Final Major Rationalle

I have learnt a lot of CG skills over a my time on this course, and I know there’s still lots to be learnt, as with my pervious project I designed a brief which was to help me with my animation skills, to develop them further and understand more about some technical side of things more too. I now feel that I need to put these skills to more practice. So I have decided to make an animated short film which is relied upon the narration that has been pre-recorded, and from some pre-recorded audio, I will develop the short film around it after I have edited the narration to my requirements. The actual content is World War 2 related, and the whole concept of the animated film, is really going to be an edited account of a certain persons time during the events of World War 2. Already I have ideas of how the film is going to look, from some content already found, I believe it is going to be comical and will have a rather cartoon look to the characters etc. The film ‘War Story’ from Aardman animations has inspired me to do this. I feel that as I have a strong interest in the overall subject, and my existing knowledge will help, with the technical side of things, factual aspects and of course the animation.
As my whole idea for this film, is based around one character, I can see myself having very little problems for the realisation. For certain scenes I may need more than one character, and I have the idea to have one character and just edit the mesh several times, this way it saves me making whole characters from scratch, so the initial first thing I need to do is design a neutral character, so then all the characters will have the same stylistic outlook As for a soundtrack, I don’t think it would be essential, as comedies don’t seem to work well with them, but I will investigate this anyway, as it may need the odd sound to emote audiences emotions (like what they do in horror films).
As for the whole duration of the film, I am not certain yet, I think it could be 5-10 mins give or take, it All depends on my audio content, and how much scenes I will add in.