Final Idea

'The animation will show a scrapbook about someones life. Pages will flick past and signify moments of our male protagonist's life will play. The camera will zoom on a still image in the scrapbook, and then the image will animate. At the point when the scrapbook gets to the higher age of our target audience, the page will turn over and the next page will be empty. This is to represent the audience filling in this page for themselves, so they will add something significant to the scrapbook. 

The scrapbook will be filled with quotes. The animation will start with a quote that will be decided at a later date, and this quote will get the audience thinking at the beginning, and hopefully be inspired throughout the animation. The quote will be overlaying on the torso of a lady, it will then animate into a ball then into a sperm, and then go into the belly button of the woman. The screen will then go black, and an ultra scan will develop. The camera will then zoom out to show the picture in the scrapbook. The animation will tell the story of an ideal life of a man, and will mainly focus on the travelling in his early 20s. A question will be asked at the end to ask what they are going to do next.'

This is a synopsis of our final idea. Once this was decided each member of our group was given tasks to complete in order for our idea to go ahead. We have started to paint up some backgrounds, the backgrounds are supposed to create a mood that the audience will be able to recognise. Anything extra that will appear in each scene will be separate on card and placed on the backgrounds so we are able to move them around. For example a grey-ish background may represent feeling gloomy, sad or upset. If we wanted anything else on the background like rain, we would make each rain drop separate to animate them falling down. When our character is a baby we decided we'd have a yellow background, as it's a bright glowing colour, with other bright colours we will create children's playing blocks.

Preparation

Last week we completed the following: proposal, showreel and pitch board.


We finally came up with our idea set in stone. We based it around three quotes: 'The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.', 'A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.', 'Ones destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things.' The animation will show a scrapbook, pages will flick past and significant moments of our male protagonists life will play. The camera will zoom in on the images in the scrapbook and then the image will animate. The animation will begin with a woman lying on the floor with a bare stomach, ink will appear on the stomach and move around until it manipulates itself into the shape of a sperm cell, then makes its way to her belly button. The blackness will grow until the mise-en-scene is a blackout, then a polaroid of a baby scan photo will develop out of the darkness as the camera zooms out, which will finally be shown in a scrapbook.

The showreel was a short clip put together showing our inspirations and what we wanted our film to make the audience feel whilst watching it. One of the films mentioned was 'Up', a computer animated film. The plot is about Carl Fredrickson meeting a girl named Ellie. They dream of going to a lost land in South Africa, 70 years later Ellie dies, he remembers the promise he made to her. He is forced to go to a retirement home, but before they take him, him and his house fly away with 8 year old Russell who is trying to get an 'Assisting the elderly badge'. Together they embark on an adventure. The film makes you feel all different emotions such as love, sadness, happiness, inspirations, etc. We want to make our animation to give the feeling of being 'hungry for life' after being inspired. Up gives this feeling to the audience.

Tangled, another animation, also inspired us with our final idea. The plot of this film is magically long hair Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time and who she really is. This is what we want our character to go through, to discover the world and find his personality through doing so.