Week Seven

This week started off rather badly we had organised a meeting with Craig Gough but sadly he didn’t show so the meeting was postponed. As a group the decision was made not to wait for his opinion and instead press on with the development and storyboarding.

The story board depicted what was originally agreed upon in the initial design stage. Hayley being artistic took up the task of storyboarding. These are the sketches she created from our ideas

The first scene depicts the two brothers sitting on a couch in a rather dull looking front room. The major aim of this scene was to represent boredom and this would be achieved by the expressions of the characters and the environment they are in.

The second scene will be the advert; the advert is the ymca link to the scene. The advert will be brightly coloured and be attractive to the two brothers. The advert will ask “Bored?” as if to suggest there is something better to be doing that sitting on a sofa watching TV.

The next shot will show the two brothers faces with excitement and anticipation on them. This is to show that they are interested in the advert they just saw.

The next scene is tricky, the YMCA advert will fade and the two boys will be “sucked” into the television they will be transported this way to the ymca building. The transportation scene will be created by using a wormhole or other form of mystical portal.

Once at the YMCA the two boys appear in a corridor scene this is the crossroads for the rest of the animation. From here the characters will split off each going into an area which suits their age group.

The younger character Jack will head to the play room. This room will be full of all different toys varying from a bouncy ball to a climbing frame. This area will be the younger characters environment for the rest of the animation. Once this scene has taken place there is a jump back to the crossroad scene and camera will follow the older brother to the school of rock concert stage area. This was agreed to be an event that was struggling to attract newer crowds and would be a focus for our animation. The music track for this scene will be fallout boys rendition of “What's This?” from the movie The nightmare before Christmas. The choice was made because of our group’s fondness of incorporating Danny Elfman music in our projects.

The Main reason we choose an advertisement to be shown on a TV was because we believe that this would not restrict the direction of the animation. The advert will be kept so that the later scenes can be changed and adjusted or new scenes inserted without having a knock-on effect to the rest of the project.