Animation

For the animation my first idea was to show the perspective of the aliens since we don’t want this story to be too human focused

It’s hard to show the perspective of a creature that doesn’t see. so i wanted to communicate the way they may feel their world, but through visual medium which is what humans understand best. and after all, this is pitched to humans.

For the representation of ‘feeling’ through visual language, i took inspiration from ratatouille, the scene where the rat mixes flavours in particular.

The idea was that it would show what the aliens feel and the animation would show how they feel the presence of humans mining.

it would then cut to a 3rd person view so the audience can see the alien’s anatomy.

The scene where the aliens dig upward is based of the escape scene in the decent.

I liked how, in the film, you spend so long underground in darkness with the characters and then suddenly it’s so bright outside.

the point was to show the contrast between earth’s crust and the surface.

In the end i wasn’t able to add sound, which might have helped the scene read as underground and above ground better.

I was taken by the sound in this clip from Mad Max Fury road:

The sound in this clip is more to communicate a sense of unknown, urgency, confusion and panic an then juxtapose that with a sense of relief.

The animation is also unfinished…

in my storyboard i had planned to have the shot pan up at the end to reveal an industrial scene. but i ran out of time and needed the time to make the scene not look terrible, which is what it would’ve been if i tried to squeeze it in before the due date.

if I had more time i think that’s the two things i’d add: a concluding scene and sound.