Faust ARP

I've been bouncing ideas around my head about this Radiohead music video contest all week. I've set my sights on using their song Faust ARP to animate along to, since its the shortest on their album at 2:10. I'll write what I have so far in screenplay format, like a real writer!

FAUST ARP
An animation project by Sam White

The video opens with a close up of a closed eye, submerged underwater. The track “Faust ARP” begins.

00:00-00:02

Thom’s voice begins counting and the submerged eye opens and begins to look around.

00:02-00:08

As the guitar riff begins the scene transitions to a man clawing his way out of a water filled holed in a dry riverbed. The man is gasping for air and is slowly crawling out of the hole onto the bedrock. The man starts to rise as Thom begins singing “Wakey wakey/rise and shine”

00:08-00:17

The focus switches to a landscape shot of the dry riverbed, the horizon taking up most of the shot. As the lone man walks from the left of the shot to the right, the sun and the moon rise and set on the horizon. The rocky landscape is desolate and the broad arcs of the sun and moon are humbling in comparison to the tiny man.

Anyway thats about as much as I've put on paper yet. My biggest concern is how I'm going to animate it, I don't have any experience at animating. At this point I'm thinking I will draw each frame individually in an impressionist style (to facilitate a quicker progress) and scan them into my computer and compile them together.