Today we officially started the second unit on making the soundtrack for a chosen comic strip or animation. We broke into our groups and started brainstorming ideas for the visuals. There was lots of choices we could go with; taking pictures (stills) of people and turning that into an animation, drawing and turning that into animation, doing flash animation or taking a comic strip or cartoon and making our own soundtrack to that.
We wanted to make it easy for us to get the visuals, nothing too complicated because we were only focusing on the sound design after all. We wanted to be able to spend the most time on the sound design; but we also wanted something interesting for the visuals to be able to experiment with many sounds. We originally thought of doing a parody of a cartoon or a short video clip, but that was too broad. We narrowed our thoughts and started thinking of our favorite cartoons. I said Pink Panther, Marshall and Cara both said Tom and Jerry. I was fine with that because I love Tom and Jerry as well! We thought about taking clips or even sounds from different episodes and mash them up into one, creating a completely new story (this way we would have made it our own original idea). It would be like creating a remix with the cartoon, which is pretty neat. We also considered making stop-motion as I've always wanted to do something like that, but we couldn't think of any story that really intrigued any of us so we decided to stick with Tom and Jerry.
Our basic structure of the storyline is that in the beginning Tom and Jerry are friends, but in the middle something happens, there's a betrayal of some sort and the truce is broken. This way there are different dynamics, and we would also be able to add in clips of them 'pranking' each other which is the most fun to add sounds to and it also picks up the pace of the film making it more lively. We went on Youtube and started looking for clips that was of them being friends, but because of something unexpected they get mad at each other and are back to being enemies. We weren't really sure if we were going to add in another character, the bull dog, because he comes up in some of the episodes (in particular the one we found of Tom and Jerry establishing a truce) but we thought that if we added him in the film would get a little too complicated. He would have been quite random, because sometimes in the clips we want to use he doesn't appear. By the end of the class we were already going into the details and looking out for specifics, like Tom or Jerry's laughs, for us to add in as sound.
We worked quite efficiently and got a lot done in this class, so that's a good sign. I think it really helped that everybody contributed in the brainstorming and we all agreed with each other when someone thought of a good idea. I'm excited!
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