Forming Groups and First Meeting

Before, we decided to expand our individual ideas even more by merging into a group. This would enable us to view others ideas in the group, join with people who were working in the same medium as ourselves and develop our ideas to their full potential.
I'm now in a group with Jack, Blair and Kelly. The four of us decided that this was a good idea, because all our ideas were based around life and growing up. Whether it be life growing and evolving, or looking back on how life has been, we all knew that we wanted our end result to be about living and making the most of life. Another thing that made it obvious that we should all be in a group together was that all four of us wanted some form of animation in our projects. Although some wanted After Effects and Flash animation and others wanted stop motion animation, we managed to work our way around this.


In a meeting we had once we were in our group, we discussed a final idea for our piece. Because we had previously realised that our ideas were all very similar, we discussed the possibility of bringing together the most developed elements of each of our ideas and making them into one strong animated piece.


Throughout the meeting we kept coming back to a part of my original idea, with there being a scrap book in the animation. This was a part of my idea that the rest of the group decided they liked and also wanted to include.


Another element that we noticed our ideas had in common was travelling. With my idea involving travelling the most, and the others had the idea of life travelling or travelling with life.


At the end of the meeting we managed to merge all our our ideas together to create the following: A story of an old man looking back on the good memories of his life through a scrapbook. At this stage we wanted to involve parts of the human body to animate on too. This idea involved all of our ideas, with mine being the scrapbook, Blairs idea being the man looking back on his life, Kelly's using the human body, and Jack's being that the medium was animation.


I'm pleased with the initial idea and think that we managed to merge our ideas together well, making a story that will make sense with elements from each of us.