Screen Arts:
RWBY: Ruby’s Introduction
What I gathered from it (RWBY and Monty Owm)
Establishing shot easing in to introduce the main character
Situation looking bad only to reveal the main character is under no harm
Main character turns the table
cutaway shot used for comedic purposes and to tease ruby's fighting ability
Background, things in the background indicating the characters skill and interests.
Bold colours for each character
What I want to use what I learned for:
I want to create a short scene with Ace and Ezaru, in this scene
I want to set up a sense of foreboding that one character is a threat to the other, only for it at the point of contact to be revealed that there is no danger to the character to be thought in danger
Not focusing on weapons for me
Experiment 1.1:
Establishing shot of Ezaru flying down and landing, she stalks up on Ace appearing to be hunting only, to surprise him and it turns out that they know each other and are ok
Experiment 1.1.5:
Same and 1 but with a lower angle on the stalking
Experiment 1.2:
Establishing shot of mountainside with rickety bridge Ace standing in the middle, Cut to Ezaru finding him and trotting up to the bridge Ace turns around. She accidentally breaks the bridge. And ace falls, Ezaru Quickly goes to save him.
Experiment 1.3:
Ezaru with a hurt wing is scrabbling to get back on a ledge of a cliff, Ace is trying and failing to get her back up despite his efforts, Ezaru fall off the edge to Ace’s despair, only for ezaru to fall about a meter, Ace snorts at this.
What I need to do now is look into the trailer introductions and one or two other characters to help me go further in my experiments
What I gathered from the trailers
Trailer Red:
There is no dialog only using the visuals and music to set up Ruby’s character, what kind of person she is, we see that, from this trailer she is a skilled fighter even against many enemies.
The lyrics in the music connect specific colour to the characters and a hint of their past and or personality:
Red like roses fill my dreams and bring me to the place you rest:
Ruby rose, her connected colour being red, and the latter part of the lyrics is a reference to her decessed mother, as in the trailer she end up walking there
White like snow is always yearning, pardoned by the royal test.
White like snow is referring to weiss schnee, always yearning, I believe refers to her wanting to be free of her family ties, wanting to be able to become a huntress as are her desires, as for the latter I am unable to figure this out
Black like beasts, send like shadows.
Black is the colour connecting to the character blake, the reference to beasts could be taken as a hint towards the grim however I believe it is a reference to Blake’s faunus heritage. The second part I think is hinting towards her semblance which allows her to leave some form of shadow copy behind so she can escape a hit.
Yellow beauty burns gold
The last one refers to yang, the colour yellow is the hue tied to this specific character, the burning gold part, is connection to her fiery personality, and the rage that can come with it.
Trailer WHITE
Weies is shown in front of a large audience alone, showing that a lot of attention is on her and her position.
Like the RED trailer the White trailer’s music references to the story, however in this case it only refers to weiss schnee rather then all the four main characters.
Also in this case, weiss is performing her song in front of an audience.
The trailer switches between her performing and her fighting a big metal suit of armor, these scenarios are flawlessly blended together, both take place in a darkened area that look very similar.
Trailer Black
The trailer starts off with a small interaction between two characters
The music doesn’t really hit till they jump onto the train signaling the start of their mission.
Trailer Yellow
A mix of the Red trailers music is played in the first half of the trailer
On the drop of gold, the beat changes and Yang starts to fight
It then transitions into a remix of the White Trailers song
Then following a remix of the Black trailer’s song
Then the music finally moves to lyrics relating to the character.
The trailer does have casual dialog between characters making the setting appear more casual rather then a music trailer or music video, in a sense it grounds the characters.
At the end of the trailer, Ruby appears, introducing us to their relationship as yang greets her with, “Hey sis”
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Something I have noticed with all the trailers is that:
1: The music related to the character and Minus the Red trailer,
talk about the situation that the character currently is in
2: there is a quote relating to the character at the beginning of the trailer
3: Qrow appears in every trailer at some point.
4: they are in some shape or form fighting an enemy/enemies
From this, I might drop the Project down to One character. To add more focus to them, I will also be able to focus more on one characters situation before they meet rather then what is going to be the status quo with them, This is because it is currently still in progress.
List of things for Inspiration:
Character connected to a colour
The clip connects to the situation of the character
The first scene sets up the setting of where the character is
The background containing things that show the characters interests
Majestic quotes that have something to do with character
Heavily connected to music
Two scenes reflecting each other
Memory shown as a reflection
Shrouded in mystery first, then reveal the character
Setting is shown before character.
Playing with character size difference
Experiment 2.1:
Ezaru Encountering a set trap
Setting of a deep forest, panning to, showing the covered trap from above, a mouse is tied up to a prong,
from the bushes emerges ominous eyes, growling, in a split second (cam cut)
The dragon pounces on the mouse, and the trap is set (cutting as it closes)
Moma dragon finds the baby ezaru, who is yowling, she breaks the trap scolding baby Ezaru.
Experiment 2.2
Ezaru returning to the nest after leaving Ace,
and she keeps seeing him in the room (though the environment)
Light pouring through the entrance of the nest A shadow show up through the door, looking ominous, for Ezaru to tenderly walk in (looking down on her)
She jumps onto her ledge and looks towards the door expectantly, (like a doggo)
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I keep looking at the plot, I have no idea how im supposed to do this, so far the only one i'm happy with is 1.1.5
I ended up doing two characters for the first,
I'm finding it hard to create an introduction for them, Trying for one Could work, 2.1 was more introducing baby ezaru and her mother, more setting up for her Mother,
I think I need to introduced one then one, as in RWBY they introduced one main character at a time giving time for us to see how the character interacts and works, I still believe my 1.1.5 Best reflects this
I currently have 3 animatic, intros and 5 written intros,
(written out some don’t make sense)
After my other
Experiment 1.1.3:
Establishing shot of Ezaru flying down and landing, she stalks up on Ace appearing to be hunting only, she get ready to pounce
Cut away to
All roughed up.
Ace on the ground face in hands
“You bloody moron Ezaru,”
“How was I supposed to know the cliff would collapse, how was I supposed to know that rock whiler would show up”
“THE WHOLE REASON WE ARE HERE IS TO HUNT IT DOWN EZARU!!”
First thing First for think and create day was to get the rest of the ingredients needed for catering, all the bread, cheese and meat.
