Good news!

Hey everyone,

Sorry for not making that second post, and not posting much on the weekend, but believe it or not, Ben and I have been working hard on the project.

Friday night Ben, Dalin and I talked a lot about the "Monkey" project. What we've come down to trying to mix all of our ideas into a bag. Just to recap, our main ideas for the music video are the photo album or memories and journey of the monkey.

So how I think we should do this is by doing the following:
The base story is a girl moving out of the house to go to college and she has to only take what she really needs. So her mom asks her if she wants to take her beloved monkey, and she pauses for a moment and then decides "no, I'm too old him now." She leaves him behind and drives away. The song starts and the monkey comes to life. It grabs somethings packs a bag, and tries to find the girl.

Side stories:
The mother can start looking at an old photo albums and see pictures of the two together. The pictures come to life for a bit, or a little stop motion with the pictures.

SKKKRRRRR.... I really want to know what you guys think about this idea...

Make the whole thing the photo album, so omit the journey and have the photo album be a base for the story. So this is how it should go:
Girl's moving out, leaves monkey behind (same as the old one). She leaves, monkey comes to life. Monkey runs to the window and see that she's going away. The monkey then goes back to the almost empty room and sees a photo album. He goes over to it and opens it up. Inside he sees various photos of them together doing things. The photo comes to life and then we watch the two play together.

I the 3 big memories they have are sledding, having a tea party, and playing in the park.

Transitions will be going into/coming out of the picture from the photo album (andrew Kramer's video tutorial), and going into and coming out of a day dream from the girl (similar to one of Ben's dreaming I was dreaming video.)

eh? eh?

Ben tell me what ya think! and I want to hear everyone else's opinion too!

Oh also the votes are in on what we should do for the video contest and the winner is.... Monkey Music video!

Thanks for everyone who voted, more polls are coming.