Dynamic Imaging Animation : Story Revised

Title: Lights
Genre: Adventure Story
Theme: Man Vs. Environment

3 Act Structure Outline

Basic Plot

Inciting Incident

Anko's Grandmother asks her to take the lantern to the city festival.

Plot Point 1

She ends up dropping the lantern when someone bumps into her by mistake. The lantern goes falling off down the street/walkway.

First Culmination

She almost catches the lantern but a strong wind pushes forward over a tall fence leaving nothing but darkness behind.

Mid Point

Now that the lantern was gone she is left in its fading light. She then begins to walk through the alleyways trying to find a way out. However since she wasn't paying attention when chasing the lantern she becomes lost in the dark feeling depressed.

Plot Point 2

She walks around the allies lost as the darkness creeps up on her feeling depressed the more she walks the more the darkness seems to creep up until she was in complete darkness.

Climax

When the alleyway beings to lighten up pushing away the darkness because the lanterns are starting to float up in the sky due to the lantern festival.

Resolution

She finial makes it to her destination with and her grandmother is there along with other people who are releasing their lights. She gives her grandmother a sad look because of her failure but her grandmother smiles and points up. Anko then looks up and notices her own lantern up in the air then she smiles while watching it float.
film ends with the lanterns floating in the air.

target audience
Pre-Teen to Young adult (ages 12 to 30

Storyboards

Question and Answer

The Influence for the city

The Work of Bill Willingham & James Jean
billwillingham
JamesJean

The Wolf Among Us Based off Bill Willingham
Influence for city's building design and color looking at both a graphic and abstract styles to depict separate worlds to show that my character is completely out of her element.

Influence of the Traditional Neighborhood.

Color Scheme of Traditional buildings and Main Character

The film will be vibrant and full of life as to demonstrate the difference in styles both traditional and urban throughout the film as well as Anko's determination to finish her task.

Anko color scheme was based more off the movie kung fu panda the beginning scene of the movie kung-fu-panda which shows the kind of action and compositions I want in my film when the character is in city facing problems while trying to do the task of delivering the lantern to the city for her grandmother. I want the outside city wall were anko lives with her grandmother to look like this showing he difference in the two separate worlds.
Bill's Sketchblog

Environments/Setting

City from the wolf among us

Images of Harujuku japan

Sketches

Character Design/Research

Anko
I want Anko as a character to appear both naïve and confident in the being believing she can take on the city for her grandmother even though she doesn't want to do the task that had been giving to her. Although feeling duty bound to follow her tasks Anko is still resist to them an tries to follow her own way of doing things which causes problems for her.

Grandmother
Sweet old lady who just wants her granddaughter to be happy she sends her on a task to distract her from the pain of lost hoping to teach her lesson she sends her on a fake deliver run into the city hoping it will be a distraction from her usual environment.

Mirror's Edge