Animated Narratives - Week2

• Who's the character? 
• What do they want?
• What's in the way?                                           
• How is the goal achieved/not achieved?
• How does the concept resolves?

In this week's class, we discussed the Unique Capabilities of Animation. We also learn to use a mind map to develop a story from a premise. The work I did examines the idea of jealousy.

By using the mind map, I create a more stereo story structure. It also allows me to gain more possibilities of different story ideas while I am creating the story. For creating a more fabulous story, I need to answer the five questions that I listed above, which I learned from the class. It contributes to the story being more complete. This story is based on the premise “There is an angler who is competing with another angler”. I interpret the main idea of the story as jealousy, the story will focus on how they try to become a winner in a fishing competition.

Similar work is the 3D animation Oktapodi, which also focuses on the conflict between three main characters.

This week I’ve tried the mind map to create a story, it is very effective to create the story structure. I think I will use this method to help me to create more stories in the future.