Applied animation week 6

This week I decided that we should all decide the final subject as to what we want to create an animated documentary on since we had a few options, which are The journey of Marco Polo, the History of the Silk Road or the history of Silk. The end result between us was the History of silk because we think we could cover a little of Silk Road and Marco polo's history so I started with drafting a small script. Here is what I've written:

Silk

Establishing shoot inside a library looking towards a book under the name of “silk”, the book then opens, the pages combine and become silk, the question is asked about the discovery of silk and where it came from, the narrator is introduced and says “Where does silk come from, I hear you ask? Well I’m glad you asked, let’s go back to where it all started” as the event (voice over) is happening we are following the silk falling and turning into leaves and as this happens the scenery changes to the silk goddesses home. The camera then follows one of the leaf’s falling down and gently lands into the silk goddess pond, the narrator then starts to explain the history of silk,

“We now enter a time where silk was discovered by the silk goddess named Leizu who loved her garden and is where she first discovered these silk worms. These silkworms would leave there cocoons on the leaves and she would obtain them and begin the process of taking the silk.”

As described above we zoom out from the pond into an establishing shot of the silk goddess back garden, where we find Leizu walking towards the trees. The camera then changes to one of the silk worm's point of view looking above towards Leizu coming in from the right, this then changes to behind shoot looking down from Leizu perspective collecting the cocoons. Which then transitions to the cocoons being held and being woven.

“This process of silk being used to make clothes was hidden from the world for 2000yrs and was then found from travellers that visited China. Trading started to begin only between royal families as silk was very valuable.”

The scene progresses with travellers coming to china, establishing shot of the outside gate.

Even though this is what I have written so far we have more ideas as to how we can include Marco Polo simply by showing him traveling across a silk road map such as this:

Grace had a brilliant idea of making it seem like a timeslapse of him walking across different backgrounds, like in lion king:

From this I also remebered the Short music video called White horses that shows a main protagonist running across backgrounds and interacting with various elements which I hope we can create when I get the script done but, it's very vague as to what I want to create.

Here's the link to the White horses music video:

Grace developed some quick concepts throughout the week and here are examples she presented:

Rey did some character designing of Animals and people which hopefully develops into final designs. and we now have to prepare for next weeks presentation and show what we have so far.