Self Reflection

The meaning of our project was to show that you should never give up and always have hope.  We used some symbols such as the fish. We used the fish to guide the man through his struggle. The fish were swimming towards the sun which during the line of the song “lights will guide you home” this represented the light at the end of the tunnel or the hope through any hard times. Another symbol we used was the flipped umbrella; when the wind was pushing him backwards. This showed the struggle the man was facing which represents the struggles we face in life.

We got inspired for our video when we were researching other videos on YouTube for stop animation. We saw one video that was telling a story so we decided that it would be cool for our video to start off by opening a book and make it look like the beginning of story that was going to be told.

Throughout the video we used dull colours when he was facing his struggle and we used brighter colours when he was facing his struggles and coming past them. At the beginning it was raining and then he stepped in a puddle which represented sadness and darkness. Another colour choice we made was the red umbrella. We made the umbrella red because it is a very bold and intense colour which is often how we see the problems we have to face in our own life.

I think in the end our message came across in our video. I think it is important that people understand that everybody will be face with struggles in their life but you can’t lose hope if you want to overcome these problems. You have to be strong and stay positive and in the end there will be a light that guides you through it all. There is always a light at the end of the tunnel.