This 2D stop-motion animation is about a witch lived with her big tree happily in the forest, which built with iMovie and Sketchbook. Unfortunately, a magician came and turned her hope to ash. Is she going to eat the flower of death? The work is inspired by my personal experience and a Japanese song called The reasons why I thought I'd die (僕が死のうと思ったのは) by Mika Nakashima. In which, it's a story about redemption, how a person saved another person.
And the story is based on my personal experience of being bully in my secondary school only because I don’t like to speak a lot and like to be alone. All the classmates just act like I am just not here and laugh at me. One day, when I went back home, my parents hit me for my brother’s mistakes. At that moment, I thought that I have no reason to live anymore, my existence only brought me pain and become more self-abased and reserved, and the bullying got more serious. Then I started to think of committing suicide, but someone stopped me. Although he is only a Japanese singer, his songs and his own experience tell me that everyone have their reasons to live and it is possible for everyone to change.
Story Plot Graph
I learnt that a story must have a fragtag pyramid and the strategies of making an animation. I also understand the way of presenting the characters’ relationships and how can I imply more elements and symbols in the film, to make the meaning and message more standing out.
Storyboard 1: Opening Scene that the Witch are Playing Around the Tree
Storyboard 2: Scene that the Wizard Come to the Town
Different compositions help presenting different relationships between each characters and the feelings of the main characters. In a scene, the main character is bullied by the villain and the other characters who throw sticks at her, in which the main character become very small to represent how powerless and weak she is. On the opposite, the villains are very big and at the top of the screen to show how strong they are in front of the main character. By having different compositions, a