Animation Week 1

 Animation lessons started discussing the ideas of narrative and story telling, stuff that we would need to consider when coming up with our final piece. It was a difficult concept to grasp as a stories must be much more organised and structured than most would think to keep the audience interest and stopping the plot from stagnating. I learned that If a character does not face enough obstacles or challenges in the too great a time the pacing can be off, and it may be seen as a big part of screen time wasted. This was an important lesson for me as now while working on projects i always consider the exact amount of challenges, obstacles and key plot moments that will be needed.

After this we were split into groups to come up with ideas for our film. I feel me and my group were good at this as, after coming up with a  concept, we attempted to bend and plot to make it work against the structure shown to us, ensuring that our plots would not stagnate and would remain entertaining through out.

Coming up with a concept was a challenge as our films were not allowed to surpass a minute. Giving our character personality, then time to experience a challenge, then overcome it, and show the results of that is all extremely hard to do in such a short time. We decided to put in research of one minute films such as Woman With The Red Heels, which was extremely successful at bringing strong characters and an interesting story in a few seconds, as well as current animation success Sausage Party. By The end of the week we had used these influences and came up with a short romantic, innuendo comedy about a pencil and sharpener that fall in love.