Professional Animation Project - Week 1 - The Brief

For our first week we were introduced to the module. By the end of the module we have to complete an animation to a professional standard, following a brief given to us by Jamie Cartwright, who works at Stone's Throw Media.

Stone's Throw Media Website -
http://www.stmedia.co.uk/


The Brief

The brief was to create an animation to the voice clip we were given. We can use any form of animation that we like as long as it is to a high standard.

The voice clip is talking about the United Nations and a part of them called the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster, who help people bring communication services to people in emergencies.

The script of the Voice clip - 

When an emergency like an Earthquake, Tsunami strikes a place where there is no reliable internet connection, the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster steps in, they help to provide Internet to humanitarians, non-governmental organisations, United Nations agencies and more recently hospitals that have been set up to fight Ebola.

Lesson

After we were given the brief off Jamie, we were then put into groups with the first years, who helped us come up with out initial ideas for the animation.

My Initial idea was to have a cartoon Earth character that would have an earthquake and tsunami, but I hadn't come up with the rest of the idea.

Once I was in my group the first years helped and we came up with a couple of different ideas:

First - was an idea about the cartoon earth having connection to different countries on his body and when the earthquake and tsunami strikes the connections were cut. Then people would come on the screen from the Emergency Telecommunications cluster and help reconnect the connections.

Second - Could the tsunami be a bucket of water on a door that falls on him ?
               Could the earthquake be him tripping and falling onto the floor?

Third - What if he had a phone and because he trips and falls he smashes the phone, which means he cannot connect with people anymore. As he carries on walking down the street he reaches a kiosk which is the Emergency Telecommunication Cluster and they give him a new phone and get him connected again.

Fourth - Could the hospital be like a castle and the ebola characters be trying to attack the hospital.


Mind map of our ideas:

After talking to Emily about the ideas we agreed on keeping it very simple and not crowding the the screen and making it hard for the viewer to keep up.

Idea - 

To have the cartoon earth walk onto screen and trip over. When he falls onto the floor that is the earthquake and then some of the water off of the earth spills out which is the tsunami. A second character then comes onto the screen, which is linked to the ETC in some way and helps the earth to its feet and pats it on the head.


Homework - 

• To write out a visual script with our initial idea and what will happen.
• To find animation that is relevant today and shows today's trends.  
• To research the United Nations and the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster