Stop Frame Animation Attempts

I started filming clips for my music video, below are some. Some are just trial runs of ideas I liked and wanted to try out.The books growing are to portray the person growing, whilst the bigger books are to depict university. The cards coming out of the books are a depiction of his/her children being born and growing. Originally I would of liked to use small books to show this but found it hard to find these. In my actual video I hope to speed up the transitions. 

Planning The Scenes

Below is a rough idea of my scenes for my music video.





The Protagonist

Originally Jack Cowley was going to be my male protagonist, however, I have now decided to scrap this and show all my imagery through the protagonist’s eyes using point of view shots and stop motion. I hope this will add to this more symbolic approach I am hoping for. Here are some point of view shots I really liked.

Production Pitch

This is my latest idea for my production. Some of my ideas have changed significantly since my initial plan. I have decided to show the growth/metamorphosis of a person. It will start with their birth and end with their death; however, I want to show it symbolically so my male protagonist will remain the same age throughout. I have sorted the scene in units according to growth/life events of a generic person. I want it to be open for interpretation, hence why I am taking a symbolic approach. I hope some people can interpret as growth as a person but love the idea of it being left open for analysis. When watching pieces of media and theatre I enjoy being left the ability to construct my own idea of what has happened and viewing this against others opinions. I believe sometimes when productions are simple and easy to understand they can be uninteresting, deliberately making it more symbolic or less clear makes it thought provoking.



Production Pitch

Storyboarding and Scene Breakdowns

In recent lessons I have started to plan the scenes. I have now decided I want to show a life, in order for this to work I have planned each scene in chronological order which is matched to the changes in the music. Below are pictures of my draft storyboards so far:

The scenes:

1. Birth: 0 à 0.28

2. City (discovery of senses): 0.28 à 0.45

3. Discover: 0.45 à 1.01

4. Game/playing 1.01 à 1.08

5. Growing: 1.08 à 1.18 / Learning: 1.18 à 1.35

6. Teen life: 1.35 à 1.52 (music slows down- lost/discovery self)

7. Teen life- enjoyable: 1.52 à 2.08

8. University life: 2.08 à 2.42

9. Slowing down, finding work: 2.42 à 2.59

10. Working: 2.59 à 3.15

11. Love, finding/falling in love: 3.15 à 3.32

12. Marriage: 3.32 à 3.49

13. Children: 3.49 à 4.05

14. Children growing up and leaving: 4.05 à 4.22

15. Dying: 4.22 à 4.57

16. Death: 4.57 à 5.03

I want to take a very symbolic approach to these scenes rather than a realistic view. For example in the first scene, the birth scene, I want my male protagonist to be coming out of water (symbolic of him leaving the womb) cross-cutting with him walking through a tunnel towards light.

Location - Swanage

Last summer I went away with friends to south east Dorset, England. Whilst I was away I filmed random footage of out holiday. Although I have not sorted through the footage I thought this would be ideal for my some of my teen scenes. Below I have attached some pictures of the locations I filmed.