Animated Narratives – Production

I already had a group set up for this assignment sorted out, as I’d been asked over discord a few weeks prior if I’d like to work with some other people. My group includes Charley, Charlotte and Jack.

We used this time to come up with a plot and basic storyline, although no name for the short yet!

We ended up deciding on using mushrooms and other plants as the characters in our short, with the mushrooms being the main ‘good’ characters and using carnivorous/creepy plants as the ‘bad’ characters. We have; an Inky cap mushroom, a Fungi mushroom, a Venus Flytrap and a Snapdragon flower.

The basic storyline, which we ended up changing after more discussion over discord is that the mushrooms are entering a forest and encountering the creepy plants, therefore getting scared and running away. However, they realise that the other plants were actually just setting up a party for them.

This was the basic storyboard Jack created for our short for us to continue to develop.

We were asked by Alec if Alexander could join our group as his last group weren’t communicating with him and he wanted to move groups. So after adding Alexander to our discord server, we arranged a discord call to figure out how to add Alexander into the storyline and get him a character. We settled on him being another of the ‘bad’ plants that could be used as a way of forcing the mushrooms to turn around and realise that it was a party. We looked at a bunch of different creepy plants and settled on a Dracula orchard.

We realised that the storyboard needed more camera angles after feedback from some of the lecturers, and Charlotte had drawn up a version with camera angles, also including Alexander’s character this time.

We then combined the two in another digital storyboard.

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