Life A Journey On Train

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Life A Journey On Train

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I googled 'life is like a train journey'. I found lots of poems and this slide show. I'm going to read the pages and see if any ideas crop up.

One idea to to show the old man at the station at the beginning in darkness/evening time. Signifying coming to the end of his 'life' in this place. I'd love to show old versions of the stations.
An idea is to have a flickering light in the station at the beginning ( or when the transformations occur at the end of the short) as a device to show the old station.
Maybe i could use the light going form dark to bright streaks (streaks through trees image i have in my head from a few posts earlier!) , transformation occurs , and then fade back down to night time.

I like the idea of steam showing time passing but unsure how i want it to work. Show calender pages blowing away in the steam? just thinking aloud....

Story Development feedback from Ed Hooks

Recently I attended Animex 09 and took the 'Acting for animators' workshop with Ed Hooks.
It was a briliant day and Ed is very cool and intelligent guy.
I left the workshop with loads of new ideas about how story in film and animation really works. I love the idea of Shamans and 'what does the tribe need to know'. The day was filled with an amazing amount of stuff to take in. Ive since read one of his books and the stuff in it is genius. I would recommend his work to anyone in film/animation.
Hopefully i can use some of this in my work going forward.
For further information see here:
http://www.actingforanimators.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Acting-Animators-Ed-Hooks/dp/0325002290

Ed was also gracious enough to look over my story and provided alot of feedback regarding further development.(he replied to my email pretty much immediately).
One of his suggestions was to look into the subjects of transluscence and how Miyazaki plays around with being able to see through spirits. An excellent excuse to watch 'spirited away' again but this time pay particular attention to the spirits/train journey. (I've also come accross a film called ' The ghost and mrs muir'. I'm not sure how relevant that will be.)
Ed also suggested using the steam from the locomotive (showing passage of time) vs modern day trains.
I'm really grateful for the excellent insights.
(sorry if this post is a bit gushy but thats how i feel!)