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This was my first time doing stop motion and I enjoyed it! Although it was very tedious, having to make sure everything is in the right place and only moving a bit from the previous image, it was satisfying when the video came together. I like how stop motion opens up new possibilities and it was very fun to see that from my classmates’ stop motion videos.

 

Story:

After I got bored with studying and writing my essay, I decided to draw a character and then took a short nap. While asleep, my character came to life and found out that she had powers, using them to fold a crane. However, it turns out that the crane was not a friendly one and attacked her. So she ran away and had an idea: to use her powers and draw a sword in order to fight the crane. Just as the girl held the sword, both the crane and the girl realised that I was about to wake up and hurriedly went back to their positions. After I woke, I saw the crane that I had not folded and the sword that appeared out of nowhere, which confused me. But I was half awake and didn’t think too much about it, instead going back to sleep.

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The 6 lines for my group are:

  1. What should I do
  2. Time’s ticking
  3. It stinks
  4. Maybe
  5. What
  6. You can try

 

Blown Away

Credits:

Director: Vanessa Ang

Actors: Claudia Tan, Sammi Neo

Music: Brink by FesliyanStudios, I am Life by Christian Baczyk

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In a world where everyone is exactly the same, how will Pete figure out a way to embrace his difference?

In this town, everyone is seemingly made out of a cookie cutter, as if they were mass produced. Their faces, sizes, houses, even down to the way the chocolate chips are placed, are exact clones of one another.

Pete, a quiet and young cookie is the only different one. During production, someone mistakenly put M&M chips instead of chocolate chips in Pete. Bullied for his abnormality, Pete wants to change and become the same as everyone else. He embarks on a journey to seek his creator, hoping to correct his mistake. On his journey, he encounters people just like him: different, a “mistake”. Yet, they do not seem to mind their imperfections, but rather, are proud of it. Through these people, Pete learns not to be afraid of being different, but to embrace it.

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I had a lot of fun with this project! Although it took a long time for me to create my first image, it went rather smoothly from there. I had to find an image of a gingerbread house that was taken in the angle that I wanted, then duplicate it and resize it to form a street of gingerbread houses. I also took a while trying to figure out how to create the road.

I am glad that the story is clear and easy to understand from my 5 images!

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In a world where everyone is exactly the same, how will Pete figure out a way to embrace his difference?

 

In this town, everyone is made out of a cookie cutter, mass produced in a factory. Their faces, sizes, houses, even down to the way the chocolate chips are placed, are exact clones of one another.

 

Pete, a quiet and young cookie is the only different one. During production, someone mistakenly put M&M chips instead of chocolate chips in Pete. Bullied for his abnormality, Pete wants to change and become the same as everyone else. He embarks on a journey to seek his creator, hoping to correct his mistake. On his journey, he encounters people just like him: different, a “mistake”. Yet, they do not seem to mind their imperfections, but rather, are proud of it. Through these people, Pete learns not to be afraid of being different, but to embrace it.

 

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Pete the Outcast

character-1Pete is an outcast in his town because of his difference. He does not like being different and wishes he was the same as everyone else. For this character, I superimposed a cookie over the head of the gingerbread man cookie cutter.

 

Other two characters (not related to the story):

Bryce the Bionic Man

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This character was created to portray my take on future developments in technology. I think technology will continue to advance and we will eventually be so reliant on technology that the virtual reality will soon become our reality. Technology will also be embedded into our body where we can project holograms through our arms. I superimposed the VR glasses over his eyes and substituted the left side of his body with robotic parts. The holographic projection was also added.

 

Rick the Drunken

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Rick is perpetually drunk. However, he does not drink to forget his sorrows, he drinks to simply experience the euphoric state of drunkenness. I decided to leave out the legs on Rick as I wanted it to look slightly strange to people to let them experience the way Rick sees things when he is drunk.

 

Final Thoughts:

When I received the project brief, I immediately wanted to portray an idea that I had lingering in my mind for a while. The Cookie Cutter Society is inspired by the term “cookie cutter house”, which means that the house looks exactly the same as neighbouring houses and does not have any unique characteristics. The idea behind the other two characters are separate from the story. I really enjoyed the process of creating this story and had fun creating the quirky, unrealistic characters.

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(Note: Thought I had published this but apparently I had only saved it as a draft)

Addition

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I added an image of a maze to the head. What I wanted to portray is that we should not judge a book by its cover. While on the outside, the lady looks put together and confident, her thoughts are messy and jumbled on the inside.

 

Subtraction

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I subtracted the teeth of the tiger. I wanted to bring attention to the issue of animal cruelty. Hence, I took away the teeth of the tiger to portray it as helpless and that we are actually the ones harming them.

 

Substitution

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I substituted the cigar for a knife to portray that smoking is harmful and could kill your body from the inside.

 

Superimpose

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I superimposed the phone onto the image to portray how technology and our devices are causing us to be disconnected from our friends in real life even though it increases connection online.

 

Final Thoughts

For me, it was really tough to come up with the message I wanted to express through each image as I take a long time to generate ideas. However, once I was clear on the message I wanted to express, I had a clear idea of how I wanted my images to look quite quickly. The process was rather stressful but I enjoyed coming up with ideas on how to express the meaning behind each image. My favourite one would be the substitution image of the guy smoking a knife. I feel that while the message is very simple, it was understood almost immediately by my classmates. If I had a second go at this project, I would love to come up with a theme and try to bring across different issues in society today.

 

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Hello! I’m Vanessa Ang, superhero name “V”.

Why V? Because when you make a V sign (✌️), it signifies victory and peace; symbolising that i emerge victorious from battles in peace.✌️ My superhero power would be to control minds and hopefully dominate the world in three years’ time. No, i’m not thinking of dictatorship, more like using my newfound power to make world peace come true!

IMG_5589My drawing is done by Sammi!

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