Creating The Scene When Bond Walks And Shoots

Based upon the initial research of the James Bond films, one of the most dominant generic conventions is that there is always the scene when James Bond walks across the scene, followed by turning to the audience and concludes the scene by shooting towards the camera, as the scene fills with red representing blood. Therefore, as it is such an iconic part of James Bond, this will be incorporated into the trailer. For the beginning of this scene, the small white circles move across the stage in a straight line like the image below (Elcaru1989, 2008).

This was my interpretation:

This was created by simply adding a geosphere to the stage of a radius of 10 with 20 segments to make the objects smooth around the edges. To make it like the colour in the film, the material that was applied was a white diffuse colour, that had a specular level of 80, a glossiness level of 80, the soften was left to the default settings of 0.1 and the self illumination was set from 0 to 100. This made the object very bright when moving across the stage, rather than a greyish colour that occured when the self illumination wasn't applied.

The number of frames within this part of the animation was 60 frames which equates as 2 seconds. Using Auto Key, the geosphere was toggled from one side of the stage to the other, at 60 frames, a clone copy of the geosphere was made and toggled to the left of the original object, so that when played the clone moved away from the original like the films did.

This worked rather well, the next step, is to make a cone which the camera will look through for James to walk across the scene like the original films did. The model to make James walk across the stage will be the same model that will be used throughout the trailer. Indeed, there will be some alterations to the model, as in the original trailers he is wearing a suit, as the model was created in different attire, and given the time restraints he will be wearing a more casual attire, but the pose will be still be the same as the original.

This will be the chain of events that the storyboard will follow in the trailer. To ensure that it all fits in within the 30 seconds, this will be slightly quicker than the original, by editing some of the parts out. Once there is a clearer idea of how long it takes, this can then be edited down to size.

This is the image to begin the animation for James to walk across the stage...

The bottom left view port is the view from the camera, there is a material that has been added to make it look similar to clouds in the background, as it is not rendered, it is not possible to see it in this image. When the animation begins on this part, the camera will pan following Bond like the original does, always looking through the cone. The swirl tool was applied to the material to make it give a similar look to the original as well.