Final Project!

My final project, as big a prospect as it is, will be a 1 minute, fully (well, mostly) rotoscoped piece that's a short horror film with a twist at the end. I'm going to record it in live action with a good camera, and then rotoscope the people in it; the background will be edited in photoshop to look cartoony, but won't be rotoscoped, to save me a massive headache and a huge work load. I'll have to experiment with my FPS in the final project; 10 frames a second is fairly smooth but is a ton of work to do in just eight weeks.

The main emphasis on this in After Effects will be the utilization of simulated lighting; the main character will be holding a flashlight the whole time, and I'll use After Effects to create that simulation.

I want another big focus of this project to be sound; I want it to be properly creepy with a spooky tone in the background that is almost inaudible, but unsettling, with the crunches of leaves, the clicking of a flashlight, and the sound of breathing to take the front seat for the audience.

Schedule:
March 14th - This gets looked over
March 16th - Make appropriate changes as necessary
March 21st - Filmed, edited, separated into an Image Sequence, ready to go in Photoshop
March 28th - 25% of frames drawn out
April 4th - 50% of frames drawn out
April 11th - 75% of frames drawn out
April 18th - All frames drawn out
April 25th - Color in all frames
May 2nd - Incorporate photoshopped backgrounds, turn in project

Storyboards with basic plot;
A black screen gets lit up by a hand holding a flashlight. It is revealed to be a girl, walking through the forest. She hears a snap behind her - she turns around, and there is nothing. A close-up on her face zooms out to reveal a figure behind her that appears between flickers on her flashlight, which is starting to fail. She walks further into the forest until she finds a lake; she washes her face off and sees a reflection of a figure behind her. When she turns, it's Slenderman, poised to attack - but she smashes his chin with her flashlight and runs away. Slenderman just lays there, accepting his defeat.