Well with a healthy bit of research done and not much time left to do something with it I have laid out below some of how I think the video should work. The images that I have been including over these last posts are all developed based on the interpretations I laid out here.
I will work with within after effects to sepearate all the individual photoshop layers and have them pass before a fixed camera point as they orbit around an unidentified (unattainable?) locus in the distance. Within this essential concept I hope the film will fulfill the following agendas:
stream of consiousness expression: a sort of emotive/cerebral chaos and catharsis that still has a sense of harmony in how it is held togethether / animated. Flowing in a sort of balanced complexity.
balancing dualities: change + continuity | simplicity + complexity | chaos + order | open and closed space | …
conceptualisation of passing time: - unstoppable / continuous / perpetual / circular / obscured unity / permanent change / evolution
a distant, unidentified centre: ideas and activity orbiting something | symbolic | connected / anchored (to what? job / identity / family / routine / political agendas / morals / ideals / untangible / spirit / all of these…)
multiple interpretations: some ambiguity in themes and motifs but stil with enough clarity for multiple interpretations (not to the point of drifting into pure abstraction)
animation specific: a pitch that could only be made with animation (not a live action film that is being shoe horned into animation)
layers of appreciation/ complexity: - film should function in multiple levels i.e. on a purely aesthetic level, but also reward closer attentions to detail | curiosity | illustration, motifs, complementing album as a whole.