Final Storyboard

 Final Storyboard.

Animatics (first part)

Working on Animatics...

Feedback

After the presentation I had a feedback from my tutor.

☆Story is too simple - Simple is good, but my story is too simple so add a bit more to it.

 I will combine my original storyboard to the second storyboard to make my story a bit longer, and I will be thinking of perhaps another scenes to add more twist to the story.


Also my tutor has suggested me to look into this:

Fairyland Luster

Images example:

http://fineestateliquidation.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Wedgwood-Lustre-Fairyland-Cup-Sold-By-Skinner-Auction-with-Link-Follow.jpg

http://p2.la-img.com/378/18076/6131926_1_l.jpg

http://img.carters.com.au/80021.jpg

Fairyland Luster is the type of Art mainly for pottery, with beautiful fairy and woodland designs. 

Storyboard development

I had a short discussion with my tutor about the storyboard, the base of the story and the visualisation works for the final project. However the storyboard will need to develop more to add impacts to the audience, since my storyboard is very basic, not so much of an interesting events happening in the story.

My tutor has suggested me to look for more reference ideas, one of the inspirations are this video :

http://www.studioaka.co.uk/OurWork/statoilgoodnight (Studio AKA)

This animation is about a girl who listen's her father's fantasy adventure story based on her bed duvet. This animation shows the wonderful imagination towards to the audience by using duvet, which is something that anyone can reach into.

More research is needed, which I will be looking into it this week.

Storyboard (take 2)

 New Storyboard here.

Story Development

After I have created the storyboard I realised that I need to develop more to make sure my storyboard is clear to the audience. I had my friend, Arika Kondo from University of Worcester, doing a Performing Art who has helped me to develop my work.

• A girl sketching flowers at the beginning - Symbolic sign, Audience would know that she likes to draw since she is holding sketchbook and Pencil, so I may not necessary need to show the part where she is sketching flowers etc.

• Mythological world should not be seen easily - Maybe add a key Item/object to let a girl enter into the world that human can't enter normally. E.g. Jewellery, Animal etc

• Something should happen -  Not much happening in my storyboard, so 'something' should happen. E.g. Strong wind blows into a girl and takes her to the magical world. Story is too simple.

• Entering to the Mythical world - She should enter the world without realising, so maybe close her eyes and when she opens, she's there. Something like that.

• Camera part -  Not necessary since she already sketches.

• Fairy is sensitive - Maybe fairy will notice her and spell her to put her into sleep? Sensitive to noises so maybe they will get scared easily.

• Ending - Instead of returning next day maybe she just returns back to the forest after the magical experience

• Simplify, but deeper story -  To explain and fit everything in under 2-3 minutes of short film I will need to simplify the story, but think about adding more details.

My next task is to re-create the storyboard.

Initial Story plot

Here is the story plot of my storyboard in order.

1. A young adult girl, who loves to draw, is sketching a flower in the forest.
2. After the sketching she wonders around the forest, enjoying the natures and taking pictures of the wildlife.
3. She finds a beautiful butterfly, she tries to go closer to it but it flies off. 
4. She follows the Butterfly, focused only on the butterfly
5. Butterfly stops, she hides behind the tree and slowly poke her head out, then she discovers the beautiful pond, where the Butterfly is resting
6. She then discovers that the fairies are flying around
7. She takes her phone out to take pictures, but hesitate, puts her phone away because she felt that she should not disturb them.
8. Instead she sketches them in her sketchbook
9. She slowly walks off the place after the good stare at them
10. Next day she goes to the same place but the pond is gone.
11. Looking disappointed, but sees the sketch of fairies and the pond in her sketchbook and look happy, her secret discovery.

Initial Storyboard

 Initial Storyboard.

New Ideas

After the cancellation of the last project I have committed that I will be working independently from now. I will need to look for someone to help me with the layouts and possibly animating since I am not too sure if I could cover everything on my own.



Here is my new initial idea.

A young adult female (possibly age between 18-21) who loves to sketch and photograph the wild life and nature in the forest. She discovers a secret fairy grotto in the forest with real fairies. She sketches them and decides to keep her discovery to her self, after that she leaves the place without disturbing them. Next day she returns to the same place but there were no longer any fairies or the evidence of them being there. 



I came up with this ideas from watching the film "Princess Mononoke"(1997) (by Studio Ghibli) when I saw the Kodama which are the spirits of the forests and born from the tree, I came up with the idea of creating an animation based on the spirits/fairies that secretly live in forests and woods, which human has not yet discovered. I always had a dream that the mythological creatures actually existed in secret and I wanted to create a story that a human see the mythological creatures. 

The theme of this film is innocence and respect. Even though I want my character to see the mythical creatures I want their existence to remain secret. Also I feel that if the human interacted with the mythical creatures it would ruin their lifestyle and habitat, so I want my character to keep their existence a secret and leave their habitat and life style the way it is. This also sends out a message about leaving real animals habitat's and lifestyles alone and not disturbing them if people see them in the wild, they shouldn't try to catch or interact with them at all.



I will be doing a research of mythical creatures and also the wildlife that could be found in a forest so that I could possibly include them in the film.

Storyboard - Initial

 Initial idea of the storyboard.

Issues

We were aiming to create a film which is about 2 minutes long, but after the tutorial we have realised that the story was way too long to fit into 2 minutes. So we have decided to simplify the storyline. Also we have realised a few problems with the storyline.

Problem 1 - Too much Montage. I thought we don't need 2 montage, possibly simplify it with just 1 montage.

Problem 2 - Story is too long. As I have mentioned above, the story is way too long to fit everything into 2 minutes. Too much things are going on and needs to be simplify.

Problem 3 - Why is there are a dog like you get them on a Earth if the planet has humanoid animals? Maybe change the dog design into other non-realistic living thing?

Problem 4 - The story needs to be developed far more than the current stage, the story does not make sense since too many things are going on at the same time to tell this one single story. So again, Simplify.

We will need to look into the storyline again from beginning and see if we can change the story and make it simple as possible.

Initial Story

The initial story is about a Lizard-man who is travelling to meet his child, shown by him looking at a photo of a young humanoid lizard while holding a map. While stopping off in a town for supplies he notices a stray dog. Feeling slightly sorry for it he gives it a bit of food and moves on. While walking away he hesitates and turns around to find the dog is following him. The Lizard-man attempts to walk away from the dog a few times without success.
A montage follows of the dog following behind the Lizard-man across various locations.
After a few clips of the Lizard-man being unable to shake off the dog he runs as fast as he can away from it. When he turns around and sees the dog is no longer there he turns back feeling happy but then trips on something and his bag flies down a crevice where it cannot be reached. Angry the Lizard-man looks to see what he tripped over and sees the dog under his foot. Extremely angry now the Lizard-man roars at the dog very loudly and showing his teeth causing the dog to run away scared. Angry about he dog and upset about his bag the Lizard-man storms off continuing his journey.
Another montage of the Lizard-man travelling alone.
During a night time the Lizard-man hears a strange noise and sees the dog in the dark bringing him his bag. Happy to have his things back the Lizard-man becomes friends with the dog and they travel together to the place where they will meet the Lizard-man's child.
Once the pair arrive at the place they find a grave with the child's name on it. The Lizard-man is sad about finding out his child had died and the dog tries to comfort him. They sit together in front of the grave.

The End.