I personally consider morals as the key role to any story you can possibly tell. I've decided to go through some of the lessons that I find significant to myself and I will see how successfully they can spin their own story. By researching into my own interests and hobbies I will see how I can tie it all effectively together and develop a tale. Everyone has their own personal interests and they are typically the best starting point that any story can have. As they can possibly lead you somewhere new and change how you may think about the world too.

When it comes to story writing the beginning questions that should be asked is why are you writing a story? What do intend the message for this story to be? Many of the more successful stories use morals as a guideline to develop a working world, it leads up to the important message. These stories constantly say something about the world you live in. This is shown evidently in animations as well books. All fables give you sense of perspective and teach an important lesson, this comes in as more important to a younger generation but it still speaks to older generations as well. To give a moral to a story also emotionally invests you to the characters, about their struggles to reach that lesson.
Two animations I have seen that speak of  this message is 'Sintel; with every revenge there consequences' and the 'Dam keeper'.

Sintel is a cgi animation that efficiently blends the fairytale element with reality and tells a significant story with a moral. The animation showed the struggles of a character and gave a lesson of how you can easily lose sight of your goals, that bitter emotions you harbour will inevitably ruin you and all the time will be wasted. Perhaps one of the more darker tales for the lesson learnt.

When creating an imaginative story there needs to be a good comprehension of how a story is developed. With this project I plan on working out the common writing methods to a story. One of more favoured books of my own childhood was the Firebird by the ladybird book series, this small book successfully managed to have a large story take place and have the illustrations complement the events going on seamlessly. Both the writing and imagery should be able to fit together with a story, even better if they do not require to be codependent on each other to achieve a story.

Currently one of the works I'm making for the fmp project centres on having a tea set with a Chinese atmosphere to match with the illustrations. The photo below is my plaster cast of a small teacup I made during ceramics. The process to making a plaster cast is having a box shape that can fit in what is wanted. Rolling out a slab of clay that will fit neatly into the bottom of the box where the top of the cup get pressed into and brushing on oil in the inside of the box and the object so it all slides out afterwards. The brush will need to cleaned well after oil or it will be unusable. Generally its good to have another box roughly the same size as the other instead of using perhaps a bucket, as you'll need to be a good judge of measuring the amount needed otherwise. So with the other container judge a halfway point of how much cold water will go in and then scoop up the gypsum plaster and sprinkle it over the water in the container quickly. It needs to be consistent by taking care not favour any areas while shaking it over. When there's half of the powder and water stir them together to have a liquid cake like mixture, a way of telling a half way point has been reached is if there are 'islands' all over the water. Pour all the mixture in and then lift up down that container to get out the air bubbles. Any remaining mixture should be thrown in the bin and the containers should be given a second bath in a bucket at the sink to avoid clogging the pipes.