Storyboarding

These are some more storyboards, I am trying to do a couple of these every few days to keep my thought processes flowing for ideas for my animation. I can get very caught up in focussing on one part of a project so I am making a conscious effort not to neglect this aspect.

The idea for this was that a cluster of chess pieces would appear, their tightness represents the small village community that is common in Christie's novels. I wasn't working to music here but I imagined that something in the music around frame 3 would suggest that something bad has happened. The pieces then move away from one another leaving the knight in the middle. Because the pieces have moved from blocking the view of the night, we can now see that it is actually a pig representing greed. This is showing how an action driven by greed causes you to be left detached from the community. The rest of the animation zooms in on the pig and a spy hole closes in on him, the imagery all suggests that he has been killed but it is not clear how. I have drawn it as a spy hole closing up until the page is blank but I think a more appropriate idea would to be for the shape to be a keyhole and the animation ends on a frame where a small keyhole sits in the centre of a black space to show that the events that have just occurred are now concealed. 

The idea for this animation is based on a combination of things I have already explored. It starts with the chess pieces moving into the frame at different angles and paces but when they all settle, the negative space they create is in the shape of a keyhole. The animation then appears to zoom in to each keyhole, revealing another piece with its own keyhole until the animation ends on a closeup of a simple keyhole shape. This represents that the complexity of a murder case is down to everyone having their own secrets, as soon as one mystery is solved, another question presents itself and solving the mystery is a continuous battle against this. 

I have highlighted the work continuous because it reminded me of last year's gifs brief. I think it might be useful for me to revisit this and maybe make some simple and short animations to try some of these ideas out. Maybe working on aftereffects will give me more ideas as I go. It wouldn't be necessary for these trials to loop but it might be something to consider and it might spark new ideas for me if I have to think about it in a different way.