Music

As part of the audio realisation for my idea, i had Luke Robinson, a music student at Huddersfield university compose a piece of music for me, i have just received the final copy:

Location Scouting

I have done a quick location scout in a woods near where i live in Greasbrough. The woods is known as 'Fenton woods'.
Here are the pictures i took:

Landscape concept art

I have received the concept art for the landscapes from Charlotte Taylor:

The first are all the forest as it starts:

These are the fantasy world:

And finally the horror world:

I'm very happy With how these have come out, i feel they really show how the film will look and feel.

Idea - Creatures and costumes.

The main part of my idea is the creatures within the world the girl creates.

The first creature i would think about creating would be the Faun. As my idea was inspired alot by Pan's Labyrinth. i decided to have a look at how the faun was made in that film.

I do believe that the facial part of the faun was done using Foam Latex which is widely used in Big Budget and Hollywood Films.

I believe the best way to create the creature as it is in concept art is to use a foam latex mask - as foam latex can be molded around a model. and then add the horns over the top as done in the above video.

As for the Troll and the Fairies i believe it would probably be better to create them digitally as it would be easier than trying to do it on set. However for the troll it could be an interesting idea to attempt to film someone in a sensor suit and then manipulate the image and size through the computer as seen with 'Gollum' in 'Lord of the Rings'

References:

Pan's Labyrinth making - (Youtube Video) [online] - last accessed on 18th December 2012 on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-sSsRaoohc

Bringing Gollum to life - (YouTube Video) [online] - last accessed on 18th December 2012 on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Krx0ozjJA

Idea effects - tree roots

Another effect in my piece is the living tree roots.

This effect has been used before in a film called 'The evil dead' in which the roots came alive and rape a girl. I believe that in that particular case they used robotics / animatronics.

However i have decided to use both special and visual effects.
So for the first part where the roots are pertruding out of the oil and slashing at the girl i would use 'After Effects'
Here is a video showing the type of thing that is achievable -

When the girl is actually caught by the tree and bound in place, i would use pre-made vines on set as i believe trying to create vines around a person on a computer would be very difficult and would take alot of time.

References:

After Effects VideoCopilot 3D Vines (YouTube Video) [online] last accessed 17th December 2012 at  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5tePLbD-04

- Tree-Rape - Google images [online] last accessed 17th December 2012 on http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=the+evil+dead+tree&hl=en&safe=off&tbo=d&biw=1024&bih=1233&tbm=isch&tbnid=HVAsY7Y4A5WFnM:&imgrefurl=http://haffandhaff.wordpress.com/page/6/&docid=M_VdLMtQTjjqsM&imgurl=http://haffandhaff.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/tree-rape.jpg&w=505&h=465&ei=KmzQUJX9HYOL4ATkpoDACQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=751&vpy=270&dur=667&hovh=215&hovw=234&tx=158&ty=106&sig=111639871220691663455&page=1&tbnh=141&tbnw=147&start=0&ndsp=35&ved=1t:429,r:9,s:0,i:112

Idea Effects - Lightning

This is probably the easiest effect to figure out.

Lightning can be done in many different ways depending on what outcome you're looking for.
The first and probably the most obvious is 'After Effects' there are many tutorials online about how to create lightning. Most of these sprung up when the newest starwars films were released and many focus on how to make lightning appear form the hands. However i have easily found one to show how to do it.

This effect creates forked lightning, however in some cases sheet lightning could also be very effective. Sheet lightning is a very bright flash rather than a spiky trail as above.

To create sheet lightning the best way to my knowledge would be to use a lighting to do it.
I would imagine this would be a case of using a very large strobe light on set using perhaps a blue filter, this would then create the flashes necessary to create a realistic sheet lightning effect.

However for the purposes of my idea, i think that using after effects would be the better option, simply as a case of budget.

References:

After Effects Lightning Strike (YouTube Video) [online] last accessed 17th December 2012 on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxnXtYfy19s

Idea effects - Growing grass and flowers

This has been one of the hardest Effects to consider.
I have searched high and low for a tutorial of some form that might help me work out how to do it.

Unfortunately i have not found one, however many things i have seen have led me to the conclusion that it would probably be done using 'Maya' and 'Adobe after effects'.
I did find one tutorial that hinted towards the use of Maya for this particular effect which was called 'Organic line growth'. however the tutorial turned out to be about something different.

In the idea the flowers turn out to be paper - which would be a simple matter of folding paper flowers and placing them onset. and after the grass has grown, putting grass on the set as well would be fairly easy as it is my understand that grass can be bought in rolled up strips.

I will continue to search for some tutorials.