Bedtime with Meena’ is a stop-motion animated short about a 7-year-old Meena who decides to explore the world under her bed.
This project explores the concept of poverty from a child’s perspective. It is inspired by my experience of befriending marginalized children and not understanding the social stigma around it. India accounts for 30% of all children living in extreme global poverty. Most of them don’t live longer than 18. ‘Bedtime with Meena’ aims to teach younger audiences about impoverished children in a bedtime story. I made an aesthetic choice of creating puppets and sets with scraps of fabric, yarn, and buttons. Almost 90% of the resources used in this project were made from recycled materials, making the production of this film much cheaper than originally planned. I aimed also to have a wide variety of textures throughout the fabric to appeal to the tactile senses of children. My overall goal was to create something informative, but also something whimsical and playful.
Process Work
Meena's Bedroom
The world under her bed
Old Puppet Design
