Concept Work for Pitch and Original Story Direction.

Here be the original concept art that I made for and in some cases included in my pitch (also I do realise the pencil sketches are realy bad, but they were just there for quick reference!):

Character designs:

Above is an expression sheet for Cho. For some reason the text hasn't come out, so her expressions from left to right are: surprised, bored, mean, unimpressed, yawn, scream.

A design for an unused character.



Setting and story:






The sisters looking at a map lost....

(An example of a mask. I thought the front of the ride where the carts are,could be decorated in masks and puppets as these are classic spooky objects which can't be overused.)

The sisters find themselves in front of a desolate funfair ride in the middle of nowhere. As they turn to leave the ride starts up, (lights and music begin) and the eldest, gleefully seeing her sisters discomfort, gets in a cart. The others follow and join her. Cho next to Lee in the front and Kitty in the back.

The cart with the sisters in, ascends....

... the front of the cart where the twins are, breaks off and plunges downwards and into their bad ride.

Examples of rooms that the twins could find themselves in. The rooms were to be based loosely around the seven deadly sins. Here is an example for gluttony showing robotic people eating continuously and a 'wrath' based room where there is use of war and weapons etc.

A contrast to the gluttony room, where Kitty would be given delicate treats etc on a silver platter.

The final finale, where the twins would be eaten by a massive chomping mouth. I want the film to have a happy ending with all three sisters leaving the ride alive and with the elder two having learnt something (but not in a soppy way!). At this point I'm not sure how the ride will end, this was just a basic idea, as I didn't think it worth developing unless my idea got picked. Now that it has, the ending, along with the rest of the story will have to be discussed together with my whole group until we can plan something that we are really happy with.

Story Origins:

The idea for the story came about last year when we thought that the next project we would be starting, would be another group activity (it turned out not to be). Myself, Dans and Jake, tried to find a theme we would all be happy working on. We agreed on funfairs as we all like to create work along the spooky genre. We also discussed having two different experiences within the ride. I developed the idea at the time, by adding the seven deadly sins theme and the style our animation would look like. As we couldn't work in a group that term, the idea was discarded. When it came to this term to pitch ideas, I asked the others if I could develop the idea further, with characters etc and concept work. They agreed as I had come up with alot of the ideas previously.

Blockout:

I created a rough blockout for my pitch to show the possibility of the very dramatic camera angles my outward setting could allow. Hopefully, with the group, we can use this in the animatic and to work on shots for our storyboard. I plan for us to make as a group, a blockout of the other rooms, for the same purposes, after we have all decided on a story that we are happy to pursue.