O: The Final Battle

Our next project was a lesson in the art of persuasion and whether we could swing a vote of our peers. The setting was thus: due to some global disaster (probably volcano) some higher-ups had decided that a certain letter from our regular 26 character alphabet was to get chopped, and following on from the summer brief with our designated vowels, as a group of vowel-associates had to put forward a convincing argument as to why our vowel was so integral to society disposing of it would spell the end of life as we know it.
Our groups vowel was O. Our strategy was to depict how boring and dull a world without O would be, based on the premise that most displays of emotion involve some form of facial expression involving an O shape or an O sound (surprise=OH!, amazement=oh!, etc etc). so we planned to shoot a video first showing the world devestated by loss of O, the second half how awesome O makes life.





So first i drew up storyboards, discussed and revised them with my group, then left Tim to direct/shoot the film. This gave an original perspective on my ideas, and the results were pretty darn good. A few other details were added from the group, such as using cardboard boxes/paper bags to cover the faces (with blank faces for the world without O, happy for with) and speech bubbles expressing the emotions.
Add in a few sound effects and voila, the finished video!!



so here it is...