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.