Summer research - Short film
For the summer, we have been tasked into creating different ideas and concept for our own animated short films, based on a modern fable, which can be our own personal life motto. Our short film has to be rounded to 30 seconds.
During the summer, we have to create three panels for our story ideas.
My ideas:
Moral: Don't surround yourself around negative people
I like the idea of using opposites to connote my opinion, not in the sense of 'Good' v.s 'Evil', but how one can become 'corrupted' or influenced by negativity around them.
Some ways I could express said idea:
Idea 1
A darkness that seems to drain the life away from all living things. Similar to the Disney 'Fantasia 2000' with the spring sprite and the firebird suite (animated by Anthony DeRosa ).
Perhaps by showing nature being killed off by a mysterious shadow beast.
Or even so using opposites of bright and dark, cold and hot, life and death, day and night to express this.
I would like to use the power of colour, lighting and music to further connote this.
Idea 2
I am also interested in using parts of a story I plan to create an animated series when I leave uni, as the theme coincides with some of the themes I plan to have in my series. This would be great practising at animating my characters and the world they live in.
My character is a girl, who appears to be young adult (although she is much older than this in reality, but appears physically, mentally, youthful.)
She has a quest, that she doesn't quite fully understand yet, to protect Earth. Taking the form of a human, previous from her spiritual being in the stars.
the micro-story:
Naive to earth, she at first becomes distracted from her role by investing into the life of a being in a small town, exploring and trying to 'fit in'.
However, this does not go to plan as she soon becomes outcasted, seen as a witch as the town picks up on her unnatural and mystical vibes. (I plan to take inspiration from the 'Beauty and the Beast. (1991). [DVD] Directed by G. Trousdale and K. Wise. USA: Walt Disney Pictures.' scene with the song 'Belle', where Belle signs about the 'Little town' and the villages sings how 'That girl is so peculiar'.)
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this scene shows how Belle is seen as an outcast, 'different from the rest of us', I would like to analyse the mise en scene of this part, and take on board the framing, cinematography and positing and much more.
Unaware, until a town ball in the royals castle, she is rejected, taunted and embarrassed into leaving by the rest of the townspeople. Upon leaving she meets anther outcast, someone who was not even invited to the ball,- a boy who had to grow up on his own, authored when he was young and never accepted by his own town, seen as the poor strange stable boy.
He is more accepting of her, not only because of also being an outcast, but because he knows she's not a witch. After spotting her forming on her earth, he had secretly been stalking her- curious of her, instead of frightened.
She befriends him, telling only him the truth about who she really is- considering he already knew partly. She also tells him about why she came to Earth. Which reminds her of her duties, waking her up from the trance of indulging in human life. Having nothing to lose and wanting to leave the town, the boy agrees to compass her through her 'Quest'. They decide to leave together, that night- taking nothing with them and not telling any of the townspeople.
While they journey together, they become very good friends, and learn from each other. They meet another young adult, secluded from any town which lives on his own producing well-made swords. He has skills to teach them about combat, and is inspired by their quest he decides to join their adventure. The more they adventure together, the more trouble they bump into and discover about an oncoming war- a kingdom that is power-thirsty wanting to take over fully, with no mercy. They find some towns, kingdoms and cities that have managed to preserve their own ethics and culture, but others have been taken over. While dealing with war, they also have to deal with relationships, friendships, mental health and spirits- both evil and good.
One lesson they learn is that there is no pure evil, but one can be influenced by dark things, dragged into doing bad deeds and conflicts.
There is much more to my story, but this what my main parts is what I would like to focus on.
Clearly, this is not near a 30 seconds film, as I want this to be a series (with different seasons), with at least twenty minutes episodes. Instead of doing one part of the story, I would like to represent one of the themes, 'Do not surround yourself with negativity', which has caused some characters to greatly be effected in the story, making them villainies themselves or loose control.
I want to show how this affects people in real day to day life, how normal people can be brought down, by the negativity that surrounds them which affects mental health and peoples behaviour and perceptive of life.
Mental health is something I think is very important, and that we should surround ourselves with people who support us instead of bringing us down.
I would like to experiment in different ways I could show this; perhaps with my main character, who is supposed to be Earths 'hero' and light, having conflict with a dark spirt character, maybe controlling others with its dark power.
I would really like to include symbolism of the moon being the light in the darkness, like in
Reference to the film 'Rise of the Guardians. (2012). [film] Directed by W. Joyce, P. Ramsey and P. Ramsey. US: Dream works.'
