COP animation

For my COP animation, I have decided to create a stop motion animation because I haven't done one yet and it will give me chance to have a go at it, also I think for what I am doing, not only will it be quick but it will hopefully give a nice aesthetic. 

My idea, that we had to put on a proposal form, and that Mike has said is okay, is this:

I will be creating a short animation of around 10 seconds that will be played over twice with two different sound tracks that I will also be creating. They will hopefully be a mixture of music and sound effects. The two tracks will be quite contrasting showing that music and sound effects play a big part in how we perceive a storyline. Using clay stop motion I think will be good for this and simple shapes too because it means I don't have to worry about facial expressions so it won't affect the mood of the piece and I can leave that all to the music.

I looked at a few different shapes to use, I wanted them to be quite simple for speed and ease. 

The first was quite a squashy shape that moves like a caterpillar/ slug and scrunches up. I liked the idea that the top half was almost like a head, I thought it looked quite emotive.

The second was just a ball and it would roll to move and it would have lots of squash and stretch to show emotion but i didn't think it had as much narrative potential in it.

The third was a cube, i thought it would be cool to do an awkward roll because it is square, it would squash and stretch a little bit but not much. I thought this wouldn't work as well because theres not enough movement in it to show a good reaction.

For these reasons I went with number 1.

This character will be made out of modelling clay.

 Next I created a short storyboard showing roughly what is going to happen in this very short animation. Basically it will move across the screen and come to a box where it will react to a toy dinosaur appearing. Depending on the music, this will seem like a scary thing, or a surprise.

I think this will work okay but it is only short so I will look through it afterward and decide if it works or not, if not I will re write the storyboard and try again.
I think the music is going to be the most difficult part. But i have a fairly good knowledge of film music as i did it in GCSE and i have read about it a lot for my essay. I will use a mixture of things like garage band, sound effects from the internet or hana barbera and audacity possibly. I will use after effects i think to put this all together.