With my story I want to illustrate the idea of cycles within all realms of life. Life and death, starting and ending segments in one’s life, a plastic bottle that is recycled to make something new are all illusions that things have an end and things have a beginning. In my story I plan to use photographs in rapid succession that tell of this constant deepening in life we all experience. Our experiences morph and mold our individualities making us who we are presently. These cycles will continue until our conscious no longer exists in how we perceive ourselves and our surroundings. The story will start with a person in a wide open field standing still. The camera will move closer and closer to the person who will be holding something (e.g. a flower). The camera will continue to move closer to the object until it is full frame which will then be the start of another environment. The micro will be the start of a macro and in that macro things will continue to focus in on the micro within. It’s similar to the idea of dreams within dreams and tiny universes within everything around us and how we ourselves are part of a tiny universe that makes up a bigger one. The story will be about this constant cycle. I’m still thinking about the different environments that will arise within and how they will relate to each other. I hope this makes some sense.
This is the link to a video I made demonstrating the use of photos in rapid succession to tell my story.
Thank you for the proof of concept video–that really helps illustrate your concept. OK, so the next step is that as you move from still images to “animated” images, you need to take into account the information you learned in Time Based Media Design (a.k.a., Storyboarding). For example, the shot from the back of the car, the angle of the frame drops to the bottom left of the screen. This creates a wonderful, nauseating effect on the viewer… you want to study but you feel uncomfortable… Use the power of film/animation, timing/spacing, layout/comp, to “control” the experience of the viewer.
A good way to plot this is to make a quick thumbnail storyboard… this sketch does not have to show any “nouns” (cars, people, places) but it should show adjectives and verbs (how does one scene progress into another, does the horizon line drop slowly over the course of the whole film or do you shock us at one exact moment?). These sketches are known as Color Scripts:
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Ask yourself how you will use color and placement to tell your story…