Initial ideas

1) Narration - i will have a young child, girl of boy, talk about their dog. This would be Audio- and the audio would be vital for the film. Without the audio the film wouldn't be as endearing. Whilst the audio is playing i will draw what the child is talking about, but i wanted to play on the child's innocent. For instance, when the child says; "i love my dog, my dog is so good and always does as he is told" and then whilst that is being said - the images will be her dog being told to 'sit' but instead it decides to roll around on the floor playing. And "my doggy loves his dog food, he gobbles it up so quickly." The film will cut to the dog sniffing his food and turning his nose up at it, and then another scene of it reaching onto the kitchen table and it grabbing a sausage etc. This could be a really fun film to work on, it will need a lot of development but I'm feeling quite passionate about it!

2) Imagery. I was thinking about doing a one minute animation based on wildlife - so no audio, or lip sync. It would be based on a little field mouse or squirrel out feeding in the trees, and its being stalked by a bird of prey, this could be a eagle, or a goshawk etc. The Audience knows the squirrels being stalked as the shot keeps cutting from the squirrel to the goshawk. The main idea of the film would be to play around with suspense. How to get the audience worried for the squirrel. Do i need to give the squirrel a family at the beginning? This way the audience will feel emotionally sympathetic for the squirrel, as it is fending for its family finding food, if this squirrel gets killed by a BOP (Bird of Prey) then its babies in hand will die (a series of unfortunate events.)

3) Anthropomorphic Character - a hedgehog who walks on his back hind legs is fascinated by some butterflies that are flying above his head! He whips up some ideas to catch them in a jar. First of all he tries to grab the butterflies by jumping up and down, then he grabs a fishing let and flings it around. However, he is still unsuccessful so he decides to jump on a trampoline. He still isn't successful, then he comes up with the idea of using a long nosed hoover to suck up the butterflies! The film ends in either two ways, the hedgehog happy holding a a jar full of butterflies, or a group of butterflies swarm him and chase him off scene.