The story centres around a young man called Liam (not a child - as this is a separate subject). I have set the scenes up to show that he is caring for somebody sick, although the focus is on him, so the other person is not entirely shown. I wanted to communicate a feeling of 'drowning' metaphorically. He is feeling down, stirring a cup of tea. The tea becomes a sea of negative sentences that he is feeling about being a carer. He falls into the tea and begins spluttering and drowning. Originally I wanted to have him coming up for air a couple of times and seeing something represented as 'out of his grasp' - e.g. friends out having a drink. He then goes under again after seeing this.
As he finally begins to drown and becomes unconscious, a hand grabs him and pulls him up. Say the arm had a yellow cardigan on, I would then cut to a scene of a lady in a yellow cardigan serving him a cup of tea in a cosy living room. The graphics would then denote that there was support available from the NHS for carers struggling to cope.
I was pleased with this idea and Tony liked it. However, it was never developed as we decided that the time constraints and complexity of the animation might be too much for me as I hadn't started an animation before. It is perhaps something that I would like to make in the future (maybe the holidays).
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