Telling Tales: Idea Development

Sitting down with Lauren, we went through the notes we made yesterday and started to flesh out our ideas a little and explore other ideas and titles to see if we could come up with something more substantial. Reflecting upon what we came up with for the title Opposites Attract we established that the narrative would most likely steer towards the interaction of the characters. Based on this we came up with a few ideas revolving around one character helping another character, and other ideas which took the title more literally. However, after a few ideas we struggled to think of anything else that we felt would relate to the title and make a good narrative. Adrift created a similar problem for us, as we aren't comfortable with the idea of animating 3D water. However, this could be solved with using mixed media within our animation.

Expanding upon our previous choices we decided to look at the title Road to Nowhere, as we realised that this has potential. We came up with the idea of having two characters that were opposite in personality that could somehow travel to the destination of 'nowhere'. I really like this idea, as I feel that the characters could have a lot of personality and the narrative would be clear to construct in the short amount of time that we have.

Finally we touched upon Leap of Faith. Sticking with the idea of a parent pushing the child to take a leap of faith, we decided to stray from the bird idea and more towards a less literal meaning. We came up with the idea of a child learning to walk and creating a montage of the child attempting time after time before eventually getting it right. I also like this idea and feel that it would be a good choice to go with, as again the narrative would be easy to portray throughout the animation.

Overall, we have decided to focus upon the last two of our choices and develop them further, as they aren't overly ambitious, yet have the potential to be effective and tell a clear narrative.