Introduction
Log line
How do people with Alzheimer see the world
Synopsis
It is about the last journey of an old man with Alzheimer in his home town. All he could see were fragmented memories. During his journey, he experienced his memories on friendship, love, homesickness and family. In the end, he was brought away by the photographs that hold his memories.
Pitch Pack (by Nanyue Zhou)
Character Design
Our character is based on Nanyue’s grandfather who have Alzheimer. Nanyue has discussed to use frame and photos to talk the story, so, I suggest the character could be a photographer. This is to explain why he has so many photos in his room and why he is taking a camera everywhere he goes even when he have Alzheimer.
Story Development
We have each given a story about the day of the old man and combined the parts we think are most relevant and special together.
My story: the old man wanted to work at the photo studio (which is also his house) as usual but his family stopped him and start working. The old man left the house without his family noticing. He gone to the restaurant he been to but does not look like the same as in his memory. He recognized the restaurant by noticing the old tree that is next to it. Then he gone out and took photos of the sunset and farmland. He sat at a tree trunk and watched the sun goes down.Light came out from his camera and becoming people he knew andtook him away. The sun set and his family found him.
Storyboard
My part is about the memory of the old man and his lover
He gone to the restaurant that he dated his wife. He ordered two bowl of noodles and took a photo as usual, but his wife is not there
Some scenes has been deleted for the consideration of time and redrawn to make the scene more dynamic
Animatic
Style Development
We decided to make this animation black and white, and the only colored parts will be in the panels that we had out lined. The black and white part is reality, and the coloured part are memories.
We were thinking of using chaotic lines for the black and white part to show the disordered cognition the old man had towards the reality.
We have different colour to show each section of the story as suggested by our tutor.
Then we changed into having the panels as the old man’s cognition towards the reality and the black and white parts are how the reality is. So, we were thinking of using collage for the coloured parts, but it would be too abstract for audience to recognise the objects.
So, we decided to make the outline part clean and realistic and thecolored part imaginative by using hand drawn animation. The imaginations will be inspired by the color.
Proof of concept
We have divided our works for the backgrounds as line arts and color art
As to prevent the style difference, Nanyue is doing the outline of thebackgrounds. Shuting and I are working on the shading for the black and white part. Longqian is doing the colouring parts
We all have animated parts as to make efficient use of time.