The topic of animation this week was experimental animation, and we were given several themes to choose from:

Growth
Dance
Conflict
Sea-life/wildlife

Once brainstorming was over, we settled on conflict, that being mental/moral conflict. But we did have a squid in it to cover sea-life too. After brainstorming we got stuck into our final idea, which evolved along the way:

The animation was split into two parts, a material-based stop motion animation, slightly more surreal and experimental, which covered the 'real' segments of the story, and a piece on pixilation for the dream-sequence in the plot.

I was in the half of the group responsible for the pixilation sequence (there were clear cut groups but we often spoke to and influenced the other group with ideas etc, and vice-versa)
colour
Our piece was to be in black and white, but as it was shot on DSLR we shot it in colour, to give us the option later on, and more available to experiment with if we should so desire. Clothes/lighting etc were all chosen and produced with black and white in mind, i.e. contrasting clothes (white tie on black shirt / stripy robber top).

Test Video1

Test Video2

Here all the shots are put together, but unedited:

Black and White (iMovie) Test

Black and White (Photoshop) Test

Credits Test