ABOUT: Title: Jöe [you] Type: Shortfilm Genre: Psychological Thriller Method: Stop-motion animation Target audience: 14+ Topic: Internal investigation Length: 5 min This is the Story of JÖE a Soul encapsulated by a body of metal wires, tormented by conflicts, regrets and lost chances. Trapped in an infinite tunnel with drawers containing memories from his life, he opens each drawer to find some that provide relief. Eating joyful memories provide him with a short lived sensation of joy, but then both memory and joy dissolve again. In a last desperate attempt Jöe finds a drawer with seemingly no content except for a bullet in its cartridge. Determined to end his life, Jöe seeks to no avail for a matching firearm for the bullet. At the bottom of his pain and misery, Jöe sits on the floor scratching a little hole. In a surrendered gesture he tosses the bullet, and out bursts a lush plant. Surprised Jöe grabs on and is propelled into the sky along with the growing plant. He reaches the blooming flower and is mesmerized by its glow, inside the bullet is pointed straight at him. Mid air Jöe is shot and shredded to pieces, light beams out of him, animals and vegetation are released in a euphoric stream of psychedelic art. A naked secure and powerful being of light appears. Andrés Leal, Director KA-SA, Production company
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CHARACTER DESCRIPTION Jรถe is a representation of the human ego. He is inside a human mind trying to understand and conceptualize who he is. In his environment he has infinite amounts of drawers filled with past memories and experiences that hint at some life outside of the dark tunnel he is in. To his despair, nothing makes much sense. His armor of tangled wires hide conceal the light that he truly is.
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STORYBEATS 1 -2 Jรถe consuming and getting high on past experiences 3. Jรถe reaching for the flower hip 4. Leaves falling from a drawer 5. Jรถe dropping from the sky 6. Big space that contain Jรถes world.
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METHOD The stopmotion puppet Jรถe, will consist of an armature covered in sculpy that models Jรถe anatomy, which for the final look will be covered in metallic wire. References display 1. Armature 2. Sculpy 3. And 4. Test of final surface look
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