Planning

breaking down the song into a story in which i plan to animate



the first part mainly is asking what reality is and it then goes on to say 'it feels like i missed my alarm and slept in' which would give me an good opportunity to animate someone in bed with an alarm going off which would give the audience a sense of where we are in the story with this narrative like song.

it then goes on to say that they 'chase perfection' and the walls inside are their 'blank expression' and that their 'mind is a home i'm trapped in' which gives me an idea of the character moving around this house with a lot of writing and illustrations on the as later on in the song they describe the walls being 'covered in lyrics'.

after this main intro, it goes on with less descriptive lyrics but the line 'there's songs in the mirrors' gives me the idea of a mirror cracking as the character enters the room.

the next few lines are different ways of saying that the walls are covered in lyrics and that there are some parts in the house no one should see which gives me the idea to have the character turn away from them as he doesn't want to see them either or remember something that happened in the past like for example a little later in the song there is a line saying 'physically abused, that's a room i don't want to be in'.

a few lines after he mentions that he 'put holes in the walls' until his fists bled which gives me the idea of looking at his fists and flickering to scars and blood and then back to his normal hand, as i think that would work well in the sequence

as for the character design's i wanted to have the theme to be mainly black and white as the songs overall theme is sad and sader themes are commonly associated with no colour as colour can bring warmth to a piece of media.

i wanted a simple character design to make it easier when i animate certain scenes within the animation

i wanted the character to look rugged and tired to imply that he has been through a lot of things

for now that is all the ideas i have for the minute portion of the song as more that that would be far too long to animate and i may not get to a minute as the song doesn't finish to a good stopping point for the exact minute

i may add more to the sequence if i feel it needs to and i will say why i changed certain parts if that is the case.


*The changing of song*


when attempting different idea's i had for the animatic however i couldn't really think of much so i decided to switch the song i knew the song had to be of the same sort as in not a happy song as i want to stick to the theme i originally had.

the song i decided to go with is

Darkside-Grandson this song is dark in a different sort of way as the first song i was going to use but has the same aesthetic in my opinion as it references going through different sorts of pain which shaped them into the person they are today.

the song does have less emotion as mansion by NF however the lyrics can be interpreted easier which would help me in the long run of making this animatic and also i feel that there would be a better point to stop in the amount i want to animate

With the song change I feel that it would be easier to come up with more idea's for it which are as follows:


I want to have the main person in the animation to remember doing bad things as he was being controlled by his darkside.

with the song i am planning on having the colours being black and whites as colours may change the narrative since if brighter colours were used then it may portray the song as a happier theme or something of that sort so i wanted the main character to be black and white and maybe one colour to imply an object or improve the overall theme.

as for the character designs they will be shown under here jjust neeed to work on them a bit more