Top Ten - Blink 182 60 Second Sequence - ATST Sequence Idea Storyboard

In order to ensure I made the right decisions with choosing which of the ideas to use in the actual sequence that I have come up with in the initial storyboards, I left quite a while between completing them and making decisions so that when I did come back to them I had a fresh mind and could really review and consider what to use.

So from the initial storyboarded ideas, here is the ideas that I have selected to use within my title sequence. I have included the arrows again on these storyboards that I have drawn out to represent how the sequence will look/run, but haven't re wrote every little detail as it is documented well enough in the previous storyboards.

Top Ten - Blink 182 60 Second Sequence - The Rock Show Initial Storyboards

I'm now on to the last section within the title sequence for the song The Rock Show. I have been doing these storyboards for quite a while now so I am loosing focus a bit, which resulted in me not exploring some ideas as must as I possibly could have. Even so, I did get some interesting ones down.

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This song is really fast paced, so I need to keep this in mind when choosing ideas as the transitions between sections may be too quick to look as effective as they could do. Even so, I like the idea of having this one fast as opposed to say Adam's Song, which is a lot slower paced. I think the contrast between the two tied together with a section of the countdown clock will be quite nice.

Top Ten - Blink 182 60 Second Sequence - Adam's Song Initial Storyboards

While I was doing these sketched storyboards for Adam's Song section of the title sequence, I got a little carried away a bit and did quite a lot of ideas for sections. I didn't necessarily realise at the time but looking back over them now I have - this can only be a good thing though to show I have explored the possibilities of it thoroughly.

Again, I think there are some sections within what I have done that I think will work really effectively on after effects - providing I manage to get them to do as I am visioning them to. Some though may not necessarily work as there may be an issue with the amount of time for the transition between the sections. This is something that I will have to seriously consider when I come to making decisions to to which ideas to use within the sequence.

Top Ten - Blink 182 60 Second Sequence - WMAA Initial Storyboards

Doing the same again for the What's My Age Again?'s section in the title sequence, I roughly storyboarded the ideas and tweaked the ones I though might look better in certain ways for each of the ideas I came up with what I produced the initial sketched for this song. 

Some sections that have been developed will (in my opinion) work quite nice once I get them into after effects, and I can't wait to get started on producing this now. Doing the storyboards like this have been a lot more enjoyable than what it was like for the idents ones, and I found I got into doing them a lot more. This is good because it means I started coming up with more ideas and could really vision things better and clearer. The section that I think will be the most effective for this song section is the last two lines that read 'what's my again again', due to the way that I have it scroll across the frame one way the reverse back the other way. I think that will look quite playful, which will tie in nicely with the meaning of the song.

Top Ten - Blink 182 60 Second Sequence - ATST Initial Storyboards

Following on from getting the initial ideas sketched down for each of the song sections in my 60 second title sequence, although for the idents this is where I drew out reasonably neat storyboards, I found this to be quite time consuming and took me a while so I will also do this next bit differently. I have decided that because I have concentrated and come up with ideas for the sections as I got to them rather than doing a number of different full sequences, I will now put the ideas that I have on to storyboards to experiment with and see which I think will work the most effectively. I will just do this roughly again so they won't be of the actual typeface, but it will still give me a clear enough idea as to what will and wont work at this stage, and will also help me make decisions as to what I want to include in the sequence and what I don't and what will possibly need tweaking (and try out the tweaks too).

I printed out a number of storyboards already done so that I don't have to spend time drawing loads of them out and I can just get started. Where ever there is a frame that looks like this:

This means that it's just a blank frame that is separating the idea experiments. It's easier to work out the ideas without having to work out when it start and ends. A couple may not have to red lines on because I forgot, but unless it says otherwise on the storyboard then that's what it is.

I found producing these storyboard to be a lot more beneficial than what I did with the ones that I produced at this stage for the idents as they are just really quick and simple, so how neat it is isn't really a requirement so it allowed me to work through the ideas and tweaks faster, which is what was needed to develop what I was doing. I included the annotations straight away as well so that they are easier to look back on and immediately get.

I really like how some of the ideas for the sections have developed through the process of doing this. It has been very beneficial to do definitely. I think the ideas which incorporate what the actual lyrics are on about will work really effectively, like with the last line where it says 'my little windmill' and then the word windmill rotates like an actual windmill. It may be a little cheesy but not too over the top in my opinion as it is just a simple effect, which is what kinetic type usually consists of so I think these will work quite nicely. I'll do these for the other sections and then reflect back over what I have and then start to make some decisions for the actual content I will produce.

Top Ten - Blink 182 60 Second Sequence - The Rock Show Initial Ideas

The last song section that I need initial ideas for now is for The Rock Show. I got these ideas done pretty quick as by this point I was in the right mind set to imagine how things could work quite well.

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Again concentrating on sections, I think some of the stuff I have come up with will work quite nice once I get on to after effects.

Top Ten - Blink 182 60 Second Sequence - WMAA Initial Ideas

So because the time for the What's My Age Again?'s section in the sequence has been increased so that it takes up around 16 seconds, I wrote out the new lyrics that I will be working with before I started sketching ideas. There is a lot more lyrics in this section than any of the others that I have done and the song is fast paces so I kept this in mind whilst sketching as I don't need anything too over the top because there will probably only be a few frames between some sections to be able to achieve stuff.

Again, like I did with the previous one, I concentrated on the sections of the songs while I was sketching and got down the ideas I had for it as I went through the song. I find it a lot easier and more beneficial to do it this way.