As discussed briefly in previous posts i would like to use 2D animation and create an intense sensory overdrive type short.
Mid-Term Break
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I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close.
At two o'clock our neighbours drove me home.
In the porch I met my father crying—
He had always taken funerals in his stride—
And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.
The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram
When I came in, and I was embarrassed
By old men standing up to shake my hand
And tell me they were 'sorry for my trouble'.
Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
Away at school, as my mother held my hand
In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.
At ten o'clock the ambulance arrived
With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.
Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops
And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him
For the first time in six weeks. Paler now,
Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,
He lay in the four-foot box as in his cot.
No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.
A four-foot box, a foot for every year
Who was 12 year old Seamus?
What type of home did they live in?
Who all was there ?
What was his brother like?
How did it happen ?
Who were the neighbours that drove him home ?
What kind of car would they have driven ?
What did the ambulences look like back then?
What road would they have taken, what sort of scenes would he have been looking at?
What was the traditions back then around a childs death?
Where was Seamus studying?
What was it like?
What did a college sickbay look like ?
More to the story ?
Did Seamus discuss anymore details about his brother or his death later in life?
What would they have wore (character design and development)
What would a child think about the death of a baby and or a family member?
Stages of grieving
Shock
Sensory issues, and overdrive
These are a few things i will research and develop into my storyboards, i want to be sure i am protraying his memories correctly and then add my own spin on the style and views of the situation.
After rereading the poem several time to put myself in Heaneys shoes, and walk the journey he did from school to his unfamiliar home and up to his dead baby brother, i picked out certain words and phrases than told the story very clearly and i knew which i wanted to incorporate in with emphasise.
From here i already began thinking up quick storyboards, this is one, although it is very rough and early, it highlighted key problems i would encounter, allowed me to remember key scenes and camera movements and even noises i wanted to remember, this was useful during class discussions with peers to see where their projects were going and where mine was and what they thought was and wasn't decent input into the animation and if everything flowed the way i think it would.
Peers acknowledged the same issue i would have, there would be too much B-roll for the time constraints i had.
I will try and address these early issues before any in class presentations.
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