BA 5 - Project 1

Proposal: I am going to do 2D paintings, drawings and detailed story boards which

illustrates a cut scene between which will take place when leaving the earths atmosphere

in my groups game Peng from unit 4 along side this I am going to do 2 story boards for the

opening cinematic and the ending cinematic.

Outline: Because my group from unit 4 made a prototype for our game Peng a lot of the

games assets and animations and models are already done, I am planning on taking a 2D

approach to this brief my doing pieces of illustrated descriptive writing to explain a couple

of things our game still needs.

The assets that are needed for our game Peng is a opening cinematic at the beginning of

the game showing the beginning of the bird Peng’s life and also a similar cinematic at the

end of the game showing the final end of Peng. Another asset which is needed is a cut

scene when the bird leaves the wolds atmosphere and enters the solar system which is

needed for a smooth transition between the two different in game ‘worlds’. How I would

illustrate this which a collection of story boards and digital paintings showing the different

scenes of the cut scene along side this will be writing describing how it will all work.

Scene 1 - Life begins

Scene 1 is all about the start of Peng’s life. The main thing I wanted to capture in this
cinematic is the venerability of Peng, I wanted to capture the youth and innocents and
unknowing in him.
To do this I went about the approach that Peng comes from a pile of leaves which is a
concept we originally had when making the game demo in unit 4. The reason for this is
because of what Peng is, Peng is a bird of nature he grows grass is made of earth and
rock and eventually become planet size. So Peng must come from an organic source.
How the cinematic would work is it would start with the camera focused on a pile of leave.
then the camera would zoom in close to the pile of leave as it does this rustling and
movement happens slowly exposing Peng’s head. Peng shakes his head a few times and
leaves fall off. As this in happening the camera is slowly zooming out again while the
camera zooms out peng shakes all the leaves off him and eventually falling out the pile of
leaves. then the camera stays zoomed out focused on Peng. Peng then walks forward
gaining his balance until he is about a meter from the pile of leaves then he stops. At this
piont the camera pans around him in a 180 turntable effect until the camera is behind
Peng. At this point the sun ises over the water and the cinematic ends and the player
takes over.

Scene 2 - A New World

Scene 2 is going to be a cut scene to hide the loading of levels between the earth in game
world and the space in game world. To keep the relaxed open feeling game.
With scene 2 I knew going into it that it was going to be a brief scene purely because we
didn't want to take much gameplay away from the player. So the only main thing i wanted
to happen in it was for Peng to fly up and him burn through the atmosphere into space
loosing all his grass and dirt and leave him just as stone (which is level 6 in the forms).
The cut scene will start from the players behind Peng prospective. Peng starts to fly up
starting to leave the earth, he is building up speed as this is happening the camera starts
to zoom into Peng’s face which is now burning up as the atmosphere and the speed start
tearing off his dirt and glass and his body just leaving the stone. As the burning gets too its
most intense the camera suddenly zooms out as Peng breaks through the atmosphere
and slowly levels out now feeling as if he is going really slowly. Then Peng starts to move
forward into the sun as he sees it glowing around the planet earth. This is the end of the
cut scene and the player carries on from here.

Scene 3 - The End

Scene 3 is the final scene, the end of the game. The end of the game has to be epic,
seeing as you are now at this point a planet size epic fire version of Peng. Yet it has to be
fitting because this is also when Peng dies.
I went with the idea that Peng would meet the Sun as a old friend and he will stand in owe
of the sun then aggressively fly into it to meet his death. So in this scene I need to capture
the relationship with the sun and Peng and then Peng’s determination at of taking his own
life by flying into the Sun.
How this final cinematic would go is the camera would be behind Peng looking onto the
sun, showing Peng in all its glory as a silhouette in front of the epic Sun. This scene would
stay for a couple of second then it would cut to peng flying along the Sun. Then he starts
to descend into the Sun and starts to burn up and break down because of the shear force
of the fire based planet. This carries on until Peng is completely destroyed and nothing
remains, then there is a black out and the scene is just black and at this point an image of
the sun appears with the quote “Small understanding is no match for great understanding;
small knowledge cannot understand what great knowledge knows.” - Tao Te Cheng
appears in front of the sun.