pre production project

After the 3 day project we had to choose from doing either a post production course where we had to produce a short filmed piece with special effects in it or a pre production bible for a script from 1 of 5 doctor who scripts. I chose to do the pre production as i feel my drawing skills is my weaker area and i could do with improving them and it would give me the oppertunity to focus on some character design i am also attending the compositing lectures as well in order to try expand some of my knowledge of this area.

In the first to weeks we had to get into groups and research all 5 of the scripts with someone directing each script and everyone else covering a singal aspect of each script covering everything from costumes, architecture, props to landscapes. As my group only consisted of three of us me, craig and emma we had to divide more of the work between us.

The 5 scripts were pompeii (ancient roman empire), turn left ( modern chino planet), shakespeare code (shakespeare period with witches), the girl in the fireplace ( louis xv period france), the voyage of the damned ( titanic styled spaceship). I was the director for pompeii and the chino planet scripts and my job was to research architecture of both and the props of the pompeii script and the costumes of the chino planet script. For the louis xv script i was researching landscapes and also for the oceanliner. In the shakespeare script i was researching costumes which i particulary enjoyed. All the other areas of the other scripts was covered by emma and craig for the purpose of the presentation.

Below is the first batch of research images i collected for the pompeii script baised in ancient rome.



The images above are of my architectural research for pompeii looking back at the kind of interior and exterior architecture within pompeii at the time and at the kind of layouts of houses throughtout the town. Most of the research is from books and some is from the internet.

Above is images of props that would be found in roman houses at the time particulary villas and the second image board is of props that would be found in markey stalls, not from the time as it was very difficult to get research images of what market places during that period of roamn history would look like, but market places on the whole never really change and you can find many traditional style markey places that would ecco that of ancient ones bar there content all around the world.