My concept for my Interactive Media assignment is a Flash video called Do Frogs Have Spines? It is a cheeky and stylized comic/game. Essentially, a frog will hop onto the screen, and then through a series of prompts the viewer will end up picking up the frog with a shovel, and flinging it across the screen. First, the question will be posed to them: do frogs have spines? If they choose “yes”, the frog will hop away unscathed and the screen will read “wuss”. However, if they viewer chooses “no”, splat goes the frog.
The story was inspired by a tree planter my sister once knew who didn’t understand that frogs had bones. Thus, thinking it wouldn’t hurt them he would catapult the animals with his planter’s shovel.
I imagine this animation being popular on sites such as E-baums World and Albino Black Sheep, for it is fashioned after the popular The End of the World animation, which made those sites famous.
Do Frogs Have Spines? is a little crass, and shares the same cringing, tongue in cheek, slightly sick humour as The End of the World. However, while The End of the World has an underlying social commentary, Do Frogs Have Spines? is pure, nonsensical fun. Aside from the feel of the humour, the two animations will also have a similar, childlike drawing style, and (hopefully) mine with inspire the same urge to re-watch again and again: I first saw The End of the World cartoon approximately 8 years ago, and still find it funny to this day. This is the value of its ridiculousness.
To prepare I will review the tutorials, specifically to master the process of tweening. The frog, to be enjoyably realistic, will have to hop properly, which will probably require a movie clip in conjunction with tweens. How to make the shovel tween so the blade picks up the frog, flings it, and has the handle come down, will be more complicated. I am not sure as of yet how I will do this.
Acey
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