yelli anna
Based on my love and recently developed appreciation for suburbs and how they play a crucial part in nurturing local and sustainable practices, I have created a short animation that introduces us to a suburban food stall owner who has been at his craft for over forty years.
All the visuals created in this short are based on my five years of experiences at Yelahanka, a suburb of Bangalore which has fallen victim to rapid urbanisation.
While the individual assets created are based on real world observation studies, the final location and character created for this animated short is completely fictional. This creative freedom helps me exaggerate emotions and aspects of visual storytelling.
CONCEPT
While the mono-cultured urban crowd from the mega city anxiously trots the world on a daily basis to find themselves and their purpose of existence,
Life thrives in the forgotten by-lanes of the suburbs. Here time seems to move differently, savouring on moments that bring diverse people together.
One particular street food stall run by Yelli Anna is very popular amongst the locals, known for the love and attention he pays towards cooking all his meals.
The world stands still while you relish eating food there.
log line
While observing the fast city lifestyle, we wander into one of its forgotten suburban by-lanes, where time slows down and life is celebrated.
3 Shot Breakdown
of character introduction
Shot 1 | establishing shot | World
While we are standing in one of the suburban streets, we see tall skyscrapers of glass and steel piercing the sky in the background with bridges and other urban elements passing above us.
Shot 2 | Long shot | Situation
We travel through the lanes of this quaint suburb and absorb all the rich and diverse culture the people and the place has to offer. The time moves in a completely different pace and the sights and sounds are just mesmerising.
Shot 3 | Close up shot | Character introduction
We see a locally customise rickshaw food cart parked under a tree with Yelli Anna welcoming us to his stall with a broad smile.
Asset List
Shot 1
Mega Buildings X3, Aeroplane, Clouds, Hoardings, Fly-over, Street lights, Cell tower, Tall Buildings.
Shot 2
Shops (medical), Temples, Mosque, Shops (mobile), Shops (wholesale), Shops (clothes), Shops (barber), Shops (supermarket), Gym, Cows, Dogs, Vehicles, street lamps+tyre, empty plots, Under-construction Building, Flowering trees, Peacocks, Monkeys.
Shot 3
Rickshaw food stall, Yelli Anna, Trees, Crowd, Lamps/fairy lights, lake ?
MOOD BOARD
Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalised, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, an ubiquitous data-sphere of computerised information, and invasive modification of the human body.- Lawrence Person[wiki]
I was studying a lot of akira frames for the 1st shot as it dwells into a similar mood and tone that i was aiming for.
shot 2 went into night time local markets and shot three went into close up.
the over all emotional experience the audience should go through is like the feeling Anton Ego gets when he is teleported to a feel good memory because of the food consumed.
