Moral Stories Everyone Should Know

People use narratives to make sense of our lives. There are time-tested archetypal narratives to help us gain insights.

There are links below to various parables, nursery rhymes and fables for you to find one that you would like to develop for this project.
Keep it simple. There are many components to this project.

Keep it to only 2 characters.

Parameters:

Make your composition size:
HDV/HDTV 1280×720 pixels
30 fps

Components:

1) Title Sequence

2) Story

3) End Credits

Select fable, parable, nursery rhyme with a moral everyone should know to produce. Choose one with only two main characters. Think about the environment that the story is happening in and the action.

PART 1. Create a storyboard:
Plan out your story with a simple storyboard to show the key frames of action along with the dialog in that scene. Think about camera angles and what might be happening in the background. (see project sheet for due date).

PART 2. Character Development:
Create a character model sheet for each character that illustrates front, side, back, 3/4 front and 3/4 back of each character.

PART 3. Environment (Setting):
Develop the assets for the background that your characters are acting within.

PART 4. Production:
Choose an appropriate font that coordinates with the story for your title sequence and end titles. Each of these segments. Build your story using separate compositions for the
Title, Story and End Sequence.

I encourage you to collaborate with your peers in this class to record the narratives to give your story more depth and texture with a variety of character voices.

Use music in your introduction title and setting up the scene of the story. If there are any points in the story where sound effects would add to the narration, use them. I have quite a few that I can share.

Use music for your end credits. Be sure to acknowledge where you got the music if on-line. I would
recommend putting any dates on your project to give it more longevity in your portfolio.

Keep it simple.
Your characters need to interact, but they don’t have to be lip sync’d. Similar to the Little Miss Muffet tutorial we did in the beginning of this class. This project should be primarily narrated with the characters acting in the story. You can have one voice as a narrator, then two other voices for the characters.