Bucket boy is a character who comes to life from everyday litter and junk. He begins as just a bucket and broom – shuffling along the ground with a couple of bricks for support – but gradually evolves a humanlike appearance, and humanlike behaviour. His problem is isolation. As an animated character in a time lapse world, he exists in a different timeframe from real people. Lost in a sprawling urban environment of waste grounds, alleys and underpasses, he experiences passersby as fleeting ghosts, blurry and incorporeal. How can he hope to communicate with them?
I’m still developing Bucket Boy’s story. My aim in building him is to test the feasibility of shooting stop-motion on location, with a puppet much bigger than the conventional twelve inches. By shooting a series of shorts – starting with the extremely short one below – I hope to expand my knowledge of location shooting, time lapse technique, photography and creative use of sound.
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