The Last Whale

Rebecca Jamieson
Log Line
• A young whales mother is killed by a
whaling ship and he is forced to try and
survive on its own; combatting hunger,
loneliness, fishing nets and more, this
tale follows along the highs and lows as
the last whale makes it through his
perilous journey alone.
 STYLE & INFORMATION
• Watercolour/Ink/Painted
• Texturised background
• Colour or the lack of colour is integral to the story
• Raw and experimental feel to it
• Deep emotional connection to sound
• Roughly 2/ 2.30 minutes in length
• Lots of parallaxes
• Ink blots
• Real painted traditional feel
• Expresii software for ink characteristics
BEGINNING
• Mother & Calf set the scene – build
up the emotional connection
Colour floods this scene
Act 1 (think finding nemo’s beginning)
• Mother is killed by Whaling ship
Dark grey aesthetic, bellowing clouds
• Calf left to defend for itself, struggles
on into the distance calling out with
no answer
Act 3 Act 2 somber dark colour’s and emotional
feel
MIDDLE
• Calf struggles to find food
• Pollution in the ocean, dark and
Act 4 dangerous
• Gets trapped in a net and injured,
limps off bleeding into the distance
Act 7 Act 5 only red in the film
• Keeps calling into the distance with
no answer, empty solemn and silent
Really show the struggle that the calf
Act 6 has to overcome, with little spots of
colour that signify hope
END
• At the lowest point for the Whale calf he
hears a Whale song from the distance
colour floods back into this shot with the
idea of hope
Act 8 music builds dramatically
• As the whale reaches the surface
swimming towards the call the colour
drops away and, the sound turns to
ominous silence as the whaling ship
from the beginning is what has been
calling out to him.

Act 10 Act 9 • Film ends with that surface shot fading

to black, unsure of the outcome
CONCEPTS
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INSPIRATION
INSPIRATION
INSPIRATION