May 29th- Process Log

Today we had a double block in humanities class, Ms. Lees let us use this time to work on the Genius Hour projects. We used these two blocks to work on the story ideas for our animations and conferenced with Ms. Lees, we also discussed some of the issues that we might face and how we should resolve them. One of the issues we talked about was time, so we decided that we should work on this everyday, and try and follow the time-frame that Johnny made. We also talked about the general presentation and the product, Johnny showed us this article that talks about how to tell good stories, for example, it talks about using suspense, irony, metaphors, ect.... What is particularly good about this site is that the person who wrote it does real research through other articles, books, and personal experiences, he includes examples and links so we can know that it is a reliable source and not just someone writing gibberish to get views. Johnny also showed us an animation of a fight which can be an example for us when/if we do a fighting scene.

The person who made this animation also made a tutorial of how he makes these.

Keep in mind that this is not the only way to animate a fight, this is just the way he has learned how to do it,  and we are probably going to do this unless we find a better way. 

We then worked on the story ideas and general back story for some characters on a Google document, keep in mind that these are just ideas and are not organized in any way, these will not make much sense.

Here's what we have so far:

He was only 3 years old when that incident happened on that day. He and his family were on an island of horror. After their plane crash, most of his family members were injured. Before he passed out he remembers seeing his mother’s and dad’s limp, lifeless body. Then he sees his older brother (5 years old), reaching his hand out towards him. His brother was bruised badly and was on the ground. He could hear roaring from all around him and the last thing he saw before he was carried off was scarred dinosaur’s face.
Years years later the boy turned 26. He finally remembered the time on that island because he finds a dinosaur book that had the picture of the dinosaur king that took his brother away from him. He goes searching for the island, he reaches the island, fights ninjas, and a troll, then finds a mysterious knight to help him find his brother. They both roam around the island and gets into many troubles. He gets attacked by giant tarantula, group of raptors and a tribe of Native warriors.


Then he finds out it was the dinosaur kingdom who raided their village and killed his parents.


He defeats the dinosaur army with his knight brother and 7 other ancient warriors that were survivors from his village. They all attack the Dinosaur’s kingdom and have a massive war. 3 of his members die but they end up defeating the dinosaur king. In the end, the black knight gets wounded really bad by a dinosaur and he turns out to be the guy’s brother. The revenge has succeeded and he goes back to home.

WHEN THE DINOSAUR DIES IT HAS A BUNCH OF WIRES BECAUSE IT WAS A ROBOT DINOSAUR!!!!!!!!


OTHER ENDING, HIS BROTHER (WHO IS DISGUISED AS THE KNIGHT THE WHOLE TIME) CONTROLS THE DINOSAUR KING AHHHHHHHHH

OTHER OTHER OTHER ENDING, THE KNIGHT WAS BROTHERS SON!!!!! THE KNIGHT HATED HIM BECAUSE THE MAIN CHARACTER LEFT THEM.

Indiana jones MUSIC, then lawyer comes in “THAT'S COPYRIGHTED”

At the end of the story, we make a parody of one of the battle scenes. When the black knight dies, he charges a dinosaur king and gets stepped on. But then we rewind that and make the black knight drink milk and then he goes to the dinosaur king and throws him off and around then he comes back to the main character and says got milk.

An adventurer gets lost in the jungle. The different paths are his choices. Ex. You find a road in the jungle, do you take it? Also he can be attacked by a tiger. He is looking for a hidden treasure. It is rumored that everyone who tried to get it had never come back. The adventurer. In his twenties. He lost someone important to him(plane crash, he goes to find them)He gets attacked by a tiger. The tiger says:YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!This is after his head turns into Gandalf's head.



In the end, when he gets the artifact, it opens a time portal which sends a knight and a dinosaur though.
Or in the end he is sent back to the time he lost the important person to prevent losing that persons.

    Tomorrow we are going to finish the actual script, which is going to be a scene by scene and going to describe every action so when we start to animate, we can just look at the script instead of trying to do it from the top of our heads.