The document outlines the development of an idea for a 2D animation project. The initial ideas included a flipbook animation of a pram rolling down hills and rotoscoping of sports equipment. However, these ideas were rejected due to difficulties with the flipbook format and the time required for rotoscoping. The developed idea is for a cut-out animation called "Piggy Panic" showing a pig escaping from a butcher, chased by an anthropomorphic meat knife. The animation will be 30 seconds long and target male audiences over 10 years old. Non-diegetic sounds including scared pig noises and the song "I Believe I Can Fly" will be used for the soundtrack.

1. My Proposal for my 2D Animation 17/01/12
My Initial Idea
My ideas firstly were….
FLIPBOOK- THE RUN AWAY PRAM
Basic stickman drawing walking with a pram and they come to a hill and
the stickman lets go of the pram and the pram is out of control and it
goes over other hills and does a little spin in the air and lands safely.
However I didn’t pick this idea because testing the flipbook with my own
example which is shown on my page, I found it quite difficult to draw and
I kept forgetting what a drew on the previous page. So I thought this idea
was good but it would be difficult.
ROTOSCOPING –SPORT MANIC
A basic idea of people playing sport but I only capture the equipment. For
example, someone kicking a football into the goal as they kick it turns
into rotoscope and head into the goal ill only capture the football. Again
with a tennis ball as someone hits it ill capture the ball being hit to the
other side of the court and it turns into rotoscoping.
However with this idea with the time limit of doing the animation,
rotoscoping takes time and I don’t think I could of produced my 2D
animation on time or I would have had to rush it and it wouldn’t of been
as good as it could of.
ABOBE FLASH –RACE DAY
An idea that involves drawing and cutting out people uploading them onto
abobe flash, and they are running a race and out the end the scene
changes with piles for the winner to stand on and celebrate.
However using flash isn’t one of my strong points and I using flash before
I couldn’t get to grips with how to use it and for that reason im not going
to pick this idea.
Thinking of my ideas, I have come up with one called Piggy Panic.

2. 17/01/12
My Developed Idea
CUT OUT – PIGGY PANIC – why this idea?
This idea consist of using paper, scissors and colouring pens. The idea is
about a little piggy escaping from a butchers. However to add comical
effects instead of a butcher running to try and catch him its in fact a meat
knife with eyes and blood at the corner of it. By the end the pig has
escaped leaving the knife to get stuck in a pile of hay.
This was my favorite idea because it looked simple to make and I’m going
to use final cut pro to edit because I found final cut pro easier to use out
of all the software. I don’t have to make the drawers complicated, just
niceand simple and fun so that everyone can enjoy it. I am going to
colour in everything, so the location is going to be a street location so
going to draw pavements, the sky and to feel so that the audience
understand is that the location is going to be drawn as if it was night so it
have a moon because animals are more likely to escape at night when
nobody is around. I picked a meat knife so it could have a little different
to a normal ‘pig chase’ and just to add comedy into it.
Why I’m going to use this technique
I picked cut out because I think it would be a fun creative way to make an
animation. You also can change things in the animation very quickly, for
example moving props that are in the animation to other spots quickly
and easy, and that goes with saying about the characters, they will be
easily moveable. Im going to cut out different faces of the pig and knife
so that the audience can feel that sort of reaction which makes cut out so
much more mean fuller.
FORM OF ANIMATION
As it cut out, I wanted to bring back the ‘old school’ gaming of cat chasing
mouse, but in this case a knife chasing a pig to change it up. I wanted to
create this form of animation because I thought it was creative and
people can have different opinions about it, even though it isn’t gory and
violent some people may that its disturbing because its as if it’s a real life
thing, for example vegetarians may think its what they want to see and
not want they want to hear, but then like meat lovers may enjoy and
found it amusing with the knife with blood on it, so there are different
thoughts on what I want to create which is why I picked this form of
animation.

3. TARGET AUDIENCE
The target audience that I want to attract is males over 10 is because I
feel with using a pig ‘meat’ the general ‘stereotype’ is that man like
meat, and with it escaping I want to know how they fell about it and do
they understand. The reasons I want to aim it at males is because there
is blood involved and the story is about a pig escaping males are likely to
enjoy it more then females.
LENGTH
The length of my animation, I don’t want it to be to long so approx. 30
seconds long, so that the audience get a good look at what’s going on to
make it clear for them. If it was longer of just the chase it my get a bit
boring for the audience and not that interesting, so short and simple I
think is what im going to do and because it is a simple idea I want it to be
clear and fun to watch. Approx. 30 seconds is what I’m aiming for.
SOUNDTRACK
I’m going to have non diegetic sounds because I think in an animation
soundtracks is the most important. Using non - diegetic conventions
brings ambiguity and surprise of comedy to the animation. So that’s why
ive gone with a scared pig noise which is horror but also add comedy and
use ‘I believe I can fly’ soundtrack.

5. 6/8/2012 9:17:00 AM