After creating our own individual storyboards for the animaiton, depictung what we each think will work best, we came together as a group on Tuesday to collate our ideas to make the animation stronger. It was a great meeting and I'm very please with the team's involvement and all the improvement ideas they suggested, the majority of which were taken on board in order to make an animation that we were all happy and comfortable with animating.
I thought I'd just write out the main scenes so we can refer back to them if we need to.
1. Title Scene- in the style of a puzzle box
2. Outside edges of the puzzle already placed to make a frame- animated- sun's rays, house, birds flying.
3. Child takes 2 halves of a ripped up family photograph (detailed drawing) and places it in the middle of the frame.
4.Child places the first piece of the puzzle in over the top of the family photograph (his interpretation)- top rigt-mum's face- animated smile.
5. Puzzle piece in bottom left- dad's feet- animated a dog by his feet
6. Top Middle puzzle piece-animate a kite flying into the border
7. Top left piece- dad's head- animate a cloud
8. Puzzle piece of mum's body- animated flowers
9.Last piece- child tries to fit it in but it doesnt- rotates it- this piece has his face on it
10. Child places the last puzzle piece where it should fit
11.Child typically tried to smack the piece in- but obviously doesnt work.
12. We see the child's hands drop away and the puzzle lines fade away, revealing a completed picture.
13. Animated picture- the parents bemd down beside the child on either side and hug him- hearts fly over, like in typical children's drawings.
14. Tom's idea of the title coming appearing in the grass, all animated in the same style as the first title page, similar to those in Tracey Beaker!
15. Credits
Our thoughts are that the puzzle should be 20 pieces- 5x4, therefore, the pieces will be larger and the image won't be so cramped as in child's drawings, all the components are spaced out.
