Building Better Content - Ideas for the Animated Short - page 52

Displacement
Displacement means to change or displace to another viewpoint or context of a piece while
maintaining the same story. When beginning to work ideas, look at all of the characters and toys
at your disposal. Try telling the story through each of them individually and see what happens.
Poor Bogo is a story about a confl ict between a father and his small daughter. The father wants
his daughter to go to sleep and she wants to continue to tell a favorite bedtime story. Initially, this
is an idea that would seem to be better for live action. You could caricature the players and
stylize the room, and exaggerate the antics of the child and the sheer exhaustion of the father
and this might suffi ce for animation well enough. But Thelvin Cabezas did a brilliant thing. He
displaced the story to the object that was between the father and the child—the bedtime story.
Poor Bogo , by Thelvin Cabezas,
Ringling College of Art and
Design