Pitch for "The Egret"

Log Line: An egret ignores his responsibilities to gather food for himself and falls into self-destruction by becoming dependent on the human hand for food.

Synopsis: A baby egret who lives in a city canal ignores his mother's fishing lessons as he is more interested with the free food being given by humans to other animals up on the neutral ground. The egret leaves his family and feeds upon what is freely given by the human hand and grows dependent. By the time the egret is grown, the feeding of canal animals is forbidden and his food flow ceases. The egret goes to several different sources for food including a man eating french fries in his car, stealing from other egrets, and trying to eat the vegetarian food of a nutria, but all of his attempts to get food from another fail to suffice his hunger. The egret's last resort is to try to fish for food himself, but he has no skills in fishing. During his attempts to fish for food, the egret becomes food himself.

Tone and Execution: My approach to this project was to create a story to be executed in the style of a fable. In order to do establish that tone, I incorporated a lesson to be learned and many non-human characters.

Objective: My objective for this project is to execute how the sin of sloth can be self-destructive to one's life conveyed through a personified animal character.

Target Audience: The message delivered in this animation is targeted towards young adults and older, but the characters, places, and terms used in the piece should be more familiar to the people in my audience who share the culture portrayed.

Positioning: I plan to reach my audience with a comical story, a friendly aesthetic, interesting characters, a valuable lesson, and references to a certain culture.

Mandatories: What was needed to make this project happen is

• good story/concept
• interesting characters
• software
• music and sound

Inventory: Animation is completed with the exception of a few revisions needed. Sound and music is still needed.

Time line: A list of revisions has been made for the animation. Those revisions will go into affect right away. The next step is to acquire sound-effects and find or produce music. The weekends plus my Fridays off from school will be greatly utilized for the post-production of this piece. Any sculptural projects in relation to this piece will be created in my Sculpture 3 class, which I have every Wednesday.