I wanted to base my project on compositing, but I didn’t exactly know what I wanted to do. A few days ago, when I was walking to the train station, I saw a library and there were a few books on the table. Being dyslexic, I tend to try and understand images more than actual text, so the first thing I do is look at the image and I interpret the image before attempting to read the title of the book. This got me thinking: What if there were books with covers which can move and tell more about the place or emotion of the person depicted on the book cover?
Now that I’d come up with the idea, I needed a few references. I had seen something like this in the movie Harry Potter. The Daily Prophet is a wizarding newspaper based in London and it was the primary source of news for British and Irish wizards. When I was going through LinkedIn I saw a video from The Mill VFX team’s work for eBay, for their ‘Everyone Deserves Real’ campaign. This video was slightly different than what I had visualised, but I like the way it went through different screens.
For the storyboarding, I have planned to start with a table with piles of books and then track the screen then go into the book and then a few shots in there which make it look like I have entered the scene depicted in the book followed by me coming out of the book and back to the same scene. I am planning to loop the video if I can.
In the two references, I didn’t quite like the title of the video being shown throughout the video. I am planning to track the plate and then add the 3D title.
eBay (2023), eBay Authenticity Guarantee | Everyone Deserves Real [Online Video]. Available https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v8hL8mkfVc&ab_channel=ebay [22nd April 2023].
John Guille Agustin (2016), Harry Potter Newspaper Scene [Online Video]. Available https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPtubly5siQ&ab_channel=JohnGuilleAgustin [22nd April 2023].