Limerick Animation part 1

In our lastest lessons we got shown and ex students work for a music video however they did this music video (Shown above) using cut-out-stop-motion animation and cutting out each shot using coloured card. From watching this video we then needed to make our own from a limerick. We had a number of limericks to choose from this is one we selected:

"There was a young lady of Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the tiger."

We picked out the key elements of the limerick and choose what we thought would be easy to show through animation and what would stand out well. We then assigned roles to each member of the group Scott worked on the storyboard and how we want our limerick to be shown as he was doing this he told us what we would need to draw out. As our main background it would be the Jungle, Doug and I set off looking for ideas of what our background would look like. We searched on Google and found a simple background that we could work from and give us a basic idea of where to start. We wanted a simple background that our tiger could walk through the Jungle. Dan then worked on drawing a tiger and a woman however these would have to move in each frame and the tiger would have to look like it was running. We needed also make it look like she was sitting on the tiger so Dan drew only half of her. We realised later on in the Limerick we could use the same drawing of the woman as it was a side view. So I had to make another one of her but as a front of view. When we put the tiger onto the jungle backgound we found that the tiger was too large for the background. We didn't have enough time to draw another tiger but because we had done small trees it just looked like the tiger was in the front of the frame and it started to give the animation depth.