A month of working out story...!

It's been a while since an update on here because we've been busy rethinking our ideas. Once we were back at uni we learned our piece had to be exactly one minute long. After acting out our ideas so far to see what the timing would be like, we found the story was simply too rushed, so we then spent the next weeks coming up with entirely new ideas - but ideas that would still let us use the character Jack had started modelling.

Our original idea involved two boys playing in their garden, imagining themselves in amazing scenes like a western saloon and medieval castle. While we loved the idea of showing the difference between the real world and the imaginary world that children see, we simply couldn't cut it down to one minute without sacrificing too much of what made it charming in the first place.

Our new idea still involves two boys, but this time they are fighting over a toy plane in a playground when a pretty girl sat on the jungle gym playing with a toy truck grabs their attention. They boys continue fighting, but this time in an attempt to traverse the jungle gym and reach the girl first. But when the younger boy prevails and reaches her, it transpires that he was only interested in the toy truck.

You can read the full script by clicking the 'script' tab at the top of the page.

We are currently finishing off concepts and storyboards, gathering screenshots and videos in preparation for Thursday's progress presentation, and creating a 3D environment for an animatic.

I have also spent some time redesigning the blog to match our new logo colours. Everything looks a lot more bold and consistent now.

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Now:

-Caitlin