The Silence of the Lambs- Artefact
With the artefact we wanted to include as much animation and film aspects as we could, in an attempt to challenge ourselves!
We took to the whiteboard to come up with as many ideas as possible!
We liked the idea of an eerie montage, almost like an American Horror Story opening title sequence (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omu0lDUcMP4). There were some things from the movie that we wanted to incorporate, like the flashback Clarice has of the lambs. We also liked the imagery on the front of the box with the moths, Abigail in particular was interested in the moths! Aisling was really interested in the music box and Hannibal's repetitive hand movements as he listened to it- as if he was orchestrating our whole short film.
Courtney was a big fan of the serial killer that Buffalo Bill was based off, Ed Gein. So we all looked at a documentary about him and did some research. We wanted to intertwine the documentary footage with the film we create!
Here's some gruesome stuff I found about Gein :(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein)
Searching Gein's house the authorities found-
Whole human bones and fragments
Wastebasket made of human SKIN
Human SKIN covering several chair seats
Female skulls, some with the tops sawn off
Bowls made from human skulls
A corset made from a female torso skinned from shoulders to waist
Leggings made from human leg SKIN
Masks made from the skin from female heads
Mary Hogan's face mask in a PAPER BAG
Mary Hogan's skull in a box
Bernice Worden's entire head in a burlap sack
Bernice Worden's heart "in a plastic bag in front of Gein's potbellied stove"
Nine vulvae in a shoe box
A young girl's dress and "the vulvas of two females judged to have been about fifteen years old"
A belt made from female human nipples
A pair of lips on a window shade drawstring[
A lampshade made from the skin of a human face
Fingernails from female fingers
We then created a storyboard so we knew how the pieces were going to fit together in the film.
We again handed out roles, Abigail was going to work on moths emerging from Clarice's and Hannibal's mouth. Aisling would take the parts to do with the classical music and Courtney and I would create the silhouetted puppets.
I decided to take to google to take inspiration for the Buffalo Bill silhouette puppet.
Niedopowiedzenia.blog.pl, (2013). The Tale of the Three Brothers | Niedopowiedzenia. [online] Available at: http://niedopowiedzenia.blog.pl/the-tale-of-the-three-brothers/ [Accessed 22 Feb. 2015].
The tale of the three brothers was incredibly atmospheric, it had an aged look that I thought it would be nice to try and recreate! Also, the movements were incredibly dramatic to emphasise what was going on through the silhouette which was what I wanted to create in my silhouette character!
Greenlit Gaming, (2013). The Cat Lady Preview | Greenlit Gaming. [online] Available at: http://greenlitgaming.com/the-cat-lady-preview/ [Accessed 22 Feb. 2015].
The cat lady is a game that Courtney brought to my attention! As we were working together we were sharing inspirations as we went along to make sure we were on the same track! We used this as a reference as we wanted our characters to be moving through the grass. It was really helpful.
We also looked at some other Expressionistic things like the Cabinet of Dr Caligari by Robert Weine and Nosferatu. To help us with the Chiaroscuro lighting and intense use of shadows.
I then drew Buffalo Bill running and this is what I came up with.
I also did the buffalo running and it turned out like this:
I thought they turned out well.. The drawings are possibly too rough and I need to work on my arcs a little bit more though but for a first attempt at 2D animation, I think it went quite well!!
I also used after effects to create the transitional scene from Buffalo Bill as a human to him as a Buffalo animal using clips from the film and the moth design that Abigail created:
The final short film was edited by Aisling, I think it was really effective, however my team decided against including my Bill running scene which made me feel a bit shit but it still looked good so I didn't really mind at the end of the day! The music was incredibly unsettling and that alongside the imagery we had decided to piece together made it a really unnerving and gruesome piece, I love it!
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