New Story Ideas

IDEA 1:

As we see a lone, run-down clock shop, the camera pans forward towards a lone cuckoo clock in the window. The sound of a shop bell ringing shortly before a man, who's upper half is out of view of the camera, picks the clock up out of view.
Later, the camera pans over a wall lined with singing awards and various newspaper articles about blockbuster operas and a pair of hands clad in a pair of strapping suit cuffs places the clock on the wall above a mantelpiece inside a living room. The figure leaves the room and closes the door before we hear a muffled clearing of a man's throat, followed by a song practice. The camera is focused on the clock the entire time. Eventually, the clock's face blinks like an eye and the central pivot where the arms are linked moves like a pupil towards the location of the sound through the wall.
Its pendulums move and act like arms as it raises them up and begins to sing along with him silently as the opera singer in the next room begins his crescendo mid-song. The rest of the animated piece would be the clock singing along before the opera singer stops. The clock reverts back to inanimate state as he does.


IDEA 2:

The camera pans out of blackness from a medium-sized crate back-stage of an opera. A pair of hands lifts off the lid and a ventriloquist lifts out a cuckoo clock, which winks at him as we hear an audience beyond the curtain and the ventriloquist sits on a stool behind the curtain as they're raised with the clock on his lap. Classical opera music plays and the clock begins to sing as the ventriloquist drinks a glass of water.

The rest of the animation would again pretty much be the clock singing Opera.


IDEA 3:

This idea doesn't have much of a story, per se. It's more of a demonstration of the clock's personality and movement. This idea involves the clock singing once again, but something a little different than opera.

Yes, yes, I know. It's the 'Trololol' song, but it would fit perfectly with my flamboyant clock! It's up-beat, the song itself is 'colorful', the deliverance is striking and bold and the figure singing it is conspicuously dashing.

The sequence would begin with the clock strolling on-screen atop its pendulums I used as arms in previous iterations, much like Eduard Khil, the singer seen in the video, followed by more or less similar moves to Eduard, but exaggerated seven-fold, accompanied by leaping bounds and spins similar to those found in ballet. The only thing there would be the clock. There would be no background besides a line to define the floor.