Another Idea - Animated Montage

The other idea I had in mind was an animated montage, showing a journey through Sheffield's sights and landmarks, cultural and social events, places and people. This would use animations and run as a one long piece, in a similar way to the example I posted before...

While it wouldn't be as complex or impressive as the above piece, I think the idea would still be appropriate, in both a practical, and suitable sense. Whereas in the example we journey through movies and genres, with mine we would journey through famous Sheffield architecture, showing it's people and reflecting the day to day happenings in and around the steel city.

My plan would be to pick a famous Sheffield place, ie: The Crucible, illustrate it as a still image, and animate it's social representation, ie: a snooker player. The animation wouldn't need to be long, or complicated, just enough to reflect the place's famed purpose. I'd do this for as many Sheffield places as I could get away with, and put them all together as one long journey through the town itself, maybe with a single object or "traveller" guiding the way.

A quick example of what I mean is as follows...

Here, you can see The Crucible, which would come into view as our "object" journeys along, with the snooker player seen animated, playing his game. As quickly as this came into view, we move past it and onto the next location, in this case Meadowhall, seen in the distance coming into shot. Meadowhall's association would be shopping, and so a person shopping would be animated to go along with it. When this has taken the main view, again we past it and onto something else, until we've established all the best sights and notable activities of the entire city itself. Along the way I'd throw in some extra animations and images, stuff that would be worth including but might not fit the "sketched building and animated association" criteria, or just something that would look nice and suit the purpose of the piece further.

Again, it could prove quite the undertaking, but would make a great moving piece of animated visuals, suiting the theme of Sheffield culture and history well too.