Latest Update for you all...

This afternoon's meeting went very well. It seems that we are on the right track even though we are a bit behind, but we are pushing forward in getting things completed. The advert looks brilliant, it has turned out even better than i had first anticipated. We just need to sort out the sound and the special effects. The game is really coming along, so well done to Daniel for that. Our main issue is the website as we have left it till last minute so hopefully we can get that done asap. So fingers crossed peeps and hopefully everything won't get too hectic.

Danni x

B-b-b-b-blog Update

This is a blog update


It all seems a bit redundant now that it's all being finished and stuff but what the hell:

UPDATES

Animation being done
Games being made
A lot of swearing at software
A lot of swearing at hardware
More animations
Blog update


Thanks,
&c.

---baz

Preview

Preview movie:

Movement

"3D" render of guy, torso and head

Meeting Room

Bird's eye view of the meeting room,also to be used in game

Pieces

Various angles for head and torso: used in tweened animation in "real" world

There are more, but i'm not gonna chuck them up

Not long now...(danielle)

In our afternoon meeting we were all a bit anxious as to where we had got to with our work, but i can ensure that things are going very very well. After filming parts for the animation on thursday, the group managed to get quite a bit of filming done. To finish filming, we shall be meeting up again on thursday. Basil shall be going home to do the animating of the scenes we have already got. Daniel shall be finishng the game, well the test version for now.
We have also now got a slogan: Kick your day up a notch!
Very catchy indeed :)
That's all for now folks, but we shall be aiming to get this completed by easter.

Update on the ending

Commercial ending:

After leaving the can, Joe, somwhat powered up or more vitalised, does powerful "dtrong-man" pose, then sees people around him and begins to make it look like a shrug,as this happens, the screen fades and the can (3D) will apear, and the words "Rapture: Kick your day up a notch" come up

Trial Poster

A minor form of our ad, this appear in the animation and on the website. A fairly promising start

S-s-s-s-storyboard

Storyboard, people, wooo. Probably going to change the "in-can" craziness. It's probably going to be a lot of coming up with things on the spot more than anything else. Otherwise, this will be pretty much what the ad will look like: ten seconds in "real" world, ten in the can, ten for the crap at the end.

Headshots

Apparently the Boss can change his facial expression with only the use of his eyes...

A bit like Gromit,really

New Wraparound Logo Render (Andy)

Obviously a few flaws here to fix, but we're working on it

NAME CHANGE!!!

Today we have decided to change the name of our energy drink as we wanted the target audience to relate to the name of our product. So after much research we have come up with the name RAPTURE. The actual meaning of this is as follows, 'a euphoric transcendent state in which somebody is overwhelmed by happiness or delight and unaware of anything else'. We believe that this is the state in which we think the consumers of our product will feel.

Ingmar Bergman does Ugh

Frank Miller does Ugh

GET. THE. ZING (Bas)

You have to click on it for it to do anything

Spider Can wraparound try (Bas)

Wrapping paper around can, drawing logo to fit

Boss looking bored gif (B)

Boss gif

Oh look, it blinks

UV Map (Andy)

Click on the images for full view

3D Can design 2

3D can design 1 (Andy)

Logo Finished

This is a small version of the logo. The one wrapped around the can will have its legs stretched out a bit more to fit, however.

Logo

Our logo, as it willappear on the can. It is of a spider wrapping itself around the can with a nice ! down its back. Important bits of text shall be placed where there are no legs. Attempts at finding a logo can be found HERE, HERE and HERE

The Board

Board members sketches

Concepts of those sitting around the table with important paperwork. Four will be needed for the commcercial; two on each side, with the Boss at the end of the table

Colouring (Basil)

Quick colouring for the characters of Joe and Boss

More detailed versions coming soon

Joe. Just Joe. (Basil)

"Finalised" design of commercial's main character "A. Joe", who is the spokesman in our commercial. He is nervous and generally pretty intimidated by the board members whom he has to pitch the idea to.
Plenty more sketches HERE on our photobucket site. Trial faces and suchlike, also with a couple of the "Boss" character, the CEO of the company which our hapless Joe has to sell the product to.

And that's the Boss. More on the site

Minutes- 10/2/09 (Danielle)

Meeting held in Harmer Building on Tuesday 10th February 2009 at 12pm

Present

• Calvin
• Danielle
• Andy
• Basil
• Danielle (chair person)

Terms of Reference

• To finally come up with the idea for what our advert would be like.
• To begin storyboarding and preparing our pitch.
• To understand who is doing what.
• To complete ideas and start producing some visuals.

Group Members

• Danielle
• Basil
• Andy
• Daniel
• Calvin (has been absent for the two previous meeting, so the rest of the group only just met him today).

Rules of Operation

• To allow everyone to speak and give their ideas.
• No foul language.
• Say what is on your mind, people are not mind readers.
• Attend each session.
• Listen to other people.

Consideration of assignment

The group need to work together and focus on completeing this assignment to a successful level. We need to work together and actually listen to EVERYONES opinion. The group need to gear up a level and begin to get things done.

Progress reports

• After being unsuccessful in the two previous weeks, today we need to get our head down and sort things out.
• We have informed Calvin on what the assignment is.
• Basil has shown his little idea he has created using

Interactive Media-gaming idea(Danielle)

Daniel has come up with an awesome idea for the interactive media that we need to produce. Basically, it is a mini game, where the gamer will play a maze game. The aim of the game is to get to the meeting on time. The game will be played from a bird's eye view, and the game character has to travel around the office environment to find the boss. The gamer will only be able to see the corridors within the environment but will not be able to see inside the rooms unless they enter them. If they access the wrong room then a three second animation clip will be played but i am unsure as to what that shall be at the moment. Whilst playing the game, the gamer will have to drink our energy to replenish their life bar. When the gamer finally finds the right room for the meeting, then an advert for our drink shall be played.

Big Advert With Subliminal Messages

A sort of fake ad I made in a few minutes, a way to show that we can make a non-narrative based commercial. Reaslised that it actually resembled PowerThirst, a fake commerical on youtube