the process while shooting

I first started with an idea about someone walking down the street and getting hit by a car; this would be shot from above with a view only of the legs and the street. My initial experiments started me thinking about how the different textures of the ground being walked upon have different personalities or associative feelings (grass: nature, peaceful, happy; asphalt/street; dark, mysterious and dangerous). I did not want these personalities to be the subject of the shoot, just to be a background additive. I dropped my initial idea about the walker being hit by a car because the subject of the walk itself became enough.
The animation became about the simple act of walking down the street and how one either notices or does not notice various things–cracks, trees, the sun, the heat, a dead worm, or garbage. The shoot started as a quirky little walk which was supposed to be funny, but as I began thinking about the feel I was getting from the images, I began shooting in a more surreal way; or at least a more serious style. Depending on the soundtrack, the end result may be something completely different.