Class Task 4: Interrogating Your Idea (Sam, Daniel, Amber)

Name: Sam Yang
Concept Synopsis:

In exchange for life, the dead Minty has agreed to claim the life of a living person. Minty soon finds out that the person whom he must murder is the same person he died saving. A final event forces Minty to make a choice and he ultimately gives up the life he had just regained.

Project Type:

• 2D animation
  

Are you stuck with anything?

• Who/what is this 'higher power' who's given/made Minty this deal of his life back in exchange for the task/favor he must do.
• How I will choose to present story, what sort of style and structure - Flashback? Narration the whole way? 1st person narrative?
• What the setting will be.
  

Interrogation:

• Does the higher power need to be bad, maybe the audience never does find out whether its bad or not?
• Maybe there isn't even the need to establish any sort of high power?
  
• How will Minty find out about his side of the deal? (What he must do in order to keep the life he was just granted.)
• At what stage does he find out the person he must kill is the girl he died saving?
• What is going to happen to throw the story into the climax?
• Does he ever see her face?
• Will the audience find out how he died (his past) at the beginning or towards the end?
• What exactly is his past?
• What kind of style will I use/pursue?
• Who is the intended audience?
• How will the animation be created/made?

Name: Daniel Luke smits
Concept Synopsis:

My character is a man who finds that his body comes loose from his ghost, in an outer body experience kind of way.
To get things done, he has to manipulate or 'puppet' his unconscious body, as he cannot touch or effect anything else.

Project Type:

• Narative Animation

Next Steps:

• I need to decide on critical benchmarksCharacter personality
• Specifics of his condition
• Setting
• Situation
• Visual Style

Interrogation:

• Will I get bored because it's a been a previously explored concept.
• What is this character like? (Age, relationships, job, Life Goal, house)
• What will the setting be?
• How am I going to portray his ghost...thing?
• How will I make him distinct from other characters?
• What kind of mood/theme am I going for?
• How will I produce it?
• Will the narrative revolve around him or his relatives?
• How accustomed to the situation is he?
• WIll anyone else know of his situation?

Name: Amber
Concept synopsis: Nurse Boy

The main character is a high school nurse who is a little bit over-the-top when it comes to helping people. This makes the students of the school very nervous about being ill, or becoming sick. This will be a short 2D animated film. The story will start off with a classroom full of students quietly working, when one of them coughs just a little. All heads turn to that student with expressions of panic and horror on their faces. The door is suddenly thrown open and standing there is the school nurse with a big needle in his hands (and lots of other first aid paraphernalia on him). He walks up the student who has just coughed and says a really corny line like, “Someone needs to be healed”. He starts throwing needles around and pills everywhere as he tries to treat all the students in the class room. While this is happening, all the students are freaking out, trying to get away. But in the end all the students are all over the room, either with needles sticking out of them or with foam coming out of their mouths (from being given too many pills), while the school nurse has a very happy look on his face – the expression of someone who has done the right thing well. The film concludes with another corny line, such as, “All’s right with the world”, as the nurse walks out of the room, with everyone in it not looking all that healthy.

Project Type:

• A short 2D animated film.

‘Next steps’:

• Work out the fight/healing scene, and how it comes about and when he uses what to heal which student. Brainstorm about the types if things he can fight with, eg big ban-aids, needles etc.

Are you stuck with anything?:

• I am still trying to figure out how many people is in the class and how the story will end, I have two endings in the work.

• If I decided to use the second ending (where the one who coughed is left standing) how will the nurse leave the scene?

Interrogation:

• What ‘healing’ things is he going to do to the students of the class? And ‘healing’ technique will happen after another healing technique?
• How long is the flight/healing scene going to last for?
• How big/old is the school nurse going to be compared to the students of the class at the high school?
• Should you make it more obvious that the main charterer is the school nurse?
• What SFX are you going to use for the fighting scene?
• How big is the class – how many people does he have to attack?
• How are you going to created/made it? Use Flash?
• Why is it in a school?
• What style is it going to be in? What is a look you are going for?
• What artists will be influential to your project?