Digital Animation - Planning Documentation

Pre- Production Documentation:

• Interpretation of brief 
• purpose, medium, target audience, run time 
• developed storyline with focus on events/characters
• synopsis/treatment
• sketches - produce rough sketches of key characters and locations consider facial expressions and movements 
• storyboards -capture movements and facial expressions of your character sketches to generate storyboard
• scripts
• personnel and crew
• running order/gantt chart

Narative:

• develop narrative not so basic such as props theory e.g. villain or hero
• Todorov theory equilibrium 

2D/3D Backplates:

• The cop-out option would be to source these from Google. Produce your own – you could photograph them for 2D backplates, or model them out of old shoeboxes, cotton reels and pipe cleaners, or use 3D programs such as Autodesk, 3ds Max or Maya
• You’ll need to think about lighting as well

Risk Assessment - Risks or potential pitfalls associated with the project You could also look into the Health and Safety at Work and Computer Misuse Acts (repetitive strain injury, crick in the neck etc.). Then there’s the usual stuff about burning yourself on lights, electrocuting yourself on SD cards or impaling yourself on tripods files corrupt devices overheating

Personnel and Crew - Additional personnel/crew to consider for an animated film would include voice artists and foley artists.

Foley artists produce sound effects across a range of features, not just animated. They often use real objects to mimic those seen in a film. Bashing water melons and other forms of vegetable matter is popular in the profession

Strengths •What makes it unique? – narrative, theme, character •How does it use generic conventions? •How does it meet its purpose? – refer back to the brief •How is it engaging for the audience?	Weaknesses •What is it missing? How does it compare with competitors? •What are the limitations of your plan? •What are the obstacles, and how might these impact the final production?
Opportunities •Based on the brief, can you expand the target audience? •Are there opportunities for online revenue? •This is for a yearly event, but could you roll it out as an animated short or webisode?	Threats •Who is the main competitor? •Any distribution problems? •How can it be accessed online? Do you foresee any problems with this?