CALIBAN REVEALED (TANGO version)
Channel: Juan A Franco
Date: 2012-09-17

Caliban Revealed Tango

This is a project made for the Royal Shakespeare Company in collaboration with Central Saint Martins on the first year of my MA Character Animation. July 2012.

It is based on the play "The Tempest", and the idea was to offer a different version of a key event that affected the life of Caliban, one of the characters of that play.

Maybe he was not a monster after all.. Maybe Miranda was no so "innocent" as she seemed to be... Maybe Caliban paid for a crime he never committed... I guess I just wanted to approach a different take on the story and try to make something lighter with some sense of humour, at the same time that I wanted to present the character of Caliban like a victim of the circumstances..

It has been a pleasure to work with Richard Ford, a composer at the Royal College of Music, and Ioli Filippakopoulou from the Central School of Speech and Drama.

It has been also an honour to be able to work with my classmates at Central Saint Martins and my dear friend Sebastian Uson. Special thanks to David Bromfield and Stacy Psaltou for their voices, Ana García and Mahra Al Mualla for their constant support and inspiration all the way through.


You can also watch a version with other soundtrack in my channel, a jazz version, which also sets a subtly different mood to the story. Thanks for watching!  ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Un5QAUEvE

You can find other versions of my animations over here: https://vimeo.com/juanfranco/videos