Premise: Distilling my Animation - Telling my story in other ways

Rethinking of underlying value of Animation (notes):

What is the value of the animation?
- Stop children becoming monsters.

What is the value to the audience?
- The injustice of having a child's innocence taken from them by careless parents.

how am I showing that value?
- hild watches and learns the behaviour of its parents. Child becomes a monster through reflecting on self.

Is this animation about my fear of raising my son in the right way and failing to do so?

Fear: Child becoming a menace to society.

Child will learn things from me which will eventually turn him into a bad person. 

Monsters create monsters, behaviour is a process of learned behaviour, it is performative. 

Ways of telling this story:

1) from a childs perspective
2) as a metaphor
3) outside the relationship
4) internally from the parents perspective

Parent over exaggerates fears, a metaphor for anxiety, precarious situation, destruction of the relationship.

Short Ideas

1) The conductor conducts the orchestra, young instrument wanders off and wants to join punk band instruments, there is a conflict between the conductor and young instrument, internal working reveals the struggle to conform the young instrument is pushing it away. the conductor needs to let it go, lets it go. (conductor is an instrument which would never be in a punk band, the young instrument is a tambourine who wants to be a drum?) 

2) Moulding child in own image, child tempted by fun but dangerous events, struggle with angry/scared parents, exaggeration of drama until parent can't stop the events. child leaves, returns a better person having experienced dangers. 

3) Child curious about another child which is different in some way, a parent tried to keep them apart, child is determined and finds way to defy parent, unexpected outcomes turn out to be for the better. 

what is the child. A colour?, what if the child is visually auditable?  

Non-human characters, inciting incident leads to the climax of confronting the parent-driven anxiety of losing the child they created, a revelation of parent that they can't control child and must let go for the childs sake, the child then returns a better person to the parent.