Week 15: Mastronauts - The story

Throughout last semester, Tom, Kieran and I threw together multiple story ideas. The one we had originally had a human character turning into a CG character but this was dropped primarily due to time. We've had several meetings changing the ideas and simplifying them whilst still trying to maintain all of the elements that we need.

The story still utilises a 3D animated character interacting with a live action world.
There is no longer a transformation scene, but there is still plenty to be done. We're aiming to keep it no longer than 1 min 30 seconds, but the shorter the better.

The story is about a male student (played by Tom) who is sitting in a library and getting himself organised to study. As he begins, the a strange creature pops up and steals the something from the student's desk. Then it runs off, and the student chases after it. The story revolves around the CG character's ability to create portals to unlikely places using doorways and so the story ends with the student in an unlikely location, looking back through the door into the library as the creature scurries away to its nest of collected objects.

The story was much longer, with the portal idea being used to the fullest but lack of time required us to make a few cuts. However, the elements of the story are still in tact and FINALLY we're all settled on this one. 

Now we just need to get started.

Week 9: Project meeting

After the script writing class with Mark Grindle, the team and I were discussing our idea. Although entertaining, there were many gaps or issues that needed to be solved and on top of that the amount of work we were creating to ensure the story made sense seemed rather ambitious within the time we have.

we decided to adapt the idea, maintaining similar elements as before but with a simpler story-line.

After a meeting with Phil it was clear that we needed the story to be shorted but still to have a beginning, a middle and an end. It was suggested that we use sharper edits/cuts to ensure we keep film length to a minimum and that no matter how we change the story we ensure the story has a "narrative hook". Otherwise, the story will get lost.

The meeting really helped to clear our heads and we decided we needed to try to come up with a simpler story-line.