WIP Project 3 – Pixilation

Our pixilation is about little magic tricks. We saw a video on YouTube which is about a person playing magic tricks with video editing. We saw one of the trick is a photo of kitty, when the photo got slammed onto the table, an actual kitty popped out. We took that as an inspiration to our project.

Our early story scenes

Originally, we wanted to set this story in the classroom but it is pretty impossible because we want a turtle to involve, which is my(Janelle) pet turtle. Bringing it outside and to the school are risking so we moved our story in Janelle’s bedroom.

Our final story :
Janelle is bored so she went ahead to her desk and doodle on a piece of paper. In the same time, Tan came in to see what is Janelle doing. After seeing her drawings, Tan brought out an ipad and an apple pen. She opened Procreate software to draw a black cat. She shook the cat out of the ipad, a little cat doll. Tan was proud of her magic trick. Janelle was amazed but she calmly pushed the doll away, starting to draw on her paper too. A turtle was drawn. Tan still thought her cat doll was better. In the end, Janelle showed Tan the same magic trick but it turned out to be a real turtle. Tan was completely beaten down by Janelle’s greatness of her magic.

Our setup this time is very simple. We only need a paper, an ipad, a pen, a black cat doll and an actual turtle. The only difficulty we have is that this is an one way ticket. As you can see our paper has to be destroyed in the end for the story, this is an one take only shooting.

I forgot to take a photo of the paper before it got destroyed lol
Our STAR of the video!

Thanks for reading 😉 !
By Janelle Thang and Jiawen Tan

Project03: Pixelation| W.I.P.

Our creative process/brainstorming

We initially took inspiration from music videos that used pixilation/stop motion, such as OK GO’s ‘End Love’, ‘Last Leaf’, and Bombay Bicycle Club’s ‘Home by Now’. Choosing music was the first step; we wanted something punchy and energetic to match the pixilation style. We decided on Time Voyage by Just A Gent because it both had a punchy beat and title/lyrics that alluded to a story. In fact our storyline was inspired by the title: a sci-fi space journey telling of an alien abduction.

Prop Making
We scripted the making of the props to be part of the film. It was a challenge to figure out the shots while also actually needing to complete the props. We used cardboard, tinfoil and construction paper as the main materials, and ink and sharpies to draw and color.

Filming

We had an extremely ambitious trip – to film on the busy streets of Sham Shui Po. It allowed to overcome our fears and insecurities of doing art/drama in public.
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We got a lot of stares from people in cars and buses that passed by, however, even with those many distractions we carried on persevering as a group; discussing and coming up with solutions to unpredictable problems.

Chandi Marsh
Sydney McPherson
Wendy Kong
Claudia Lau
Sammy Liu
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