Creative Block

Suffered an immense creative block while making the animatic and realised it may not flow as nicely as I intended. While I originally didn't want to do a narrative piece - as to better focus on Jack's performance as well as the psychedelic visuals - I have since realised that the video will need some narrative to frame it; the crazy animated visuals juxtapose with the real life performance so it might be too jarring if not narratively framed. In order to better establish a narrative I've consulted the following:

Daniel's thing

Dandy Warhols

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Daniel agreed that I need to frame the visuals from my video concept with some sort of narrative. Because of Daniel's video suggestion along with the Dandy Warhols' video and Cellophane by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, I've decided to innuendo Jack's drug trip of the video with him drinking milk and watching TV - where he watches the visuals unfurl and the animation invades real life.
The Dandy Warhols video shows a music video comprised of performance clips displayed on a television within their real video, this would tie in well with the idea proposed by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard with a meshing between reality and television. It is likely that my animation could then invade Jack's reality within the video, allowing for me to contain the performance clips and psychedelic visuals within the TV world before they spill into his 'reality'.


Choice of Milk:
Milk is a good innuendo for drugs and links well to Jack, he certainly likes milk and has made a video sketch about it and milk also is used in a Clockwork Orange (one of Jack's favourite films). Below is an interesting link to a video assessing the presentation and connotations of milk in cinema. It's quite relevant in suggesting that Jack's character sees the milk/drugs as nurturing initially however the viewer will likely note something is wrong, given that it is socially unorthodox for a non-child to enjoy such an amount of milk.

The Milk Video