I've started making my production booklet for Gloop Cafe, which has given me a good opportunity to review this project from the beginning. I'm looking back at all my pre-production work. What's stuck out at me significantly is the amount of revisions and rewrites I've gone through. Seven script drafts, four storyboard drafts and three animatic drafts got me to this point, which is far more amending than many of my coursemates have done. On one hand, the fact that I started on pre-production very early was for this exact reason - I wanted to have wiggle room and the ability to change things early on when I received feedback from my peers.
However, I really struggled to clarify the story and message of this film until late into February, when I was making large changes to the animatic at the last minute. I need to be more concise, and my biggest worry about the film is that I've tried to cram too much into too little time - still. The film could really stand to be a couple of minutes longer. For me, the takeaway is clarity. Clarity of plot, clarity in shot framing and pacing, clarity in animation. These are all things I must improve upon.
I really started making good strides with this film when I was forced to consider the essential element of it, which was Sossidge Cafe angry at Gloop Cafe for using sausage in their recipe. Once I consolidated this, I removed the relationship in the film and put more effort into writing the build-up for the fight scene.
In future, when I make a short film I will first consider the CORE theme and write around that, always going back to it if I am unsure whether something fits or not.
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