Week 1

This week begins with everyone pitching their film ideas to the rest of the class. I was so nervous when I had to do mine. I felt that I was pretty well prepared; I knew about the characters and had drawn out some concept of environments and characters.
I wanted to keep my story idea simple so only created two main characters, one of which only appears at the very end.
My environments are going to be more complex if my film gets chosen as there will be quite a few.
Here is my pitch.

Becca Chandler
Personal pitch
Storyline, a short overview
100 Words
There was once an obsessive stamp collector who was missing the last stamp in his collection. One day he found it in a shop and bought it. Unfortunately while placing it in the collection it blew out the window and a passer by caught it and put it on their letter which they posted. The collector followed the stamp all around the world until it finally arrived in Hawaii. It was taken by a little girl who also collected stamps but the stamp collector snatched it back. She began to cry and out of the goodness of his heart the stamp collector gave it back to her. He is now pen friends with the girl and goes to Hawaii for his holidays. He has recently learnt to surf and has started to make friends again.


The longer version (with more detail)
Once upon a time there was an obsessive stamp collector. He owned every collectible stamp known to man. There was one stamp however that eluded him. He had become so obsessed that he had forgotten about all his friends and relatives and no one bothered to talk to him anymore, what was the point? All he talked about were stamps. One day while shopping he saw the elusive stamp in the window of a collectors shop. He rushed in and bought it quicker than you can say Stamp Collectors United. Once home he began to carefully put it into his collection in a place specially reserved for it. Suddenly a gust of wind blew the stamp out of the window and straight into a young man’s face.
"Oh what a bit of luck!" he thought "I needed a stamp for this letter"
And he promptly stuck it on the letter and mailed it in the post box. The stamp collector saw all this and was furious. He jumped up and ran outside only to discover the postman had just collected all the mail and was driving away. So he followed suit on his old bike.
He continued to follow the stamp all over Europe, across Asia and finally arrived in Hawaii. Here a mother received the letter and gave the stamp to her daughter who just so happened to be an avid stamp collector too. Our old stamp collector stormed over to the little girl and snatched away his stamp. However upon seeing the girl’s tearful eyes and in that moment remembering, grudgingly, his good nature, gave away his prized stamp.
He retuned home without the stamp but from this day forth his house that was bare and boring is now filled with the gifts and trinkets he got on his holiday in Hawaii and where his walls were bare they are now decorated with pictures of him and his new pen friend Lani from Hawaii.

I’m glad the pitches are over but I think the most agonising part of this week has been waiting to see whose ideas get chosen. I really enjoyed making up the story and if it gets chosen I look forward to developing characters and working in a group again.
End of the week
My idea has been chosen and I’m still undecided as to whether or not I’m happy about this, of course I’m happy I’m just terrified of this year. The workload will be immense and there’s only Andrew and I as permanent members although a lot of people said they’d like to work on the film. I feel happy that many of my friends have offered to help me out.
Feelings by the end of this week.
Ok, so I’m pretty terrified. It’s only Andrew Monin and I in the group so our workload is going to be insane. That’s something to look forward to. ¬_¬
Mike suggested that if I was so worried that maybe I should drop the film. I would but it feels like quitting and I hate to just give up on something. The stress maybe awful at times but I hope that I would be able to cope.
I worry about after effects and animating at the end of the year when everyone panics. Modelling is not so bad, I’ve had people offer to do it and Andrew is pretty awesome at environments.
I’m not so worried about my story, I think it’s quite a solid story and has a nice feel about it. I’ve also already started to panic so that’s all good.
Kyle has decided to go ahead with his film too and we’ve been talking about his story in the car journey home. He’s very determined to get it done and it’s quite inspiring. We’ve changed part of Kyle’s story so that the boy and the robot are not friends at the beginning; it makes the boy’s character development much more interesting. I really like Kyle’s story.
I’m glad I have so many people ready to help me and back me up in my film even if they’re not permanent members. It’s nice.