"It's Such a Beautiful Day"

For the Dumbo animation in my video I was inspired by Don Hertzfeld's "It's such a beautiful Day"

Like I said in my last project, I really enjoyed the minimalistic approach that Don Hertzfeldt took to this project, and I wanted to create one sequence in a similar manner.

As I was filming in Disneyland Paris, I looked at the Dumbo's flight ride and was interested by the fact that a character has become a theme park ride.

I felt inspired to do a transition between the character in motion and the Park ride in motion.

Filming in Manchester

The first place I filmed in was Manchester, as I have already decided decided that I want the bulk of my video to be mainly footage from Disneyland, I will be using the footage I get from this trip for experimenting with.

Rotoscoping

A method that became popularised and standardised in the early Disney films, Rotoscoping involves filming the envisioned sequence you want to animate in real life, and then tracing  the frames made from the footage.


A big portion of my project is combining animation with live action, so I'd like to Rotoscope over the footage I take while keeping some of the original footage in the final project.

Initial Music Video influences

At the beginning of this project, I began looking at Music Videos that focused on travelogues, similar to Carly Rae Jepsen's "Run Away With Me". I wanted my project to have a sense of fun for wherever I was going and this particular music video takes the travelogue and combines it with performance for the effect that I want in my final project. My initial hope is to evolve this form of music video using forms of animation.

This video contains a travelogue in a more dramatic fashion. Instead of a lot of combined clips to show a more fun travel experience, this video showcases a single journey from the singer's house in Colorado to his first gig outside America in Amsterdam. This method follows the more relaxed nature of this song as it features no quick edits or changes like the Carly Rae Jepsen video does.