So as part of my module I need to do a blog to show development and perhaps other stuff too, this bog will be in four parts one every week as I will be slammed to the wall doing work and it will be easier to set a side one afternoon to write what I have I done, etc, rather than posting up snippets every day or two.
For the project, this blog is about my progression on creating a thirty second film about one of the following
>Environment
>Identity
>Memory
I have chosen Identity and that my film is about the few moment before a grand mal seizure (also know as tonic-clonic.) I want to show people what it is like in the mind of someone who is about to have a grand mal seizure, the reason for me doing something this is because I find it is a area which isn't often covered and people are almost blind to what a grand mal seizure is and how effecting it can be. Grand mal's are a type of seizure were there are two phases the one called tonic phase which cause the body to become ridged due to muscular contraction. Oxygen is pushed out of your body from chest contractions often causing a low moan or grunt, you may bite your tongue rather hard and loosen your teeth due to contraction in the jaw. This then paves the way for the clonic phase were the body will start to convulsive which is the muscles repeatedly relax and contract.
Once I wrote my script, which original was about a brain with a thunder storm over it using dark ambient music to help set a scary and bleak feeling. Lighting would then strike down onto the brain causing electric currents to surge over the brain, the ambient music stops a low muffled groan can be heard which get louder into a gasping scream the sound of something smashing (glass or pottery) and one or two more regular screams can be heard which the screen would fade to black at this time. However after a few talks with people I decide the overall message was good and the feel was right on the nail, visual it needed some work into. I made a few adjustments to the original script and created a similar but new version which I have stuck with after one edit to it. The newer story is about a brain that is attached to a towering structure and at the top of the structure is a knife which swings down and stabs into the brain this happens repeatedly and after a few stabs the creepy ambient music stops, a muffled groan which turns into a gasping scream, and the sound of shaking can be heard but at this time the screen as faded to black.
I got the idea for the newer script after interviewing a young woman who is diagnose with epilepsy and suffers from three different types of epilepsy, Grand-Mal, Absent (often mistake for daydreams but can cause brain damage if it goes on for a few minutes) and myoclonus which is random convulsions (twitches) of various body parts
I had done some drawings of brains after looking at images of brains (which you can seen under this section,) such as real brains, cartoon brains, CGI brains, and several scans of non epileptic brains compared to epileptic brains.
I drew up some designs of brains and a rough sketch of the machine that will hold the brain in place. I asked a friend to help do some concept drawings and a model sheet of the brain and the machine for me to upload into Maya and use it as reference to help build the models. I have only just started creating the brain and I am not very far in its creation, (I will upload some screenshots of what I have done so far.) next week i am hoping to finish the brain modeling and start the modeling for the machine, once they are both done I will then texture them and then add a simple joint system but that will be nearer the end of this project rather than next week.
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