My story inspiration

The original idea for my stop motion was a 4-5 minute story inspired mainly by Alice in Wonderland, a young character spots something and goes to see where it went and transports to a new world. It was also inspired by the film Big Fish in the way an older character telling a younger character a story from his youth which the younger character is unsure about the how the true the story is.

The basic concept was a Granpa telling his Grandson about the time he lost his eye after he visited the shed, This makes the boy curious as to whether Granpa is just telling tall tales or the truth so he decides to visit the shed to see whats in there. I was torn as to whether to make it that the Granpa had misunderstood the monster and the monster was nice or it was actually mean.

I started looking at more German fairy tales and came across Stuwwelpeter (which i had not read since i was much younger) which is a German childrens book with ten rhymed stories which have bad consequences for the child involved. I also took inspiration from Tim Burton's 'The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy' which is also a book of poems with quite dark endings but done in a humorous way.

We were recommended by our tutor Lizzie Oxby to do an animation of about 90 seconds max so i knew i would do the scene where the boy goes to visit the shed so i just decided to adapt this to make this the story as i wanted to do a complete film.

I then worte my own poem (which i will post in the near future) inspired by these two books which at the time i thought i would have narrated over the top of the animation.