Group: Concept Development update

After todays lesson we realised that we did not really have enough footage to fill the whole chorus section of the song. We thought that this actually wasn't such a bad thing because after our pitch the general view was that we needed to use some more visually interesting techniques and we will now be able to fill these gaps with our most recent ideas.

We have come to the conclusion after viewing various videos that we want to include at least some stop motion in our video. We have also come up with what we think is a solid idea to incorporate it effectively and smoothly into the video. Our idea is that we are going to have the performer pull out a photograph during the video and when the camera focusses in on this photograph this is when the stop motion starts. The photograph changes to other photographs to tell a story while still in the performers hand as he is looking at the series of stop motion photographs one after the other as if telling the story.

The idea for the actual story being told in the stop motion photographs is that the story is showing images of the couple walking together, happy and spending time together, however at the end of the chorus the photo is ripped in half by the performer to bring the romance to an end which is a portrayal of the lyrics of the song.

This video is one of the stop motion ideas we looked at and we liked the idea of the story of a couple being told through just a series of still images, we also liked the idea of the bed acting as a blank canvas to almost tell the story on.

This video also helped to inform our decision about the stop motion and the idea of this is that the story is told through a different means other than physically having the acting the story out, the idea is that it is almost like a story within a story or a screen within a screen.