https://artslondon.padlet.org/sjohnson0320211/3qbb921y2w88wejj
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Additional writing about sources used has been added below too.
Moodboard, research+ notes part 1:
\Chosen words: Star, Electrify, Fall, Devour, Pity
Initial story ideas from word cloud words : Star= character (could symbolise a happy character bc of light or a hot headed character bc stars burn)
Electrify= smth inspires them to action, or something makes them curious etc
Fall= they trip up over their own pride, they fail etc
Devour = The action or the something that sparks curiousity in them can devour their everyday life, or it could be something related to food
Pity = Another character could pity them and help them out of their fall, or they can have pity on themselves and get out of the place they ended up
List of references (in order of idea progression from start of the project to the end):
Glass Mask
CONTRETEMPS
Spirited Away
Howl’s Moving Castle
Norman McLaren (Dots)
The Little Prince (in terms of story themes and mood)
Animators/films looked at for inspiration (+notes):
The monsters in ‘CONTRETEMPS’ are similar to No Face in the banquet scene, but instead of food, they are devouring the main character’s sense of security in the outside world.
The freeform shapes in Norman McLaren’s dots and his use of sound design to accompany the shape’s movement and transformation was a key inspiration to us for our project since the beginning when we first started thinking about how the stars in our film could move.
Finalised series of events (written before animation begun)
Beginning: Character gets surrounded by stars
(Zoom in to character’s eyes/face)
Middle: They try to catch one (having an over confident demeanour), (Zoom in to cupped hands holding the star or them grabbing the star so hard that it splits, see initial sketch sheet)
Star splits into multiple and this dissolves and surrounds them.
The character will have a shocked expression and then the star will zoom into their mouth, causing them to swallow it and combust.
End: Zoom in to the beginning scene with character missing but with signs they were there in the past (cape floating, ribbon floats to the ground (resembles the stars), indent on the ground where they once stood
Additional notes:
Perhaps instead of the character being missing they can be transparent and fade away, (wearing star crown and star design appears on their cape*)
*appearing after the star they try to catch splits and surrounds them
Main colour scheme will be blue, yellow, pink (before saturation caused by the stars appearing)
Story goes from night time to early morning, see mood board corner for time of day colour inspiration