Animated Narratives week2 Jingyi Zhang

Week2:

Animated Narratives:

Brief conclusion of the mind map

the hierarchy goes down 👇

Subject: Fairy tale

Subtitles:

The little mermaid

The little match girl

Beauty and the beast

Bullet point:

Instagram

wig

seduces

alcoholic

prince

twin

voice

witch

swim

Final story present format: online web game

[Based on the different options on each scene, audiences will reach to different endings.]

Story one (based on the bullet point):

Scene1:

In the beautiful undersea view, a group of mermaids is swimming around and enjoying their daily. Mermaids are the most intelligent creature in this area of the ocean, they just like humans, has emotions, and wisdom. They go to school. go to work, full in love, and build their family.

Just like others, Alice and Amy, these two little girls who just turned 18 and they are enjoying the after-night party right now.

Alice is the bigger sister of the twins, she is pretty and smart, but in some way, crafty; and Amy is the younger sister, who’s kind, sympathetic, and thoughtful, but in some way, dumpish.

After few shots, Alice and Amy lost their way home. Amy finds out there’s a brand new waterproof iPhone that is sinking and getting closer to them, so they picked it up, and Siri leads them home soon.

Scene 2:

For being polite and thanking the owner of the phone, they open Instagram to try to get some useful information. Once they saw the beautiful handsome guy in the photo on the posted page, both of them get crashed on him and planning to get up to the human land.

“He is my prince.” Alice says, “It’s worth to lost my voice for dating him”.

“I wish I can talk to him and get to know him…” Amy says, “but we need to give him his phone back, it’s brand new and it’s expensive.”

Alice silences for a while, “I’ll ask Amy to come up and check if he's a fisher.. what if he is a photo lier…” she doesn't say it out, but obviously she doesn't want to take the risk.

“I will go to the witch and ask if she has any solution for us to walk on the land without losing voice….” Amy says.

Scene 3:

“I don’t think so,” the witch says “you have to hand it out as the original material of turning your tail to legs.”

Amy decided very soon, she can’t wait to see the handsome human and be thankful.

Her tough gets cut, she cries but having no words.

“Oh, forget letting you know, I’m Amy”, Alice says, “so please check ‘Alice’ on the list so that I won’t lose my tail.”

“Alright, you got it.” The with even doesn’t raise her head.

Amy opens her eyes huge, staring at Alice and shocking.

Along with a shining purple light, Alice gets two legs as she wishes.

Start over

The story of the Little mermaid:

Based on the original story, here is are some additional storylines options for audiences to choose from.

The little mermaid loves the prince but (1) doesn’t want to lose her voice and endure the pain.

The prince (2) knows the little mermaid is the one who saved him at first, but can not get through the thought of she is not a human, so he pretends he doesn’t know.

They dating in the night at the beach without letting everyone knows, and finally, before the prince gets married, the little mermaid (3) decides to turn into a human. After she discussed with the prince. (4) They came to an agreement, they wanted the witch to estimate if their love is true love and make her human. However, they will never have children.

The little mermaid turns into a human and gets married to the prince, they have years of happiness. However, they (5) don’t have any children, which means the king could not place anyone in line to the throne. With time running, the king married another woman as queen for giving birth to the future king.

The little mermaid cries her heart out, and the unbelievable happened, that her legs transform back to the mermaid's tail.

She sadly goes back to the ocean and (6) asks the witch to curses the prince “their son will never get close to the water, but he will be in love with a mermaid”.

Options for each No.

(1)

• The little mermaid loves the prince but doesn’t want to lose her voice and endure the pain.
• The little mermaid loves the prince but she loses her voice and endures the pain to turn into a human. (back to the original story)

(2)

• The prince knows the little mermaid is the one who saved him at first, but can not get through the thought of she is not a human, so he pretends he doesn’t know.
• The prince doesn’t know the little mermaid is the one who saved him, but he is still in love with her. (keep going with the story)

(3)

• They dating in the night at the beach without letting everyone knows, and finally, before the prince gets married, the little mermaid decides to turn into a human.
• They dating in the night at the beach without letting everyone knows, and finally, before the prince gets married, the little mermaid can not decide to turn into a human. (she goes back to the ocean and be a mermaid for her the rest of her life.)

(4)

• They came to an agreement, they wanted the witch to estimate if their love is true love and make her human.
• They didn't come to an agreement, the little mermaid wanted the witch to estimate if their love is true love and make her human, but the prince didn’t agree with it, and he wanted a child to take his throne. (The little mermaid goes back to the ocean and is a mermaid for her all rest of her life.)

(5)

• However, they don’t have any children, which means the king could not place anyone in line to the throne.
• However, the little mermaid gets pregnant in few years, but her legs turning back the tail along her belly getting bigger. (She knows the prince doesn't love her anymore so she goes back to the ocean and gives birth to the child as a mermaid./ She stayed on the land give birth to the child for the prince as a human, and goes back to the ocean alone.)

(6)

• She sadly goes back to the ocean and asks the witch to curses the prince
• She sadly goes back to the ocean and asks the witch to turns her into a human by losing her voice and enduring the pain. She was in love with the prince and can not leave him. (She stays with the prince but with his new queen and their little son).
• She sadly goes back to the ocean and enduring the pain from inside for the rest of her life.