Monday, April 21, 2008

Final Concept Task:


Choose ONE of your 4 ideas. Then Recreate it according to ONE of the restrictions below:

- Express your idea as a telephone conversation (dialogue only). 

- Express your idea as a sequence of 5 stills.

- Plan your idea as a gallery installation - physical objects in a gallery that the audience can interact with

- Express your idea as a ‘Post Secret'. See http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ 
You could imagine this were created by one of your characters - or make it from yourself. 

This version of your idea should stand alone. It should come as close to expressing your idea as it can in this alternate form. Please include the outcome in your Workbook.





This is a 2D animation of a boy name Lennon. Whose faith towards his bestfriend never wavers. Despite the ill treatment he gotten from her, Lennon waited patiently with faith that his best friend would come to bid him goodbye.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Interrogation:

Synopsis:

This is a 2D animation of a boy name Lennon. Whose faith towards his bestfriend never wavers. Despite the ill treatment he gotten from her, Lennon waited patiently with faith that his best friend would come to bid him goodbye.


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Who is my character/are my characters?
  • The main character name is Lennon and he is a high school student

What is my character feeling? Emotion? Does these emotions change?
  • He is feeling calm while waiting for Mia, his emotions changers when he had to leave. He became sad that he could get to see Mia before he leaves.

Personality-
  • He is caring, faithful, loyal, understanding

How much of this will the audience know? When will they know it?
  • The audience will know most of it, they will know in the middle of the story

How will they know it?
  • Flash back of Lennon and Mia would show how Lennon treats Mia visa verse

How will our character interact with other characters?
  • Lennon and Mia’s interaction will base on body language where else Lennon interacts with the old man through dialogue.

What choices does our character make?
  • Lennon chooses to remain faithful to his believe that Mia will turn up to see him

If your character was an animal, what would they be?
  • Dog

Environment/Location/Space
How large is our environment?
  • A small part of an airport

Does light/dark matter in the environment? Does it change things?
  • No it does not matter and it won’t change things

Does the environment suggest emotion?
  • Yes, sense of loneliness

What is your aim?
  • To create a sense of emotion towards the main character

Style
What is the genre?
  • Drama

Visual Sketches

this is a rough visual sketch of how the main character should look like
I'm trying to portray a quiet sensitive guy who is kind. 
However,this is not the final sketch of Lennon.
This is just a rough sketch of one of the scene where he carried her when she sprain her leg.

New Idea

Synopsis:
This is a 2D animation of a boy name Lennon. Whose faith towards his bestfriend never wavers. Despite the ill treatment he gotten from her, Lennon waited patiently with faith that his best friend would come to bid him goodbye.

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Character Detail Sheet #1
Main character Lennon


Key Characteristics Lennon:
  • He is a loyal friend
  • He is a giving person
  • His faith always clouds his judgement
  • He is smart
  • Quiet
  • Forgiving

Words that Describe:
  • Loyal
  • Caring
  • Faithful
  • Kind hearted
  • In denial


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Character Detail Sheet #2
Second character Mia

Key Characteristics Mia:
  • She is timid
  • She is needy for others approval
  • She takes things for granted
  • She thinks only about herself
  • She has many friends but no close friend except for Lennon
  • Fragile
  • Emotional

Words that Describe:
  • Foolish
  • Selfish
  • Self centred
  • Ungrateful


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Scene 1

Lennon standing in a crowded airport
An old man stood beside him

Old man:
“Young man, I think you should go in now…your flight is in 15 mins”
(While looking at Lennon’s air ticket)


Lennon:
“I’m still waiting for someone, she should be here soon”

Old man:
“ahh...who is that lucky girl”

Lennon:
“lol...no no, she's my bestfriend. Her name is Mia”
(Lennon look so proud when saying her name)



Scene 2
Lennon still talking about Mia
Flash back.

“Few years back she moved in next door, that’s how I get to know her”
(They meet...Mia hiding behind her mum, Lennon smiles and Mia smiled)

“Soon after that, we become friend”
(They play in an empty field, Mia chasing Lennon around)

“We were inseparable since, we even went to the same school, ride the train together”
(They sat train together, Mia look nervous, Lennon hold her hands)

“We are even in the same class”
(Sat beside each other in class)

“Mia, she’s a timid person but I remembered once when she stood up for me against a bunch of bullies”
(On the way to train, Lennon get bullied, Mia protect)

“As time pass, things changes, we’re no longer in the same class”
(They entered a different class, Mia look sad, and Lennon looks optimistic to encourage her)

“But we are still close”
(They sat train talking, her new friends sat beside her, they talk to Mia leaving Lennon out)

“Mia grows up to be really pretty, and she really popular among the guys”
(Lennon looks at Mia with her new bunch of friends)

“She’s really smart and athletic too”
(Lennon saw Mia sprain her leg during a race)

“Although she has many friends, when ever she’s sad or unhappy, she turns to me…I’m her pillar of strength”
(Mua cried- so called friends not there to comfort her
Lennon found her in her class room alone, he stayed w her…and carried her home)

“I will not let anyone harm her…and I know she’ll do the same for me”
(Train ride, Lennon sat alone again while Mia sat opposite w her friends…they mumbled something bout Lennon while looking at him…Mia and the friends laugh)



Scene 3
Airport scene

“She said she’s coming...she should be here soon”



Old man:
“Hope she makes it in time”

Lennon:
“I’m sure she will”

Lennon wave the old man goodbye as the old man and his wife went in the terminal…Lennon continue waiting...

