Over Spring break I spent a lot of time watching documentaries about cool stuff like ancient civilizations and dinosaurs. This past week I switched my focus to the annual reindeer migration in and below the Arctic Circle. I already had some reindeer characters I'd drawn up for a small-scale Christmas project, and watching the documentaries gave me a lot of ideas for stories I could tell through them. For this project I'm thinking smaller is better, but I'm interested in exploring the setting in a world-building sense through future projects.
I go into more detail about how I designed this character and the others on my website: https://www.meredithfinnigan.com/reindeer-2018
The northern wilderness is well-known for its beauty and expansiveness, I think it'd make a really interesting setting to explore in a short film! Especially since I'm interested in color and lighting, the seasonal shifts of the Arctic offer a lot of possibilities.
This concept is also interesting to me because it turns out that the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco has a seasonal exhibit on the migration! I live just south of SF, so now I'm kicking myself for not thinking of going while I was home over Winter break. It looks like it would have given me a lot of inspiration! Luckily there are a lot of materials online I can look through.
Map source: http://www.kristenkong.com/californiacoast/
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