After seeing the assignment, it immediately brought memories back from my younger self. Talking about object movement, it was my all-time favourite thing to play with. I loved playing with toys, role-playing each characters and creating stories. During class before, I used to love playing with my stationary on the classroom desk. Every movement that I did to the pens, rubber, ruler and stapler are scenes of a story in my head, it is like watching a tiny movie with myself.
Therefore, I suggested a very short story with stationary so we did it. The story we chose is simply a knight slayed a monster. Here is our “actors”.
Characters:
USB and a Lipstick : Victims
Rubber : A Knight
Pegasus Toy : Royal ride of the Knight
Scissors : A Sword of the Knight
Random Stationary and An Apple Charge Wire : The Evil Monster
We first decided to use the scissors as the head of the monster because it looks dangerous, fitting the theme of a monster but after a few discussion, we decided to use the scissors as the sword of the knight and replaced the head with a stapler because the scissors actually have a cover which is similar to a sword, as for the stapler, it is much more easier to work with.
Originally, we only decided on the knight slaying a monster as the story. We wanted to add a clear opening and ending so we added victims, a quick reason for the knight to slay the monster and the monster is dead in the end.
We had a trouble of shooting this because I forgot to bring a phone holder for the assignment so we spent a little bit of time to find a way to hold the phone. We went to an empty room to shoot this and hold the phone with the two tables.
Thang Tsz Ching, Janelle
Jiawan Tan
ANIM223 - HISTORY OF ANIMATION - FALL 2019 