After not really knowing where to start with my pixilation project but knowing that I wanted to do the 'Predator - Prey' relationship, I thought there was no better way to come up with an idea that to start brainstorming. I don't have any routine to brainstorming but one of my friends told me to start with definitions and then find links from there, so that's where I began.
A lot of the definitions and synonyms I found were pretty useless in helping me form any comprehensive plot idea for a film, until I found one in particular. One definition I was given for predator was to do with not being something that has to kill, but can take something of significance or of slight importance from someone of something. Since being told we were doing pixilation I did want to experiment with telekinesis or some sort of power because of the frame by frame animation allowing availability to do this. Therefore I then linked the two via, the protagonist using this power to exploit/manipulate or take something it desires from someone else i.e its prey.
I then came up with a moodboard, (my very first one, which is probably why it is so amateur looking and could do with improvement) in order to see my ideas in some sort of visual format. I chose images from actual predator animals and their prey, to the idea or a thief, someone who steals, to actual telekenesis, to the idea of superiority, inferiority and vulnerability. Seeing my initial ideas progressing from thoughts to now images has really helped my idea for a pixilation further. The next stage I need to do is storyboarding which I am going to do as a paper edit first because I found that to be extremely helpful and one of the best things I could have learnt for initial plotting. And then hopefully have a much clearer idea on what I want to film. I have never really planned something for a project in this much depth before, but I think it has really helped my thought process and better understanding of what I want to achieve in this brief.
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