burned out - an

animation
by katie cornish
 contents
page one
burned out
- my production
⌦ a link to my animation on my youtube channel, title and song credits

- synopsis
⌦ a brief description of my animation and the general idea of it all

- film festival
⌦ a small summary of the film festival i chose, and its rules and
regulations.
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page two
burned out
- Publishing my animation
⌦ research and elimination of the best place to promote my piece

- Idea generation
⌦ an explanation on my thought process for my ideas for this project, and how i
made my decision

- target audience
⌦ research on my target audience, if i reached it, what they thought
of the project and general feedback
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page three
burned out
- what i researched
⌦ a summary of research i did to help support my piece

- adaptation in my work
⌦ how my research helped, improved and changed my initial plan and

- after pitch questions

⌦ questions for you about my work
 My
production
A short that captures the essence of greed, power and abuse
within a superhuman family. Showing the rise and fall of
characters the world put on pedestals.

burned out synopsis

 my production

title
- burned out

song credits
- dodie - the orchard label
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why this song?
a brief explanation on the songs importance
 why this song?

1 2

this song fit the fire related theme,
and reflected on the feeling of the
characters being physically and
emotionally “burned out”
this song had a story which already
had meaning, but created a blank slate
for me to work off. the theme of the
song fit the story almost perfectly, just
needing a little tweak. [eg fairy/hero]
 film festival

a brief on the film festival i chose

and the guidelines i had to follow in
order to submit.
london short film festival

https://www. shortfilms.org.uk
 rules and requirements

1 2 3

length genre finished

it has to be no longer than can fall in any genre or only completed and
45 minutes, no minimum medium [eg horror, finished short films will
time frame stated. animation etc] be aired/screened
 film festival
did i fit the
criteria?
genre?

? ✓
length? finished?
It was an
animation, so it fit
✓ ✓

my short was around 3 i had finished my

minutes 30 seconds piece on time
02 Target audience

Who my audience is, what they like and what they wanted to see.
 audience
map [not to scale] audience
35%
75%

Sending my survey out to an online chat of

fans of the show, i managed to grasp onto
where my audience was from. Most of the
audience being european or british, with
the small remainder being from america
 target audience
age mha/bnha fans What social media do you
use to watch media?
10-13 14-17 mha not mha
fans fans

70 20
:)

:)
5% 5%
% %
40% 60%

all survey information is taken best social media to

straight from my survey monkeys
70 30% publish? youtube
%
 publishing my animation
i had a few options
WHERE TO
like vimeo, youtube PUBLISH? 1
and twitter After research i found
WHICH ONE IS that youtube has the
2 BEST? highest reach in
audience
and i also found out that
the most common site in
my audience was youtube
why? 3
on average, youtube has
How many people around 2 billion users
4 on youtube? visiting their site a
month
youtubes high audience could
give my film more views why is this good? 5
than other sites
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idea generation
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idea 1
a coming of age story, the
struggles and joys of a
transgender teenager [ftm]
idea summaries
idea 2 idea 3
a thriller about someone an animation following a
trying to run away from story of an abusive
home, but every door they household, within a
open leads them back to a superhuman society
different room.
 idea generation

idea 1 idea 2
Around 15% 15% 25% Just about 25%
of my initial voted idea 2, my
audience voted for least confident
idea one idea

I was most confident in the

idea 3 third idea, animation
And lastly, 60% of
60%
my first audience
voted for idea 3, my all survey information is taken straight from my
most ambitious idea. survey monkeys
04 what i researched

videos, tips, c&c’s and much more

 research
DABI
SAD-IST CODES
A 39ANIM.
second animation codes to follow in
an up and coming
with my characters animation and music
animator on youtube
included videos

CONVENTI ANIMATIO ANIMATIC

ONS
conventions to follow in N S
animatic definition and the dif
animation and music animation as a whole between animation and
videos animatic
 SAD-ist’s work

lipsync environment
I tried to mimic the way SAD-ist The way SAD-ist creates
lip syncs her characters 3D scenes in a 2D
to speech or music.
environment

colour what i could have done

i wanted to create a simple color i wish i could have followed her
palette like SAD-ist does in her character shape and fluent
animations movement better
SAD-ist work examples
colour and shadows

environment

lip sync example [timestamp]

 dabi animatic

Colour character
emphasis
red in wings and hair,
s
Easy to tell characters
scars, blue eyes apart

solid drawing movement

The animation of each
Drawing of each frame character moving was nicely
is appealing paced
feedback
 feedback

✔ ✔ ✘
song choice drawing blank spots
People praised my
People really ability to portray the
Some people though that
enjoyed the theme the blank spots during the
characters and make instrumental parts of the
of fire throughout them easily song could lose attention,
the short, even with recognisable in my and could have had a
the song style small scene to fill it up
 burned out - pitch

any questions?

[eg. what made you think of this idea?

Why this idea, why this subject matter?
what part of production was the hardest for you?

thank you !!