week 4: JINX Concept Pitch

Our first assignment of the semester was concept pitch. We were asked to create a storyboard for a short animation. I had an idea of doing a comedy genre for this animation about smoking.

Here is the synopsis of the pitch:

The day that every kid has always look for, the first day of high school. Charlie, a young country boy has been registered in a school in a metropolitan city. He has never in his whole life leaves his hometown. This is the first time Charlie been out of town or a journey on his own. He took a bus to school as early as 6 a.m. An hour and a half bus ride took him to the environment that he has never experience before. He takes a stop just nearby his new school. While walking there he looks at the surrounding and sees different kind of people to his hometown. The most noticeable differences are the attitude of his new schoolmates. They were all around the town running wild, with shirts unbutton and untagged and most importantly smoking cigarettes. He thought it was fine to smoke there because he had never in his life smoking cigarettes which make him thinking that it would make him look cool or un-nerd. The moment he starts smoking many unfortunate things happen every time he smokes. It was not long until it came across to his mind that he should not be smoking cigarettes and immediately quit.

I was hoping that it would get chosen because I had this feeling that I can get the best out of this animation to make people laugh at the skit. Unfortunately it didn't get picked in the top 10 winning pitches. It is probably because the length of this animation would take more time than required. Anyhow Saifullah's storyboard were chosen so it would be fun to have a go at his love story animation. We have also formed our company with me, Saifullah, Chunyin and Saiful as the members. I will talk about that in the next update.