VIDEO: making the video

I have animated this character to walk around the lake, be movable so that his limbs and umbrella are movable. during the one min clip I want him to walk to a bench, sit, pop up his umbrella and carry on his walk ALONE.

I wanted the video clip to portray a sense of overwhelmed loneliness, to do this i illustrated the paper man to be introduced to the video through drawing him and setting the scene in the park. I also wanted to exaggerate the time by overlaying news clippings and covid headlines to create a sense of being overwhelmed. The man then wanders through the park, this I overlaid my own recordings of related covid 19 words to make the viewer aware of the vulnerability of the man. along with a ominous ticking sound effect and recordings of bird noises from the lake. this then cuts to short clips of both my bowls where I used my phone to move around the interior void of the bowls, I did this to push the sense of being trapped.

moving Forward: if I were to have a chance at editing the video i would make the stop motion project the sense of loneliness and isolation further, perhaps by making him reflect on his thoughts while watching or feeding the birds and make it more obvious why i kept the exterior of the bowel plain and had him set within the bowls.