Outline for the Second Term Paper

I. Introduction - Laws of physics are constantly broken or bent to achieve a more entertaining effect in visual media. The principal of falling, among other rules, is one of the most commonly broken principles. In particular, the length of time in the fall is either exaggerated or abbreviated.

• Knick Knack-The snowman and his snowglobe fall for an extraordinary amount of time.
• FLCL-Characters either hover or fall faster than what is believable
• Oktapodi-For storytelling purposes, the octopus characters hover.

II. Knick Knack, the Pixar short film, utilizes exaggerated fall times to aid in the story

• The snowman spends an extraordinary amount of time falling
• As long as the snowman takes, the snowglobe, which began its fall simultaneously, takes almost twice as long

III. The anime, FLCL uses both exaggerated and abbreviated fall times. They are utilized mostly in fight scenes

• Takkun, the central character, experiences a comical "corkscrew" fall that is extremely slow in descent.
• Transversely, Canti, the "sidekick", commonly has extremely fast fall times. This is used to show speed.

IV. In the film Oktapodi, by students at Gobelins, the characters hover. Again, this is for the sake of storytelling

• During the "2-D" animated sequence, the octopus hovers.
• During the chase scene, both of the characters have slightly exaggerated hang times. They successfully prolong their time in the air by flapping their tentacles.

V. Conclusion.

• Although the laws of physics are broken, when done correctly, there is still a sense of believability.
• Sometimes, it is necessary to aid in storytelling.