Other characters

I made the other cubes out of a multiple of different colours. I feel that this best represents the music as at one point there are lots of little 'jutters' and these small cubes represent each one of these. I will put the movement of these cubes to those 'jutters' in the music so that the mood of these cubes goes with the music.

Colours of the Music

I chose the colours black and red for the squares. The good square will be red and the bad square will be black. I chose these colours as red is associated with love and black is dark ominous colour and can represent doom.

Here is just a quick drawing of what I wanted the main characters to be. Just a basic 3D cube.

Here are to two characters made out of clay. I chose a pinky red for the good square to further represent its love. 

Here are the same characters from a different angle. 

New Story Board

This is story board number 2. I've told the basic story of a chase but with squares as the characters. In the story a 'bad' square is chasing the 'good' square and as they get caught up lots of colourful squares come out of both of them. They then morph into one square again both now being the 'good' square.

Shapes of the Music

I began to think of the shapes that I feel the music represents. I feel like each beat is a sharp beat and this made me think of a square.

I then started to think how I could apply this shape to my idea of a chase. I thought that I could characterise the shape and make it become the thing that is being chased. 

I realised that I needed to apply this idea to the use of clay and this made me think that the shape needs to be 3D in order to be able to move around and and look good. The alternative to a 2D square is ofcourse a 3D cube. 

Making Clay People

My original thought was to create a chase of my own out of my clay people and make a set for them be chasing each other around. I made a practice model but felt that it would be incredibly difficult to make the body movements look realistic and the figures wouldn't be able to have facial expressions as these wouldn't look realistic either. I then began to think about abstract shapes.  

                                                       

Clay

I have decided to make my animation with clay as this is a fun and enjoyable way of making one. I will do stop motion with this and put it into After Effects to add finishing touches such as lighting.

Racing to Chasing

Going from the original idea of racing and video games I began to think about the fact that the main plot in some games is racing or collecting points and sometimes being chased. I feel that the music sounds like music that would be put against a chase. This made me automatically think of films with massive chases in them. The first one that popped into my head was James Bond and the chase that started the film Casino Royale. I watched it on YouTube and studied the music that went with it and what happened at the different points of the track.

Music with the chase:

• The music had a very fast beat and when certain things happened such as the dust dropping on him at the beginning the music slows down and soothes. 
• As they are both running the beat is very fast and consistent. 
• When there is realisation the beat will change or get louder. 

From listening to the music along this chase I am now able to apply this to my own idea and make sure that I use the different points in the music to represent what is happening in the animation.