Story and Design Development

The storyline has changed many times over the last week or so, with us hopefully ending up with something more coherent. David Bull, who previously worked for Aardman animations came round each of the groups to discuss our storylines and offer us advice on what we should keep or maybe change etc. He liked the vibe of ours, being set in an abandoned ride etc, but gave us valid points to think about, such as why the children were out in the middle of nowhere, alone, and it getting dark etc.

We decided to change the storyline, in that the two eldest were leading the youngest to the abandoned ride to throw stones at it. It would be a place they were not aloud to go, but knew of, and was scary and exciting, making them want to vandalise it, to make themselves out to be brave etc infront of Kitty and to tell their friends later.

Another aspect of the story that was altered, was the 7 deadly sins theme. 7 sins would be too many , so we decided to maybe focus on three, but aspects of the storyline were not making sense. We then thought about making the story about their greatest fears, but as we began brainstorming ideas, we realised that people can be scared of anything, so this would be hard to portray. The easiest option, and the best, in our opinion, would be to create rooms with themes that were stereotypically known as scary such as clowns etc and graveyards, and try to portray them in an unconventional way, that would surprise the audience and liven up traditional fears. For Kittys room, we decided on a mix of conventional happy images such as balloons but as I didn't want the happy rooms to be soppy, we added more fun themes such as pirates and treasure!

I have axed the character Cho and replaced her with Dan C's character from the pitch he gave up :)

I have allocated tasks to my group to complete in order for all the work to be completed to a high and unrushed standard. Dan Ryan will create the characters sheets, Dan Cripps will animate the blockout, and myself and Jake will create the concept art. We will all take part in the drawing of the final storyboards as this allows the work to be spread out evenly between us.