KIB212 ANIMATION STUDIO 1: PRE-PRODUCTION
ASSESSMENT 1: Journal
Day 6: 16th Mar 09
- Having trouble in finding a style which needs to be simple
but attractive - Thinking of using Aboriginal Arts as a style guide
Sketches:
Aboriginal character
Day 7: 17th Mar 09
- Still having trouble with the style guide – Might go for the French comics style such as in Tintin or Asterix and Obelix.
Tintin
http://petragarden.homestead.com/files/tin_tin.JPG
Asterix and Obelix
http://smontagu.org/images/asterix-2a.png
Ideas about the story:
At first, I think it would be about 2 men chasing each other, one is a British settler, one is a Aborigine. But after watching a Gnomon tutorial where Iain McCaig transforms the Little Mermaid into a science fiction story with an alien mermaid
and a death astronaut, I come up with a new story about a British soldier falling in love with an Aboriginal girl during the convict settlement. It sounds similar to
Pocahontas but in another context –
All of that will happen in around 1 minute so the short animation will look like this:
Foreground: A happy couple go out in the forest. The British soldier runs after a Turrbal girl (local Aboriginal ppl living in
Background: changing from Forest – British ships – Priso
n –
Sketches:
Running in the forest
The development
Day 8: 20th Mar 09
- A premise could be:
- Have you ever regret about what you have done in th
e past?
- Love story between a British army man and an Aboriginal girl.
- What if you can change the history?
Ideas for the storyboa
rd:
Similar to the technique used in the movie Sliding Doors, there will
be two alternate circu
mstances: in one, the girl will be shot and killed – a sad ending, and in the other one the army man will give her a flower – a happy ending.
Problem: The story is not convincible because the
characters need an objective for their activities - why the army man has to be sad after finishing his mission which is killing the girl, or in the other case why h
e give her the flower. There should be a scene where showing the man considering between kill the girl or do not kill the girl, and why.
Andrew’s suggestion: Showing the human side of the man by giving a scene where the man is looking at his wife portrait. Similarly, showing a scene where the girl is painting a family picture on the rock.
Day 9: 27th Mar 09
Ideas for the story:
A gate keeper of a British convict settlement opens his note book. A picture falls out. It’s a drawing of his 10 years old daughter with a line “Daddy and me”. The man picks it up, looks at it and smiles.
A little Aboriginal girl is drawing a picture on the wall. It’s a picture of a man, a wom
en and a child.
The gate keeper starts to go around checkin
g the wall en
closed the settlement. The little girl hears the footstep appr
oaching. She’s scared and starts to run away. The man sees a sus
picious human shadow so he runs after the girl.
Case 1: The man runs past the picture on the wall but he doesn’t pay
attention.
Case 2: The man runs past the picture on the wall. He looks back, stands in front of the picture for a while then continues to chase the girl.
They are chasing each other to the forest. The girl, h
urried an
d panic, stumbles and falls down the ground.
Case 1: The man catches up with the little girl. He raises his gun
and points it to her face.
Case 2: The man catches up with the little girl. He
raises his hand to help the girl stand up.
End of story.
Sketches:
The British gate keeper
The little Aboriginal girl
Day 10: 3rd Apr 09
Sketches:
Draft Storyboard:
1 comments:
Bravo, this rather good idea is necessary just by the way
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