Embrace your shadow and duplicity or go insane from stress.
This project is similar to my first project conceptually. I am trying to show the importance of acknowledging the shadow within or inner concscience. I see the shadow as the more instinctual and natural side of the psyche, and the outer concsience as the side most affected by modern society. In my narrative I plan to show the dual sides of a character and the consequences of suppressing his or her shadow.
The first scene will show the outer conscience worried about his or her appearance, and there will be several clocks on the wall symbolizing the impact of society. The second scene is the shadow surfacing and taking power. The third, is the shadow indulging in the guilty pleasures of life. Fourth, is the outer conscience killing the shadow as a symbol of repressing the inner conscience. The final scene will be the outer concsience zombified by the stresses of society.
I plan to photograph these locations again without the character in them and do handrawn animations on top of them in toon boom. I will do stop motion animation for the clocks. I will take the footage into AE for effects and camera movement.
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The pictures are Bad Ass boy! The clocks will work for excellent symbolism, but I'm not sure if I get the feeling of someone worrying about their appearance in the 1st picture, when he is in front of a mirror in a suit, tidying up his hair. I do get a sense of stress from the 2nd photo, and the others definitely appeal to classic Zombie nature. Deciding to use animation over the background photos you have yet to take should work nicely.
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly is it that's going to be animated? Are you going to animate the character instead of having the person that is currently in the pictures? If this is the case, you might want to consider what type of impact an animated figure in the real world might have on your concept. Also, you might want to take the idea of suppressing one's inner shadow a bit farther. I'm not sure that a figure looking in the mirror and clocks would get that idea across. In fact, I'm not sure I understand the clocks at all. These pictures that you've taken are very compelling, you might want to experiment with doing stop motion animation for the character as well.
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ReplyDelete1. Very intriguing concept. Hopefully the animated characters will work better than the first project's characters.
2. Interesting mix of film and animation. Will the characters just cover the humans in the film, or can it pushed so that you film the same shots twice- once with people and once without- and then add the animation to the one without people after you've drawn them?
3. Two characters means a split of self. How will the characters be colored? Will they be simple black shadow and white figure? Will they both be colored, one chromatic and one prismatic?
Concerns:
1. Are the scenes going to be stationary or is the camera going to be moving around the shot, following the characters and possibly zooming on on their actions?
2. Is the background going to be completely grayscale or is it going to be a rich, vibrant, colorful world that these two figures will be in?
3. Why just killing the shadow and leaving it there? Why not have the character consume the shadow into his being after killing it, to reaffirm the idea of suppression of self?