Change of Direction

Finally now we have established a set group of 6 of us, 3 film students and 3 animation students. So far I've notice that by having a mix of students from different courses, both sides bring together different ideas and a different way of looking at things, and although we have only met up twice so far I have a really positive feel about the direction the film will take.

The original idea is Cassie's and she was inspired by a book she read called Sophie's World, as a group we have all decided that it is important to read the opening of the book so we can all fully understand the inspiration behind the idea.

The basis of our idea is to show the audience life from a child's perspective, to show how excited and vibrant things are as a child, and we will do this by animating onto live action with vibrant colours and exciting visuals. As the child grows up into an adult, there will be less animation and the colours will become more dull. Another aspect of this film will be a map, although we yet to decide how we will in corporate this element, the idea is to have a map that a first is built up and colourful, and as the child grows older the map will become lower and less colourful. Also we where thinking about incorporating different countries into it, for example, places like China have a different art style to our own and we began to think about how we could incorporate this into the animation. Cassie and Imogene also mentioned the possibility of using archived footage, I really like this idea is it means if we did want to use different places around the world there is a chance we could use actual footage filmed from that part of the world, which is a really exciting prospect.