DAZED - Declare independence in 15 seconds

For this Collaborative brief, I grouped together with Emma, another animator on my course and Molly, who is a Illustrator. We came together because we were all interested in the Dazed brief. We felt that all of our individual interests would work well together. Emma has a particular interest in production and post-production, and Molly and I had more of an  interest in the pre-production side, so it seemed we were well fitted to work together!

For this brief, we need to produce 4 separate videos which are 15 seconds long, which all have some sort of connection and can put forward the independence of DAZED Magazine in that time frame. We decided very early on that we wanted to animate over live action footage. This was a decision we made for several reasons:

• It was something none of us had ever done before, or not done a great deal of.
• It would actually save quite a lot of time
• We felt that having a mix of live action and animation would create a lot of diversity. 

Roles

The first thing to be established was the roles we would all take. We decided that Molly and I would focus the pre-production and design work, all of us would have an input to the animating and Emma would focus more on the editing in post-production.

It took us quite a while to settle on a specific final idea for our project, because the brief in itself was quite vague. This was good because it gave us so much creative freedom, however it also made it more difficult to settle on something final, but we got there in the end!