Monday, March 21, 2011

Assignment Write up for Midterm animation

Lauren Willoughby
Project # 5 (Mid term)
Dream a Little. 3/21/11

Synopsis: An employee is given much paper work from her boss and feels overwhelmed. At her desk, she's still upset of the amount of work and starts daydreaming. She sees herself as a small warrior in armory and sees another warrior who resembles her boss in red armory approaching her and giving the en garde. She raises her sword, then suddenly confident she leaps and swipes the sword out of her opponent's hand and she gets him to surrender. The girl comes back to reality feeling better and confident and she takes the first page from the paper stack and starts working. The audience will also notice that the sword she had in her daydream is propped next to her desk.
Intent: I want my audience to get the idea that sometimes fantasizing and daydreaming at the appropriate moments can help a person relax and often people view themselves in situations where they always win and that can sometimes give one the confidence to accomplish their tasks.
Source: I daydream often myself and it sometimes helps me relax and calm myself in tough situations and I've often seen cartoon characters do the same.
Theme: Fantasizing can help people escape their troubles for awhile and sometimes can help them overcome them.
Problem areas: I really want to make my drawings of my characters better, but I'm not so sure how. Like I'm not sure if I should add more detail or if I just need to practice more. I would just like some specifics. Plus another problem was that some of my layers would have masks when I didn't even use the mask tool to create them and that became a frustration.
Film Strengths: I think I got my point and theme across and the effects I used also worked out.

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