Looking at different websites gave me an idea of how to start of when writing a film treatment.
http://www.lightsfilmschool.com/articles/treatments/index.html
This website generally describes what treatment is about, how long it should be and it explain what it is for.
http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/
This website is created by a screenwriter and a director, who explains the importance of the process which describes the movie or TV episode.
Treatment
The Time
Stop motion
is about creating something unusual or abstract in a realistic way to achieve a
fascinating, exciting and appealing result. Our project is about a
representation of stop motion and our own interpretation of Time. The idea of
our short animated film is to present the movement of natural objects with the
use of art. It’s also to show exploration and development in media of stop
frame animation. It was later in the experimentation that we wanted to include
the human figure.The duration
of it will be 1 minute and 10 seconds and in that amount of time we will give
across an idea of an importance of the Time and show how quickly it passes by.Our photographs showing a continuous pattern which increasingly appears on the human body show the changes that occur in people’s life and it’s also a different way of representing a journey that each person needs to go through and that journey is ‘drawn’ on our skin.The whole animation will start from the title, ‘The Time’, which appears as stop motion, followed by the image of a person sitting on a chair with a guitar. The guitar would represent the unfounded passions and talents.
I believe that our animation could be used as a music video with a strong message, which we try to communicate with viewer and make the audience think of the video more in depth. The calm and still person symbolizes no feelings or emotions through life without making any changes, while the Time keeps on going on and it seems like it passes by without the character being involved in life.Our aim is to create quite sad and dispiriting emotions through the video.
‘The Time’ by Hans Zimmer is a powerful melody, where at some point it seems frightening, but it creates the right atmosphere. We want show the feelings of a young person, who has undiscovered talents, but is too sad and depressed to find out those talents and make a use of them, so the Time passes by making inconvertible changes, while the person stays the same.
The technology used for making the animation was an SLR camera, tripod, camera Lighting and a computer were we used the software’s Windows Live Movie Maker and Final Cut Pro and the target audience for ‘The Time’ is the Raindance Film Festival, MTV, KISS, The Box, 4Music, etc.
Our Storyboard
We created a storyboard based on our idea. It will represent a person sitting down still and holding a guitar while the camera will show the pattern 'growing' on the girl's leg and going up through the whole body describing the process of time passing by and the effect it makes on people.
As our background we decided to have newspapers, so that it's not plain and hopefully it won't distract the audience from the main subject.
The name of our project will be called 'The Time' and we will be able to show our own interpretation of time of a young person.
Hans Zimmer and his music
I have looked at different kinds of music more in depth and
they didn’t necessarily include the sound of the guitar, however I thought that
they could work well as long as the soundtrack matches the actual video.
I found an amazing composer and music producer who creates a
very powerful melody. Zimmer’s works are notable for combining electronic music
sounds with traditional orchestra.
Gladiator (2001)
Golden Globe Awards, Satellite Award, BFCA Awards
Inception (2011)
Satellite Award, Saturn Award, WAFCA Awards and World Soundtrack Awards
THE TIME
All of those soundtracks have a beautiful sound, and I believe once the video is produced, it will be possible to choose the right music.
Music choice
By looking at different experiments, I found out how the sound or music choice is important. It describes the whole film and it can manipulate and create different feelings and emotions depending on the sound.
Firstly, I thought of the meaning of our video. We want to represent 'Time' as a subject that isn't appreciated until its too late. The idea of drawing on a human body is supposed to create images of growing trees, people getting older and how it is possible to recognise it on their skin. The short animation is also supposed to represent change and it is one of the things that go along with time.
I thought of using a sound which will include a guitar tone as we used a guitar in our experiments and we plan to use it in our final to represent change while the drawings will represent time and change.
Music examples I have looked at and analysed to see whether they will work with our animation.
Ronald Jenkees - Guitar Sound
I think the sound is quiet interesting and I find it quiet relaxing, however I think we might need something more delicate.
Chopin - Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2
This sound represents Chopin's music played on the guitar. I think it's a beautiful sound, however it might be slightly slow for our animation. Also, it seems to be quiet happy and our video is about something else, therefore I'm not satisfied with this particular choice.
Phil Boroff
Another example of music with a use of classical guitar. Again, this time I believe that the song doesn't reflect what we will try to represent through our video.
Aldo
In my opinion this is a very calm and relaxing guitar music. However it's not very powerful and to represent the idea we want to show.
