This is my first ever complete scene for my animation. It is only 8 seconds long ( 5.52 mins to go!) but it has taken me a whole day to complete with all the compositing in aftereffects. I wanted to start with this scene as I'm researching symbolism and cinematography for my dissertation. Although the symbolism in this scene is fairly straight forward. The scene is the main characters hallway. He is an elderly man who lives on his own after the death of his wife. I wont go into the story at the moment but the main theme is about letting go and moving on. In this particullar composition i wanted to show some of these story points.

1: he lives on his own. The hallway is unkept with the walls peeling paint and generally dirty. I imagined that his wife would have cleaned the house and so on( poss a bit sexist but they are an older generation). Although the wife is no longer present i wanted to place elements of her in the scene. The lampshade and carpets I thought might be somthing an old lady would furnish her house with. You may not be able to see in this small video but you can see dust particles in the light coming down from the selling reinforcing the unclean factor.

2: he doesnt like to throw things away(the letting go part of the theme). The piles of newspapers and the objects in plastic bags hopefully represent this while adding somthing else vissually to the scene.

Any feedback would be appreciated.