Animation Student - My work, Progress and Research

In our winter break we was asked to come up with three different story ideas for a 2 minute film that we will be having to make and one of these stories would be picked by the teacher and will be fully work on.

The stories I came up with are

Dark Circus

The story was inspired by a song Dark Wood Circus which is by Machigerita-P, it is one of the songs from series with three other songs.

I came up with the idea of the story when listening to the song a white ago and thought I could do something with it now.

Little bit of the story -

All around the world people used to come to the circus that lays in the middle of the woods, they came to see all the weird and crazy stuff that happened but after what happened no one came anymore, so the circus was closed down or that's what they thought... The circus comes to life every night on Halloween, trapping every soul who comes in, from here they have no way of getting to heaven or hell, trapped to work at the circus forever. Let me tell you all about our believed circus before this happened and maybe I will tell you about what happened here that night, but don't stay too long or you will become like me... stuck in this place forever.

The Cat Who Protects The World of Dreams

The story was inspired by the character The Baron from the Studio Ghibi film, The Cat Returns.

I had trouble coming up with a second story so I asked a friend for some help and she came up with the idea of having a cat dressed in a suit as the main character so after that I came up with the rest.

Little bit of the story -

There was a story that was told to me every time before I went to sleep, A story about a sharply dressed cat whose job was to protect the world of dreams from creatures of nightmares that children would dream up within the darkness of their hearts.  As I got older the story about the cat was something I thought was made up only to help me get to sleep but now that’s not what I think after going to the world of dreams and met the sharply dressed cat himself.

Long Days in The Sand

This story was also inspired by a song called Sand Planet by Hachi/Kenshi Yonezu.

I also came up with this story after listening to the song.

Little bit of the story -

We have all been walking around the desert for a very long time with our eyes looking forward or looking down to protect them from the sand, each day has been different with a few being days where everything is peaceful but most of the time it feels like we are all fading away in the storms that hit us when we least expect them.

Adapting Poem - Animation

This is the animation that I did for the poem adaption, I didn’t get a chance to finish it all because of how much I had to do but I’m a little happy with what I got finished because I animated something instead of not doing it like I did last year.

Mrs moon by roger mcgough

scene 1: door opening to show old lady, walking to the ladder and climbing it

(House, Ladder and Little Old Lady)

Close up on a door of a house that sits on a hill, the door opens to show a little old lady she leaves the house and starts to walk near a ladder that's next to the house.

Scene 2: little old lady starts to climb the ladder

(Little Old Lady and Ladder)

Little Old Lady starts to climb the ladder each time she goes higher the camera starts to pan out.

Scene 3: Little old lady on the moon

(Little Old Lady and The Moon)

As the Little Old Lady gets to the top of the ladder, the moon is see and she starts to walk on the moon, upside down until she walks around and gets to her rocking chair that sits on top of the moon.

scene 4: looking at the moon and the little old lady

(Little Old Lady and The Moon)

Camera stays as it is, looking at the Little Old Lady as she is sitting on her rocking chair

Mrs Moon

Sitting up in the sky

Scene 5: little old lady on the moon sat in a rocking chair

(Little Old Lady)

Old lady sat in her rocking chair, Rocking.

Little Old Lady

Rock-a-bye

scene 6: Knitting needles and wool

(Knitting Needles and Wool)

Knitting needles moving as the Old Lady starts to knit something.

With a ball of fading light

and Silvery needles

SCENE 7: Knitting the night sky

(Little Old Lady and The Night)

Little old lady knits the night sky, keeps on getting bigger and bigger covering the morning sky.

Knitting the night

Scene 8: Finishing the Knitting and going back home

(Little Old Lady and The House)

Then after planning out the scenes on the page I decided to draw the main scenes to see what they would look like.

It was also the first time I draw a image of the Little Old Lady, looking up pictures of old lady’s and rocking chairs to help me.

I started off by writing the poem down on a piece of paper in different places so I plan out little draw images of what I thought would happen in the different scenes.

Another film that helped me with the ideas for my film adaption was a film that was show to all of us in the lesson to help with camera angels, the films was called La Luna which is a short film animation.

La Luna was release on 7 June 2011 in France 

Production companies by Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures

It was director by Enrico Casarosa

Its screenplay was made by Enrico Casarosa

The film is about a young boy who is coming of age. so his Papa and Grandpa take him on his very first day of work, in an old wooden boat rowing far out to sea with no land in sight, they stop and wait until some thing big happens, the little boy discovers that his family has the most unusual line of work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10OVn8UT2bQ

I had a little idea of what I wanted my poem to have in it because when reading the poem in my head it made me think of a short film called Papa, Please Get The Moon for Me. which is a part of a film with other stories called The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories which contains other stories by the writer and Illustrator Eric Carle.

So I did a little research on the short film Papa, Please Get The Moon for Me and came up with this.

The story was originally published in 1986

Writer and Illustrator of the book is called Eric Carle, who is an American designer, Illustrator and Writer, born on 25 June 1929 in Syracuse, New York, United States.

The film was published in 1993 by UK based Illuminated Film Company which is an adaption of all the stories by Eric Carle

The other stories that are apart of the film are The Very Quiet Cricket, The Mixed up Chameleon and I See A Song.

