Mood Board and Synopsis

Lemon Tree/the girl’s World.

The target audience of this work is teenagers, specifically teenage girls. The song is a very light-hearted mellow tune, which I was attracted to because of the imagery that the lyrics put in my mind.
The mood of the piece is mellow and fun. It is a fragile sounding song. The imagery, which the song presents to me, is of a gentle fragile looking girl who is contained entirely within her own magical world.
She travels through her world in a kind of daze. She is trapped in her own imaginative world in which all the beautiful things she sees around her are accentuated by animation. Butterflies and vines will grow around her as she moves around her world, stencils will move about her, showing just how truly amazing it is within her own head.
The film clip will be made using hundreds of images to get a very jolted stop motion effect. With long very un-filmic pauses
Its quite reddish sepia toned almost as though seen through a 1970s film camera, but not quite so grainy.
My way of dealing with copyright is to avoid the problems in the first place.
All of the main images used in this animation will be acquired from a photographer who I will hire. Any secondary images will be creative commons.
Distribution of this work will be on free websites like YouTube and Vimeo. It would also make a really good Sprite.
One video that helped inspire this piece was the opening titles of Skins the British TV show. This title sequence uses techniques like lens flares and rainbow colours as well as fast cutting to produce an energetic yet laid back feeling. The main character of my animation has characteristics that highly emulate some of the qualities of the Skins character Cassie. She is locked away in her own world and has a very unique view of the things around her. She is fragile looking and would wear delicate lace dresses. All of these stylistic elements are reflected in my proposed work.
My work will differ from the Skins opening title sequence in the way that it will not have as obvious effects. There will be no large 80s style moving letters across the screen and there will be a more direct narrative. In the Skins opening title sequence at the beginning there is a lot of use of moving images and their reflections splitting the screen in half. My animation won’t be using this affect because it would take away from the focus.
There is also a large amount of images layered heavily over one another so that only parts of the frame are visible. They use overlay and half opacity colour shape layers a lot as well to give the titles a patchy thrown together look. This is a technique that strays away from my stylistic choices.







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