Fantastic Voyage - Briefing and ideas

For our Fantastic Voyage briefing we were given three scenarios to choose from:
  1. The carbon cycle (GCSE Content, years 9 - 11)
  2. Plant growth cycles (Key Stage 3, years 7 - 8)
  3. The cardiac cycle (GCSE biology/ AS level biology, years 11 - 12)
For one of the three scenarios above we have been told to create a 3 minute educational animation that can be used as a teaching resource for teachers to show to students.

Out of the three scenarios I found the plant growth cycles to be the most interesting, especially insect pollination. In the briefing I found bee pollination to be the most renown way to pollinate so this is what I have decided to focus on. 

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Currently my main idea is that there is a romance between 2 flowers, but as they are distant from each other they are unable reproduce. This is until one day a bee flies by one of the flowers. This flower then asks the bee to pass some of his pollen to the other flower. The bee then assists them and the flowers then reproduce. 

Style wise I think that if I was to animate this idea I would give it a cartoon style. This is so that it relates more to the year 7/8 target audience as they are more likely to be interested in cartoons than documentaries.

I have looked at potential influences for the animation. Elements of short animations such as 'In a heart beat' and 'Paperman' would be potential art and story influences, where as films such as 'Bee movie' and 'Maya the bee movie' would influence character design. 






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