Analysis of Poem and Early Planning of Characters

This is some of the brainstorming we did to come up with the characters and their characteristics. We also started sketching some ideas about how our characters may look

First we pulled apart the poem line by line in order to figure out what will happen in our animation. This will also help in the drawing up of our storyboard

 

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