Character & Narrative: Week Two: 2nd - 8th October 2017

Throughout the week, I thought on my idea more but I was struggling to think of anything new and exciting. I thought more about the idea of the the heroes journey and the return at the end. This doesn't have to be an actual return to how the story starts but it helped me to think about maybe the spaceman bargaining with the aliens to help him go back through the black hole and get home. 

• Spaceman’s ship start getting ripped apart into a black hole. He puts on his spacesuit before the airlock door flies off. He's hanging onto a door frame after the airlock is ripped off. He hangs on as it gets sucked into the black hole. Wakes up crashed on an alien planet. A group of aliens find him. They seem friendly bring the spaceman back to their camp. They have a party and they let him use a ship to get back through the black hole to earth.

I drew these basic sketches to accompany my pitch.

The idea selected by the class vote was Eloise's. I'm actually really pleased with this because I think that it is a better idea than mine which has more scope for animation.

We decided on the roles that we would take. Eloise will be doing character design and background work. Alex will be doing storyboard, animatic and colouring. And I am to be lead on script and animation, taking on the keyframes, breakdowns and inbetweens (though we will be sharing inbetween responsibilities when we get to that part of the project)

Though the idea is Eloise's, we all took it and shared ideas to develop the specifics further. Over the weekend I started to write out a full detailed script for the animation, which once finished, Alex and Eloise can read it through and add, take away or change bits of it.

I'm liking the prospects of this project and am excited about splitting up the job roles like we are.