Ideas.

During the beginning stages of the project I began thinking of possible ideas which I felt happy and confident about. I knew I wanted to concentrate on CGI and after a lot of thought I had come up with a possible project. This consisted of a meteor destroying buildings, concentrating on the impact and the effect it would have on them. This would be a matte painting, with the buildings in the foreground modelled in Maya and the buildings in the background would be created using Photoshop.

Below is a rough and simple storyboard showing the basic idea.

3d modelled buildings, background matte painted. Hold for 3seconds. No voice overs and light soft classical music throughout.

Meteor is visible in the top right hand corner. Meteor comes into shot until impact on building. 15seconds. As the meteor gets closer the sounds of it are heard and gets louder.

Meteor hits corner of first building. 4seconds. Sounds of meteor and impact of hitting building are loud. Camera shakes as this happens.

Meteor in between the buildings, first building's corner almost destroyed, parts of the building are falling off. 2seconds, sound of meteor and shattering building.

Meteor hits second building crashing threw. 5seconds. Sound of meteor and impact of building.

Meteor carries on until out of shot, second building is being destroyed, crashing down. 7seconds, sound of building falling.

Aftermath, dust in air, smoke and parts of the buildings are on fire. 7seconds. Sounds of fire and soft music fade out.

After consulting with Sean and Paul and a lot of thought I decided this was a cliche and had been done too many times before therefore I needed to think of a new idea. I liked the idea of having a city and having the buildings destroyed and still wanted to use Maya and Photoshop.

After explaining to Paul what my ideas were he advised me to put some human elements in my project so I decided to think about a matte painting of a destroyed city which has a children's playground in it. I liked the idea of doing this because the audience will be wondering what has actually happened to the city. I thought my best option would be to get started on my pitch and then I could move onto my storyboard and first pass animatic.