Story Progress

So as shown in my trailer post from last week I am using the game Animal Crossing to create my story. This week the focus was on figuring out the full story which is about robots who took over a peaceful island and the villagers formed a secret rebellion to take down the robots and get their island back. The video itself will be showing the rebellion at their meeting and then them executing their plan by sneaking into the Town Hall that was taken over by the robots and they will take out the leader robot. Executing this story idea in such a very cartoony game might be hard, but I think it is still possible. My biggest concern last week was that I wasn’t sure how to add dialogue to my video to help tell the story, but I figured out that I will just add subtitles for whichever character is talking at the time.

Editing Process

I am expecting the final video to be between 8 to 10 minutes long because every scene recorded is about a 5 to 10 seconds long clip which means I would need about 100+ clips to make a long enough video. It is a tedious process and requires a lot of work because I have to personally set up each scene with characters, backgrounds, sound effects, etc for each clip even for the really short ones which takes a lot of time. It also doesn’t help that the game is connected to real time so if I want to record a morning or night scene it has to be at the exact time and I can’t wait too long for morning scenes because the sun will start setting in game if it gets late. At the moment I am working on the intro and outro using Canva. I was also working on the beginning scenes and editing them together on iMovie.