Supervisor Meeting - Thursday 16th January 2014

Since the last meeting with our Supervisor our story idea had changed and developed, so first thing was to explain our new rough plot idea (the dog who keeps having his biscuits taken by a bird each time he gets given one by his owner.)
The style of the film needs to be decided. Inspirations already include Simon's Cat and Birdbox's Carpark. If the finished film was to be black and white range of colours, it might look to similar to these, so would preferably like to use colour in our film.
Do we even need a background? Sharon showed us an example - Pocoyo:

Who is our target audience? Aiming at pre-school? Or a general audience that can relate to the situation in the film? Pet-owners? People with an interest in local wildlife/environment?
Need to start storyboarding, the story may have an effect and influence the character designs.
Could look at an organisation to get involved with? - If the film is trying to promote a message. Could have a logo/message written at the end? Example that came to mind was Fed Up - Simon's Sister's Dog with the RSPCA:

We want to make sure the human character has a significant-enough role in the film. (Could be having a BBQ in the garden, bird is a scavenger and gets to scrap bits of food before the dog. Maybe the bird is gathering food for it's young in a nest. Or the owner could be taking the rubbish out, scraps of food from that?)
Production roles within the team were also discussed.
We should all start storyboarding and researching, this will generate more ideas and be more time efficient. Plus the story has an effect and influence on everything else, including character designs, modelling, etc.

For the next Supervisor Meeting in 3 weeks time:

• Have a storyboard (potentially a timed animatic).
• Moodboards of reference and inspiration for the style of film.
• Rough Character designs.
• Production Schedule.
• And anything else we have to show.