Proposal
Capture the imagination of 8-14 year olds by creating a short animation that takes as its starting point the bizarre, wonderful, non-existence of the black hole.
Treatment
This live client project is sponsored by the Science Museum.
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
I will be producing a short 3D animation of at least 3 minutes, introducing the starting point of non-existent existence of the black hole. This is aimed specifically at children of ages between 8-14 year olds. So this short 3D animation should be kept clear, simple and easily understood by this age group. In order to introduce the idea of the black hole, I will first start to research into the area of physics; especially researching on ‘Quantum Theory’ and ‘Introducing Relativity’ on both books and websites.
I will be using Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and 3d Studio Max for this project.
This short 3D animation will have two main characters; one is a greatly known scientist ‘Einstein’, and another character is called ‘Mr.B’, which is going to represent a black hole. As this is meant to teach the children about the basic knowledge about the black hole, I’m going to have Einstein character to explain to the audience (i.e. the viewer) while Mr.B is giving demonstration of gravity and showing the characteristics of the black hole.
My rough ideas of the storyline will be;
1.) Introducing two characters to the audience.
2.) Einstein starts to explain about Mr.B (explanation about the black hole).
3.) Introducing the gravity with some explanation.
4.) Showing the power of Mr.B (Mr. B opening his big mouth-vacuum).
5.) Ends with Einstein being swallowed by Mr.B
Schedule; Production Plan
26/Jan/09 (MON) –Write proposal, planning the characters and sketching out rough ideas for the 3D animation.
30/Jan/09 (FRI) – Research into specific subject area.
Find out:
1.) What is a black hole?
2.) How is the black hole formed?
3.) Study about Einstein and the black hole.
4.) Study about gravity.
5.) Research about the relationship with light and the black hole.
6.) Research about Einstein.
02/Feb/09 (MON) –Finalize idea for the animation and start working. Produce storyboard and character designs. By this time, I should finish producing final ideas and the storylines for the animation. I will produce final designs for the two characters.
09/Feb/09 (TUES) –Produce storyboard with details written in. Finalize and checking on the storyline. Final amendment in character designs.
16/Feb/09 (MON) –Start modelling characters and settings using 3d Studio Max.
16/March/09 (MON) –Start rendering with camera work and adding movements to the characters. Also, start gathering sounds and voices on the voice recorder and sort out the sound studio.
23/March/09 (MON) –Start editing animations using Premiere Pro. Also, start sound editing and putting the animation and sound together. By this week, the animation should be done and I should start to sort out the music or dialogue that goes with the animation.
Edit animation, test the timing of the animation and music and check for any mistakes.
30/March/09 (MON) –Editing and finalizing animation. This is a testing and finalizing week. Produce written work that goes with the animation.
10/April/09 (FRI) –deadline for handing in simulated project product.
17/April/09 (FRI) –Produce an evaluation of 3,000 words with the title, “Cliect Project Module Evaluation”.
(Basic) Research-Website and Books
“What is a black hole?”
“A black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing can escape, even light.
To see why this happens, imagine throwing a tennis ball into the air. The harder you throw the tennis ball, the faster it is travelling when it leaves your hand and the higher the ball will go before turning back. If you throw it hard enough it will never return, the gravitational attraction will not be able to pull it back down. The velocity the ball must have to escape is known as the escape velocity and for the earth is about 7 miles a second.
As a body is crushed into a smaller and smaller volume, the gravitational attraction increases, and hence the escape velocity gets bigger. Things have to be thrown harder and harder to escape. Eventually a point is reached when even light, which travels at 186 thousand miles a second, is not travelling fast enough to escape. At this point, nothing can get out as nothing can travel faster than light. This is a black hole.”
“Do they really exist?”
“It is impossible to see a black hole directly because no light can escape from them; they are black. But there are good reasons to think they exist.
When a large star has burnt all its fuel it explodes into a supernova. The stuff that is left collapses down to an extremely dense object known as a neutron star. We know that these objects exist because several have been found using radio telescopes.
If the neutron star is too large, the gravitational forces overwhelm the pressure gradients and collapse cannot be halted. The neutron star continues to shrink until it finally becomes a black hole. This mass limit is only a couple of solar masses, that is about twice the mass of our sun, and so we should expect at least a few neutron stars to have this mass. (Our sun is not particularly large; in fact it is quite small.)
A supernova occurs in our galaxy once every 300 years, and in neighbouring galaxies about 500 neutron stars have been identified. Therefore we are quite confident that there should also be some black holes.”
