We had a group call on the sunday discussing our work so far for pre-production. First, I showed my first BG concept piece for the creep's apartment exterior:
I quite like this as it clearly shows that there's something sinister about this guy, with the extreme perspective and blood like colour. I also finished this fairly quickly, taking about 2 hours for paint and 1 for the drawing, but I think the actual BG's will have much more polish to them than this, and will therefore take longer. Both KK and Ceylin liked this style and composition, so we're thinking of adding this shot to the short, despite it being different to KK's storyboard sequence.
We then went through KK's storyboard (the first sequence up to the title card). I really liked his take on my script, and he added in a couple of things that made it better, deciding to go with a front on slow zoom into the creep's window, whilst rotating the camera to give it an eerie look. This would allow us to have the girl's apartment reflection on the binocular lense as well.
One thing I noticed about his storyboard is that the jump from establishing shot to front on of the creep's apartment is a bit jarring, so we decided that we'll go from establishing shot, to the extreme perspective shot of the creep's apartment (as shown above) and then to a front on of the apartment with the zoom. We could use the blind closing as the transition to cut between them as well.
Other than that, I was very happy with the storyboard so far.
Finally, we talked about Ceylin's character designs. I noticed that her drawings were quite complex and too detailed in terms of both line and form, which is bad because it would be harder to animate, as well as not fit the style of the film I had in mind. I told her to really focus on the shapes and work on simplifying the characters.
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