From Script to Screen Introduction and Mind maps
For my From Script to Screen brief I am undertaking the tasks of producing designs for my character(s), set(s) and props. It is required that I develop these further into a animatic storyboard and a CGI pre-visualization in Autodesk Maya. The software that is to be used is to be utilized creatively showing great merit in producing quality work and a developed, imaginative world. I have been given 3 components to develop my project from and in response I have created 3 mind maps to interpret them. A fourth has been made to associate all three components together.
Lepidopterist
Parcel
Tower Block
My 3 components combined and associated together.
These mind-maps are very cute, Ted - and in many respects your three 'random' components associate rather nicely. There is obvious connectivity between your 'butterfly hunter' and those parcels (specimens?) and there's a certain logic that explains why a character whose interests are 'sky-based' might choose to live in a towerblock. That said, here are some additional thoughts...
ReplyDeleteYour Butterfly Hunter, as represented by your mind map, seems like a rather civilised chap... but I don't think this would be as true if you imagined this character through the eyes of the Butterfly he was hunting! If you were to switch the emphasis of story around, so that the Butterfly Hunter was the antagonist, I think things would dramatise very quickly. Indeed, I'm reminded of those classic rivalry-based cartoons where you have a 'cat and mouse' factor - so Sylvester and Tweety-Pie, and also the Ant and the Aardvark - and of course, Coyote and Road-Runner...
https://youtu.be/4IGynnluDKo
https://youtu.be/WPUvO7ircyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjg1aqF9TTA
The idea of your butterfly outwitting the butterfly hunter might give you more fun and games in terms of character-designing?
In terms of changing the tone completely for example, you could take a sinister turn - for example, 'The Butterfly Hunter' would make a name for a really good serial killer who hunts/collects 'pretty things' (and suddenly the content of that parcel suddenly becomes very ominous, right?) - as it's not uncommon for serial killers to post trophies to the police... Jack the Ripper sent the police a bit of kidney...
https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91148&page=1
Another approach is to focus on the tower block as a metaphor for a sort of 'nature-less' concrete jungle type thing - and the 'butterfly hunter' isn't a character with a net, but someone who dreams of living somewhere more beautiful which is symbolised as a butterfly...
Another idea...
https://www.quora.com/In-which-cultures-are-butterflies-believed-to-be-souls-of-the-dead
(So maybe a butterfly hunter is actually like some kind of benign 'grim reaper' character?).
Another idea; maybe the reclusive, lonely butterfly hunter is sent caterpillar eggs in that parcel of his/hers, and that grey tower block in which he/she lives becomes over-run with beautiful butterflies and somehow this transforms his life - and the lives of everyone else who lives there - that sort of moment when people leave the isolation of their little rooms and suddenly 'see' each other for the first time - a bit like that moment in Wall-E, when all the humans suddenly interact with each other again?