Reflection 1

With my assignment for this term and next i have chosen to work with Grace with our animation. I know that we can work well together and add our ideas into one. So far, we have already planned out what we want to do for our animation and almost finished our dot point layout. We have started our storyboards and are well underway with still completing them. With what we've already planned, we could start filming :)

Character profile of our animation.

Character Profile Worksheet

Basic Information/Statistics

Name: Noah	Age: 14
Current Residence: the world atlas
Occupation: an illustration for a book	Talents/Skills: very good memory and knows everything about the world and countries

Physical Characteristics:

Height: 2.3cm	Weight: 1.7kg
Race: white	Skin Colour: olive skin
Eye Colour: blue	Glasses/Contact Lenses: neither
Hair Colour: light brown	Facial Shape: oval/ round
Style (Elegant, shabby etc): casual
Dress/Clothing: shorts and T-shirt
Mannerisms: Good posture, happy gestures and walking
Hobbies: traveling and reading
Favourite Sayings: “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
Speech Patterns: good pronounciation of words and sounds like a 14 year old boy.

Emotional Characteristics

Strengths: good swimmer, meeting new people

Weaknesses: math

What motivates this character? His friend from page 22

What frightens this character? The thought of having the leave his book.

What makes this character happy? traveling are the places in his book

Introvert or Extrovert:introvert when studying and traveling but loves being with his friends as well

What is this Character’s Goal? To one day face his fears and leave the book he calls home and travel the real world.

Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes

Educational Background: only what he has learnt about from the book

Character's short-term goals in life: to finish the book

How does Character see himself/herself? He sees him self as the happy smart one of his friends.

How does Character believe he/she is perceived by others? The nerdy boy who is a great friend and they can trust with anything.

How self-confident is the character? He has great self-confidence and is not shy.

Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof? He is mainly ruled by logic however when it comes to travel he follows his heart.

What would most embarrass this character? Going somewhere and not being able to speak the other person’s language.

Best Characteristics: kind, confident, good listener and advise giver

Worst Characteristics: can get embarrassed

Does the character have any prejudices? He is prejudice against the people fighting in war on page 346

Dot point plan of Grace and my animation.

Grace Branch and Montana Leskiw’s Animation

1.    An atlas is sitting on a desk closed

2.    A hand comes into the camera and starts flipping the pages

3.    The book stops at a page

4.    That page has a river with a boy swimming in it

5.    The hand comes back into the camera and moves towards the picture on the page.

6.    The finger drags the river down to create a waterfall.

7.    As the waterfall flows the little boy falls with it.

8.    The waterfall creates the river.

Antarctica-

9.    The little boy is swimming along the river and icebergs star to appear.

10.                  He keeps swimming through them.

11.                  He comes to one and climbs on it and sits down.

12.                  It breaks of from the others and starts floating down the river.

13.                  The land starts and there is a polar bear on it.

14.                  The polar bear chases the iceberg.

15.                  A whale tail flicks out of the water next to the boy and he looks at it.

16.                  The iceberg it starting to melt.

17.                  The little boy starts swimming toward a boat

18.                  He gets on the boat and starts the engine.

19.                  The camera zooms out to show the globe and the boat moves from Antarctica to Australia being followed by a red line.

Australia-

20.                  The boat stops and the camera zoom in to Australia with a landscape medium shot.

21.                  The boat hits the shore and the boy goes flying out onto the ground.

22.                  He gets up and dusts him self off.

23.                  A man cooking prawns on the barbeque greets the boy. He says ‘g’day mate’.

24.                  The man hands the boy a prawn, grabs his surfboard and runs into the water.

25.                  The boy keeps walking along looking at the sights while eating his prawn

26.                  Kangaroos jumping past.

27.                  He continues walking while the Sydney harbour bridge and Oprah house come in view

28.                  He starts singing at the opera house and then he kept walking until he came to a Qantas plane.

29.                  He gets on the plane and the plane takes of.

30.                  The camera zooms out to a world-view and the plane moves from Australia to Hawaii with a red line following it, it then lands and the camera zooms back into Hawaii.

Hawaii-

31.                  He gets off the plane and is greeted by two Hawaii people that put a lay around his neck.

32.                  He thanks them and walks over to the beach where there are hula dances and a fat guy sun burnt on a sun bed.

33.                  He passes a bar where a guy gives him a coconut to drink.

34.                  As he is walking and he sees dolphins so he runs to the surfboards to for hire sign, picks up a surfboard and runs to the water.

35.                  He plays with the dolphins for a bit and then the surf goes flat until a HUGE wave comes along.

36.                  He catches the wave.

37.                  It zooms out to the worldview and the wave takes him to London.

London-

38.                  The camera zooms back in on London.

39.                  The wave dies down and the boy hops on to the London Bridge.

40.                  He walks along the bridge looking at sights.

41.                  He gets to the big ben. He walks up to one of the guards, which don’t move, and starts dancing and pulling faces in front of it.

42.                  When they don’t do anything he pokes his tongue out makes a noise and storms off.

43.                  He gets on a red double deck bus, he goes to the top and sits down

44.                  There is also 5 guys at the top of the bus looking around at all the sights.

45.                  When the bus passes the London eye the boy take a picture of it.

46.                  The 5 other guys get off the bus and girls with signs start screaming and chasing them.

47.                  The bus keeps going along down he streets of London.

48.                  The camera then zooms out to a worldview with the bus moving along towards Africa. A red line is still following it.

Africa-

49.                  When the bus gets closer to Africa it transforms in to a safari car.

50.                  When it is there the camera zooms back in and the boy is driving the car along African terrain.

51.                  He stops the car and a giraffe sticks its head in the window and licks him face.

52.                  He makes a disgusted face and gets out of the car.

53.                  He continues walking along when he spots a lion resting.

54.                  He keeps quiet to watch the lion when an elephant sprays him with his trunk and he screams and the lion runs away.

55.                  He shakes of and all the water comes off him.

Noah (the boy) goes to Tokyo after Africa however we haven't finished planning that country or how he gets back into the book for the finish   

Walking man