New Storyboard

I began to make my animation from my first storyboard but I wasn't fully satisfied with the outcome for various reasons. My reasons were:

• My background was too plain.

• My Dinosaur character didn't look good moving- I realised that the character I had come up with had no visible arms and legs so it was hard to convey movement. When I used various techniques on after effects it just didn't look very good and the character didn't come to life so I thought it would be better to change my character.

• The narrative was too complex- in my first narrative I was trying to convey all three of my chosen words: Mysterious, suspicious and love, however I found out half way through making my animation that my narrative would run over 30 seconds so it wasn't feasible. Therefore I decided I should edit my narrative and focus on just one of my words: love.

I did like how my animation was turning out but I thought I could do better and being the perfectionist that I am I decided to redo my animation. I designed a new background and a new character to replace my dinosaur and I also did another story board to work out a similar narrative that was just less complex than the previous one. 

Scene 1- Birdette goes for a walk

Shot 1- Medium shot

Camera pans from right to left of landscape

Shot 2- Medium shot

Birdette walks from left to right

Birdette walks off screen 

Scene 2- Birdette meets Doughy

Shot 1- Medium shot of new background.

Birdette walks onto screen from left side. Doughy 'spins' in from the right. They meet in the centre of the screen.

Shot 2- camera static, still medium shot.

Speech bubble appears above Doughy.

Pale pink blush slowly appears on his cheeks (opacity 0% to 100% in 2 seconds.)

Shot 3- camera static, still medium shot.

Another speech bubble appears above Birdette.

After 1 second both speech bubbles start to fade (opacity 100%- 0% in 2 seconds.)

Scene 3- in 'Love.'

Shot 1- Camera static, medium shot.

Love heart appears above characters.

Appears to be beating (scale 100%-120%-100% etc.)

Shot 2- medium shot.

Birdette's beak starts growing and opening.

Body moves to indicate pecking.

Love heart 'dissolves' (block dissolve effect.)

Shot 3- medium shot.

Birdette bites/eats a chunk of Doughy.

Birdette's beak opens and closes.

Scene fades out (opacity 100%-0% in 2 seconds) to blank screen (Same colour as sky.)

Credits

Start with blank screen.

Text begins to appear letter by letter (off set) and fades in (opacity) and then fades out.

END= Blank screen

This is the rough draft I did in my sketchbook first (below), I find it helps to roughly sketch the animation first before I do a digital storyboard but then a digital one helps me more when making my animation as I know what characters and backgrounds look like

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