Brainstorming

To begin we chose a poem to base our animation on, the poem Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe is a famous poet and this poem was the last one he wrote before he died. The poem was written in 1849 and is a tragic love story.

The animation will have a narrator that reads the poem as the animation goes along. We are currently hoping to create a cutout animation based on the style of The Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) by Yuriy Norshteyn.

From reading the poem we have developed a few characters that are mentioned. The characters we have decided to use that are mentioned in the poem are:

Annabel Lee
Wind
Angels/Demons
Wisemen
Kinsmen
Narrator

 Some character traits we have come up with for each character are:

Annabel Lee
-beautiful
-shy
-passive
-dreamer

Wind
-chilling
-aggressive
-cold
-angry
-evil

Angels/Demon
-dark
-sneaky
-jealous

Wisemen
-old

Kinsmen
-travel in groups
-loyal
-hardworking

Narrator
-impassive
-sad