Our group was given the theme of Ecological Peace. We decided this could include things from the environment, people, and life cycles. We made some mind maps on the things we could include.
We decided to think about rainforests, and wanted to include something with People and the environment, as we thought this was connected to Ecological Peace.
We all created a few mood boards inspired by the natural environment, and put them together. I really liked the visuals we were inspired by.
We then started coming up with storyboards.
Our final plot was to start the animation with a man around a campfire telling a story, and then flashback to back when he was a child. Then we would show how the rainforest was for his Native American community, and how it would be cut down to make way for cities and skyscrapers.
We were going to end it there, but we decided that it should end with the best of both worlds, with city and greenery, to show that compromises can be made to show Ecological Peace.
Next we started taking roles in our group. Everybody made a background, while Schiel created the characters.
We decided to make a stop start animation, by moving the character slightly, taking a picture, and then repeating the process.
I was given the task of creating the rainforest background.
I really liked how it had turned out, and I think the natural colourscheme worked well.
This was the beginning scene that Izzy and Grace had made. I think it worked really well, and gave a really good idea in the animation from what was happening.
This was our main character that Schiel had drew. We thought that the visuals of him and the background worked well together.
I really enjoyed the filming part, and I found it really effective that we moved the images very slightly, so that it flowed a little easier. We also made sure to move things in the background, like animals and clouds, so that the scenes were busy and interesting.
It was also my role to create extra scene props that we needed, for examples the sun that was in the background, and fonts that could be used too.
Once we had finished filming, we had to start adding sound effects. This part was also enjoyable as it really brought the animation to life. We wanted the noises to be very busy, just like a rainforest and a city. We filmed some of our own noises, for example animals, and added busy background noise on the computer.
