Unit 4 - Storytelling... Developing my Story Idea...

So i'm not too sure whether we're meant to have started to think of a storyline and idea or if Phil wanted us to wait for his lectures. But, according to my Fundamentals of Animation book, aka my holy bible right now, it's important to start on the storyline and work from there. It's almost as if the storyline is the backbone and everything joins to this backbone, however if the backbone doesn't work, neither will its joints. For me, the storyline on this unit will require the most effort and will be the most important part, as nothing else will work without a decent story. Therefore, i've been constantly thinking of a story relating my three words in the back of my mind. Last night whilst i was in the bath, i decided to jot down an idea inwriting, as my book said you can either draw your ideas, or write them, but this is entirely up to each person. I felt it would be quicker to write the idea dwon and then draw up some wuick thumbnails to go with the writing so i knew where i was going with it. So far, my idea possibly starts in a busy French restaurant, we see a customer walk in and as we do so a butterfly flies in. Whilst the customer is speaking to a waitor about finding a table, a small butterfly hunter, on a pogostick, holding a net, barges through the two men, knwocking them to one side. We then see a humerous scene where he bounces around the rest of the custopmers in the restaurant disrupting therir meal. Just as we think he is about to catch the butterfly, jumping up and down on one spot, the waitor grabs the pogostick and the butterfly hunter is in mid-air and falls to the ground. We then see the butterfly hunter being kicked out of the restaurant with buterflies flying round his head from the fall. One of them turns out to be the real butterfly and just as we see it fly off, and think it has escaped the hunter, it gets hit and killed by a lorry. The final shot could be the camera pulling away int0 the sky as we see cars drivingn on a fairly busy road and in the distance the butterfly hinter is jumping up and down angrily and breaks his net... For me this idea needs some refinement and going over but i feel it could be humerous, depending on the style of the animation and the personality i give the characters, all important aspects that i picked up on from my Fundamentals of Animation book...