Unit04_Clarifying Ideas + Together

For making animation, first of all, I need to clarify the story ideas based on log-line that I learned from the briefing. And there is the structure of log line as setting, protagonist, problem, antagonist, goal, and conflict or action.

Log- line ( = Summary of Synopsis)

Setting : New Ice Age on 21st century, post-apocalypse

Protagonist : Girl who is living in an apartment

Problem : She lost contact with her only friend

Antagonist : The debris of buildings outside, snowstorm

Conflict / Action : Braves a snowstorm after going outside

Goal : Go to her friend and save him from snowstorm will come as soon

= > "The story of a girl who braves a snowstorm to find her only friend in a world cut off from communication during the 21st century ice age."

Treatment ( Initial )

Due to climate change, another ice age comes to the world on 21st century. And the survived people have to rely on wireless set and recorder to communicate with others. Fortunately, the girl who survived in the apartment that did not collapse coincidentally began to communicate with someone through her computer.

They enjoy having small talk and playing music with their guitars, but at some point, all news about him stopped.

So, she decided to go to find him with braving a snowstorm and the debris of buildings collapsed.

Braving the cold, she arrived at the location she had found using a location tracker, but the house he was living in was already empty and covered with heavy snow, and there was a cassette tape on the desk.

Then, she goes back to her house while listening the music of the cassette tape with her cassette tape player. As she does, the screen gradually darkens and the ending credits appear.

Inspiration ; <Antifreeze> of The Black Skirt

The 1st album of the black skirt, <201>, 2010, is the one of the most influential album in South Korea and <Antifreeze> is the most loved song on that album for more than 10 years because it features lyrical and hopeful lyrics.

I was inspired to create the story by the lyrics of a song that I usually enjoyed listening to. According to his interview, the lyrics of this song was written by dinosaur's perspective that faces to an ice age.

Lyrics ( Korean (Original) )

우린 오래 전부터 어쩔 수 없는 거였어

우주 속을 홀로 떠돌며 많이 외로워하다가

어느 순간 태양과 달이 겹치게 될 때면 모든 것을 이해할 수 있을거야

하늘에선 비만 내렸어 뼈 속까지 다 젖었어

얼마 있다 비가 그쳤어 대신 눈이 내리더니

영화서도 볼 수 없던 눈보라가 불 때 너는 내가 처음 봤던 눈동자야

낯익은 거리들이 거울처럼 반짝여도

니가 건네주는 커피 위에 살얼음이 떠도

우리 둘은 얼어붙지 않을 거야 바다 속의 모래까지 녹일거야

춤을 추며 절망이랑 싸울거야 얼어붙은 아스팔트 도시 위로

숨이 막힐 거 같이 차가웠던 공기 속에

너의 체온이 내게 스며들어 오고 있어

우리 둘은 얼어붙지 않을 거야 바다 속의 모래까지 녹일거야

춤을 추며 절망이랑 싸울거야 얼어붙은 아스팔트 도시 위로

너와 나의 세대가 마지막이면 어떡해

또 다른 빙하기가 찾아오면 어떡해

긴 세월에 변하지 않을 그런 사랑은 없겠지만

그 사랑을 기다려줄 그런 사람을 찾는 거야

긴 세월에 변하지 않을 그런 사랑은 없겠지만

그 사랑을 기다려줄 그런 사람을 찾는 거야

Lyrics ( Translated to English )

We had no choice since long before

Being lonely while wandering the universe

Once the sun and the moon overlaps

We will be able to understand everything

All the rain from the sky, soak to the bone

Rain let up after a while and began to snow

When the never seen snow storm blew

You were the first eyes I saw

Even those familiar streets sparkle like a mirror

Even there is a thin ice on the coffee you gave me

We're not gonna freeze

We're gonna melt the sand under the sea

We're gonna dance and fight with despair

Over the frozen asphalt road in this city

In this breath-taking cold air

Your temperature is soaking into me

We're not gonna freeze

We're gonna melt the sand under the sea

We're gonna dance and fight with despair

Over the frozen asphalt road in this city

What if our generation is the last

What if there comes another ice age

There is no love that lasts forever

but I'm looking for the one who will wait for that love

Decide Together ( 16th April )

On 16th April, we had decided to share the stories we each created, read them, and then vote after lunch break time to decide which story to make into an animation. And there was a rule not to vote for her/his own story to be fair. And then, 3 of my team members voted for my story idea.

After choosing the story for making animation, we have made the share documents in google to have simple discussion and write scripts as the sample scripts on the last unit.