Animation
"Leaving Us" is one minute film that tells the story of a woman who wanted to fly away.
The film will be done in abstract style close to cubism and constructivism twenties of
the last century. The narrative of the film is pretty simple, but all visual is very complex
and based on constant interaction between colors, shapes and space. The whole
animation will be drawn on paper .The drawings then will be scanned into the
computer, where they'll be composited and colored, and the camera moves will be
added. (*)The film opens with a scene where the camera is pointing up from the
ground. We see the facade of the apartment building and sky. The next moment we
hear the sound of breaking glass from the top floor, the pieces of broken window begin
to falling down. The camera moves to the level of the middle of the house. The glass
pieces are quickly approaching camera and turning blue, iridescent, geometric cloud.
That cloud flying past the camera and continue to fall to the ground. The camera pans
over and we see as are debris finally reaches the earth's surface. Next scene start
exactly as a first one, camera pointing right up to the sky from the ground level. From
the top floor where the broken window is, somebody start tossing out armfuls of
clothes. Clothing is flying down as an bunch of mixed colored shapes. Very quickly
they fill an entire screen. Clothing flies down and replaced by a new portion of the
ejected from above. Colors and shapes continuously replacing each other and
happening on the screen resembles us a kaleidoscope. This continues for about fifteen
seconds. Suddenly this colorful rhythm literally bursting with something white. It's
coming closer, and somehow our mind recognize in it girl’s body. For a split second our
entire screen goes entire white. Then for a while we continue to see colored spots
residues falling clothes. Once more camera goes to the middle of the building and
turns down. On the ground, at the middle of multi-colored spots, in which red is
dominated, we sees a white silhouette of the shattered girl. Next scene. Camera slowly
zooming to the side of the building and gradually level up with a broken window. Fadeout.
The end.
Tools: iMac computer, suitable scanner, TVPaint, Anime Studio Pro, Avid Media
Composer and Adobe Photoshop.
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