From the interviews with friends and secondary research looking in to the invisible groups not valued for their unconventional beauty I decided to create some character designs around the different people. I'm not quite sure whether I want to stick with these designs or change them in order to try and portray the right messages but am determined to develop the ideas around them to help my decision.
I finally came up with a storyboard. It is a first draft, so consist of more than I'll end up doing but again I will try to develop the characters' thus developing the story around them.
As for the song, I have broken it down from 7 minutes to 3. This is mainly due to the length of the lyrics. In the end, I could just cut the lyrics out altogether and be able to shorten it further so there's not too much of a problem.
I've done a few sketches around what the intro to the film can be. I plan on doing a short walk cycle of each character, displaying something they feel about themselves in their bodies, as well as transforming in to each other. I felt this transformation could show the diversity of the characters as well as how different they are, thus showing one of the mian messages of the story that there will never be just one natural body. One of the bad messages which areas of the body positive movement try to advertise is the idea of 'real women' and what a 'real' body looks like. Usually this points straight to a size 14/16 woman which may be seen as the average size but that doesn't mean it is the right nor is it the only truly healthy or beautiful size for everyone.
Next week will be dedicated to finalising storyboards, character designs, backgrounds, colour palettes and animatics. So far, I have written up a few timetables to point me in the right direction and have collected together a few ideas from animations, artists, images and photography of what I want my work to hopefully follow.
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