Flow Project
After being given the theme flow, I independently noted down some initial ideas before having my first meeting with my group these included, herding people and animals, the flow of conversation, comedy and music, gender fluidity, the path of least resistance, creative flow when there's no political resistance, sea creatures and the flow of a child's imagination
I had my first meeting with my group, and we decided to focus on the flow of a child's imagination as we felt that suited all our strengths and interest the most and started brainstorming ideas taking inspiration from films we had seen recently such as Jim Henson's Labyrinth, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and the YouTube series don't hug me I'm scared, and decided to focus our project on a fantasy world mirroring one that would live in a childs mind. We agreed the best way to do this would be through a stop motion scene including a range of unusual characters. We started thinking of characters to include and how we would actually make them.
The four main characters would be Barbies that have been changed into something less human and then dressed in eclectic outfits. The other characters we would make are Lego minifigures that have had their head taken off and replaced with some kind of plant influenced by the Shona Heath vouge photoshoot, I also wanted to include a kind of caterpillar/slug character inspired by the similar characters in Labyrinth and Alice in Wonderland, I made this using air-dry clay and then decorated him using acrylic paints and buttons. With more of the air-drying clay I made a mushroom with googly eyes as spots for the set which I then painted using acrylics again I thought went very well. The rest of the scene would be made up of small but unusual props to fill spaces, and for the background we would design an image based on the don't hug me I'm scared scene we were heavily influenced by.
After having a chat with David decided to alter our idea, he told us a story of how one day while watching a performance in a theatre the back of the stage fell down revealing a street and he talked about how shocking it was to be suddenly taken out of the immersion of the performance. We thought we could use this idea to represent the stop of the flow of a child's imagination as they get older and enter the "real" world. We think we're going to do this by at the end of the stop motion scene setting it all on fire while panning out to reveal it was just a set in a really mundane area such as a car park as all characters and entire set burn.
Day 2 of filming - We did the second day of filming in our accommodation as it was a lot easier for us and was the same place we planned to stomp on the set. Because of the location change we were able to experiment with more props and lighting with things like projectors. The second day of filming went well, we got the rest of the stop motion filmed as well as the destruction scene and edited it all together with dramatic classical music in the background.
I feel the final product turned out well but if I were to it again there's a few things I would change, I would film it on a camera and then turn it into a stop motion after rather than film it on a stop motion app as this would improve the quality, I would also make sure to film it all in the same place for consistency, give myself more time to make the set more full and intricate as I felt it looked a little empty and bare, and find an area to be able to execute the burning the set idea because I don’t think the trampling was as effective as the burning could have been. I do feel we were successful with the sense of whimsy we created and then how we quickly took away.
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