Lifting Tower Brief (Part 1)

I was very excited to work on the Lifting tower brief, the proposal of our individual work being shown publicly and also being payed for it (this was mentioned during the seminar it was initially presented in) is one that i am desperate to get my hands on. Particularly with my peers success leaving me feeling a little left in the dust. I was a little upset that it was "mandatory" for all third year animators because i knew a lot of us wouldnt want to do it and it would give us that actually want to do the breif more of a chance to be chosen.

PROPOSAL

For the brief i thought it would be best to work with others in order for us to have a higher chance to be chosen for said brief and so that we could produce 3 (or more) ideas to a high quality within the space of two weeks. I thought that me, Hattie and Oscar made a good team because we'd worked on an external brief before, and i was approached by Joe to also collaborate and since he has a very clean style and an organised work process I felt he would work well with us.

We ended up deciding on four ideas, though the brief only asked for three we thought we would add as many ideas as we could, and though it was only one more we felt it was good to submit as much as we could. We also decided that we would all push individual aesthetics for each idea, and then say that we would be willing to have the aesthetics interchangeable, however we forgot to specify this and our work comes across as 4 ideas from 4 individuals. 

There has been a lot of frustration for this project, namely the deadline and the prospect of our groups being split up. 

The deadline was frustrating because we were told a very specific cut off point, and because it came across as only one set of ideas would be chosen it was incredibly frustrating to see half of all of our peers work being submitted late and still being up for consideration. However after learning that it was in fact going to be a bunch of individual ideas that we are going to be expected to split up into groups in order to produce my willingness to take part in this project is slowly fading. We as professionals came together as a group together because we knew we would be effective, so for us to be split up by our tutors as if we are still school children that need to be maintained by teachers because someone else is incapable of animating their own idea is a dire prospect.

If we discover that not only is our group disbanding mandatory, but we are also no longer being payed (which would be understandable now due to the amount of students wanting to get involved) that i will most likely pull myself out of the project. I have done enough external work for free, and after the outcome of the Light Night brief i am no longer willing to waste my time with briefs