Inspirations

Jirí Barta
The Club of the Laid Off (25 min. - 1989)
Set in an empty flat where damaged, retired mannequins are stored, Barta brings those mannequins to life, showing them trying to carry out their prescribed function even though they have been remove from their regular workplace context and are broken and missing pieces of themselves. When newer, flashier mannequins are dumped into the apartment, a war erupts as old meets new. The obvious social commentary is actually pretty much left up to the viewer. The meaning of this piece could be an editorial on the plight of the modern worker in a society that is becoming less and less human, or merely a hallucinatory look into the secret life of plastic replicas of people.






Norman McLaren
Neighbours (1952)
The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower.

A Chairy Tale
A fairy tale in the modern manner, told without words. In the film, a chair (animated by Evelyn Lambart) that declines to be sat upon and a young man perform a sort of pas de deux.

Rough Treatement

Layla was sitting at her bed with story book at her lap staring blankly at the window in her room. When all of a sudden it starts raining, she snaps out from her daydream then took her umbrella and ran outside.She opens her umbrella and walk to the park near her house where her mother used to take her. Then she walk to an amusement park where her parents took her 5days before they died, she rode the carousel before then continue to others familiar places that holds memories about her parents. She felt that the whole world are belongs only to her.

Project Descriptions

Intentions
My intentions with this project is all to do with experimentation. Because it’s an experimental piece. The project will be a stop motion piece of short silent story about the world seen through a mind of a girl name Layla.

Aim and Goal
My aim is for the audience to see the world of people that have her own imaginations. To feel and understand what is actually happen to someone that lives in their own created world with their own imaginations and their own imaginary friends. And also to achieve a great cinematography.

Theme
Completely abstract but joyful.

New Synopsis

Layla is a very courageous girl, she always have her own mind of thinking towards everything. She’s very bubbly, lively, outgoing and always happy although she lost both of her parents when she was young. She has her own imaginary friends with her own imaginary world because she grew up with all sort of stories and fairy tales from her grandmother that take care of her since she lost her parents. She loves afternoon rain. Every time it starts to rain she would go out with her imaginary friends and her blue umbrella walking around to places that hold history of her late mother and father. Whenever she play in the rain she felt like she’s in another world with her parents and her imaginary friends, all happy together.