Assignment 2: Brainstorming

Brainstorming:

How To Train Your Dragon

The story takes place in a mythical world where a young Viking teenager named Hiccup aspires to follow his tribe's tradition of becoming a dragon slayer. After finally capturing his first dragon, and with his chance at finally gaining the tribe's acceptance, he finds that he no longer has the desire to kill it and instead befriends it and names it Toothless.


Scene Ideas:


Training/battle scene

• A cage with human bones

Show where Toothless lives

• Maybe in a cave with lots of fish bones

Hiccup's room

• With all his inventions for Toothless
• A trap-door in his room leads to where he hides Toothless

Movie As A Whole:

Colour Palette:

• Light colours for backgrounds- faded out almost.
• Far away houses/islands/cliffs have faded colours, but in the foreground they are quite vibrant.

Quite A Lot Of:

• Greens
• Blues
• Browns
• Yellows

and

• Black and White

• Soft white outlines/shadows on all objects of the film. Also dark shadows as well, eg, when the dragons fly and land, and when the people move.

Environment:

• Small viking village, with cliffs/mountains and a large ocean.

Textures:

• The whole movie has appropriate textures that are so effective that they look real. 
• Lots of detail is shown in the people and dragons, as well as the scenery.

Camera Work:

• Low angle shots
• High angle shots
• Pan in, Pan out
• Following the objects from left to right, right to left, or up and down