Wednesday, 23 October 2013
More Story Revisions
Ok so this has been worked through again.
-Travelling through various scenery, each more tiring and draining on the pony than the next. The load carried is also much heavier in each scene.
-Enter a glade
-Bard is inspecting a particular item of treasure.
-Which he then proceeds to shove down his shirt.
-Caravan grinds to a halt.
-A dark looming figure appears/manifests from the glades shadows.-
-He then glides over to our heroes.
-The villain points at our heroes accusingly.
-The lady swoons, the knight braces for combat and the bard shakes and quivers.
-The finger then snaps to the pony whose equally as nervous.
The villain glides over and picks up the pony
-The pony( carried underarm and facing our heroes) notices a patch on the heroes back.
-With one hell of a smug face he glances back and sticks his tongue out. (the patch is revealed to be of the "Pony Protection League")
- Our heroes are dumbstruck
Credits Roll
-Peppered by sketches of all the abuse the pony has been put through.
-End still/ animation of the knight struggling to pull the cart.
-Travelling through various scenery, each more tiring and draining on the pony than the next. The load carried is also much heavier in each scene.
-Enter a glade
-Bard is inspecting a particular item of treasure.
-Which he then proceeds to shove down his shirt.
-Caravan grinds to a halt.
-A dark looming figure appears/manifests from the glades shadows.-
-He then glides over to our heroes.
-The villain points at our heroes accusingly.
-The lady swoons, the knight braces for combat and the bard shakes and quivers.
-The finger then snaps to the pony whose equally as nervous.
The villain glides over and picks up the pony
-The pony( carried underarm and facing our heroes) notices a patch on the heroes back.
-With one hell of a smug face he glances back and sticks his tongue out. (the patch is revealed to be of the "Pony Protection League")
- Our heroes are dumbstruck
Credits Roll
-Peppered by sketches of all the abuse the pony has been put through.
-End still/ animation of the knight struggling to pull the cart.
The story Concept revised
Ok so after pitching our initial ideas to get green lighted by the rest of the students I have had some fantastic feedback.
My tutors were concerned however that this as a solo project might be a little bit impossible for just me to handle. However after the pitch many members wished to help and work with me on my idea, so its very encouraging to say the least.
-The main point brought up was to really emphasize the progression of the ponies suffering as his load is stacked higher and higher, this can be done both through literal stacking as time progresses and/ or with the use of the gaits of movement.
-To try and shorten the movie down, so to cut out any unnecessary scenes as it lightens my load too in having to animate it.
-The use of sound (I need to look into)
-Progression of the layouts getting darker and gloomier, more difficult terrain for the poor pony to climb over.
-Films suggested that I watch are :Road to Eldorado, Mulan and Tangled for the expressiveness of the horse characters.
(I really need to get the strain correct to gather empathy from the audience.)
I feel i'd like to get the actual hero characters involved more so that's something I'm going to be working on.
My tutors were concerned however that this as a solo project might be a little bit impossible for just me to handle. However after the pitch many members wished to help and work with me on my idea, so its very encouraging to say the least.
-The main point brought up was to really emphasize the progression of the ponies suffering as his load is stacked higher and higher, this can be done both through literal stacking as time progresses and/ or with the use of the gaits of movement.
-To try and shorten the movie down, so to cut out any unnecessary scenes as it lightens my load too in having to animate it.
-The use of sound (I need to look into)
-Progression of the layouts getting darker and gloomier, more difficult terrain for the poor pony to climb over.
-Films suggested that I watch are :Road to Eldorado, Mulan and Tangled for the expressiveness of the horse characters.
(I really need to get the strain correct to gather empathy from the audience.)
I feel i'd like to get the actual hero characters involved more so that's something I'm going to be working on.
The story concept
The third and final year of university is upon me and so we are given the chance to take part in the production of others projects or develop our own ideas and try and create a team that can bring our ideas to screen.
Nervous though I am I feel I'd like to have a go at making my own short film, focusing on the quality of the animation more than anything else.
Without further adieu here is my rough story idea:
General Notes:
- An animation about a questing caravan and their much abused pack pony.
-An illustrative/comedic (hopefully) short
-No dialogue
-Maybe use of some incredibly detailed stills (think Spongebob Squarepants, Adventure time, Ren and stimpy, though not as gross as the latter)
-2D project Photoshop and Flash
-Solo
Plot synopsis
-Our questing heroes are travelling through lands
-Entering a glade or a forest the Bard takes the time to inspect the loot and treasures the team have accumulated while on thier journey.
- He then proceeds to shove an item down his shirt after taking a fancy to it.
-Caravan grinds to a halt.
-Ambush! D:
-A dark and looming figure manifests from the forests shadowy floor and glides towards our heroes.
-The villain then points his finger at our heroes and hovers over each of them accusingly.
-The Bard then drops his coins all over the floor as the finger reaches him ;)
-Villains finger snaps to the pony.
-The characters watch in disbelief as the villain carries off the pony.
-The pony sees an intriguing patch on the "villains" back.
-Pony Protection League
-Characters are dumbfounded.
-( at this point I want the audience to be as confused as the characters themselves)
-Credits Roll and are peppered with stills of all the abuse the poor pack pony has had to put up with.
-If possible to have an end still of the knight character having to pull the extremely heavy cart.
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