Week 5: Monday 22.05

We have been refining our new motion graphic and have decided to make it like a movie trailer for a horror movie. We have some gory elements happening with Flounder getting squashed by the tonne and after watching a few horror movie trailers we think this could be an effective way to go.

After showing Mon our first draft, he suggested getting rid of the tonne idea altogether. He thought it was confusing and wasn't adding anything to our narrative. It was supposed to represent the amount of plastic in the ocean, but we both agree with him that it isn't working in this narrative. Instead the 'villain' will be the plastic bags themselves. We have drawn up a new storyboard with our re-worked script and ideas:

Below is our first animatic. There is a scene missing where some illustration still needs to be done, but we plan to have Flounder, Sebastian the crab and other Little Mermaid characters floating in plastic bags.

For our soundtrack we want classic horror movie sound effects, which we have added in here:

I have also refined the animation a bit so it is looking more natural and the transitions are smoother.