Changed idea of story outline

As weeks have gone by, and working on the special study I have been thinking of the main story outline of the piece. Based on how my piece will be displayed on the Degree Show I would like my animation to loop. Since my last updated idea, I have changed it once again. At the moment, I am thinking not to use the video footage of 'fake' break in into the house, this is because my piece will not loop.

Idea for Degree Show at The University of Huddersfield

For my Degree Show at the university, my piece will be based more on the construction side. For example, a stop-frame animation of the wallpaper-cutouts appearing on the walls. Next, a stop-frame animation of colour appearing onto the wallpaper-cutouts, which is then followed by short animations based on the seasons.

In the end of the construction piece, I will make a video footage of the urban installation which will be played after the construction piece.

One Day Viewing of Urban Installation at it's location

Because my actual installation is located in Halifax. I will invite everyone during one of the days of the Degree Show to come and view the installation itself. Viewers will then see my urban installation running constantly. Therefore, the idea of the break in footage would not work and also because I will not be able to display the construction piece as the construction of the walls will already be completed, i.e. stop-frame animation of wallpaper-cutouts and of colour. So then the viewers arrive to the location, they will walk into a room that is full of colour and cutouts. However, to make it interesting and last slightly longer, I will have the short animations looping. For example in Spring, birds flying will be a short animation. Another set of short animations will be displayed for the Summer, Autumn and Winter. When the projector rotates back to spring, a different animation will be played. This time it may be a squirrel after an acorn, etc. Same for the other seasons. So when the viewers are viewing the piece, they will not be looking at the same animation over and over again.

Update to Storyline of Animation

I have changed the storyline of the animation slight. The theme of the animation will still be nature and it will still be based on the seasons. However, to make this an interesting piece, I have decided to make a video footage, faking a break in into the abandoned house and snooping around all the rooms. The video then would show a source of light in one room. The light is coming from a bottle that has been on a window-ledge for quite some time. The bottle is then by accident, dropped off the ledge and everything that bottle holds is unleashed into the room... this would be the end of the video footage, for now.

Within the bottle are the four seasons - Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, which are unleashed into the room. The animation would begin from here. The first season unleashed would be Spring starting to crawl up one wall, as it crawls to the next wall the season changes to summer and so on. Objects would be placed and recorded for certain seasons, like leaves for autumn to get a sense of realism. Some bits of the animation will be drawn directly onto the wall, whereas others will be projected.

At the end of the animation, the whole room would be covered by the seasons. I have not decided whether or not to have another video footage of the complete room and leaving the abandoned house.

Story Outline of Animation

I have had some thought about what the outline of the animation is going to be about. The main theme of the animation is going to be Nature. The reason why I have said Nature is because of the Urban background. I want the photographs to work well with the animation.

The first idea I have had about letting nature take its course through spring, summer, autumn and winter. So basically the abandoned house has been taken over by the Seasons.

For this idea, I will start in a corner of a room in the abandoned house and start drawing stems and ivory forms of branches that grow across the wall. These would then blossom and add insects and birds and flowers to create a peaceful start to the animation. As time goes on, the leaves would start falling, and it gets windy and insects are all rushing around. Then eventually it starts to snow. Everything is covered with snow and everything dies out. From this I would create a loop so the spring time comes again.

That is just a base idea. If I chose the idea, it will get developed further so it is interesting and not a boring animation.