Painted Animation
I looked at different styles of creating stop motion animation which included drawings. Another project is represented on the public walls. Creative, impressive and ambitious project is quite abstract and interesting. I really like the randomness and the abstraction works really well with the location, however I think the animation is definitely too long and slightly scary and creepy. The whole video is very random. It doesn't have a specific story. I believe it would be more successful, if the producers have had a plot, which would have a meaning instead of painting a lot purposeless objects and characters which convert from one to another. However, I really like the chosen sound, which perfectly reflex the action represented on the walls and the ground. Also, the combination of mixing the abstract part of the film and the reality is quite fascinating as the people that appear in the animation seem like they don't notice the abstract world around them. This video helped me consider the sound more as it is also an important part of the film. The music or sound shouldn't only represent the sounds which would happen in reality, but it should also describe what is happening in the animation and create appropriate feelings and emotions.Whiteboard Animation
For further inspiration when producing the final project, I have looked at different videos which included drawings. Looking at other people's work and their styles is very helpful to get a good idea of what we want to do for our final video.
One of the stop frame animation motion animation, which included mainly drawings within. The video is quite interesting as there are different objects drawn and they change quite fast, however I think the video is slightly to long, because it lasts for over 4 minutes. The animation doesn't really have a specific story. It's mainly random objects drawn which develop and change from one to another to keep the animation affective and exciting. What I particularly like about this animation is the fact that we can see the hands actually creating and drawing the objects. This action makes it more realistic and its not just plain whiteboard animation. Even though, we are not able to use the whiteboard or a paper in our project as stop frame animation requires 3D objects included, therefore we can only use this style for some part of our animation.
One of the stop frame animation motion animation, which included mainly drawings within. The video is quite interesting as there are different objects drawn and they change quite fast, however I think the video is slightly to long, because it lasts for over 4 minutes. The animation doesn't really have a specific story. It's mainly random objects drawn which develop and change from one to another to keep the animation affective and exciting. What I particularly like about this animation is the fact that we can see the hands actually creating and drawing the objects. This action makes it more realistic and its not just plain whiteboard animation. Even though, we are not able to use the whiteboard or a paper in our project as stop frame animation requires 3D objects included, therefore we can only use this style for some part of our animation.
Another whiteboard animation example is a Carphone Warehouse advert, which I didn't find as successful as the previous experiment. I think that the lighting wasn't considered very well, as the background lightness changes. I found it interesting at first, because it wasn't just plain white background and it gave the audience an idea of timing. Unfortunately, the lighting was changing very randomly what shows that it wasn't considered at all. Again, I like the idea of including human hands in the video, it suggests a clear idea of what carphone warehouse offers to its customers. The whole advert is really quick and simple. What I didn't like about the animation are the exaggerated objects and characters drawn, what might create an idea of abstraction.
Influences and Inspirations...
Knowing that I'll will use drawing technique in our final project, I've looked a animations which include this style of creating stop motion. I found a very interesting animation which is based on a 'Matrix' film, representing a travelling bullet. Part of it was created digitally, but that keeps the video very realistic and interesting. I really like the way the audience sees the journey of the bullet from different angles, so that it is easy to understand. Also, the drawings are very detailed, but clear at the same time what makes an amazing combination.
I find this animation very influential and helpful when considering the use of this or similar technique in our project. I really like the fact that the actual camera stays at the same place taking picture of what's actually going on on the paper and with the use of pencil tells us the story and the purpose of it.
It was inspired by the 'Matrix' film, however while watching this video I thought of the music video of 'Take On Me' by A-Ha.
'Take On Me' made the biggest impression on me, because it was the mixture of reality and pencil sketch animation, which was actually really realistic, interesting and very successful. The music video was directed by Steve Barron, who is mainly a music video director and producer. The music video was recorded in 1984 and released in 1985. Rotoscoping technique was used to create the animation. It is basically a technique in which animators trace over live-action scene film movement frame by frame to produce a stop motion. The images were after redrawn by the animator. About 3,000 frames were rotoscoped and this action took 16 weeks to complete. The theme of the video is a romantic fantasy. Overall I think the whole music video is really successful and unique.
It was inspired by the 'Matrix' film, however while watching this video I thought of the music video of 'Take On Me' by A-Ha.
'Take On Me' made the biggest impression on me, because it was the mixture of reality and pencil sketch animation, which was actually really realistic, interesting and very successful. The music video was directed by Steve Barron, who is mainly a music video director and producer. The music video was recorded in 1984 and released in 1985. Rotoscoping technique was used to create the animation. It is basically a technique in which animators trace over live-action scene film movement frame by frame to produce a stop motion. The images were after redrawn by the animator. About 3,000 frames were rotoscoped and this action took 16 weeks to complete. The theme of the video is a romantic fantasy. Overall I think the whole music video is really successful and unique.
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