The Apothecary Week 7 - Post Production Pass Finalizing

Dated: 23 February 2024

We have collected our feedback and many of the thoughts from our last production pass. We got lots of valuable feedback from the rest of our class during the production pass as we are going to use the critiques to create the best short film we can. Most of the feedback was to make small tweaks to the story.

Concept Art:

We finally have finished concept art for 3 of the walls in the interior of our Apothecary. Olivia created these and she did a create job with the lighting and the mood that we wanted to create. The colors for the potions are spot on and it overall is a great concept.

This is the front of shop after you walk in, you don't see the circular table in the middle but the rest of the decoration is pretty final.

This is the right side of the shop with little plants, herbs, cauldrons, and ingredients you may need if you want to DIY your own medicine/potions.

This is the left side of the shop and it has the fireplace along with skulls and healing crystals if you need them.

Story:

We have made lots of progress with the valuable feedback from our classmates last week about the story. Many people found it clear to understand when we explained it but now we are working shot by shot to make sure the story is being told hold we want it to.

We are also making sure that we keep the clear and understandable message while attempting to put them into individual shots with independent and creative camera compositions.

Miscellaneous:

We are planning on working with the story for the next week or two. I am focused on creating the shot list along with the asset list, while updating the file structures for our short film as well. I think that one of our goals for next week will be determining if we will use Maya, Unreal Engine, Houdini, Marvelous Designer, Substance Painter, etc.