Week 7

In this week the group consisting of myself, Sam and James discussed separating the YMCA characters so that each person would do a character of the YMCA and whoever finished the basic design and build first would do the remaining A.

We also discussed that the end of our piece would have a band like scene of all the YMCA characters in position to spell out YMCA while participating in the band to show off more of the live band nights offered by the YMCA.

The YMCA characters were going to differ as we had decided that each character would represent a different genre of music and thus giving them a personality.
The characters we decided are Punky Y, Heavy Metal M, DJ C and Reggae A; we believed that giving the characters names and the impression of a personality could relate them better to the audience.

The characters will be more cartoon like the realistic since we believed that with the target audience going from young children up to the age of round 16/17 that a cartoon like advert will gain more attention then going for an ultra realism type approach. With this we also considered rendering times etc as to not have to rush everything at the last moment with animation taking a long time to do.

I searched the internet to find images of stereotypical fan of heavy metal. The common aspects I found were spiked hair and spiked jewellery or clothing.
The hair was decided to run through the grove of the top of the M and it to be spiked high up using a brown or dark orange colour.