Movie teaser poster

PC problem fixed

I managed to save my hard drive from totally not functioning, so i was able to get all the years work backed up onto my external hard drive. I’ve done some more concepts drawing at home, and im just waiting to reformat my pc and install all the necessary programs’ like Photoshop and Maya. Once I get them installed ill colour in my concepts then ill post them up on my blog

Motel signs styles

Motel inspiration

I thought i mite aswell add some images for different types of motels out there, you could call this research

New idea

The hitman is part of an on going government assassination group, the difference between the government organisation and other assassination groups is that the crooked government feels no remorse for whom they kill, no matter the age gender or even if they are totally innocent. Anyone whose a threat to the company has to bee taken out.

Story starts off with a new member of the crooked hitman organisation being given his first duty, it details for him to assassinate a target who may have witnessed a crime and may be a threat to the company itself. As the hitman takes aim on his target we take a a view from insides the targets house where he is been confronted by a robber, and the hitman does not know what is going on. As the robber takes off with the victims belongings he takes aim on the man and pulls the trigger. The target opens his eyes to see that the robber has been shot dead and wonders out towards the window to see who was looking out for him. It cuts back to the hitman as he packs up his equipment and grabs a a4 sheet of paper with the information on the target. He has a look at it and then smirks while he tears it in half.

Talk with Mike and Dave

Today's lesson was more on how we could improve our story, and what was needed to give the characters and the plot a twist. Some of the new things i learnt was that the a story is split in to three acts, one being to establish the other being to complicate and the last was to resolve the problem. In all today's morning lesson went pretty good and it really did help me to understand on what was needed to have a successful story. The afternoon session was about us explaining our story more in depth to Mike and Dave, this session was really on how we really portrayed the characters in the short film and how they develop as the story progresses. As we talked moer about our story Mike and Dave were easily able to pick out that there were realy no moral or meaning to the characters and that they really didn't have any relationship between them. The more we discussed the more we i reliesed that we really didn't have a good ending to the story, i think our current idea was that the hitman approaches the targets door then it ends with the screen fading black. Obviously this wasn't our final idea but it was our current idea and would need a lot of work. Mike suggested it was best if we ended up delivering a twist at the end of the short, something in which the audience wouldn't expect on happening.

That's when we all gathered around and discussed on how we could change some parts of the story to give the characters some meaning to the short film. One thing i kinda go confused on was the genre that we were heading for, our current story more focussed on the gags through out the story and really didn't really focus on the purpose of the character, for example who is the hitman and what kind of connection does he have with his target. When we were told to focus more on the characters it kind of took away the humour element of the short and became more serious. In the next post ill talk about the new idea i came up with after the dissuasion with Mike and Dave

Update

As my hard drive has gone hay wire, i wasn't able to finish off coloruing the concept for the fat slob. In the mean time though ive managed to do some more concepts and i should have my pc up and running by end of this week so ill be able to complete the character concepts.

Hitman concept