The Animated Self Animation Development

Below is my initial idea for my Animated Self Animation in the form of notes I wrote up on the train, so apologies if it's a little hard to read...

If you couldn't understand my poor hand writing, I am basically setting out to animate a dream sequence. For this project I have been inspired by TV shows such as David Lynch's Twin Peaks and The Sopranos.

In particular, I love the dream sequences that happen in The Sopranos because to me, someone who is naturally fascinated about the concept of dreaming because to me, when you see dreams on TV or in films they are often very on-the-nose with what a character is feeling. For example if a character is scared about going to school because of a bully, then what a character dreams about is that bully chasing the character as a huge monster.

Real dreams are not like that, you often do not dream about what is most prominent on your mind, often you dream about things that are at the back of your mind or things you simply don't want to think about. Sopranos dream sequences are very good at conveying what a character is feeling without you actually being told, they serve a purpose so they are not always just a random occurrence of images.

But for me the struggle was figuring out which dream I wanted to animate and this was something I couldn't do. I've had plenty of dreams I feel would be fun to animate. Therefore I decided to put a few dreams I've had into a short 20 second sequence spending around 10 seconds on one dream and then just a few seconds on the others.

The idea was that one dream would be the central dream and then I would only take elements from other dreams I've had.

I can't see anyway to avoid this, this is the main dream I had in mind to animate.          
Basically I'm walking through the college and I pass the sound booth where Matt is simulating childbirth and Olly and James are gathered around him acting as midwives. I knock on the sound booth door, Oscar opens it and I ask 'do you still need me?' He then hands me a massive amount of paper and tells me 'go learn your lines'. I just thought it would be a fun dream to animate because it's slightly bizarre but is not too surreal.

Then what else will happen... I'll storyboard that...