Announcement:
“Last call for blah blah, departing in 5 mins…last call for blah blah, departing in 5 mins”


Lennon look at his air-ticket (his flight is departing soon)
As Lennon look at his watch, he saw a pair of legs in front of him

Lennon:
“Mia!”

as he look up…he saw a lady looking at the board behind him (to check for the flight num etc)

Lennon took out a piece of paper and scribble something. He pick up his bag and walk towards the terminal

Lennon:
"Could you please give this paper to this girl?"
(handing the officer on duty beside the terminal, the piece of paper and Mia's picture)

Lennon took one last glance and went in...Mia never came
(the picture and paper sitting on the officer's table untouch)

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Research for New Idea

Synopsis:

This is a 2D animation of a boy name Lennon. Whose faith towards his bestfriend never wavers. Despite the ill treatment he gotten from her, Lennon waited patiently with faith that his best friend would come to bid him goodbye as he leaves to further his studies.


Visual Research:




I got this idea about two kids growing up together but grew apart. One of them cherishes the friendship where else the other did not. I want to portray a one sided relationship in this 2D animation and a character that still holds on to the past (remain in-denial)

The main location of this story will be in the airport. I had a rough idea as to how I want my visuals of the airport to look like.




Most of the other visual styles, I would like to reference on the movie "Toki Wo Kakeru Shoujo"
I would like to reference on the visual style of the school and the colour scheme.





Friday, April 4, 2008

Assignment Task 4: Interrogation of other idea.

Week 4 Homework

Interrogate one of your other ideas. Choose AT LEAST ten questions from the lists generated in class (by all the groups). (I may also provide some additional questions to choose from.) Ask and answer them of one of your ideas.




Concept Synopsis:
This is a 2D animation about a little girl who had lost her mother in an accident. She was left roaming in the street , fighting to survive. She was constantly abuse by the villagers because she was born without knowing who her father was, thus making her an outcast. One day, the village was burn to the ground and there were no survivors..except for her.

Project Type: 2D Animation



1. Who is my character?
A young little girl who is homeless

2. What is my character feeling? Emotion? Does the emotions change?
She feels sad that no one care for her, her emotions change later in the story.
She becomes angry and was filled with anger


3. Why?
Because she soon finds out that her mother's death was not an accident, her mother was burn to death by the villagers

4. What choices does the character make?
She burns down the whole village out of anger

5. Physical Characteristic?
She is a tiny little girl who is very skinny due to malnutrition.

6. How large is the environment?
A small part of a tiny village for most part of the film

7.Does light/dark matter in the environment?
Yes, it plays a huge role in the animation. She is surrounded by darkness (a ghetto area)
Her village is tiny and not very prosperous.


8. What are your inspirations? How is your work different?
The Little Match Girl plays a big role in developing this idea, it is different because the end result is not the same.
In the little match girl, she has a pure heart throughout the whole animation and eventually died of cold/hunger.
But for this animation, the little girl was abuse and soon finds out that her mother was killed by the people who abuse
her. So the story becomes very dark, filled with anger and some betrayal.



9. Comedy, drama, experiment?
Tragedy

10. What will music do?
Music will be there throughout the whole animation to set a mood.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Interrogation:

Concept Synopsis: Mia enters a run down house, with the intention to kill. A flash back of her life and the day when her parents were killed by a robber. She soon finds out the robber was the man she saw regularly at the train station collecting empty cans. She followed him to his run down house and there she was entering a run down house in the beginning of the story.
Project Type: Narrative 2D Animation
Are you stuck with anything?


Interrogation:

1. What style?
I would like and prefer do stylized my own character

2. What sort of mood you try to portray?
A dark atmostphere

3. What is the characteristic?
Physically she is young (a high school girl) with long hair.
She is a caring person to begin with but things happen and she becomes angry thinking everything is so unfair

4.What is the environment setting?
It will be a warm summer with occasional rains.

5. How did the character been brought up?
She is brought up by a steady family, she is the only child.
Her family are not rich but she is contented

6.What dilemma does the character face?
Mia has a choice to kill the man who killed her parents or she could forgive him and not kill him

7.Dramatic or comedy?
Tragedy

8. Will you use flash back or real time in telling the story?
flash back

9. How are you going to tell the story?
Some dialogue but mainly narration

10. What choice does the character make at the end?
She chooses to forgive the man