The document provides initial plans and ideas for an animation project involving a cat. It includes mind maps with ideas for the story, characters, locations, colors, and other elements. Mood boards are also mentioned to influence the final products of a poster and short trailer introducing the main character and animation concept. The target audience is identified as 13-18 year old females interested in the style and characters. Filming and magazine ideas were discounted in favor of an animation focusing on a cat left alone watching TV.

1. Initial Plans
Ellie Warmingham

2. Mind Map
Ideas
Magazine
Locations
Pixel animation
Filming
Story
Colours
Layout
Characters
Clothes
Food
Fashion
Colours
Story
Animals
People
Nature
Sound effects
Music
Camera angles
Characters
Colours
Mood
Editing
Trends
Animals
Fonts
Content
Script
Style
Backgrounds
Bright
Pastel
Dark
Detail
Fantasy
Theme
Bright
Pale
Poster
Logo
Poster
Short trailer
logo
Horror
Adventure
poster
Theme
Comedy
Adventure

3. Mind Map
Pixel animation
Characters
Colours
Storyline
Animals
People
Cats
Backgrounds
Bright
Pale
Natural
setting
City
Indoors
Dogs
Inspirations
Sounds
Sounds
effects
Character
sounds
YouTube TV
Cartoons
Interactions
Locations
Dark
Speech
Games
Simons Cat
Super Cat bros
Celeste
Simpsons
Tom and Jerry
Music
Upbeat
Funny
Night-time atmosphere
Character
movements
Encanto

4. Mind Map
Poster/Trailer
Colour palette
Backgrounds
Theme
Pale
Scenery from animation
Simple
Slow paced
Font
Gaming
Animation
Blacks and whites
Bright
Dark
Characters
Colourful
Trailer
speed
Cartoon font
Main character
on front cover
Sounds
Sound effects
Music
Character actions
Footsteps TV remote Purring cat
Side character in
the background
Door closing
Comedy

5. Mood Board

6. Mood Board Analysis
Is there any repetition in the images you have collected? Repeated colours/images
styles/fonts/tone/mood
A lot of the images I chose used lighter colours in the backgrounds and characters, the
scenery mostly being of houses from the outside or the inside. A fair mix of animals/pets
are also included along with a simple colour palette. A lot of brown, greys and
How will your mood board influence your final product?
My mood board has a mix of colours, backgrounds and characters, helping me to gain
inspiration which will be especially helpful during the planning and production of my
animation. The colour palettes and fonts I chose will help me think about how I should go
about designing my poster and logo. I want to make sure I add in the main character into
each of my products so the audience knows who to focus on. The characters I added to my
mood board are similar to what I would like to create myself for my products, for instance
the style, shape and colours of the characters.

7. Informal Proposal
Current Idea
Concept My story consists of a cat being left home alone after the owners go out in the
evening. As soon as the owners leave, the cat sits down on the sofa and turns on the
TV, flicking through the channels.
Type of
products you
would make
I can make a poster that introduces the characters that are going to appear within
my animation.
My second product can be a short trailer/preview for my animation.
What you will
need to make
them
I will need to design my characters before I begin to make the poster and for
software I will need Piskel and Photoshop.
For my short trailer I will need Piskel, Photoshop and Premier Pro.
Audience My product is aimed at around 13-18 year olds and females will probably be more
interested in my animation because of the style and the characters that will be used.
People who also enjoy creating or making animation will probably show an interest
in my work, too. Anyone who is in the lower and medium class will be able to view
on free streaming software like YouTube Etc.

8. Choices
Discounted ideas Reasons for not choosing this project
Filming • One of my first ideas initially was to do filming.
I have done it in the past and I really enjoyed it
and thought I’d keep this as one of my
potential options. When I tried to plan out
some ideas for it, there wasn’t much that
stood out to me. I wanted to include cats for
instance, but that was hard to capture on
camera in the way that I wanted.
Magazine • I also wanted to do a magazine because of
how much I enjoyed designing my first one.
Although, I struggled to come up with a theme
for my magazine. I wanted to try and pick
something I hadn’t done before but I couldn’t
come up with anything I wanted to do it on
and that interested me.