Leaving Home: Set Photo

A photo of the set with the intended lighting:

Leaving Home: film.

Here is the film. I am not totally happy with the way it looks as it is pretty poor quality.I had to film in in a homemade studio as we cannot make use of the AV room at uni just yet. I would have liked to do film it in HD and have a bigger area to work in. However, at such a short film it is something i can re-shoot in the future.

The film has no sound. This is partly because I cannot decide which sound to use if any at all. I quite like it as a silent film but I think it makes it seem a bit boring.

Storyboard

The door opens and footsteps walk out of the house as it and the cats fold down.

The set

The set of the animation will be made from a white sheet of paper. I want the nets to be able to fold down in stop motion. I will probably be able to achieve a smoother motion that if the nets were folding up. There will be a house, which needs to look just like mine – because it is about how I feel.

This is a bit of a crap picture of my house:

It is a terraced house but I think it will look better in the animation as a detached house. I don’t want to show all the other houses as they are not mine.

I have been playing around with some nets. I’ve tried to get it to look as much like my house as possible. I am treating this as a one week brief, though I can continue it after if I like. If i were to continue it i would make the house exactly to scale. These photos are a miniature version of the net.

I looked at the cats as well. I found it really difficult to make the cats from only one piece of paper so the fold down flat. Occasionally they just looked like dogs, which i could NOT have. I do not really like dogs. So here are some cats:

First animation of the year.

I have been given a one week project on the theme of local and global.
I thought that I would use it to get me back into the swing of making animations.
Straight away I had a kind of idea of what I wanted to do, which links into the theme of paper and nets folding to create a recognizable shape.

With the theme of local and global in mind, I started to think of where I felt local to, and why. I feel local to home; Sutton. Although the town I live in at home isn’t the nicest of places, to me it is home as it is where i was brought up. I have a big attachment to home as a comfort thing, probably due to my house, family, cats, friends and the familiarity of it all.

At the beginning of each academic year I always have a slight bit of trouble adjusting to leaving home. I want to create a feeling to loneliness and isolation in this animation. I am planning it to create an atmosphere rather than tell a story, especially as I need to keep it short due to the time frame I am working in.

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I’ve just had a quick search for parks at night and paper parks in google images
(Cliche, I know, but I wanted to see if anyone had done anything like it).
As they are not my own work I have posted the link to the original source.

I stumbled upon this blog entry which has a couple of beautiful pictures of a children’s park at night.

Also there is something about this photo that I really like. It shows the kind of atmosphere I was initially thinking of when the idea first came to me.

Peter Callesen is an artist who creates shapes and objects out of paper. he makes 3D objects from a 2D piece of paper. The detail is so intricate and he makes use of not only the shape created, but the shape left cut out of the paper.