Early Concepts

Throughout the development process I've outlined visuals, themes and unconventional use of materials for creative filmmaking.

Here are just four of the examples I have thought of for my films.

These would be influential on the direction I would take my project being centered around the themes of pregnancy, abortion and adoption.

These images feature connotations of the pregnancy, fertility and motherhood themes, the message they convey range from subtle to outright obvious. For example the image of a pram wheeling down hill doomed to crash embodies an abortion, also the baby laid in the cradle in the tree branch doomed to fall taking the context of the lullaby/nursery rhyme "Rockabye Baby into a deeper theme representing an abortion.

I've made notes on possible props to use, an ideal backdrop to set the stage, the key amount of lighting to set the mood and an early story board of abstract visuals piecing together the ideas into a concise narrative to film. 

Here's another more developed storyboard that incorporates elements of reoccurring visuals in the separate stories, this was so that the visuals would mirror each other  conveying a cycle of life symbolism.

For example an opening  in a space like void, brightness embodying the spark of light, the spherical   object representing a fertile egg, a sperm, a forming foetus, a pregnant woman's baby bump, a birds egg, the circular nest, the sun,  the egg's yoke, a termination (morning after) pill and the circular eyeball.

Here's a sketch of the different scenarios that a pregnant girl may find herself in, touching upon the problems she'll face.

I've narrowed down my idea to the 3 possible options a pregnant girl can choose, either she can abort her baby, keep her baby or have her baby then give it up for adoption. This simplified the idea so the message it comprehensible to the viewer.

Due to the requirement of the course I had to subtract the dramatisation and performance in live action and instead focus on telling the 3 films through animation in after affects. They'll be a minimal amount of characterisation to get across the point keeping the message clear in my films entitled 'Mums The Word.'