Saturday, 7 November 2015

Identify - 'Keane - Bedshaped' Music Video (OUAN403)

I feel like the narrative in this animation is about loneliness and how after somebody being lonely for so long can cling to being alone as they feel they do not know how to interact with people. The animation communicates this to me by showing the main character, now dressed, in front of people inside a cafe- these people's faces then morph into horrible goblin-like features. it is this that represents the fer of being around people.
this music video combines stop motion animation with rotoscoping techniques, which is unique to me. The medium that the rotoscoping is in changes throughout the video, i think this is due to its placement  within the setting of the stop motion animation, for example when the main character is in the bathroom stall the rotoscoping is stylised like the work of graffiti artist Banksy. I think the narrative also describes the main character as facing his problems in the bathroom stall and achieving clarity in the end, as the stall deconstructs into an open white space with only the rotoscoped animation - rendered in ink - of the band Keane.
There is a short segment of the animation whereby a cat that interacts with the main character at the beginning, hands the main character a bag of clothes that has written on it the words 'here for you' - this could symbolise the hope that the main character holds in other people.

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