6 Million Dollar Man Development://

6 Million Dollar Man is a comical film featuring Stephen Chow whose on screen character gets blown to pieces by triads. But then get revived as an almost state of the art robot who can only transform into household appliances such as a rice cooker, microwave etc.

With this ident, I wanted the text to be affected by a glitchy, malfunctioning effect that would resemble the idea of unreliable technology. (referencing the film) I selected a rather random part of the dialogue to use for the subtitles, as this would seem rather bizarre to the viewer, making want to find out more hopefully. It also reflects the whole tone of the film on how it's quite random and quirky.



6 Million Dollar Man 01 from Tim Wan on Vimeo.
 First attempt:///
About 10 photographs of the tv static was taken and put into a sequence acting as the main glitchy effect throughout the ident. The noise was added ontop aswell to replace the actual audio of the film. I kept the colours to a minimal just to keep it clear and concise. This first attempt demonstrates the effect of the static really, so far I think it works quite well, but need a lot of work to make the timing and overall ident work.


Unfortunately due to the encoding issues on Vimeo, the ident looks really pixilated and distorted, which doesn't do it any justice at all. Therefore I have included a few static frames of the ident below, which hopefully represent the detail of the idents better.

6 Million Dollar Man 02 from Tim Wan on Vimeo.
Development://
Aswell at matching up the subtitles and balancing out the glitchy effect thoughout, I've started applying more adjustments to the text, playing around with flickering effects. The only issue I found was that the whole ident still looked quite static, with little movement, therefore played around with overlaying textures to give a more digital finish.

I think the resolution represent the storyboards well, obviously I had to make a few adjustments such as the timing but overall, it's achieved what I had in mind. Throughout working on After Effects, I was able to realize the design practice, the importance of storyboarding and having an idea to work on first.

Minor things to alter before exporting to final://
- It says '5 million dollar man' this will be changed to '6 million dollar man' instead!
- From the feedback on the crit, Stephen Chow season doesn't get mentioned much in the majority of the idents, so the final web address will be altered to include the details regarding 'Stephen Chow movie Season'