Project 1

World History

An advanced space fairing civilisation with somewhat dated technological innovation are crippled by a force they thought to have conquered eons ago, nature. A fungus of unknown world origin spreads across the intergalactic empire like a plague. Eventually a large sector of the galaxy is entirely quarantined, saving the Empire from possible total annihilation, but dooming all who reside within the Exclusion Zone Sector.

Scene History

A lab testing the fungus in a desperate effort to find a solution to the rapidly progressing plague. After a containment breach the lab is compromised and quickly descends into chaos. The scene starts in the ruined aftermath of the outbreak in the lab.

Scene Synopsis

A dimly lit mechanical hallway. Well constructed with precision engineering and purposeful design. Clearly abandoned at this point with no signs of life, until a shadow is briefly casted onto the wall. As the camera continues down the hallway, it passes a broken lab window. The camera turns to look into the room and its almost entirely empty besides a tie down table. The table has small mushrooms in the outline of a person covering the table. The camera continues down the hallway until it reaches the end and it curves to the right. The turn around the corner, reveals a dramatic change in the environment. The once sterile and mechanical environment has been taken over by a creeping fungus. A broken and discarded gas mask lies on the floor, slightly covered in growth. The hallway is now in a strong haze, increasing the strength of the god rays coming from the soft warm lights.

Brief

A masked survivor journeys down a gradually degrading Sci-Fi corridor as the story of what happened is told by the environment. Looking through a broken window, the masked survivor peers into a room where a experiment failed. The door at the end of the corridor suddenly opens to reveal. The fungus has completely taken over, no signs of sentient life are seen until a part of the wall breaks off and a mushroom monster is revealed.

To start of with, I had a lot of fun with this project. The conceptualisation phase with total freedom went smooth. I even created a synopsis of the story which helped with the visualisation of the animatic and story flow. What I originally envisioned for the animatic changed over time. But that was all part of the process. I had a main focus on environment design and camera movement. The first storyboards I created didn't even have a character or colour in them to begin with. The addition of colour into the storyboards I felt was an integral upgrade to better display the story. The mood boards I created helped with the colour palette. It all came together really well in the first draft of the animatic. Later versions had an animation added to it and more flow with the gas. Spent a lot of time on this project and I was happy with the result. Figuring out how to use Premiere Pro better was great for further projects.