The film titled 'The Motion of Thought's' will revolve around the process an artist takes to develop and flesh out a concept idea. The creator in this piece will go through the steps of a concept brainstorm, developing a character from the first initial stages of development to the final outcome where it eventually finds failure. As an artist you have to sift through several ideas before the perfect and most unique idea is revealed. The film is an analogy of that thought process you take when developing and fleshing out a concept idea.
A quick run through is it starts with a blank page of a book thats surrounded by a messy desk environment. Looking through an artists eyes (which is the cameras point of view) the artist brainstorms in his MIND a character idea and develops that character from A to B until it finds failure. What the audience will see when the brainstorm occurs is a book opening up to a blank page by itself and a pencil coming to life to sketch out a character on that page, the character will then peel up off the page to start exploring the desk environment.
The character will find failure in his design and thats when the artist comes into the shot and puts the robot back into the page where he first began, he will then write down idea 5 ready for the next brainstorm.
When I personally need to come up with a new idea I tend to take objects around me that mean something to me and put together there meanings to construct a new concept. This method will be used to create the characters goals, personality, psychical characteristics; which gives the character some perspective in the story.
So some traits that the character has taken on are:
- Toy robot figurines which gives the basic design of the character
- Dvds including; 'The Hunted', 'Monster on the Loose', etc gives him a goal to run away from what ever that is chasing him. So as he goes through the clip he will be really agitated always watching his back.
- Books including; Curious George, Dinotopia, The Adventure's of the Golden Monkey, gives the character personality traits like curiosity, adventurous, clumsy, etc
The reason the character fails is because the traits that he has picked up dont work together well and as the story continues he begins to fall apart. His arm falls off, his laser fails, the rocket pack goes off with out warning, etc. At the climax of the failure he finds a design sketch of himself that points out various flaws in his design. Once the concept failure is recognized thats when the artist puts an end to the brainstorm by entering the shot and putting the character back into the page where he began.
So the whole story is about the process an Artist takes to get through all the bad ideas before you find the most unique and interesting concept that you will finally go with.
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