My lecturers recommended I experiment with a different take on the story as it and the motives were still unclear. I tried retelling it as follows:
The boy exits a cave/den riding a stick as if it is a horse. He rounds a corner and seeing a goat watching him, pauses looking embarrassed. The boy then discards the stick and wonders off. Suddenly an idea strikes him and he stops, turning slowly to face the goat. The boy then starts to sneak menacingly towards the goat who looks up, but the boy casually pretends to be playing. The goat looks away and the boy continues sneaking, but gets too excited and starts running and screaming, which sends the goat bolting off into a chase around the tree resulting in the boy tripping over a tree root. Lying on the floor the boy sees the plum and gets a new idea to entice the goat over to him. He offers the plum to the goat who backs away nervously, but the boy nods encouragement. The goat cautiously moves around the root and the boy gives more encouragement. The goat happily canters over, only for the boy to dive on its back, causing the goat to goat lose balance. The boy feeds the plum to the goat then jumps up and down to starts the goat galloping off. However, the boy struggles to stay on and falls off landing next to his discarded stick. The boy seeing the discarded stick picks it up and decides it was not so bad after all and gallops off with it.
I think the new version has a clearer told story and some nice animation, but I still think the last blockout has more potential to show off animation skills.
