BFA Pitch

Log Line - In a world where music becomes a right of passage, a tune croon must discover his tune to find his perfect mate to sing his song too.

Synopsis - A lonely Tune Croon journeys around the forest in search of the perfect mate to sing his song too. After trying too hard to impress just anyone he realizes his actions aren't working. This Tune Croon learns that you can't go out and look for love, love will find you.

Objective - My project Goal is to create a full animation telling the story I have written that is themed as a "rite of passage". The sounds from the Tune Croons will be animated bye visual effects that appear as they sing.

The story starts with a Tune Croon who has not yet transitioned into a type of adult-hood that he desires and seeks out. He watches from a distance how two other Tune Croons play their songs to one another to make a harmonious melody. In his discovery he learns that his own sounds can be used to find a mate. He is now faced with a journey to develop his own melody. Through three different attempts he learns that finding a mate will be harder than he thought. After his failed attempts the Tune Croon is exhausted and sadden as the day becomes night. His emotional stress causes him to give up and and sleep. Only after he starts to rest that he is discovered by a few lightening bugs that temp him to try his tune again with their own tones that emit as they glow. It is here where he starts to piece together his own song and follow the bugs into the forest where he is lead to many other lightening bugs who have gathered for mating season. This is where he becomes so intrigued by the bugs that he did not notice another Tune Croon is already there and watching. He sings out his newly found song to the bugs and the female returns his call and sings along with him.

Target Audience - I believe the target audience can be just about anyone ages 10 and up. Themes include: Self Discovery and Adventure. The story itself should display character and environmental design along with story development.

Positioning - This animation will be presented by computer screen that will loop in the BFA gallery and shown from my demo reel.

Mandatories:

Photoshop- Backgrounds, foregrounds, and assets designed with a painterly effect.

Toon Boom- Character animated and exported with transparency.

After Effects- Used for composition and placement of animated characters. Animating the visual music characters will play.

Logic Pro- Creating individual tunes for each character to play as their songs.

Old Trumpet- Unique (bad) vocals for the main character through his development through out the animation.

Keyboard- Creation of the music for characters.

Inventory:

10 painted backgrounds

16 shots

Time Line:

Jan

week1 - Pitch

week2 - scene 4 - Couples Discovery, Wake up shots

Feb

week 1- scene 5 - Girl 1, Birds

week 2- Finish Birds

week 3- Scene 6 - Girl 2, (music and effects)

week 4- Finish 6 and cont. Music and Effects

March

week 1- Girl 3, Scene 7 Sad Walk

week 2- Scene 10 - Fire fly follow

week 3- spring break (record trumpet sounds)(music)

week 4- Scene 11 - Ending (boy meets girl)

April

week 1- Finish any sounds needed

week 2- Composite

week 3- Critique

week 4- Revisions

May

BFA Showing, DVD, Online Portfolio