treatment - time art

Treatment

For:  Time art         

By:  Laura Thomas       

Proposal #: 1

Paul

In the humdrum of modern day life, things can begin to pile up fast and become over whelming. Over time this can eat away at you and cause you stress.

In my video I want to focus on a character named Paul. Paul is an average person, with an average office job. Every day he goes to work fills in paper work then goes home to start it all over again. His job is rather stressful and repetitive.

I want to the 3 screens to show his office.

On the left screen will be a tray of work done, the middle will be Paul and the right tray will be a tray of work to do.

Throughout the video in the background will be other office workers walking around the office, they will repeat themselves continuously through the minute.  This will show the monotonous of the office life.  I will do it in the style of the and on and Ariston advert.  Also in this style will be a woman who puts paperwork for Paul to complete into his to do tray, she will repeat this action every 10 seconds or so stacking the paperwork higher and higher.

Paul who is in the middle will glance over to the todo tray and he will move slowly and look stressed, by the end of the video there is too much work for paul to do so he just rests his head on the table and dosent move.

There are two styles I could do this as

Style 1

I could do this all live action and have all the back ground actions repeat by cutting out the people in after effects and replaying the clips every few seconds.  Paul could also be a person but his would be continues footage that is slower that the background.

Style 2

I could have the back ground actors repeat there actions whilst filming this way I wouldn’t have to cut them out and repeat them. Paul would be an animated character that looks like he is made out of paper  (almost like he has become the paper work)

Testing

Using layers and masks I have been overlaying videos to give them the repetitive feel. See blog for videos and more details.

Workflow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX7lW8t4Jxc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xODdxD4c2p0

Dates

Testing -  Try out animating Paul

-       Try out Aniston advert

Pre production

-       Story boards

-       Find actors

-       Find a room

-       Risk assessment

-       Find people to help me film

-       Shooting schedule + call sheets

Edit / animate

-       Convert files to tif sequences

-       Make portrait

-       Cut out back ground people

-       Draw Paul

-       Animate Paul  

Equipment needed –

Camera

Sd card

Tripod

Computer

Premier pro

After effects

Drawing tablet