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Film Studies & Cinematography — Project 1

01.09.2023—
Rachel Madeline Purwanto / 0356994
Film Studies & Cinematography / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Exercises

❥INSTRUCTIONS 

❥LECTURE 

WEEK 2 — ART OF STORYTELLING
5 Elements of story
  • Character
  • Setting/World/Environment
  • Conflict
    • Internal : belief/philosophy
    • External 
  • Plot/Structure
    • 3 Act structure
      • Beginning
      • Middle
      • End
  • Theme : lesson learned (summarizes all)
1. Introduction to Storytelling
  • Generate Idea 
    • Techniques 
      • What if 
      • Mix — Character & World
    • Inspiration 
      • Existing shorts 
      • Connect emotionally
      • Relatable story 
WEEK 3 — CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT 
- How to make audiences care about the characters by putting them in difficult situations 
- Characters can be explored by considering their external features ( design, clothes, appearance) and their internal features (insecurities, personality) 
- Authentic human emotions and experiences are important in creating believable characters
- Get inspiration from real-life people and situations that can help in developing specific and unique characters 
- Understanding a character's desires is crucial in driving their journey
- Understanding the difference between what a character wants and what they need 
- Wants or desires drive a character's actions and behaviors while needs are the things they must do or learn to grow and succeed thus developing the plot of the film
- Obstacles are elements that stand in the way of a character getting what they want or what they need

- Obstacles force characters to confront their fears and lead to fight or flight scenarios
- Best obstacles reflect the character's flaws and shortcomings, making them think about their wants and needs

❥TASK 

  1. This project requires you to develop a 30 second - 1 minute short story that is going to be a 2D animation as the final output.

  2. Develop the story from each week activities progressively:

    1. Story Ideas - get ideas on various techniques such as write what you know, what if statement and character & world mix.

    2. Character Development - from your ideas, develop your main character by giving his or her obstacles (external & internal), goal, want vs need, character arcs.

    3. Setting - putting the character into the possible setting such as era, world

    4. Story Arcs and Theme - inciting incident, 3 acts structure, log line


  1. Deliverables:

    1. Write a report in word document which consist of:

      1. Story Title

      2. Logline 

      3. Synopsis (3 acts)

      4. Theme

      5. Character Description

      6. World Description

      7. Script/Screenplay


To start off, Mr Kamal told us to watch several pixar shorts or other animated shorts that could give us inspiration on how to start with the ideation process and the whole story. 

I ended up with taking inspiration from 3 animations:

Fig 1.1 Inspiration for animation

Fig 1.2 Inspiration for animation

Fig 1.3 Inspiration for animation

Now that I've gotten some inspiration, I wanted the theme to be surrounding friendship and moving on as it is something personal to me so I started brainstorming and writing down ideas. 

Mainly inspired by missing halloween;
  • Scene can start with tragedy in monochrome colour of A going in house and the house is all very vacant and in monochrome and the character's shadow will be seen walking pass by a picture frame with A and B but with a crack in the middle and half of the picture which is B's side being burnt/torn?? / give an impression to the audience that B is dead 
  • B suddenly comes out of nowhere to A (first plot twist but idk how yet) and B takes A around on a journey of acceptance that A is gone the whole time. B will bring back the colours to A's life and show him how to enjoy his life now

  • So A's life is in shades of gray and their life  became very dull n quiet eventhough their surroundings are always so lively and crowded until B came by his house and showed A how to live their life again in colours but after awhile B disappears with no trace left behind and A is shown to be living their life like they used to.
  • Therefore the ending would be open-ended the viewers wont know wtf happened to the B chara if they were a ghost or was A's imagination thats up to them to decide

Once I had the story and the characters in mind, I designed the character in Animation Fundamentals class and started writing the script. The story and the characters development will be shown in scenes of foreshadowing and parallels so I made sure to include that in the script.

Fig 1.4 Final Submission

❥FEEDBACK 

Week 3
- make sure to have something that causes the inner conflicts of the character and incidents
- make sure to consider the length of the 30 secs

Week 4 
- Try to think of what happens in between and how it slowly develops into the character's development arc
- Follow the format of the story spine 

❥REFLECTION 

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