As our film is documentary animation introducing what "Synaesthesia" is, the market can be identified as medical, science, documentary tv channels (BBC documentary / National Geography documentary etc.), conference and festival. Also we can sell it to directors, film producers working with post production houses. (e,g. The Foundry, framestore, ILM, the Mill, MPC, Double Negative, Ingenuity, Shadow Industry)
2. Structure your individual website marketing online presence
Group Website:
Facebook Promotion:http://www.facebook.com/synaesthesiafilm?ref=ts
3. Identify an employer / company who you will invite to the degree show.
I will invite my good old friend, Bastian Hopfgarten, who is working as VFX supervisor, data wrangler and film producer for many years. Also I am going to expand my connection through Bastian, hopefully invite VFX managers and TDs at The Mill, MPC and Double Negative.
Basitan Hopfgarten : http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1506188/
Ben Stallard : VFX department at The Mill
Sophie Jenkins : Recruitment Manager at Double Negative
4. Evidence of how other animator/creator have marketed their products.
Ryan is a good example for us as the film is the initial inspiration for our project. His film received many awards from different film/animation festival.
Awards For Ryan http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=51259
Animation and Film festival is very effective and fast way to impress the people in the industry.
Potential festivals for Synaesthesia:
International Fantastic Film Festival (PIFAN)
Puchon - Korea
Puchon - Korea
International Animation Festival
Melbourne - Australia
Melbourne - Australia
Sundance Film Festival
Park City - USA
Park City - USA
International Festival of Documentary and Short Film - (Zinebi)
Bilbao - Spain
Bilbao - Spain
International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
Leipzig - Germany
Leipzig - Germany
SIGGRAPH / SIGGRAPH ASIA
Other Technical Director, such as Andy Nicholas who is working as Senior TD at The Mill, he runs his website to show his work and tutorials, and giving advices for other TDs and students.
Andy Nicholas : http://www.andynicholas.com/
Many other TDs and animators use their own website and blogs to promote themselves. Especially Vimeo is good way to show their works and showreels.
5. Individual scheduling - weekly meeting, etc. (google calender)
Our team usually had meeting when we were at uni to save time. The schedule in pink shows the day we went to uni. The schedule in blue is for the individual deadline for group contract. Furthermore, we frequently talked over the phone and skype to communicate well between the members. To transfer the files between the members, Valentino and Arpit construct a network system in their house, and other members like me, we used http://wetransfer.nl. This website provides the service to send big files up to 2GB at once. The site is very useful as we transferred scene files and rendered images bigger than 20mb, which is supported by usual email accounts like gmail, hotmail, etc.
6. Individual marketing plan for the degree show
Sending invitations to people in the industry (Recruitment Managers, Production Managers, VFX Managers, etc.)
Business cards, Facebook Group, Twitter
Submitting our film to film/animation festival
Flyers - Galleries around london
Posters
VFX website: http://glimcgtd.blogspot.com/
8. A short personal reflective account of how you have responded to this unit.
Throughout this unit, I could learn not only managing time effectively and setting a pipeline within the group but also defining what i need to concentrate on for the job i want in the near future.
Also I realised the market research was very important to look at, because it's a cornerstone for not only for the film/project, but also for the individual future carrier.
I tended to avoid to use After Effect because I wasn't really familiar with this tool, but I am now learning AE to expand my ability to create visual effect in different ways.
While the group was working on rendering, because we rendered the scenes with our own machines this time, we couldn't do any other work while the machines were occupied with rendering process. By that, we realised we will need to use either renderfarm or renderman for the smooth work flow.
The only thing I missed in this term iss my health condition, I could have done much more work if I was in better condition.
9. Animatic with 2 shots finished
