Pinning down our idea.

After discussions with out tutors, Emma and I realised that our idea was a bit all over the place, and that we needed to pin down one of two particular cases in order for our documentary to have a legitimate meaning and purpose. We knew we wanted our documentary to be centred around the point of view of the animals involved, as well as possibly a fisherman or farmer, but there was juts too much to cram into two minuets!

Before having this conversation with the tutors, I had produced some initial drawing ideas for what the animals could potentially look like. After figuring out which cases to stick to, it turned out that these two charters would not be included. However this wasn't a waste of time, because it has helped the both of us to figure out the sort of style we would like to go for with our animation.

Finalised Idea

We decided to narrow it down to focusing on the boar and the wolf, who would be interviewed by a robin. We found quite a lot of inspiration in watching "Creature Comforts" because the animals are given human characteristics and talk in exactly the same way.

What will happen?

Through out these two minuets, it will alternate between the the Robin interviewing the Boar and the Wolf in their natural habitats. We decided that a Robin would be a good idea because it would show a contrast to the size and demeanor of the other two characters. Also, Robins often migrate to where a boar's natural habitat, so it made sense to incorporate a small animal which had relevance to the context.

We plan to record other fellow students speaking, which will come from a script. We will then animate to the audio, so animating a talking sequence is something we will need to learn!

What is our message? 

The message coming from this documentary will be that, humans need to stop playing God, and learn to coincide with keystone species, because if left alone, these key stone species will do more good than bad for the echo system.