Revision Ramblings
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By Helen Merete Simm in MA Final Project Published: Tuesday, 17 February 09 - 11:54 AM (GMT) |
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After the Alan Gilbey workshop I realized that in fact my animation only has two acts. It includes the setup and the build up, but no resolution.
We introduce our character and his dilemma but in no way do we offer a resolution, unless the fact that he is on a dating show in the first place is his resolution.
I suppose we could have the 3 acts as follows:
1. Introduce our character and his problem.
2. Explore his troubles in love (dog scene and girl scene)
3. End up back where we started, with him on the dating show.
It is not a very satisfactory resolution, is there something more that could be done, or is this merely to be an exercise in character development?
Second issue is, can the whole film be created without words? What visual stimuli can we use to convey his loneliness and the hopelessness of him situation? What if the whole thing had him talking, but instead of hearing him talking, we hear a song.
So it would be a music video. The music would of course have to set the correct mood for the story, but what do we need to hear him say, if anything?
Think Kenna’s music video BLISS with the small being working away at his invention.
Rewrite script again and again until it works.
Lets explore our characters a little better.
Alan/Alex?:
Alan is 27 years old. It’s been about 9 years since he became a zombie, but in no way is this definitive of his personality.
He is an avid music lover, the kind of guy who loves Coldplay, Athlete, alternative music etc. He wears obscure t-shirts with obscure band names. His hair is a little shaggy and honestly he never worried too much about fitting in, but he does shop at Topshop…just to be on the safe side. His jeans are neither baggy nor skinny, but they are rather fashionable and he washes them at least every 2 weeks.
Converse shoes are the only label item he buys, and he loves them to pieces, almost as much as his Vans.
He’s a good son, studied hard in university, wanted to be a musician but ended up studying literature. Good thing too since writing is something he can still do even as a zombie. Now he handles all his writing submissions online.
He grew up in the outskirts of a large English city, likes the countryside, but also likes reaching town quickly so he can hit the nightlife which he used to rather enjoy, but lately it hasn’t been the same at all.
Possibly have him dressed in a blackish over washed t-shirt with a rather emo broken heart on it. His jeans are rather skinnyish and also black. If possible have him wearing converse. But his hair is NOT emo. Its scraggly though and missing in patches. Little bits of skin are peeling off his face as if no longer glued to the bones.
He isn’t so good-looking, not ugly, but maybe his nose is a bit large for his face, and his mouth a bit small.
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