the SITE SURVEY PHOTOS

LOCATIONS:
anthony mai's room/hallway
the playground
a grassy area

TIME AND CONDITIONS:
- site survey outdoors took place from 2:05 - 2:30PM
--- the sun (when on the grass area facing the main bench) was around the 11 o clock position in the sky. bright, very sunny out.
site survey indoors
- site survey indoors took place from 2:37 - 3:15PM
--- we measured all the distances in the room, recorded how many outlets there were and theyre locations (9 outlets we could use plus additional power strips available). we also took note of where some of the light sources are coming from and what light sources are in the actual room.

PHOTOS:


these are photos from today's site survey. we shot photos in the part of anthony's room that would be in the footage (the other half is where all the cameras and equipment is going to be while shooting). then we took pictures of the hallway thats going to be included in the movie. the outdoors scene, we decided that when the boy discovers the cute monster under his sheets, that instead of playing indoors at night, it would be better to film it on a playground outside in the daytime to get more of a glimpse of the monster in both night and day. so we just took some quick photos of the see-saw and slide where the boy and monster will be playing. then we took pictures of the picnic area for our new ending with the boy and the monster. its either going to be the picnic area, or another grass area where the ending is going to be shot so we took pictures of both areas.

MONSTER IDEAS

we wanted to come up with an image of a cute monster going bad. so on the left side of the page are a few ideas for the monster, using a gum-drop shape. then we decided to go for the monster on the right side of the page with the round head. a small image of the orthographic view and it standing up, sitting down. underneath it is its full monster version when it gets vicious

the STORYBOARDS: updated

IDEA FOR THE ENDING:
we wanted to take the general area of this whole thing from dark, to cute, back to dark. so after the discovery of the monster, we thought there should be small little clips of the two characters playing with one another in a cute way. perhaps a shot of them playing blocks, then next clip of them rolling a ball to one another, etc. then at the very end when it seems like the two have formed a bond, the cute little monster is going to turn vicious and do something violent to the boy (biting off its head or eating him entirely)

the STORY: UPDATED

a revised version of our story:

its nighttime and the scene starts outside focusing on the house. then it zooms to go inside the house where you see a boy sleeping. then the boy starts to feel some shaking from under his bed and gets startled. by this point, the camera is going to focus under the boys bed where theres a creature there and the eyes open, glowing. then the boy looks over the side of his bed and sees a tail peeking out from under the bed and then he gets more freaked out. all of a sudden, he sees something crawling under his sheets. he pulls away the covers and discovers a cute little monster sitting there.

the ending hasnt really been confirmed yet since we are trying to continue finding a way to end the story with a good concept. but we do know that by the end, we want to monster to become a more horrifying creature.