I have recently been engrossing myself in the works uploaded on the website www.shortoftheweek.com. The website is a place where new work in a variety of media fields and from artists all over the world is uploaded every week. This week I stumbled across The Boy Who Wants to be a Lion (2010) by Alois Di Leo. The Boy Who Wants to be a Lion (2010) is an animated short film that is set in the 1960s based on a seven year old deaf boy called Max. He goes on a school trip to the zoo where he sees a lion for the first time. Suddenly his life begins to change forever as his feelings develop.
Alois Di Leo was born in Peru and grew up in Sao Paulo, he came to England to study at the National Film and Television School and this short film was his graduation project.It has gone on to win many prizes including the Lotte Reiniger Promotion Award for Animated Film at Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film.
I find Alois Di Leo's work inspiring, his use of theme and the style which he adopts throughout help to aid the animation in many ways. The Boy Who Wants to be a Lion (2010) is a simple drawn animation, this style is perfect because the film is set in the 1960s and animation would have been basic back then, none of this computer generated content. The colour scheme is kept to orange, yellow and brown hues which also works with the time it is set. Oswald Iten has spoken about how typically "the use of "golden" light is for romantic scenes" (Iten, 2009). Iten's thoughts can be applied to this animation because the narrative is based around a young boys fascination with lions.
The image above is a scene which caught my eye from The Boy Who Wants to be a Lion (2010). This has inspired me to consider the spatial arrangement in the scenes of my own animation. In order to show the mental turmoil my character faces I plan to create a collage of all the nasty comments which will be seen to fill her mind completely. this will be when I would like her to develop into an animated character. It will be as if the comments have literally imprinted on her brain.
I find Alois Di Leo's work inspiring, his use of theme and the style which he adopts throughout help to aid the animation in many ways. The Boy Who Wants to be a Lion (2010) is a simple drawn animation, this style is perfect because the film is set in the 1960s and animation would have been basic back then, none of this computer generated content. The colour scheme is kept to orange, yellow and brown hues which also works with the time it is set. Oswald Iten has spoken about how typically "the use of "golden" light is for romantic scenes" (Iten, 2009). Iten's thoughts can be applied to this animation because the narrative is based around a young boys fascination with lions.
The image above is a scene which caught my eye from The Boy Who Wants to be a Lion (2010). This has inspired me to consider the spatial arrangement in the scenes of my own animation. In order to show the mental turmoil my character faces I plan to create a collage of all the nasty comments which will be seen to fill her mind completely. this will be when I would like her to develop into an animated character. It will be as if the comments have literally imprinted on her brain.
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