Developing on Initial Ideas (Lyics linked to visuals) & Visual Experiments (Shadow Puppetry)

For the first part of the video, we start in a "magical" world in a sense, which is our use of shadow puppetry showing the wolf in the woods. We will be using cut out images in cardboard to form a shadow onto a plain surface. Below is a quick sketch of what we hope the forest will look like:

The equipment used to make the cut outs is shown below. Scissors, compasses (or needles), blank surface and a light source. (In this experiment a desk lamp against a white wall was used)
The first experiment of the cut-outs was to see how the technique works and how to improve on it. We would probably need a stronger light source, and thicker cut outs as the paper wasn't a crisp black for the shadow. A darker room and stronger light source could also help this, or adjusting contrast when we come to edit it.


To begin the practice, a simple circle cut from paper, which represents the starting of the video of the moon at night. This is shown in the picture below, with the shadow from the paper and light casting onto the wall:

Next, add some stars by puncturing the paper with the compasses, as we are hoping for a starry night with the moon at the introduction. The glowing ring of light around the moon may be lost when we use harder paper such as cardboard.

From the idea in our story boards, we wanted the name of the band in the sky, created out of starts or fire flies, both of which would need planning and good editing. Again, compasses can puncture the paper to create the name in the sky (& again, contrast could help here too, making the writing clearer):

We had then planned to show the name of the song, "Moon Song", with the moon as an "O". However, we have decided to use the moon in "The Wild Wolves" as the "o" in "wolves" as this is the first shot that comes up with the moon. Below is the song name made out of stars, which cold fade in if we fade out the band name, so the "o" in "song" could also be the moon:

The next image, below, shows how we could develop the forest. It would probably take a while to create a whole forest, however Caroline also does Technology, and could get permission from her teacher to use the Laser Cutter, however we may be able to make them by hand. We would have mre layers of tree's to make it look more like a forest, however a few tree's are shown below:

This final image shows the Wolf amongst the trees at the bottom of the picture. It is quite blurry, though thicker card would probably help show the ragged fur we are hoping to create with the wolf. In our final image of the woods, we hope to have folk/ska indicators in the woods, such as a trilby hat resting on a branch, or a trumpet hanging or laying next to a tree (as a trumpet is used in the song, or a saxaphone) to focus on the genre of music we are portraying.

The mise-en-scene of the animation is woodland, beneath the moonlit sky from the introduction with the wolf. This is the general overview, as i mentioned in my "Initial Idea's post". We picked this to animate, as if you listen to/read the lyrics, the song "Moon Song" is unsurprisingly about the moon and the night-time. We have decided to link this with the video by placing it at night-time/sunset and including the moon. We have included the wolf because wolves have a strong connection to the moon (especially were-wolves) and it also linked in perfectly with the name of the band - The Wild Wolves.