Narrative Brief

I have a brief to write a narrative for a 30 second piece. I have had many idea and narrowed them down to three. I have had a hard time deciding which of them I will choose so I have done some artwork for each in hopes that it will help me decide which of them will look any good.

Business Time

A man walks into his house, stands in the doorway for a moment then slowly enters his house. He flashes back at the the day that has just passed. He thinks of the man that abused him on the bus, he drops his briefcase and a pink slip falls out as he flashes back to his boss telling him that he is sacked for sending out abusive emails to his co-workers under a false name. He sees a picture of his ex-wife and child, and flashes back to when she left with his child and another man. He walks through his dark home to a full length mirror at the end of the corridor. He stares at himself for a while and pulls his tie from his neck. He holds his tie in-between his two hands, and with a swift motion he holds the tie tightly between his fists. With a look of malice in his eyes he slowly lifts the tie up to his forehead and ties it at the back of his head. He stands as a silhouette against the light as he heads to avenge himself.

The Great Train Robbery

Two robbers at the end of a daring robbery aboard a huge space train are escaping. It has all gone wrong and they are running from the law when they manage to get aboard their small cruising vessel, not before blocking their exit to their enemies with a stick of atomic dynamite. As they are escaping there is a huge explosion on the train and they know that finally they are safe. The older more experienced of the two leers at the younger one as if to place the blame. The younger knowing that he has done wrong, looks down to his feet. He looks up again to he his older counterpart smiling in a cheeky, and out of his coat he pulls out a big bar of solid gold. The young lad looks with shock at the slyness of his master and also amazement at the beauty of the gold bar. They look at each other and laugh as their shuttle flies into the deep darkness of space.

Toybox

In an old attic, a toybox full of toys past their years lay forgotten. Where they used to be full of life, most of them have lost their ability to move. Our protagonist lays amongst the others, not yet completely void of life like so many of the others. Knowing that the end is near he gathers all of his strength and crawls over all the toys to get to the lid. He stands atop a not so sturdy bundle of toys and pushes with all his might, until when one of his feet slip he falls and ends up half buried under a heap of his old, immobile friends.
Time passes and the toy knows he cannot move from his soon to be grave so he sits and waits as dust and cobwebs settle around him. He stirs for the last time as he finds most parts of his body he can no longer move. He looks up at the lid, covered with painted stars and moons and finds hid eyesight blurring, and in his last moment of life he sees a white light appearing above him. He becomes peaceful and accepts his fate as he watches the good parts of his life flash before him.

I think that of all these idea I like 'Toybox' the most. It has the most story to it and will really allow me to get alot of practice in character animation as there will be no dialogue so the story will have to be told with motion.
The 'Business Time' idea wont keep people interested for long enough. Although ti might be funny, I dont think it has much of a story to it and some parts of it a very cliche. Also I want to work in CG and with the colour schemes and stlye it would work better in 2D.
The 'Great Train Robbery' idea is actually my favourite. I think it would be fun to mix sci-fi with western in a comedic style, but I think it will be very difficult to produce in the small ammount of time I have wheras the toys in 'Toybox' will need very simple modelling and not much environment.

So with this in mind i'm going to do some more work for 'Toybox' to get a more of an idea of what I want it look like and maybe even draw up a storyboard.