Story Development

The original story outline followed the poem pretty closely, concentrating on the courtship of the characters, with a segment towards the end concerning environmental issues such as deforestation and animals habitats being destroyed. This coupled with a narration of the poem over the top.
After meeting with the guest lecturer, David Bull, he suggested to have other story elements going on, to free up the animation, and perhaps even have the first half a comedy, to contrast with the environmental point later.
I have to admit I wasn't too keen to make the first half an all out comedic segment, as I felt that this would detract from the poem, but I took on board the idea of having the animation have other elements too it away from the poem, and instead of having an out and out laugh fest at the beginning, i decided instead to implement moments in the film that make you smile and smirk, more subtle humour.