Perception of

Realism

This project aim is to deliver a short film with various of medium. One of the key element is to have deep story telling, such as a person(s) daily life in their perspective. If the plotline is not believable, it would require high amount of visual details to overlap that missing hole. However, realism is a broad subject and can be delivered in many different ways. For this iteration, I want to design a touching story that the audience could feel for the character(s). To achieve this, it requires a large amount of research involving that subject that I am to express.

Idea

The idea, is to base the story on a solider’s daily life at war, being at threat everyday will show a lot of depth of the character’s emotion. Their departure from their homes and family can also bring up the level of realism. With this, I want to add a past and future storyline for this solider. The medium and visuals will be expressed by;

a) Pencil drawing still backgrounds with possibly 2D or 3D cel shaded characters

b) As the story progresses it moves onto a Propaganda style visuals

c) In the end, the visuals opens up into a photo realistic style

This reflects the timeline, the character’s growth as well as the technology movements of animation. To add an extra depth, I also want to implement some other themes to this.

Cycle of Life:

Although the theme about war is slightly dark, I want to balance it by giving it a bit of light to it. Solider puts his life on the line everyday to defend his country, encountering numerous deaths and injury, but there is also new born life everyday, bringing new hope to the future.

Heritage:

This shows the life of the man before becoming a full time solider. His dreams and will being passed on through generations.

To balance out the film, I want to end it with a happy ending because being a dark themed, it will feel repetitive with the same coloured mood, showing the progression from dark to light will keep the audience occupied.

Research

History of the world war

Film making

Realism in literature

Documentaries of solider, peoples past experiences during war time

Art movements

Propaganda