Applied Animation - Brief and Ideas

Starting a new brief today, this time it being group work, I am working with 2 other people on the "National Geographic Ident" task, where we make a set of 9 Idents based around the channel National Geographic. Our first stage was to research into National Geographic itself, to look at older idents, and a few general themes which we could generate ideas from.

From our research we found that the channel tends to be very general towards history, environmental stuff, and technology, really there is no 1 theme which we could go off of, all we know is that we have to display the given logo on screen for 3 seconds.

This is the logo we need to display for 3 seconds on screen, in a 10 second ident, in a series of 9. Just from looking into previous idents, we realised we could make any number of themes.

This is our first idea generating sheet, where we listed down a lot of ideas, which we thought we could work into our idents. After doing this, we put our first initial down next to 4 ideas that we wanted to take care of, and then we could narrow it down to 3. The 4 I chose, were very character based because I wanted to focus more on character animation. The 4 I wanted, was a caveman painting the national geographic logo, a mountain climber, a traveller walking through history, and a dinosaur interacting with the logo. Our next step, is to go away and draw our own interpretations of the 9 that were chosen so we can bring all our ideas together and then decide on the best course of action.