AfterLives : Introduction and Week 1

Before AfterLives

When we got into teams we mostly had an idea of what our roles would be but we generated a few ideas first so we could choose a role that best suited the documentary. Some ideas that came up were diabetes, phobias and penguins, but we decided that the topic that worked best was Afterlife; a documnetary on people's beliefs of what happens after death. The idea was we would interview a random people and animate their interpretations of the afterlife in a style similar to Aardman's Creature Comforts.

The roles assigned were:

• me - Animatic, Background design and Sound mixing
• Damian - Character design and main interviewer
• Cameron- Director and Storyboard artist

The Initial Idea pitch

After pitching our idea we got feedback to look at both religious and cultural representations of the afterlife, and also near death experiences as the closest possible experience of the afterlife, since we can only speculate about the afterlife.