Narrative Forms: Animation, Comic Books & Video Games

Narrative Forms

For this project I have to write an essay and production log. with option of creating a practical piece.
To start I had to write 2 premises, my first premise is a 7 minute animation, about a small coffee shop in suburban New York, the young possibly inexperience owner has to deal with rude and obnoxious customers.

The Characters I have been looking into mostly;
There is a young woman that owns the coffee shop, she is of slim build quite dainty, and delicate but she is a strong person that looks for the positive in everything, she is very kind.
She wears a white blouse with a salmon coloured pinafore and a black knee length circle skirt. Her hair is short, bobbed and is dark red. She wears dainty red mary janes on her feet. 

The second character is an old man, he is very small, and shuffles about with his walking stick, he is also a very kind old man that admires how strong the owner of hte cafe is, and how gracefully she can deal with ignorant customers. He wears grey dull clothes; a shirt, cardigan and corduroy trousers with sensible brown shoes, he has a flat cap and big round glasses.

Thirdly, an obnoxious woman with an up-tuned nose, she only goes to the cafe to gloat how successful she is and cause drama. Her hair is dyed black in a 50's up-do, she wears a matching burgundy blazer and pencil skirt, she is medium build and had black high-heels.

Finally and obnoxious mother and her very loud son. The mothers description is not needed because she is in none of the shots, you can only hear her, her son is about 7 years old and is very used to getting his own way, he has a blond bowl cut and is wearing shorts and a t-shirt, he has very grubby knees and hands and is missing a couple of milk teeth.

Here some artwork that I think will go well with the animation:

Thorsten Hasenkamm

Jisoo Kim

Ami Thompson

Jordi Laferbre

(I sourced these pictures from a character design page on Facebook).

My second premise is still pretty in early development but it will be a light-hearted "comedy" zombie survival comic.

My mood-board for this would include; Sunset Overdrive, Borderlands & Zombicide. I adore the art of Fiona Staples in the Saga comic books and Oscar Martin's "post-apocalyptic/survival" character design. There should be more on this once I have developed the idea further. I have until Tuesday 13th October to get something down and refined.