Week 2: Narrative_Ways to End the World 16/10/07

Firstly, We made a brainstorm of all the possible ways we thought we would be able to destroy the world. We came up wit hvarious ideas, examples are; global warming, alien attack, huge earthquakes, natural disasters, world wars etc..

(brainstorm image)

Sci-Fi:

As were all talking in our group meeting, most of us had a growing interest in a 'sci-fi' approach. Although our ideas were fairly farfetched, we kept throwing ideas out there and the rest were adding to it. Perhaps we got a bit too carried away with the sci-fi genre but the we had to exhaust ourselves of all early ideas because most of the were very cliche.

(scifi image)

I tried to take the sci fi idea down all possible routes keeping in mind that the animation still had to be within our capabilities. Unfortunately I wasn't convinced that we would be able to succesfully pull off a beautiful sci-fi environment, (within the time limit) and also spend time focussing on the narrative of the animation too. This was something I was struggling to over come.
We could get so carried away with trying to make the environment look stunning that we resort to having a fly-through camera and don't leave ourselves time to progress with the narrative at all.
The general group mentality was to create an original film rather than just an environment. Narrative would have to be extremely important. I just couldn't find a strong narrative in a sci-fi envionment that wasn't cliche.

Conclusion: We met again at the end of week 2, before Barcelona, to discuss the final idea. We all agreed that having a more natural disaster situation gave us enough opportunity to focus on the narrative- Global warming idea was still being played with here, and it wasn't set in stone.