Two little dicky birds

Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall,


One named Peter, one named Paul.


Fly away Peter, fly away Paul,

Come back Peter, come back Paul!










We were given a task to create a story board based on a nursery rhyme, i decided on two little dicky birds as mine. We were told to create no more then 12 frames on the story board. It took me a while to decide on which rhyme to choose as they mostly seemed to be really simple like the one i chose which means thinking of 12 frames worth of story was very difficult. This was the same with the more complex rhymes although rather then not enough information, two much seemed to be being told in the story making it hard to translate and decrease. 

I decided i would go for a simple story and add a twist to the story, like a back story to why the two birds flew off and then came back. 

Firstly we planned out our story boards using sticky notes to plan it out first, that way we could easily move the story board and order of the frames around and easily re-do them if needed before moving on to the finalised story board. 

As the nursery rhyme two little dicky birds doesn't tell you much about the birds, i decided to make a side story, giving some context to why the birds flew away to help make an interesting and engaging animation out of it. I had the two birds fly and sit on a wall waiting for a female bird to come who they both have a liking for. She turns up and flirts on with them a little, before flying off. they both in a struggle fly off after her pushing as they go not realising she has flown to go see the big sexy bird on a tree in the park. feeling defeated they fly back to the wall and make friends.As the nursery rhyme two little dicky birds doesn't tell you much about the birds, i decided to make a side story, giving some context to why the birds flew away to help make an interesting and engaging animation out of it. I had the two birds fly and sit on a wall waiting for a female bird to come who they both have a liking for. She turns up and flirts on with them a little, before flying off. they both in a struggle fly off after her pushing as they go not realising she has flown to go see the big sexy bird on a tree in the park. feeling defeated they fly back to the wall and make friends through common grounds.

To create my final story board i first planned it out once more in my sketch book, adding direction for the characters, like key movements or station what kind of shot i was using, also using pen and water colour, later i cut out the scenes in card, painting each with gouache.