Week 1 - Second meeting

Second meeting we went over more what we wanted to actually happen and came up with a sort of structure for the animation.

Ideas we liked most from previous meeting

• Visual differentiation 
• Switching realities 
• Different elements for different realities
• Eyes
• Sheet music
• Textures
• Layers

Technique/Mask ideas

• Video
• Paper cutout
• Stop motion hands
• 3D
• 2D
• Claymation
• Ink water
• Sand animation
• Photography
• Reverse video
• Whiteboard 
• - One main technique that the others feed into

Further ideas

• Street modern - no faces videos
• Camera walking affect
• Faces where there are none
• Objects humanised, humans objectified 
• Object blank, music plays, notes break it and create a real object
• Reverse a video, breaking and then bringing it all back together
• Chain of notes, wrapping together
• Scrunch up and show a blank page - hands
• Piano
• Not recognising himself in the mirror
• Ripping into reality 
• Hidden items 
• End with blink
• Music : Flow > Jitter to silence (Viewer being kicked out, Breathing in, Blink) > Return flow slightly all seems normal > End with a small jitter and bang. 
• Mood : Anxious/Scary/Serious 
• Real world black and white his world colourful because that's what is more real to him - Things are under the influence of him

Story 

• Traditional narrative (what not to do) = Status quo, something interrupts that, they try to deal with the problem and fail, seek guidance, train, deal with problem and succeed, return to status quo but at a higher level. 
• Start singing all time then destroy everything by the end
  
• Initial Idea for the start of the video : 3rd person - Eye moving around - Blink twice, show music on iris and a hidden object on the lid - camera moves into black pupil - come out in a first person view.
  
• Waking up eyes open
• Walk through day
• End with him in a counselor's office "Music has been your center" Show inside his body music "Now make it your whole" World explodes into music sheet.
  
  Main setting from A-B
• Open eyes - Messy Room 
• Snooze alarm - Radio alarm clock
• Put on Slippers 
• Tighten dressing gown belt
• Kettle on
• Cup of hot drink walking up stairs (Piano stairs)
• Shower
• Dry towel
• Get dressed 
• Brush hair
• Prepare breakfast
• Eat breakfast
• Brush teeth
• Wash face
• Back downstairs
• Put on Jacket 
• Pick up case and keys
• Open the door to a white light
• Close up of eyes - Walking to clinical room
• Show in clinical room
• Music life - Maybe voice over