3D Stop Motion Part Two

And so these are the magicians that I came up with...

This is the first magician, I decided to make him look quite smart. I felt that an older magician would be better as this would make the audience think that he has been in the trade for a long time and is quite experienced. Purple is the colour of mystery and so I felt that it would be good to give him a purple jacket. 

I don't like this one at all, I preferred the leg being slimmer and him being older than this one. I don't like the hat either it's too small for the head and I preferred him with the jacket on. 

This was my third, the hat is much better, I like the high waisted feel to the trousers (like an old man would be seen wearing them) and I love the big cuffs on the ends of his sleeves. 

With this one I liked the way the shirt is tucked in his high waisted trousers but also boldges out from  underneath the waist coat. I like this magicians face.

Here I experimented with how he would stand side on...being an old man I felt that his shoulders may be hunched over and his legs may be a bit bent at the knees as his joints may be seized up. 

We then all got back together once again and discussed what we liked about each others and took different parts to make a description of the final magician. Stuart got the part of drawing up the final character design for him. The magician ended up being an evil magician, from this Stuart came up with a story...

Opening shot

Scene 1

Setting

Black and white lighting

Girl skipping through an alleyway soon discovers she lost, panics and moves closer into darkness. Camera tracking feet.

Spiders crawl around feet as she walks through into darkness. (showing a sense of fear and un nerving to the audience)

Opening credits flash up every so often.

Screen turns to black.

Dark room (dark colours) (reds, purples, blues, blacks)

Tattered old looking theatre.

Door opens seeing silhouette of little girl. Cute rabbits run past her, she follows and they lead her into an old tattered theatre. The rabbits stand near the front of the theatre. The little girl goes to stroke the rabbits. Music goes silent as her hand stretches forwards. There are sudden flashes of lighting as the camera zooms forwards causing the rabbit to change for a split second. There is a sudden jump as the rabbit turns into a freak of nature and the camera quickly pulls back and stage lighting comes on.

Old creepy circus music starts playing as we see the little girl fall over backwards. A long thin strange looking man peeks from round the curtain on the stage and then pulls out one of his long legs out onto stage and then pulls the rest of his body with it. The camera goes to a point of view of the magician seeing the dead audience and then sees an evil looking smile from him and then bows to the little girl. He takes a step back and two rabbits pull a table onto the stage (possible third rabbit) the magician puts he’s hat down onto the table, he reaches into the hat and pulls nothing out so he looks confused and then sticks his head into the hat and gets his nose bitten, pulls his head out and there is a head attached onto his nose. (Gets his nose bitten, pulls out his head then reaches his whole arm into the hat and pulls out a head.) he presents the head to the audience “ta-daaa” there is silence from the audience and the little girl looks shocked.

He throws the head into the corner, and then looks as if he has an idea. He clicks his fingers and from the top of the stage hanging rabbits appear.  He covers his mouth and starts moving the dead rabbit’s mouths with his finger to make it look like there singing. There is no reaction from the audience again and he slowly moves off stage in a mood. As he’s off stage the rabbits start singing on their own. And the man pokes he head round the corner hearing noises. Rabbits come along and pull the dead rabbits off stage as the magician pulls on his grand finale covered by a curtain.

He pulls away the cloth from the grand finale showing a saw box. And the little girl is in the box. He pulls out a saw from his hat and starts sawing in the middle of the box. Once the box is in half he pulls the two half’s away but this shows that the girl is in the top half and a rabbit is poking its feet out of the bottom half. At the end of the girl’s feet is a rabbit chewing on her toes. The magician looks horrified as his magic trick has failed. He looks at the girl and then looks at the camera, waves his arms in the air. “ta-daaa” and the stages curtains close. Showing the credits roll up.

This was the very first version. However once we had done a storyboard and the tutors had seen it a couple didn't like it and told us it didn't work. The main reason being there wasn't a point for some things being there for example, the tutor couldn't work out why the audience would be dead- how did they get there another was the rabbits, especially the hanging rabbits and making them sing. And mostly they didn't like that the little girl gets killed through the magicians failed magic trick, they said that they would have liked to have seen the girl get away and that its a bit dark and horrible to kill the little girl.

I personally agreed with this I felt a little uncomfortable about killing the girl but a lot of the group were enthusiastic about it ( personally a little worrying) and so I suggested the girl turning into a rabbit but no one liked this. This is how we changed the story...

1. Instead of pulling a head out of the hat he will pull a rabbit out of the hat...the same rabbit that leads the little girl to the theatre.

2. The girl then wants go and save the rabbit and so runs up to the stage but as she gets there she is greeted by the magician and he pulls her up in the stage. 

3. The magician puts her right in the hat (out of sight) and the rabbit that has turned back to being evil is pushing swords through the hat

4. The magician pulls her back out of the hat so show the audience that she is dead (This bit was horrible)

5. And then the next thing that happens is that you she her silhouette sitting in a chair in the audience with the camera facing the door that she came through to then see another person coming in. 

With the story like this the rabbits purpose is then the magicians evil side kick helping him get his audience, and therefore it is then clear how his audience is dead and how they got there.