Beyond the Boundaries : Animation // The Idea

The film begins roughly by one of the characters introducing themselves and their animation style, before going on to the next character in their separate environment. The film will flick back and forth between the characters in their respective environments where they make comments about various aspects of life 'on set' and give us film makers and film lovers / watchers an idea of what it's like behind the scenes from a unique perspective. 

Here are some possible ideas for scenarios that could happen:

Stopmotion

• Talks about how he feels manipulated all the time (as film maker's hands position him constantly all day)
• Complaining about having to maintain hard poses for extended periods of time while the film makers take each photo. He poses to demonstrate. A selection of photos could appear as a montage of him pulling various humorous poses on different projects. 
• Talks about being there after film makers leave the set at the end of the day
• Is aware of the outside human environment
• Animation could cut to the film makers actually working on set. 

CGI 

• Talks about how he only gets to hang out with friends when they are loaded in to the scene
• When the computer is switched off nothing is there.
• Talks about fears of being deleted 
• Can interact with the mouse pointer 
• World doesn't seem to exist outside of his boundaries - no knowledge of humans? 
• Character looks out of screen boundaries and theres's just a black void of nothingness. 

Forming the Idea

Vicky's lectures last year got me thinking more about the medium and how to use it different, innovative ways. It crossed my mind, after watching many behind the scenes of various films and TV shows, what it might be like if the characters from the actual shows were interviewed rather than the actors themselves. What would they say in response to the questions? How would they act in our own world? Because after all in their own created worlds could they be argued to be somewhat real beings?  After all what is reality? It might not be what we call reality but don't they have their own reality? So what would it be like to merge our realities into one?