changing it up a little (ok maybe a lot)

Last class we meet with our teacher to discuss everything we’ve worked on so far, and she told me something that has stumped me since Thrusday. Animation is difficult. Ok I knew this already, but once she told me I realized something, I would never be able to complete an animation sequence in the time given, especially with all my other classes and after school activities. I’ve spent the past two days thinking of alternative ideas and I FINALLY came up with an idea that could work. Instead of animation, I could do a short montage of the main character working on a project about the myth. Ok, it sounds kinds dumb, but hear me out. 

The film would start with a montage of the main character working on a school project that’s about a greek myth and we can see them drawing things out and writing. While they are writing with a sharpie it all of a sudden runs out of ink and then they get a text message from their friend’s asking if the project is done yet. This introduces the friends and shows how they have made the main character do the entire project by herself, even though they are supposed to be in a group. The main character replies and puts her phone face down. Since the pens out of ink, she heads to the store to buy a new pack. While at the store, she get distracted by the toy isle. This is where we’re introduced to the fact that as a child she wasn’t allowed to look at the toys through a flashback. After the flashback, we are brought back to the present where we see the main character go into the toy isle and look at everything there. An action figure catches her eye and she grabs it and leaves the store. Then we see her back at home, about to open the things she got from the store, and the opening ends with her looking at the action figure she just bought. 

Ok, now that I’ve got the idea for my opening, I started to storyboard exactly what I want to film. Here it is:

Wow. I basically just changed the entirety of the first scene, but I think this works a lot better than an animation sequence would and I have my teacher to thank for that. I also think that a voiceover wouldn’t work very well with this scene anymore, so instead I’m just going to stick to music. The past two days have been a doozy, but I left the week with a finished storyboard and fleshed out opening idea. Now to just write the script and have a more detailed list of everything to include in the opening. Oh and to figure out the name of my film. Damn.