Development and Progress

After meeting with the group we decided that although we all liked the idea and felt strongly about it, it was becoming too complicated and it would be difficult to get across the message across as we where trying to explain so many different things.

Instead we all decided what was our favourite part of the idea, and that was the idea of how a person loses the excitement they once had in their lives when they where a child.

We then had the idea to use something to represent how people progress through this cycle of life, and thought it would be interesting to snap back to a bicycle wheel. We all agreed we liked this concept of the bike, and thought what if we make the piece more metaphorical and had someone riding down a country lane with it heavily animated at the start to represent their childhood, and less animated towards the end to show how their life has become more boring and mundane as they get older.

We liked this idea and found some research videos

Ribena 

As we thought about what we wanted to animate, for example broccoli for trees, we thought perhaps we could use a collage style animation, like that used in this ribena advert. As they use existing images and animate movement onto them.

E4 Ident

Following on from that we discussed how we like the style of animation in the E4 idents, this is simply just stop motion, and to recreate this using a person on a bike it would require pixilation.

However, we realised the difficulty of trying to create a pixilation piece with the use of a person on a bike, as it would mean they would have to balance the bike in order to take the photograph. 

Then we posed the idea of having the character on the bike lying on the floor so the pictures will be taken from the ceiling, that way we can play with fabrics and items on the floor to make the background. This is a common thing used in pixilations as it allows for an easier way to manipulate the background.