The Descent Teaser Trailer
Hello! We are Banana Productions, and we're proud to present The Descent! We are Animation Students currently studying at Escape Studios London. Enjoy!
Introduction
“The Descent” is a student short film / teaser trailer created during our first year 2 group project at Escape Studios. Our trailer gives an insight to our explorers' next adventure. Due to having a small time frame of 6 weeks, we decided a trailer would be the best way to show an audience a taste of our story.
Synopsis
The story begins with Andy driving towards a hole in the desert while passing a national park sign that warns of danger. He carries a book with an artefact inside and fastens a rope around himself before descending into the hole. As he navigates the narrow passage, his foot slips, causing rocks to fall. He hears a snap and realises the rope is fraying. Suddenly, the rope snaps, and Andy falls into the abyss of the hole. As he hits the ground, his watch rolls and mysterious foot steps into view. Andy sits up, bewildered and unsure of what lies ahead.
Previsualization
This was the foundation to our short film, which was created by Daniel Joseph. We loved his concept and branched off new ideas to create a new narrative. We especially liked how the film concluded with a cliffhanger.
Storyboard & Animatic
We spent a long time working on the storyboards and then we transitioned them into animatics. As you can see we still used shots from the original previs. To keep on with production we decided it would be best to start transitioning storyboards and animatics, which really helped us see what needed to be adjusted.
Below you can see one of our earlier storyboards, and animatics;
After receiving feedback we made a lot of changes, and had to adjust our story. After this version of the animatic we moved onto the previs, which changed multiple times.
Creating Our Environment
Our entire narrative was based around Andy, getting trapped in a large hole in the middle of a desert. It was key that we built the environment to bring our story and character together. We started with a simple diorama, and then moved onto modelling and texturing the scene. The final touch was adding lighting to create a hot desert at sundown.
Blog
If you would like to see more of the behind the scenes on creating "The Descent" make sure to check out our blog! Scan the link below with your phone to easily reach our instagram.
Team Credits - Main Roles
Sirisha Mutty - Director, Art Director, Storyboard Artist, Lighting Artist
Belle Loyshka - Producer, Storyboard Artist, Texture Artist
Daniel Joseph - Lead Animator, Layout Artist
Maye Liu - Sound Editor, Storyboard Artist, Character Artist
Lucia Caccavale - 3D Artist, Character Artist, Environment Artist, Editor
Anna Pinart - 3D Artist, Character Artist, Environment Artist
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