Modify the FMP proposal

After careful consideration, considering limited time and energy, I wanted to improve the quality of the work, so I reduced the scene to two. At the same time, instructor Alan suggested that it is not necessary to make an animation with a storyline but an animation that can express emotions. Here is some reference:

https://digitalmcguffinshorts.blogspot.com/2022/07/animated-short-cinema-megalomania.html

In FMP, I would like to present the bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mood disorder characterized by periods of depression and periods of abnormally-elevated happiness that last from days to weeks each.^[4][5][7] If the elevated mood is severe or associated with psychosis, it is called mania; if it is less severe, it is called hypomania.^[4] During mania, an individual behaves or feels abnormally energetic, happy or irritable,^[4] and they often make impulsive decisions with little regard for the consequences.^[5] There is usually also a reduced need for sleep during manic phases.^[5] During periods of depression, the individual may experience crying and have a negative outlook on life and make poor eye contact with others.^[4] The risk of suicide is high; over a period of 20 years, 6% of those with bipolar disorder died by suicide, while 30–40% engaged in self-harm.^[4] Other mental health issues, such as anxiety disorders and substance use disorders, are commonly associated with bipolar disorder.^[4]

Research has been conducted on the relationship between dreams and mental illness.

Hagen sees delirium as a dream that is not caused by sleep. It’s caused by a disease. In his book Physiopsychology, Wundt commented, “virtually everything we see in mental hospitals can be experienced by ourselves in dreams.”
Such comparisons are based on many similarities between the two, which Spita lists as follows (Murray did a very similar thing) :
Loss of self-awareness or the appearance of obstacles, resulting in the inability to judge the state of the situation, the failure to produce a sense of surprise, and the loss of moral awareness, The faculties of the reasons are adapted.

That is, they are invariably reduced in dreams and are usually significantly increased in delirium;
The resulting relationship between crowns is out of proportion (hyperbole, illusion);
The personality changes (such as reversals) caused by the above factors, sometimes people’s personality traits will also appear to change or inversion (abnormal).

Radstock adds a few more features, and these are material similarities: “The vast majority of hallucinations and delusions occur in the visual, auditory, and general internal sensory domains, with smell and taste contributing the least, as in dreams; In delirium, a fever patient will recall the distant past, like a dreamer; The sleeping and the sick recall what the awake and normal man seems to have forgotten.” Just as the same family has many similarities in subtle facial expressions and strange applications, the similarity between dreams and psychosis can only be fully valued if it is extended to such a profound source.

I wanted to express the two diametrically opposite emotional periods in bipolar disorder by taking the two most emotionally infectious scenes in the four dreams. Ultimately, I locked the two scenes in the misty forest and the whale swimming.

Since the main storyline was discarded, the little girl, the protagonist, was also deleted. To make the two scenes more contrasting, I replaced the roller coaster in the misty forest with a nine-tailed fox, which, like the second scene, is an animal and a natural landscape.

Here are some references and concept maps:

The misty forest references: