Research And Idea's.

Most children's films have a moral to the story. We decided to look into these meanings to try and find idea's for our children's opening film. Some of the proverbs or morals we as a group liked were:
There's an exception to every rule.
Good things to come to people who wait.
If you cant beat em, join em.
You cant tell a book by its cover.
Money isn't everything.
A problem shared is a problem halved.

We have chosen to base our opening around the moral of "You cant tell a book by its cover". We picked this on over the others due to the diversity we can have by basing our opening around this.

The idea we had behind this moral is a story of a lonely, geeky little kid, on his daily life at school, his pushy parents, and him trying to talk to the opposite sex. We follow him through his daily routine at school, that ends with a confrontation of the school bully's. Everyone at the school labels him as a little geek who cant defend himself and is highly vulnerable. He then returns home to find a normal looking hat sitting on his bed. We end the opening with him placing the hat on his head. Then the title appears on screen with lots of stars around the title.

We have decided to use a voice over as we walk through his daily routine, as if we use this, we can greater illustrate the idea with out going into to much detail and leaving the viewer with lots of different questions as to much detail could result in us creating a short film or trailer.

Title: Monty and The Magical Hat.
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy.
Rating: PG
Hand drawn animation with voice over.