Cirque de Caro

Our group received the above selection of cards giving us our project start. Not touching much on the editing

style we have been looking into the designs and the story that we can associate with the environment

(Circus) and the main theme (fate).

Oliver is our protagonist for this animation.

He starts of showing himself as a child

speaking with his father. He is thin, brown-

haired and blue eyed. He has skills with the

knife even at his age which in the first

instance would be around 12-14 years old.

His only goals are to impress his father and

make sure he doesn't screw up. But he

always seems to make a mistake

somewhere along the line. Always around

food too.

Frederick is father to Oliver, is a typical run

of the mill father who wants only the best,

love and respect of his son. He has the same

brown hair but green eyes. After the death

of his wife, Frederick had to raise Oliver by

himself through the circus life. His wife's

death devastated him and he has not been

the very happy type since. With Oliver's

growth he gets more and more concerned

that his son is not as passionate about his

job like he is or rather was.

Now this design sequence represents a character and prop that we are including in our

animation. Every knife-thrower has a assistant that they practice and throw knifes at – hitting

around them as they are tied to a target or spinning whilst tied. As Oliver is young and we want

the audience to get our approach to this we’ve included this teddy bear which reminds Oliver

of his childhood and dreams.

At the present time this is what

we are working with in terms of

the Environment.

These are just some examples of

tracks that we have leant towards

and may possibly make an

appearance in our first animatic.

We wanted to choose tracks that

are symbolic of the classic circus

but also capture the time period in

which we are setting our

animation in.

The final script has been included in the OGR blog post.