Pre-production

Idea:

I plan to create a video game trailer that features various concepts of the game I will create, it will not show actual gameplay, but I plan to animate this to an extent using photoshop for the illustrations and aftereffects for the trailer and animation itself (or premier pro if this idea does not work).

The story board of the trailer will show a child by the name of Usagi (meaning hare or rabbit), it will present dialogue from the character's mother before flicking back to concepts of the protagonist. More dialogue will appear before showing a small amount of gameplay that will be sketched out briefly (as I am not planning to create the game), then showing more of the character concepts and dialogue before presenting the title name- that I am still working on. It will appear as more of a teaser trailer rather than a full-length trailer as I am unsure of how my time planning will go for this.

The main character will be called Sukoshi Usagi, meaning Little Rabbit, as he is a young child who is left to discover the big forest for himself.

In terms of the story itself, it begins with our protagonist who is seen having a happy, peaceful life with his mother to then suddenly being left all alone, having to piece the reason for this together on his own until he meets Shi- an untrustworthy-type character who soon becomes his friend with the idea of helping Usagi find his mother. The gameplay within this game will mainly be various creatures in the forest randomly attacking Usagi and Shi will be used as a defensive character to help in the background.

Sketch Ideas

Usagi being left on his own in the middle of a big forest- make the areas dark and threatening and Usagi small and defenseless.

Usagi with his mother- happy and content with bright and happy colours

When he meets Shi make him dark and untrustworthy within appearance to then blue backgrounds to show calm

Sketch out what the gameplay would look like

Each art piece for the final project will be sketchier looking/ less detailed.

Storyboard

The target audience for this video game will be 16+ psychological horror lovers who have an interest in video games like Fran Bow, Omori and Sally Face. The age rating is simply because of the dark themes and elements that will be added visually and metaphorically, there will be no bloody gore to give it a higher rating, however, casual in-game violence that you would see in most games will be used for the battle scenes in gameplay- this will not be shown within the trailer itself as I have decided it goes over the limits of what I am able to create at the moment.