Today the team had a meeting and we discussed our initial ideas, and came up with a concept. We are sticking with silhouettes and shadow puppetry, but using elements of colour for important moments, like red for R’s eyes, and gold for the straw.
As a group we broke the story into it’s six parts and assigned a person to animate it.
- Dad tells king his daughter can turn straw into gold. (Maddy)
- King locks girl in room and tells her she will be killed if she can’t do this. (Michael)
- Little man appears and turns the straw into gold, requesting a ring, the kind returns and wants more, little man appears again and requests a necklace. (Harriet)
- The king wants even more, but promises to marry the girl if she can make straw into gold for a third time, the little man appears and does it on the condition that he gets her first born baby. (Daniel)
- The baby is born and the little man appears, he gives her a chance and tells her if she can guess his name in three days he will not take the baby. (Cassy)
- The now queen sends a messenger to find out his name, after two nights he comes back with nothing, but on the third night he sees the little man chanting his name around a fire, ‘Rumplestilstkin’, and he is so angry he dies. (Cat)
Our next step is to turn this into a script, and work on some images to use as the basis of the animation.
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