Existing Similar Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzWiug-PIaE

I think this is a very clever interactive video. Its contents are of people acting out an English idiom, and at the end the viewer guesses which idiom they were portraying. It has multiple choice answers, and whichever you press, it tells you if you were right or wrong. After this there is another display by the actors either congratulating you or being disappointed corresponding to your answer, then takes you to another idiom. I think this is a very clever way of getting people to understand idioms, but not exactly what I plan to do. What the actors do is interpretive, whereas my work will be very obvious and less ambiguous. The method used to film the video has no relevance to my project, but I thought doing research into idioms and how other people may have portrayed them would be beneficial to my work. This video is more informative and meant to teach people about the nature of idioms, whereas my work is for entertainment purposes. The similarity between the two is how the idiom is portrayed, as both have actors playing out the idiom. I think mine in some cases is easier to understand as the idiom is very obvious and could not be construed as anything else, whereas the interactive video could be portraying any of the multiple choice answers given.

I originally intended to look into some videos portraying 'Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk' but I couldn't find any on the internet. They were all short films but my main film will be about a minute or two long with a really obvious meaning. I am surprised that there are no previous examples of this but still willing to try and make mine a success. There were videos on youtube that were longer, around 5 to 10 minutes long which were video entries for film festivals and such, that had the title of an idiom but were a film with the idiom inferred in the plot. The closest I could find was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pE8qS_V1cA which is a 4 minute film that is a dramatized version of the idiom 'Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk' that in essence is the same as what I'm doing but with a lot more detail in the storyline. The reason I'm not doing this is because I want to use stop motion, which wouldn't really be possible to sync with sound effects, and also it would be less likely to succeed because of the amount of photographs I'd need to take to keep to a coherent plot.