[COP3]Practical again

I come to a point that I just want to start the practical and do not want to change it any more...tired of changing idea every week, so I am going to stick with this final idea and develop from it.

My finalised story is about oxygen cycle and respiratory system. The reason why I think it is a suitable practical is that it involves non-living characters (oxygen, carbon and body organs) as the leading roles so the story is nature driven. It should be a nice demonstration on how audience irresistibly anthropomorphise with the character that have no free will and this is what I really want to present through the practical.  I will also investigate how the camera angle and environment help tell the story and make audiences feel the characters, which have no expressions or body language. It should be a better idea compare to the previous tests because it does not involve interaction with human and it is not human leading.

Since the molecules are just shapes, so I think hand-drawn would be difficult to keep the consistency therefore working digitally would be a better choice. Also plain shapes are dull on their own, so I decide to use mix media, like collage. Partly because it adds more colours, more visually appealing, partly become an experimental animation for my extended practise.

Storyboard:

Character design:

Carbon

Oxygen

CO2 meets Oxygen

cause of the event:breathing

Inside the body

 I talked to Annabeth about this idea. She advised me to carry out more research on the use of shapes. Looking at how the real molecules look like and test more on the character design. Also try to make every component of the body a character, for instance, the movement of the lung makes it a character and the blood vessels etc, this would be more challenging and more interesting. What's more, instead of focusing on just one type of anthropomorphism, she suggested me to make a comparison on making the molecules caricatured as well. Comparing the result, how the caricatured one would need less narrative compare to the still one, and the effect the character have on the story-telling and how it affect the way the audience perceive the story. I agree with her idea, it would be more relevant to my essay and making comparison would require more techniques I learnt from the research as well. At the moment, I am very satisfying. I will stick to this idea and try not to make big changes considering the time and workload, it will be alright to be finished before Christmas!