Story Planning and Ideas Generation

Creating and Planning a Digital Story

02/10/2012

I Read through our tasks, and noted that we had to take down notes of animations that were done by other students, who had completed our Unit beforehand, I watched several animations including one about a kid who has a nightmare in detention and wakes up from it, and also the one I liked most where two stick men have a fight, and you can choose multiple endings.

I had previously researched and noted down how a story progresses, and noticed that each of these stories have exactly the same concepts, which are the three act narratives explained below, researching the stories created by other students, I have learned and come to terms with how short the story and animation needs to be, as flash can be a challenge to use.

Animating and doing comic animations comes down to experience and knowledge, its a very time consuming process,  a wide arrange of comical animations can be created and made, from different eras, to different characters and scenarios, a fine example is this comical animation I found on youtube, its one of many different creations that can be made. Using a wide range of tools.

02/10/12

I already had my ideas created and written beforehand, but realised I needed to do the Ideas generation through the diagram, I have now completed and analysed my ideas generation, as you can see below.

Each of these stems are the ideas, with their potential effects and outcomes extended and built.

25/9/2012

Idea 1.

 I have been tasked with creating a short but effective digital story for the next unit our class is going to complete, Unit 46.

My story is going to be about about a young man, in a Post-apocalyptic world, where war has torn humanity apart, and he must fight to survive to succeed, and on his journeys while surviving, fights one of the many hunters that is also attempting to survive, which one will win?

I would like to create this scenario as I have always found a fondness for sci-fi scenarios, and I think a fight in post apocalyptic life, could turn out to be quite interesting.

Idea 2. 

I have always had a fondness in sci fi as previously mentioned, and I have liked creating fights in sci-fi, my second idea would come under a superhuman having to save a city from a rampaging giant robot, and a great battle breaks out between two super-human beings.

Idea 3. 

For my 3rd and final idea for creating a storyboard for animations, I may see if I can create something dramatic instead of sci-fi, maybe about a boy and his dog, where in a tragic accident his dog is killed, and the boy has to go the hardship without having his best friend anymore.


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Review

For my 3rd and final idea for creating a storyboard for animations, I may see if I can create something dramatic instead of sci-fi, maybe about a boy and his dog, where in a tragic accident his dog is killed, and the boy has to go the hardship without having his best friend anymore.

Even though each of my Ideas are quite likable, I would like to Most likely go with my first idea, as it sounds the most interesting, and would probably turn out to be the most funny. I spoke to Corey Reading, and asked his opinion on which of the above ideas he liked most, and He agreed with my opinion on the fact that the first Idea would probably be the most likable, and said if I was to choose one, he'd like it to be the first.