Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Short Story Ideas

First of all I went on to Google and looked up film genres and to decipher what type of story I could do.



Story Genres:

  • Adventure - Usually based around an mission and involves killing set in a sparsely populated area e.g. a mountain, desert or jungle.
  • Crime - Based upon a crime from the perpetrators point of view revealing the plot and outcome of the crime. 
  • Mystery - Usually a story where something is kept from the main characters until the climax.
  • Fantasy - Action packed story that involves made creatures.
  • Horror - A story that is deep and dark, tends to involve a lot of killing.
  • Romance - A story based upon two people loving each other overcoming situations throughout the story ending happily ever after.
After I had researched story genres I came up with a few Ideas from the top of my head as to what I could do for my story.

Idea One:
Beginning - Guys brother is murdered.
Middle - Guy seeks murderer.
End - Guy kills murderer.

Idea Two:
Beginning - Girl needs money for drugs.
Middle - Girl robs a local convenience store.
End - Girl overdoses.

Idea Three:
Beginning - Guys childhood friend leaves for another country.
Middle - 20 Years later he goes on a search for her.
End - Finally finds her and fall in love in an instant.

Feedback:
The story ideas are good but are quite common as they've been used in many storylines.

Storyboard:

Final Outcome:

Evaluation:
I'm pretty pleased with how my animation turned out, because I started and finished within the day as I only had that much time to do it due to me losing my memory stick the weekend before my deadline. In some aspects of this animation I do prefer it to the other e.g. the man running into the building in this one looks a lot better than what I had done in the one I had lost. The downside to this animation is that I haven't used much scenery compared to my other one. Either way I'm very pleased with how it has turned out and the fact that I managed to get it in by my deadline.

2 comments:

  1. Feedback from blog check:
    1)Three act narrative summery included, with 2 game analysis.
    2) Research on 3 interactive stories.
    3) 3 short ideas including feedback.
    4) No evidence of ideas generation.
    5) Demo activity posted, including motion, shape and text tweens. Screen grabs for buttons included but no annotation.

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  2. Blog check feedback.
    Work agreed to be done:
    1) More to be added into ideas generation section, e.g. inspirations for story and characters, including examples of sources.
    2) Storyboard is to be scanned and posted on blog, showing signs of sound and interaction.
    3) Source notes for buttons demo, and complete post on blog.

    Blog will be check again 29th November, please make sure this work has been completed by then.

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