During the summer, we have to create three panels for our story ideas.
My ideas:
Moral: Don't surround yourself around negative people
I like the idea of using opposites to connote my opinion, not in the sense of 'Good' v.s 'Evil', but how one can become 'corrupted' or influenced by negativity around them.
Some ways I could express said idea:
Idea 1
A darkness that seems to drain the life away from all living things. Similar to the Disney 'Fantasia 2000' with the spring sprite and the firebird suite (animated by Anthony DeRosa ).
Perhaps by showing nature being killed off by a mysterious shadow beast.
Or even so using opposites of bright and dark, cold and hot, life and death, day and night to express this.
I would like to use the power of colour, lighting and music to further connote this.
Idea 2
I am also interested in using parts of a story I plan to create an animated series when I leave uni, as the theme coincides with some of the themes I plan to have in my series. This would be great practising at animating my characters and the world they live in.
My character is a girl, who appears to be young adult (although she is much older than this in reality, but appears physically, mentally, youthful.)
She has a quest, that she doesn't quite fully understand yet, to protect Earth. Taking the form of a human, previous from her spiritual being in the stars.
the micro-story:
Naive to earth, she at first becomes distracted from her role by investing into the life of a being in a small town, exploring and trying to 'fit in'.
However, this does not go to plan as she soon becomes outcasted, seen as a witch as the town picks up on her unnatural and mystical vibes. (I plan to take inspiration from the 'Beauty and the Beast. (1991). [DVD] Directed by G. Trousdale and K. Wise. USA: Walt Disney Pictures.' scene with the song 'Belle', where Belle signs about the 'Little town' and the villages sings how 'That girl is so peculiar'.)
me>
this scene shows how Belle is seen as an outcast, 'different from the rest of us', I would like to analyse the mise en scene of this part, and take on board the framing, cinematography and positing and much more.
Unaware, until a town ball in the royals castle, she is rejected, taunted and embarrassed into leaving by the rest of the townspeople. Upon leaving she meets anther outcast, someone who was not even invited to the ball,- a boy who had to grow up on his own, authored when he was young and never accepted by his own town, seen as the poor strange stable boy.
He is more accepting of her, not only because of also being an outcast, but because he knows she's not a witch. After spotting her forming on her earth, he had secretly been stalking her- curious of her, instead of frightened.
She befriends him, telling only him the truth about who she really is- considering he already knew partly. She also tells him about why she came to Earth. Which reminds her of her duties, waking her up from the trance of indulging in human life. Having nothing to lose and wanting to leave the town, the boy agrees to compass her through her 'Quest'. They decide to leave together, that night- taking nothing with them and not telling any of the townspeople.
While they journey together, they become very good friends, and learn from each other. They meet another young adult, secluded from any town which lives on his own producing well-made swords. He has skills to teach them about combat, and is inspired by their quest he decides to join their adventure. The more they adventure together, the more trouble they bump into and discover about an oncoming war- a kingdom that is power-thirsty wanting to take over fully, with no mercy. They find some towns, kingdoms and cities that have managed to preserve their own ethics and culture, but others have been taken over. While dealing with war, they also have to deal with relationships, friendships, mental health and spirits- both evil and good.
One lesson they learn is that there is no pure evil, but one can be influenced by dark things, dragged into doing bad deeds and conflicts.
There is much more to my story, but this what my main parts is what I would like to focus on.
Clearly, this is not near a 30 seconds film, as I want this to be a series (with different seasons), with at least twenty minutes episodes. Instead of doing one part of the story, I would like to represent one of the themes, 'Do not surround yourself with negativity', which has caused some characters to greatly be effected in the story, making them villainies themselves or loose control.
I want to show how this affects people in real day to day life, how normal people can be brought down, by the negativity that surrounds them which affects mental health and peoples behaviour and perceptive of life.
Mental health is something I think is very important, and that we should surround ourselves with people who support us instead of bringing us down.
I would like to experiment in different ways I could show this; perhaps with my main character, who is supposed to be Earths 'hero' and light, having conflict with a dark spirt character, maybe controlling others with its dark power.
I would really like to include symbolism of the moon being the light in the darkness, like in
Reference to the film 'Rise of the Guardians. (2012). [film] Directed by W. Joyce, P. Ramsey and P. Ramsey. US: Dream works.'
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