“Cambridge Relativity: Black Holes”, Introduction to Black Holes, 1996.,University of Cambridge. http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/bh_intro.html
Capture the imagination of 8-14 year olds by creating a short animation that takes as its starting point the bizarre, wonderful, non-existence of the black hole.
Treatment
This live client project is sponsored by the Science Museum.
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
I will be producing a short 3D animation of at least 3 minutes, introducing the starting point of non-existent existence of the black hole. This is aimed specifically at children of ages between 8-14 year olds. So this short 3D animation should be kept clear, simple and easily understood by this age group. In order to introduce the idea of the black hole, I will first start to research into the area of physics; especially researching on ‘Quantum Theory’ and ‘Introducing Relativity’ on both books and websites.
I will be using Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and 3d Studio Max for this project.
This short 3D animation will have two main characters; one is a greatly known scientist ‘Einstein’, and another character is called ‘Mr.B’, which is going to represent a black hole. As this is meant to teach the children about the basic knowledge about the black hole, I’m going to have Einstein character to explain to the audience (i.e. the viewer) while Mr.B is giving demonstration of gravity and showing the characteristics of the black hole.
My rough ideas of the storyline will be;
1.) Introducing two characters to the audience.
2.) Einstein starts to explain about Mr.B (explanation about the black hole).
3.) Introducing the gravity with some explanation.
4.) Showing the power of Mr.B (Mr. B opening his big mouth-vacuum).
5.) Ends with Einstein being swallowed by Mr.B
Schedule; Production Plan
26/Jan/09 (MON) –Write proposal, planning the characters and sketching out rough ideas for the 3D animation.
30/Jan/09 (FRI) – Research into specific subject area.
Find out:
1.) What is a black hole?
2.) How is the black hole formed?
3.) Study about Einstein and the black hole.
4.) Study about gravity.
5.) Research about the relationship with light and the black hole.
6.) Research about Einstein.
02/Feb/09 (MON) –Finalize idea for the animation and start working. Produce storyboard and character designs. By this time, I should finish producing final ideas and the storylines for the animation. I will produce final designs for the two characters.
09/Feb/09 (TUES) –Produce storyboard with details written in. Finalize and checking on the storyline. Final amendment in character designs.
16/Feb/09 (MON) –Start modelling characters and settings using 3d Studio Max.
16/March/09 (MON) –Start rendering with camera work and adding movements to the characters. Also, start gathering sounds and voices on the voice recorder and sort out the sound studio.
23/March/09 (MON) –Start editing animations using Premiere Pro. Also, start sound editing and putting the animation and sound together. By this week, the animation should be done and I should start to sort out the music or dialogue that goes with the animation.
Edit animation, test the timing of the animation and music and check for any mistakes.
30/March/09 (MON) –Editing and finalizing animation. This is a testing and finalizing week. Produce written work that goes with the animation.
10/April/09 (FRI) –deadline for handing in simulated project product.
17/April/09 (FRI) –Produce an evaluation of 3,000 words with the title, “Cliect Project Module Evaluation”.
(Basic) Research-Website and Books
“What is a black hole?”
“A black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing can escape, even light.
To see why this happens, imagine throwing a tennis ball into the air. The harder you throw the tennis ball, the faster it is travelling when it leaves your hand and the higher the ball will go before turning back. If you throw it hard enough it will never return, the gravitational attraction will not be able to pull it back down. The velocity the ball must have to escape is known as the escape velocity and for the earth is about 7 miles a second.
As a body is crushed into a smaller and smaller volume, the gravitational attraction increases, and hence the escape velocity gets bigger. Things have to be thrown harder and harder to escape. Eventually a point is reached when even light, which travels at 186 thousand miles a second, is not travelling fast enough to escape. At this point, nothing can get out as nothing can travel faster than light. This is a black hole.”
“Do they really exist?”
“It is impossible to see a black hole directly because no light can escape from them; they are black. But there are good reasons to think they exist.
When a large star has burnt all its fuel it explodes into a supernova. The stuff that is left collapses down to an extremely dense object known as a neutron star. We know that these objects exist because several have been found using radio telescopes.
If the neutron star is too large, the gravitational forces overwhelm the pressure gradients and collapse cannot be halted. The neutron star continues to shrink until it finally becomes a black hole. This mass limit is only a couple of solar masses, that is about twice the mass of our sun, and so we should expect at least a few neutron stars to have this mass. (Our sun is not particularly large; in fact it is quite small.)
A supernova occurs in our galaxy once every 300 years, and in neighbouring galaxies about 500 neutron stars have been identified. Therefore we are quite confident that there should also be some black holes.”
“Cambridge Relativity: Black Holes”, Introduction to Black Holes, 1996.,University of Cambridge. http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/bh_intro.html
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