The book and film is about a Little girl who wants to play and dance with the moon, she asks her papa if he could get it for her. so her papa gets a long ladder and puts it against the moon and starts climbing up to go to the moon but as he gets up to the moon, the moon tells him that he will have to wait for it to change in size so it will be small enough to carry. After each night the moon goes small enough to be taken out of the sky and given to the little girl to play with but the moon continues to change in size getting smaller and smaller until it is nearly no more and disappears as the little girl throws it up in the air. After this the little girl is very sad and makes her ways to the house and goes to sleep but makes up to see the moon back in the sky, bigger and better then ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGqAw7UM6qo

For my Friday lesson everyone got told to pick a poem by Roger McGough to adapt into a film, so I looked at a website that had some of Roger McGough poems on and from them I picked the one that sounded interesting to me and the one that I thought I could turn into an animation.

The poem I picked is called Mrs Moon, which is a short but sweet poem about a little old lady knitting the night skiy.

This is the poem, Mrs Moon

Mrs Moon sitting up in the sky little old lady rock-a-bye with a ball of fading light and silvery needles knitting the night

For my Essay we had to come up with images of some of the character that where in our adaption of the book, changing them into what we wanted them to look like so I decided to draw Violet Beauregarde and Willy Wonka, which came out like this.

Violet Beauregarde

I wanted the design of Violet to still look like she was a child but instead of making her look the way she did in the book or the two films, I decided to make her have big eyes which will be able to show off more expressions within them and have her long hair tied up in a bobble over her shoulder, In the picture I have blood coming out of her mouth which happens in one of the scenes in my adaption of the book.

For the colours for the picture I would have dark brown for the hair and purple for the bobble, pale skin colour and red and purple striped top.

Willy Wonka

First view of the Poem animation that I have done. I used two different layers to make this, One for the house itself and the other for the door to get the right animation for it.

Before starting to write my essay I had to graver information on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory book, the two films and the musical as well as getting information on the writer of the book, Roald Dahl and the people who Illustrator the book, I chose to get information on when Roald Dahl worked with the Illustrator Quentin Blake.

To get all this information I will at different websites on google and for the stuff about Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake I got a book from the library and got some information from that which help with my essay writing.

The websites I got the Information off are: 

www.roalddahl.com/global/roald-dahl-titles

www.uk-businessinside.com/roald-dahl-reaction-to-willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory-2016-9

www.diffen.com/difference/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-book-vs-movie

www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/book/news/2014/09/14/willy-wonka-vs-charlie-for-the-better-chocolate-factory-movie/

and the book that I got the information about Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake is called Roald Dahl edited by Ann Alston and Catherine Butler 

Publisher The Breadwinner

Director by - Nora Twomey

Written by -  Anita Doron and Deborah Ellis

Release Date - 17 November 2017 in The USA

The film had its world premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival in September.

The Breadwinner is an adaptation of the book with the same name.

It was written by Deborah Ellis and published by Groundwood Books in 2000

For Lesson on Monday afternoons we all have to write an essay about what we would like to adapt (Book, Song, Poem or Film), why we have chosen to adapt it, information about the person who write the thing that you have picked and other stuff to make it 2000 words.

For my adaption I decided to adapt a part of the Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.

So before I started to write and change the paragraph of the book that I have picked to adapt, putting the ideas that I had on word seeing what I could do to it, to help me a little when I start writing my essay.

I chose to adapt this paragraph.

'Fabulous!' shouted Violet. 'It's tomato soup! It's hot and creamy and delicious! I can feel it running down my throat!' 'Stop!' said Mr Wonka. 'The gum isn't ready yet! It's not right!' 'Of course it's right!' said Violet. 'It's working beautifully! Oh my, what lovely soup this is!' 'Spit it out!' said Mr Wonka. 'It's changing!' shouted Violet, chewing and grinning both at the same time. 'The second course is coming up! It's roast beef! It's tender and juicy! Oh boy, what a flavour! The baked potato is marvellous, too! It's got a crispy skin and it's all filled with butter inside!'

I wanted to adapt this paragraph into a horror, making Willy Wonka into the villain of the story so I started to change it which turning out like this.

'Fabulous!' shouted Violet. 'It's tomato soup! It's hot and creamy and delicious! I can feel it running down my throat!' 'Stop!' said Mr Wonka. 'The gum isn't ready yet! It's not right!' 'Of course it's right!' said Violet. 'It's working beautifully! Oh my, what lovely soup this is!' 'Spit it out! Before it starts to' Mr Wonka tried to tell her before it started to change but it was too late. 'It's changing!' shouted Violet, chewing and grinning both at the same time. But suddenly her face started to go pale as she continues to chew the gum. ‘what did I tell you to do’ Mr Wonka said as he looks over at her as if he was waiting for something else to happen, Violet stared at him with a scared look as to ask him why is this happening then she slowly turned her head to look at her mum. ‘Violet…’ said Mrs Beauregarde, her mother looked worriedly at her but before Mrs Beauregarde could even ask her daughter something else Violet began to speak. ‘it tastes like blood’ she said quiet, the room went silent until Veruca Salt break the silent saying as loudly as she can. ‘stop lying

Not finished the paragraph, still need to add more parts to it.