Co Directing and Producing.

Over the summer, Meg and I discussed the idea of making a Circus of Horrors as our main project this year. We knew it was going to be a huge amount of work to do so we decided to look into all the preproduction for this project right from the start of the first term.

The story follows a faceless clown, who arrive to a circus of horrors, finds his own identity and a home with the creepy characters he meets along the way.
This clown has a lot of different masks, each displaying a different emotion and persona and he is reliant on these personas to make him a character. Throughout the story, characters from the circus take these masks away from him one by one until he has no choice but to discover his own self, not being reliant on this identities anymore.

I was really interested in working with a clown character as I have always been very scared of them so I thought it would be interesting to try and connect with one. In this story, he is experiencing a lot of the same things I have been through recently in terms of losing and rediscovering your own identity. I have questioned my own a lot over the last six months and it has left me feeling alienated and confused at times which is something I want to get across in the full story of the animation.

Because we both feel very close and excited to this idea, Meg and I decided that we would both Co-direct this piece and make all major plot points and changes together. However for this part of the the story, I will be making the Protagonist and she will be making one of the most important characters, A zolter machine.