For my A2 coursework I have decided to do a Five minute film which is part animation and part live action. As well as doing a magazine review and a poster.

My idea is to have live action going into an animation,

A man dressed in puritain costume is seen standing on a hill at sunset, he dissapears. We then see him appear near an old abandoned shack, which he enters. He then approaches a desk full of rusty objects and bits of paper. He sits down and begins to draw. When he moves away we see he has drawn a room. The room suddenly becomes coloured in and characters begin to appear, weird smiling monsters along with a little boy, they all stre intrestingly at the boy who cowers, the monsters have musical voices and talk to the boy who advances on them and screams.

My animation is meant to be creepy and sureal so that the viewer is left slightly creeped out and with questions as to whats happening. I have gained my ideas from many areas here they are.









Use of Inspiration:

The Twisted Tales of Felix The Cat

As a child I found the strange a colourful characters in this Tv shoow captivating. The chaacters were monsterous and hardly resembed any human being in any way, with charicature like features that made each and everyone of the animations stand out. It showed a darker side of animations with the characters doing strange and wonderful thing, as well as being strange and wonderful. There was always a slight sense of menace as well as Felix the main character always ended up in some kind of danger of Peril. The show inspired my characters in my animation as we don't fully know what these monsters are or who they are, thus changing the genre slightly to a cartoon horror. My creations have large caricature features for example large over egsaggerated eyes and mouths. some have long limbs and some lack important features that make these monsters human. This is inspired by the strangeness of Felix the cat.

Salad Fingers

Salad Fingers is a surreal physcological horrorFlash cartoon created by David Firth. He lives in a desolate post apocolyptic world with only himself and his "friends" Finger puppets Hubert Cumberdale, Jeremy Fisher and Marjory Stewart-Baxter who Salad Fingers provides the voices for, yet they come to life when he hallucinates or dreams. other humanoid cretures are Harry/milford cubicle, an agressive humanoid whom salad fingers hangs on a meathook believing him to be alive. Mable a small scared girl who picnics with salad fingers and whom Salad fingers hallucinates her with her eyes gouged out. Kenneth a corpse whom he dugs up and claims him t5o be his brother back from the great war. other characters include Horace horse collar, salad fingers toy horse, Mr Branches a tree 21 yards from Salad finger's house. Roger a radio that scares salad fingers into a cupboard and who talks similar to a dalek, Penny pigtails a girl salad fingers imagines whilst hiding from Roger, Bordois is sald fingers "little sister" who is a woodlouse. There are also several unamed characters including a boy salad fingers accidently cooks, a small child that falls in love with salad fingers and cages him using a bear trap as well as a screeching child whom salad fingers enquires to him about "the spoons". Finally Salad fingers is a green hunched humanoid man he is bald with no nose or ears and has long hairy " salad fingers" . He has a strange atrraction to rusty objects as well as a desire to experiment with pain. He appears to suffer from psycosis and give inanimate objects human names. He often hallucinates and has muderous tendencies, he is portrayed as child like and experimental.

Salad fingers has infulenced my main character in the animation sequence, a small child seemingly harmless who turns out to be a muderous psychopath and this character is based on the child that tries to marry salad fingers as well as elements of salad fingers himself. Also the desolate room in which the monsters redside ios a sald fingers influence.

Vincent Price in The Witchfinder General

My main character is dressed in puritain regalia like the Witchhunter Matthew Hopkins, Vincent price portrays the Humter in the film the witch finder general. I wanted my character to look strange and out of place and i thought that if i had him in period costume this would prortray a sense of wonder as to who this man is.

Doctor Who-Fear Her

In this episode the Doctor and Rose travel to the year 2012 as the world is getting ready for the olypics. The Doctor meets a girl who is inhabbited by a lonely alien and who has the power to draw real people and trap them in her pictures, people from the street begin to go missing and eventually the Doctor and half the world dissapear into the girls pictures. And the only way to stop her is to destroy the picture of her evil dad that she has drawn and to convince the alien to move on.

This episode influenced me as the characters in the girls drawing can move as if they have life and my character can draw pictures that move and seem real.

Life on Mars Camberwick Green sequence

In this sequence Sam sees himself as a character on Camberwick green appearing from the musical box. He also sees An avatar of Gene Hunt beating up a peadophile in Camberwick green style animation.

This has influenced me a it is a surreal sequence bought on by Sam Hallucinating in his drugged up state. I wanted my animation to be strange and surreal as none of the Characters seem like they belong in this world.