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• starts off with a phone call to my mum, mundane conversation
• a voice over
  • this is a stereotypical story for people in my shoes
  • I’ve always resented my mum, for quote on quote ruining my childhood. Forcing me into one of those shy, under spoken, picked on immigrant child. She owes me a “normal” high school experience.
  • The lack of understanding we have for each accelerated this unhealthy mother daughter relationship, I’ve always wanted her to change for me because I thought it is her problem not mine.
  • one of the most vulnerable memories I have as a kid was walking into my mother’s room to find her sobbing, crawled up on the floor, like a child herself. Growing up, I try to block this memory from resurfacing because I cannot fathom the idea of my mum having this emotion.
  • but the older I get the more I realise, she’s not a perfect mother and I am certainly not a perfect daughter. I start to realise that what we need is acceptance and not change.
  • she will continue to repeat the same thing I have heard a million times and I will still have no patience to listen to the same thing that she said a million times. But this is our relationship.
  • I have also had this wish where I thought moving out of my family home would automatically solve all of our issues but our issues cannot be solved by distance, I start to realise. But by understanding, I don’t know if my mum will ever have this realisation but I think just one person is enough to make a difference.
  • i had always been jealoused of my friends’ relationship with their parents, more like friends
• interviews of different people and their relationship with their mums
• a mundane phone call with mum or a compliation of phone calls mixed in with conversations
• synopsis: a series of mundane conversations over the phone that slowly shapes a growing mother and daughter relationship.
• OR: a series of mundane conversations over the phone that showcases the story of a ambiguous mother and daughter relationship in the a immigrant family.
• This animation should not be ‘a result of’, instead I want it to show the progress of our relationship. Maybe in the name of this animation project, I can spend more time ‘fixing’ or understanding our relationship.
• “mother and daughter opens up about the experience of immigration for the first time”
• name: “An Immigrant’s story”
• a conversation with mum talking about…
  • boring things
  • her experience of moving to the UK
• the story of Chinese immigrant kids, specifically about the big move across the country?
• “I remember first seeing her, she was just like a stranger”

2 friends walk onto the tube, sitting in silence for a little while.

“so…. you know… i’ve been having like, ugh, i dont know… but..”

Train door closes… train starts to move, disrrupting her speech.

She leans in, restarting what she was saying.

“No, ok, I’ve been thinking recently, like we’re actually so blessed, like we’re really just taking everything for…”

Her friend finally reacts, “sorry what did you say?” she shouted over the noise of the tracks, disrrupting her again.

“I was saying,” she raises her voice. “I’ve came to a realisation recently, that life is actually so meaningful, like, I used to be so jealoused of everyone around me think ugh why is do they get everything but I’m just stuck with this? But you know it’s actually not worth wasting our time thinking like that ya know, actually no one’s perfect!”

Her friend sits in silence for a few seconds, her head spinning trying to understand what she said and finally reacts.

camera zooms onto her friend’s face (trying to piece together different words such as mean? ugh? worth? shopping? clothes? shoes? and comes up with the shoes) and then pans and zooms into a girl wearing a pair of crazy (ugly) pair of shoes.

“yes! yes! I agree! I love her shoes too! I want them!”

Her friends turns to her and smiles awkwardly. She looks annoyed and confused, (animation showing her internal conflict, debating whether or not she wants to repeat herself).

She signs, “No! What I’m try to say is…” her friend now distracted, trying to check what station they are at right now. “that we should be more grateful…”

Her friend nudges her with her shoulder “it’s our stop! go!”

She signs, giving up on sharing her life epiphany.

Initial Animatic

Animatic

Original Sand Animation Experiments

Projected onto floor

Walking around

SCENE 1

Starts with two chairs facing each other, suggesting a patient and a doctor, want to show scare and neglect from the patient’s’ side by making one of the chair wobble/shake/disappear.

Followed by title screen with audio of this:

“Cancer is one of those taboo subjects where our people don’t look to talk about, they felt that cancer is a death sentence, they felt that if you get cancer you hit a brick wall. That is not the case.”

SCENE 2

Transition –  The chairs fades/wobbles into the birds eyes view perspective of a crowd of people walking around until more than half of them walk off the frame (could show the paper edge texture was people walk off the edge onto a different frame in frame).

“They feel cancer is a death sentence,”

“They just disappear!”

SCENE 3

Start to follow one person from the crowd as they walk onto a road (in relation to “the beginning of a journey”).

“prostate cancer is not a death sentence, it’s something you have to take seriously and manage. It’s the beginning of a journey and you can turn that journey into a wonderful experience if you’re sensible” or “cancer is not a devil, there are cures for cancer”

SCENE 4

Transitions into bird eyes view of a family dining room, overlooking a table, chairs and kitchen counter. Starts off with father and son talking and then son reaching out to hold fathers hands (the hand holding scene can be a frame in frame, done with hand drawn textures):

“it is hereditary, it is something that ran it my family, my dad got treated and lived for 30 more years”

“I had a discussion with my dad when he was alive…”

Maybe mother walks into the room and hugs everyone, and time lapse starts showing quick movements of family time. Highlighting the longevity of the ‘30 years’.

ENDING

“ok I’m done!” (fades off with laughter)

ANIMATIC

FINAL ANIMATION DRAFT