Character and Narrative- Getting a project idea

Ideas and Thoughts

Titles to work with:

Happy Days

Predator Pray

Leap of Faith

Opposites Attract

Road to Nowhere

The Message

Last Chance

Adrift

Rivals

One the first day of getting the brief, I did some spider diagrams of ideas for the titles and which stood out the most to me for potential. These ended up being, The Message, Rivals, Opposites Attract and Happy Days. I really want to work with stop motion this year as i didn't manage to do it last year so i'm thinking of ideas that i would be able to make, build and film that wouldn't be too complicated.

I was originally thinking of working with someone for this project but when talking it over with people who i were also going to do stop motion, I didn't feel confident enough to work with them with the ideas they were going for, but I will defiantly have to work with them in the future to get used to being with others as in the industry your never working alone.

The idea i've had has changed and progressed through the week of when it was set. Ive been storyboarding along the way to show where my ideas have been going and what they used to be compared to the final idea i have thought of. I did these as thumbnails in a note book so i could jot down ideas quickly that i didn't need to take too much care with.

These were in a graveyard where a zombie was coming and discovering a skeleton who's head had fallen off which he was going to correct (left) or a zombie breaking out of his grave (right)

First Idea

The briefs, my ideas work into would be The message, Opposites Attract and Happy Days. The environment and scene will be in a gravesite so, Im thinking of a zombie coming out of his grave, struggling and pushing his way out, before finding the grave next to his being empty like something else had come out of a grave too. He will look worried before walking around the site and finding the female zombie sat on a headstone looking at the moon. When he walks up and she turns, the audience will realise she has one of his arms as her own, connecting them together.

Im hoping to be able to build all of these as stop motion characters and set, but i would like to experiment with paper cut out and digital so as i progress i am needing to be thinking of how i would like the overall piece to look. My tutor suggested looking at Paddington Bear, I had not realised until searching it that the set used to be done in pen, Paddington was an actual bear and the people around him here paper cut out and some digital so it was really interesting to see how all the different elements look in one animated story.