IDD401 Blog

3.25.2007

Domino Treatment

For the domino animation, I decided on creating a layout that shows a design (pictured below) and at the end, when the last domino falls, there would be a fun and unexpected action.
The animation starts with an extreme close up of a single domino. It's a traditional black and white domino. As the domino falls we see that there are others falling behind it. The camera cuts along side of the dominoes and travels with them as they topple over in one straight line.
There is a split and the dominoes go off in two directions followed by a third soon after. The camera cuts to an angle where we see the dominoes falling towards us and they begin forming two different spirals. The camera pans over to the third path where the dominoes form a larger spiral and in the center is a button.
We cut to a high angle extreme close up of the button just as the last few dominoes are falling. The last one falls on top of the button which pushes it down. There is a second of stillness as we wait to see what the button will do. We cut to a long shot that shows the entire design of fallen dominoes and we hear a click like a switch turns on and the dominoes glow.
For music, I want something with an upbeat tempo, maybe techno, to go with the quick falling dominoes. Once we reach the place where the button is pressed, the music stops and there is silence followed by the click that sounds as the glow turns on. For the setting, I want the dominoes to be in a dark area on a dark surface so that when the glow appears, it's intense and noticeable. To do this, I will probably keep the background black and create a black table top that is kind of reflective to show that the dominoes aren't floating in space. I'm going to use minimal lighting, maybe one or two faint spotlights, so that the glow shows up in the end.