Week 3:Finalise Narrative 25/10/07

Well after coming back from Barcelona, we were all pretty fired up to crack on with the work :D
We NEEDED to finalise our narrative this week. This was pretty easy... although there were a few ups and downs and a couple of disagreement (to be expected), but we all managed to sort things out and come up with a pretty cool idea.

(pls excuse my poor explanation of our idea)=

After our meeting with Jared (tutor), we were pretty happy with our idea. We decided to go for the Global Warming explanation of why the world has been destroyed... : yeah sounds pretty boring dont it eh? no spaceships... no guns... no bombs... whats the point of doing it at all!! well, we wanted a really strong narrative but also very simple. Having global warming as our theme, we could focus so much more on experimenting with animated buildings- windows blowing open and then closing, curtains just flapping in the wind, after effects such as dust and heat hazes, strong lighting effects such as sun lens flare etc... we really wanted to push a desolate and barren environment that still had this energy in it- this of course demanded moretime, by trying to push ourselves with a really complex theme would only set us up for more problems later on.

We wanted this idea that due to global warming, the earths surface had dried up (all pretty cool textures) which cause earthquakes. We can really play with the idea of having huge chasms through the environment, and buildigns collapsing.
We weren;t too happy with having just a fly-through camera, so we came up with an idea that we'll have a guide- we went round in circles over this one- we weren't too sure if we wanted a person, an animal or whatever. In the end we went for a playful cat. The cat starts off by chasing a ball of wool down this hill and through an alley until it reaches this huge chasm where the ball of wool falls over the edge and the cat is left bemused and a little sad that he's just lost his only bit of fun *chuckle*... I can still imagine this cat peaking over the edge with his little face looking all sad and confused.
The cat is completely oblivious to the fact that the enivironment he's playing in is barren and desolate. Hopefully we'll have a lot of fun with this.

I probably didn't explain that as best as I could but you get the general idea. :)