Production Bible

On our refresher lesson for Adobe InDesign, last week, we were given a quick demonstration on Production Bible design. Firstly we were shown some examples from the Studio Ghibli bibles:

I liked the clean-cut and simplistic design of the studio Ghibli production Bibles, therefore I think we should recreate this template, to some degree within our team's production bible.

Annabeth gave us a stock of images from the Danger Mouse production bible, this was to help us flex our muscles within InDesign and get an idea of how to layout our pages and images, using Danger Mouse imagery:

Using these images I constructed a master slide template which would automatically insert itself into every new double page spread:

I have decided that it would be best to use the logo that I designed in the previous weeks to watermark the header of every page:

And for the footer of every double page spread, I have created a new project logo, that is taken from the cover image I created out of my character poses:

(insert title logo here) Taking inspiration from the colour scheme of our pitch presentation...

and the logos of child-orientated companies...

We have gone for a pastel pink and blue gradient of colours. We feel that this fits the tone of our subject matter appropriately. Alice then took this idea of a template with our logos and applied it to our new and original production bible:

From then on out it was just a matter of applying all of my pre-production artwork and her log lines, script and treatment. I had sketched out a rough design for our page layout in my sketch book and sent it over to Alice:

Soon after our document was made. Below is the finalised pdf. file of our Production Bible:

Now that this has been finalised. I made sure that the allocation of characters to animate was sorted out. We concluded that because we have 7 characters to animate and only 4 animators to split them across; some of us would have to be taking on more characters to animate than others. We've allocated the character animation as follows: James: Martha, Tyler Alice: Ruby, Alice Matei: Zofia Laura: Ted, Lexi Seeing as I have done the majority of the pre-production work, my team has acknowledged that they must do more in the production phase of our project. This all means that I have been given the shortest of the character audio clips. I am pleased that my contribution to the team has been recognised by my peers. I only hope that for the rest of this project, the job role allocation will be more suitably spread out across our team. I understand that as the project director, I have a responsibility in this mishap. This is all valuable experience for the industry world. I realise that I must be more assertive in getting people to do what they have to rather than just telling them and hoping that they will follow through with it. I find myself asking, "am I too willing to pick up the jobs of certain teammates that perhaps have not been willing to put in as much effort as myself and others in the team?" All of this shall be further explored in my evaluation after submission.