light. The lift light flickers from the first moment in which the intern steps in, but it gradually gets faster to increase the tension between the two characters and once the intern goes to press the button to his floor in an effort to escape, the lights cut out and queues the flickering. There is a sequence in the file above 'Mac n' Cheese' that does a very good job of the kind of sequence we want to produce. It's really choppy and works as a collection of details at first but then spreads out to give an overview of what actually happening, as it could easily become unreadable. The sequence begins at about 0:58.

This was an idea that was pretty much formed by the whole group. We're all huge fans of Mac n Cheese so were all fully aware of the possibilities of producing a sequence like this. It comes at a point in our film where there has been so much awkwardness between the two that it had to snap at some point, and the lights in the lift flicker on and off constantly, gradually getting quicker to build the tension. The advantages of this from an animation point of view is that some of the shots we've planned dont necessarily needed polished animation as theyre being shown in chunks of individual frames, so we can spend more time refining the poses to make sure we're acurately telling the story through what is admittedly a difficult narrative device to employ. We've all got high hopes for this sequence so hopefully it will turn out the way we have envisioned.