The camera - concept and script

Long meeting today to discuss the camera and the type of character we what her to be. We first we thought about an older more sophisticated woman as Harshali and Apler suggested sunbathing in the beach, but as the project developed, we come with a much younger, more hip character for the girl. This week, we will be having another reference meeting session to finalise our ideas, Harshai has suggested we book the green screen again so we have booked a session at 1:00 on Thursday. I gathered a few images and created a mood board of what type of character the girl is:

 


With these images i did a finalised sketch of the character design:

Going for the casual California beach girl, this is a comedy sketch so it would be better for us to use this stereotype to suit the genre. I gave her a big lips and a wide mouth because she's going to be quite a loud character, this is for the timing and acting of the mimes, "acting is reacting" and the mimes need to react to her voice and personality in the scene or else the whole animation wont make sense. This character is playing the objective of the scene for the characters, so even though  she is off camera the audience need to be aware of her existence as the camera. We've had feedback from the other groups with suggestions of looking at her nails or having sunglasses, i think we could do something with the hand but we have to be careful of time because we only have a few more weeks to complete the whole sequence.