Specialism Research

 With this project i intend to specialize in animation, i aim to create a short story called Trevor's Travel's about a little girl who visits a balloon shack asking her father for a balloon, he kindly gives her the balloon but unfortunately the little girl loses grip, the balloon floats off on a adventure until it eventually float back into the little girl's room and gets caught on her bedside. The inspiration for my idea came from watching the Disney animated short, The Blue Umbrella.

 Dragon age inquisition is a RPG developed by BioWare and published by EA this is the 3^rd game in the franchise and was released in November 2014 for PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

 The game will see the characters created player embark on a quest to settle the divide between the Mages and Templars and aim to get them united for one purpose to destroy the demons that are entering the world through a rift in the sky. Some believe the players character also known as the inquisitor to be the “chosen one” because of the mark on their hand, the mark on their hand is the only thing capable of closing the rifts tearing through the sky. This is a rather big task however so as your journey takes off you will meet people who are willing to join your cause to find the sole of this evil and bring an end to its destruction. In the development stages of this game Bio Ware wanted to merge the 2 aspects from their previous instalments into this next game, so from this inquisition has much larger environments and in turn a lot more room for exploration.

 This is a video of all 3 different trailers released for the game the first of which starts with a slow transition over a land that has been ravaged by war as this is happening the music gradually becomes loader and more intense, it then cuts to a solider running through the battlefield knocking back countless soldiers in his path  as his men are fighting by his side, the soldier then grabs a man by the throat which then the camera gradually zooms out to reveal that it’s a Qunari or to be more specific Iron Bull who is one of the men the player can hire throughout his journey in Thedas, Iron Bull then drops the enemy as a giant emerges from the foggy background he then charges at the giant and drives his Warhammer into the beast then a rift erupts into the sky. Iron Bull then realises that its demons that have broken through and gets his army also known as the charges to head towards the demons with the promise of money. This trailers lighting is brilliant to captivate the destruction of war I like the surrounding silence the darkness from the dried up trees as the camera begins to gradually climb up to the battlefield, as Iron Bull runs through the soldiers the fog blowing around them is a great effect to show the darkness of war. The music enhances the feeling with the strong beat this coincides brilliantly with the combat within this trailer.

 The second trailer is more of a calming tone this trailer starts with tavern music playing as the inquisition is having a good time drinking in the tavern, we then see a dwarf or Varric leaving the tavern as a barmaid is serving drinks to the patrons she approaches a man at the back of the bar this is where things escalate, he tries to grab the women and becomes rather abrupt until the women slaps the man in the face he then goes for her and gets struck with a crossbow bolt, Varric returns and saw what was happening the 2 of them have a back and forth conversation the rift then tears open the sky and everything is stopped Varric then walks outside and says “eh not again”. The music in this is great to create a feeling of joy and the sudden stop when the action picks ups is great to make it more intense.

 The final trailer here has a camera trailing over the hinterlands a region in the game that the player can visit seeing more war and as we progress further through the trailer a dragon sweeps past, the camera follows the dragon which then leads the viewer to a giant throwing a boulder down upon some soldiers then the camera slides through to the rift in the sky. I really like this motion because I feel that through the camera cuts being fast passed it makes the player more excited to see where the game will take us. The camera is then up in the rift as the music picks up the camera drops to the ground as the beat drops we see the inquisitor walking across the battlefield this adds to the feeling of excitement for this game, the battle then continues with the players inquisition fighting demons all around him we then see a massive demon walk through a fire and he has a standoff with the main protagonist of this game, the inquisitor then uses the mark to close the rift the rift is closed and all is clear until suddenly a dragon appears and breaths fire down upon the inquisition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbVCuMlembs