Short Film (Mask)

Story

A kid went out with his mother on a rainy day. Before going out, the mum had
put on a mask. The boy was curious as to why his mother did that so often, but
never raised a question.
At the marketplace, the boy saw many different people, each with a mask on.
He realised that some of them, like his mother, seem uncomfortable but had the
mask hide their true emotions. Soon after, they arrived at a store and the mum
got the boy to choose a mask. They buy that mask, and the boy has been using
it ever since.
As the kid grew up, he had his family too. It was time for his own daughter to get
her own mask and enter society, and the now grown-up boy brings her out to
buy it. 

Setting: Victorian Era upper-middle class town in Europe

Visual Development

Screencap

 The album is to show the innocence and the liveliness of the protagonist at start of the animation.

 The mom put on her mask-to face the world.

 Boy's point of view of the trading going on at one of the stalls, and he realised that just like his mother, everyone at the market is also wearing a mask.

 The Boy got his own mask at the market. The design of the mask symbolizes the fear that the boy is trying to hide . while he hide his true feelings, the long "beak" protects him from of negative feelings from getting near him.

And the cycle continues with the protagonist who grow up bringing his daughter to get a mask.