The description is below, please scroll down. Thank you! Warning: Flashing images are included in this project. Disclaimer: This is not a game, fellow Scratchers. This is an animatic, otherwise known as a "choppy animation plan" or a "storyboard". For my creative piece, I decided to create an animatic about the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio. I connected the main plot of the story to the main character's favourite song, Space Oddity by David Bowie. I used a variation of smooth animation, choppy animation, and slideshow formats. I only implemented half of the song, however, due to time constraints. The lack of colours is intended to make the music video raw and monochromatic. Additionally, I decided to draw August (the main character with an extraordinary face) as an astronaut for several reasons. First of all, I did not want to draw his actual face in the book, as it would be complicated and too detailed to animate. There isn't really much to reference anyway, as August does not like talking about his appearance. Aside from that, August has a passion for Star Wars and other space-related themes. He relates to "Major Tom" in the song (Space Oddity), and he would often obstruct his facial features with an astronaut helmet.
This project was created for my book report on Wonder by R.J. Palacio. Art by MPRB Coding by MPRB Animatic by MPRB Story Concept by R.J.Palacio Song by David Bowie (Space Oddity) Thank you to the creators of the Scratch website, coding language and interface. I could not have made this animatic without you. Thank you to R.J. Palacio for writing the book Wonder. I would not have done a book report on this book if you hadn't written it. Thank you to David Bowie for writing Space Oddity, a significant song in Wonder and the music that I used in this project. Thank you to my parents for assisting me with the creation of this project. Your suggestions and feedback were very helpful. Thank you to my teacher for making me do this project. It helped me showcase my storytelling through animation. I hope this creative piece is satisfactory to you. Lastly, thank you to all the other viewers of this project. Thank you for reading this description. Enjoy! -MPRB
