PROJECT PROPOSAL: Moving Pictures

I intend to produce..
3 teaser trailers promoting Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. Teasers will be 15 seconds long.

I hope to gain the audiences attention by creating suspense and mystery in each one of my animations. The trailers will show really brief glimpses of some of the scenes that happen in the book and cutting it short to create a sort of cliff-hanger feeling that will hopefully leave the audience wanting to know more. My animations will be digitally produced, with a combination of hand made textures. Colours: Black and white with a touch of colour in each one (red, blue, yellow). Animations will be based on the following texts:

1. "The mirror showed the corridor behind her; that was only to be expected. But reflected in the mirror were her parents. They stood awkwardly in the reflection of the hall. They seemed sad and alone. As Coraline watched, they waved to her, slowly, with limp hands. Coraline's father had his arm around her mother.

..Her mother breathed on the inside of the mirror glass, and quickly, before the fog faded, she wrote 
HELP US
 with the tip of her forefinger. The fog on the inside of the mirror faded, and so did her parents.."

2. "She lit the candlewick with a match and watched it sputter and light, then she picked up the black key. It was cold in her hand. Coraline turned the key in the door. It turned with a loud clunk. The door swung open. There was no brick wall on the other side of the door: only darkness."

3. "The other mother sat down on the big sofa. She picked up a shopping bag from beside the sofa and took out a white, rustling, paper bag from inside it. The bag was half filled with large shiny blackbeetles, crawling over each other in their efforts to get out of the bag. She carefully picked out a particularly large and black beetle, pulled off its legs and popped the beetle into her mouth. She crunched it happily."

I will be communicating..

1. Briefly what the book is about by showcasing important/key scenes, objects, imagery in book that should get the audience to want to know more about the book.

2. I will be communicating the 3 quotes from the book.

3. The overall dark feeling/atmosphere of the story.

To an audience of..

1. Fans of Neil Gaiman’s work / fans of Coraline.

2. Fans of fiction works/adventure/fantasy.

3. Both children and adults.