My final project is going to stretch my understanding of gesture and special effects in both final cut and after effects. It is going to be a heavily animated sweeping romance. All of the scenery where I will place my characters will be shot in video with the exception of zoomed stills for close-ups on small gestures. I am extremely inspired by imperfect animation that has artifacts of the animator’s hand. I think it adds warmth that plain photos and videos lack. I want my project to have a very overcast feel with subtle and graceful colors, maybe even black and white. I think the combination of animation with manipulated video made to look as if it was filmed in the silent movie era is very compelling.
I am torn over my plot. I am very drawn to history and anything period in it’s look and feel. I want to make a silent animated film with dialogue pages. I want the characters to move and act like Lillian Gish, Charlie Chaplin, and Errol Flynn. Everything will be very melodramatic with characters that mimic the smooth and swooping lines of the early 20th century. For the plot’s setting, I’m torn between Edwardian, Victorian, or turn of the century costuming and subject matter. It will be a corny, yet poignant forbidden love story that ends in tragedy, as if the characters are ghosts haunting the locations.
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