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Love Me, Fear Me

Veronica Solomon, 2018

Desperate for public approval, a nameless metamorphic character reinvents itself to gain the admiration it desires. Fearing silence from the unseen audience, it battles with changing gender, colour, shape and movement in order to fit in with what it perceives the spectators want, while slowly losing all sense of who they really are.

A powerful film which shows how claymation can be used in an abstract and adult way.

Clip Details

Genre: Abstract

Country of Origin: Germany

Medium/Content: 3D Animation, Colour, Sound, Fiction, No Dialogue

Clip Length: 06:04

Age Group: S4-S6

Classroom Activities

  • Sound On/Vision Off. Before watching the film, listen to the audio only. Get the class to write down what they think the film is about and what is happening.
  • What do the spectators think of the creature at the start of the clip? What tells us this?
  • What do we see to know that the spectators’ opinion of the creature has changed? (01:00 – 01:20)
  • How does the sound change throughout? How does this help to move the story forward?
  • What is the importance of the spotlight moving in the film? What cue does this give us?
  • Watch from 04:00 – 04:10. Discuss what happens to the colour. What is the purpose of this?
  • Why do you think the creator chose to make the creature out of Plasticine? What further meaning might this have?
  • Write dialogue to go along with the film. Record this and edit it into the film.
  • Make your own short film that encourages people to be themselves online.
  • Take a screen shot of each metamorphosis and create a story board outlining the change and what the creature might be thinking/feeling/hoping to achieve.
  • Create your own stop motion using models made of Plasticine depicting how you feel about social media.
  • Change the soundtrack that goes along with the film. Why did you make the decisions you did?
  • Create your own soundtrack using different instruments that can capture the emotions of the creature and the atmosphere of the audience.

Clip Details

Genre: Abstract

Country of Origin: Germany

Medium/Content: 3D Animation, Colour, Sound, Fiction, No Dialogue

Clip Length: 06:04

Education Level: Senior Phase