Storyboard:
Within this assignment we have chosen to explore the theme of socialised violence in men - and are drawing parallels between violence enacted by men in society and on our earth. We are portraying this mainly through the medium of illustration, focusing on the key images of feathers and birds.
Our animatic follows the colour story pictured at the top, from a milky soft sunrise to a deep blue sunset. It begins with a single feather. More begin to appear and fan out (referencing a war fan) and this creates a solid circle that then takes the form of a rising sun. The silhouettes of three birds cross this sun - however their shapes can be interpreted as three fighter planes.
This rising sun begins to drip - we follow the drip down to where it twists and lies horizontally, becoming the branch of a tree. We pass by several birds seated on this branch, gradually growing in size / raising their wings until we come to the largest and most intimidating bird, with wings fully outstretched. (This sequence could represent the growth of man, and in turn his increasing power / capacity or hunger for violence).
We zoom into the stomach of the bird, whereupon we encounter a landscape - we see the fighter pilot birds (recogniseably birds this time) flying across it, spreading flames? / disrupting the calm landscape as they fly by - representation of devastation to the environment / humanity by man / war.
These trails then dissipate to reveal a solid blue sky - clouds part to reveal the rising moon. A single feather falls, revealing the title of the season as it goes - it settles on the bottom of the screen.
Wireframe:
In keeping with out illustrative animatic, our website will follow suit - taking inspiration from the ‘An Interesting Day’ website pictured above. It consists of a homepage, an about page, a ticket booking page, and three pages which will contain a synopsis of each play.
The title Hokioi will continuously be at the top left of the screen, and will serve as a home button - the navigation button likewise will always be in the top left, revealing a drop down menu. I imagined the homepage opening to reveal an illustration, bordered at the bottom by a shadow of trees or a landscape - this half of the page would have orange / red hues. Scrolling further down past this dividing shadow would reveal a darker, blue toned sky, with the rest of the home information - ending with another dividing shadow separating the social media / bats theater links at the bottom of the page.
Feedback we recieved + potential changes:
- Potentially make the animatic watercolour
- Drip from the moon could become the roots of a tree - a growing tree, growing upward and then sprouting the branch that the birds sit on, instead of awkwardly turning the drip sideways.
- Use the animatic as the first thing you see on the website instead of a flat illustration - more engaging.
- Could place a feather illustration at the bottom of the page on the right hand side instead of text, to balance out the social media links and bats theater links.
- The first bird on the branch could appear with its head turned to the side - as the wings raise more with each bird, the head turns gradually until the final bird stares straight at the viewer. Ensure we keep momentum / movement throughout the entire animatic, always having things moving, nothing static.
- The feather at the close of our animatic could drop onto water at the end, ( and create ripples?) and perhaps sink?