project one: narrowing down the options

For this project I have decided to go with an idea that came from my idea of using words with the prefix 'ten'. I will demonstrate the meaning of ten words beginning with 'ten'.

The video will be stop-motion, and will experiment with the idea of things moving from the 2nd to the 3rd dimension. This quick video-sketch demonstrates what I mean by this:



The words will all be demonstrated/explained on an 11x17 piece of paper on a wall (5 pieces wide, 2 pieces tall), creating a kind of grid. Each word will be allocated five seconds for this demonstration to happen. They will all be a combination of 2 dimensional stop-motion, and a three-dimensional character interacting with them.

The ten words are:

1) Tendril: the stem or appendage of a plant. For this word, an image of a plant will be on the paper. A (real) hand will approach the paper and grab a stem).

2) Tender: soft, easily wounded. For this word, something (haven't quite decided, maybe a piece of meat as they are often described as tender) will be cut by the (real) person.

3) Tennis: the sport. For this word, the 3-d person will hit a tennis ball from 3-d into the paper, and it will fade away, as seen in the video above.

4) Tenor: adult male singer. For this word, the 3-d person will be conducting images of a tenor singer. Here is a video clip I will take the images from:
http://www.archive.org/details/Europeanposte-FrankTenagliaTenorPanisAngelicus753-3

5) Tent: a portable home. For this word, a tent will be assembled in the 2-d images, and the 3-d character will zip-up the tent's "door".

6) Tenaculum: a surgeon's knife. For this word, a beating heart will be shown on the paper, and the 3-d character will use the knife to perform surgery on it.

7) Tentacle: slender flexible process in animals. I don't know exactly what I'll be doing to demonstrate this word.

8) Tense: stretched tight. For this word, the 3-d character will grab a rope from the 2-d image and pull it over their shoulder, facing away from the wall.

9) tenth: tenth part, after ninth. I also don't know exactly what I will do for this word.

10) tend: pay attention to. For this word, the 3-d character will mend a wound on an arm in the 2-d image on the wall.