School Diary 20/11/09

In today's lesson we were asked to do a mood board about risk, which I have posted and written about below. We also were asked to think about some ideas we might have on our creative risk projects over the weekend and compare them.

Idea one:
An animation (not entirely sure which type yet, I'll explore each briefly first to get an idea and do some research on this) of a small boy getting a yoyo for his christmas present. He is very happy and plays with it for hours on end (with shots of the clock moving above him) but then his parents finally get annoyed with him playing with the yoyo and cuts the string. The boy gets very upset and goes to his room, builds a new yoyo and becomes amasing later in life. This idea was inspired by an episode of the channel 4 show Black Books where the character Manny is playing with his yoyo too much and Bernard cuts the string. This idea may not be possible due to time constraints on the project, it seems a little complicated.

Idea Two:
I decided to go for the same idea but in a simpler way. It will start with a boy playing with a yoyo, and hitting himself with it, but carrying on anyway. Then time goes by and he is bruised, and his parents cut the string. Then it fades out and in to when he's older and he's got a new yoyo and is performing in front of a crowd and looks famous. This would be a lot easier to do.

Idea Three:
Completely unrelated to the yoyo idea, I wanted to animate someone walking into a park, and accedents happen all around him. Children fall of the swings, a dog runs into the road by the park and gets hit, and the man closely misses a tennis ball coming at him. Then he rewinds time and the people are in a safer version of the park with fences and child friendly swings.