We have been working well as a group so far to come up with our story and basic character profiles for our animation. The plot is:

black and white set up shot: the old principle and the new principle walk into the forest.  She throws a beaker at him.  The old principle is attacked by the mushroom roots and pulled underground .  The new principles face looks menacing. She lifts the beaker and turns it. Curse is written on it. 

 Fern walks into the dark forest.  She Is practicing Magic. Her spell misses and rebounds off a tree, hitting the ground where there is a pile of mushrooms. She steps forward to look having heard a noise. A hand pops out of the ground suddenly. Close up of fern screaming

 Fade from Ferns face to the principal looking happy. Students walking about in the background. Fern runs in and explains to the New Principle what has happened. They turn to the door. The new principle gets ready and raises her staff

Zombie emerges through the door- grabs two students and infects them. The principal and student look scared.

The students touched have now become zombies. They advance forward. The principle tries to do magic to kill the zombies- it doesn’t work.

Fern tries to cast a spell on the head zombie- His hood falls to reveal his face. Fern recognizes him as the old principle. There is a fade shot to show the old headmaster in both forms.

Fern realizes what the new principle has done and stops trying to help her. The Mushroom principle and the army reach the principle and surround her.

• This board shows the basic story outline but we changed it after a discussion with the group where we thought the flashback wouldn’t work in a short film format*

Next, we came up with basic character profiles which would allow the group to work on their storyboard. We wanted to have a rough draft of each storyboard planned before we had a meeting on Monday the 8th of November.

The meeting that day went well, most of us had a rough draft and we were able to discuss the transition’s between each scene to make sure there was consistency between each part. I got some very useful about my storyboard and I was able to discuss with Eimear about what would be a good transition between our scenes. We decided to do a fade out from my of Fern screaming to the same close up of a different character. I was also able to discuss with the group ways to establish the setting of the school, and we decided I should add an establishing shot to show the school in the background.

For next week the group has agreed to all finish their storyboard section, complete and animatic and create some character designs based off the character profiles we have created. The group will then be able to vote on which design we like the best in terms of features and clothing choices. We are meeting on Tuesday the 16th in order to give everyone time to complete their animatics before Thursdays class.

At this point, I have done three different storyboards, with edits made and colour added so I will be uploading them to a separate blog post to keep things tidy.