Backstory.

this is a 7 page backstory this was the one our group chose to make out of all the individual backstories, in a brief summary of this backstory. The story follows a man named Gabriel, as he witnesses a meteor hit the earth, with a material (they call it Deus Lapidem - god stone) that can be changed and moved by human will, and can be used to shape any structure, or implemented in such scientific ways that it can cure diseases. But like most discovories and breakthroughs there are always those who are willing to exploit it. So a scientist uses this material to reshape people and control them, blooding the material across the country, taking away Gabriels love interest and most of England. Gabriel comes back to the UK only to find all this destruction and only has one clue how to stop it all : that Sir Titus Salt experienced this before, knew of this material and had measures in place. Gabriel must travel to Saltaire and find Titus's tomb to awake his guardians and end this crisis.



My backstory
The Awoken: Guardians of Titus
It is 2442 and it began the quest to find the legend of the Sir Titus Salt cure to the zombies, It was never definite but it was his only hope to save his family, the archaeologist John went on the search for this scroll that is hidden in the historical town Saltaire somewhere, the location is not known and it may not even be true but it’s the last chance to save humanity from extinction. The zombies happened before years ago back when Sir Titus Salt was alive and he found the secret to destroying the zombies but somehow it happened again and spread rapidly, it is legend that he hid the scroll somewhere hidden for the future in case it happened again and that wasn’t the end of the zombies for good.
John travelled across the country to get to Saltaire to see if this legend was true, his family were all turned into zombies and he has nothing left to lose, He arrives in Saltaire where it was dead there are paper on the streets cars tipped up and buildings destroyed and windows smashed. He looked in buildings everywhere to try find this hidden tomb, all the buildings that used to be college buildings but that stopped long ago, He found nothing in any of the buildings. He then decided the only place after searching through Saltaire could be somewhere in Roberts park it was his last opportunity to find the secret to destroy the zombies. He looked and found an old building that seemed to look like an old cafe but it had a statue in the middle of it which seemed to look promising so John decided to try the little object and he moved it which made a loud sound like the earth was shifting.
It turned into stairs and it was an entrance to a tomb which john prayed was the secret tomb, He walked inside and there were skeletons on the floor, cobwebs everywhere and traps. He found a coffin which he opened and it was Titus inside with a key in his hand, john picked the key up thinking it might be relevant to this legend that was told, he carried on further into the tomb after finding the key to see if he could find where the key might be used and what for.
He then tripped over a rope and the key fell into a hole so he used his grappling hook to get down and get the key, he bent to pick the key up and slowly stood up because he saw some strange animal feet in front of him and it was the lions from the 4 lions of Saltaire, he said “my name is peace. One of the four lions of Saltaire and I’m here to help you stop the zombies before it’s too late, when you tripped over the rope you triggered the lever which brings us to life”. John said “so what do i have to do to stop this, can i get my family back to normal?” The lion responded “it is possible but you have a long way to go before you reach that step, there are a lot of traps in this tomb and there are trails you must complete in order to prove yourself and get into the chamber that will help you destroy the disease and cure your loved ones”.
John was happy for the first time in a long time because he has now realised he can save his family and get back his loved ones, this gave him motivation and nothing was going to stop him from completing his task, the lion said you will find another lion called vigilance who will tell you what to do for your first task, John walked further down the dark cave with sounds behind him making him on edge thinking there is something following him, he reached a lit up bit in the cave that had no floor and spikes below, the lion was at the other side of the room and it was vigilance he said “ there are bars above that you can grab and climb across to reach me” so john grabbed the bars one by one and as he almost reached the end one hand slipped and he almost fell to his doom but he finds the strength to get back up and

Computer Interface Reflection

Computer Interface Reflection
For the computer interface I took a print screen of part of my 3d environment which I then made my own simple but effective interface for if it was in a game, I could have made the final design a bit better and added more to the interface to make it look more advanced and professional.
We did not have much time to complete this so I managed my time the best I could in the time I had, I think it looks quite good for the time spent but I also could have made it slightly better and more professional looking. I learnt more skills in Photoshop whilst doing this unit.

Reflection of 3d environment

Reflection of 3d Environment
• What did you do and how did you do it? / Does your final product meet your original intentions? If it does not match your planning explain why
• First of all we all planned which part of saltaire we would do individually as we had teams of about 5/6 which all had their own place to model for the trailer. We chose saltaire because it’s a historic place and it’s right on our doorstep so we used it to our advantage, I had to make part of Roberts Park and a tomb that we decided was going to be in the trailer.
• I was also going to make a spectre as a character for the trailer but decided I did not have enough time for that so I just made the environment because the trailer was mainly for environments, I put as much detail into the environment as possible for the time I had and it turned out well but if I had more time I could of made it much better I think.

• Self evaluation – how did you manage your time? How could you manage your time more effectively? I think I managed my time pretty well but I didn’t realise how much time there really was I thought there was more than there actually was and that I could relax because I had plenty of time, if I had the chance to do it again I would of concentrated more and made it much better detailed.
• What did you struggle with?  I struggled with a part in 3d max when i had to create the background sky because it was making the shadow of the objects in my environment show on my dome so i had to create a background that was just blue and put mountains in the background to make it more realistic.
• How does your finished video compare to professional examples? I think the finished trailer was quite good and professional but still not as good as a proper professional trailer.
• What do other people think of your finished video? It was generally positive feedback because we put the video on YouTube and got 150 views so far and quite a few comments which are mainly positive.
• What could you improve upon? I could have improved on the detail of the environment and made it bigger.
• If you were to do it again what would you do differently next time? , It’s not about the finished product, it’s about the journey. What did you learn? I would make sure i concentrated more during the time I had because I didn’t realise how quick it really was to finish the trailer in time, i learnt how to use many different uses for Photoshop and learnt how to use different software’s such as 3dmax.

Reflection Of Sound.

For the sound for our trailer in my part i went into the sound studio recording area and did a voiceover for the radio that was in our trailer, this went very well infact better than i expected because i added effects to the sound using cubase to make it sound better.

I managed my time with the little time we had each week in the sound room really well i thought, i finished the sound weeks before the deadline was for the sound being made, I found the sound unit to make the sound quite easy and got along with the software well and equipment, the sound track put together with all the groups bit for the sound actually sounded really professional and not far off a real trailer in my opinion, also when we put the video on youtube it got quite a lot of positive comments. we could of improved it a bit by making the backing music abit quieter so the sound of the narative could be heard bit better.

If i could improve on the sound i would make it sound a bit better and longer with better quality, i think we should of made the backing beat less repetitive and maybe added more to it to make it not get as boring, but it went well for the time we had.

interfaces

Now the trailer has been completed we are using rendered images from our environments and creating interfaces on photoshop with health bars and maps to use the skills we have learnt over the years in photoshop. The image i have uploaded is my interface i created for my environment on photoshop.
I have made it simple and created just a map with some enemies on it which are the red dots and the white dot is the person you play as. and at the bottom i have created an xp bar. if it was to be a real game i would make the health like call of duty where the screen would go red if you got hurt.

Responsibilites for the trailer

My environment is going to be the first bit of the trailer it will start outside the tomb in a field and will go into the trap ridden tomb where there will be my radio that will play my voice over. the marketting side of things i made the icon for the ipod because that is what we are marketting towards instead of consoles.
I have no one before my bit of the trailer because i am first and after me is adams bit of the trailer which will be another part of the tomb which is connected to mine.
The overall length will be about 3 minutes or more alltogether.

Renders from 3d models

i will display my renders from my environment that i have been producing on 3dmax.