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Put my short film together, using the images that I have drawn to help me piece it all together and this is what it turned out it.

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