Cutout Animation

We based this project on an article that reflected upon British Values, our group chose an article that was based on homophobia, this was what we decided to choose as our theme for our cut out animation.

Main Idea

A boy is searching for love and is constantly having his heart broken, he eventually gives up on the idea of love, until someone comes and shows him true love and fixes his broken heart. The moral of the story is that love knows no bounds, and how love should never be used against someone as something that makes them strange. 

Props (made by the group)

Background - Park

Those who break his heart - Silhouettes 

The two in love - the ones in colour

Little heart 

Storyline (Key frames/scenes)

1. Main character walking across park

2. MC gives his heart to one he loves

3. His love gets rejected and thus MCs heart is broken

4. MC picks up heart and does not give up on love 

The scenes 3 and 4 are repeated twice 

The third time it is repeated MC does not pick up the heart and gives up 

5. The second main character picks up the heart for MC and helps him put it back together 

6. True love is found.

Making the animation

Strangely making this animation was done quiet quickly as it took around half an hour to photograph each scene, and then around 10 minutes to edit the animation on Adobe After Effects. I believe this was done quickly as in this project it was the first time everybody in the group got involved and truly worked together, because of this making this animation was also a lot more enjoyable as we got to learn skills and technique from one another and push ourselves to work harder. It was also done a lot quicker as everybody now had quiet a solid knowledge and experience of how to use these programmes to create an animation.

Sound

I used a titanic piano instrumental as the sound of the animation as I felt the animation needed a sound that was soft and sweet, but at the same time emotionally conveyed the emotion of heartbreak.

Here is the Cutout Animation