Research for movie group project

This is a scene from the Science of sleep, a movie by Michel Gondry.I found it quite interesting because the shot is a mixture of stop motion animation and real filming. The main character is leaving in a city made of brown paper( in the making of the movie the director reveals that it is actually made of toilet rolls!). The shots are taken inside, in the room where she lives, and outside in the paper city so that is seems that the girl is actually living in there.

I think we could use the same trick, building a model and taking lots of frames of cars moving there, elevators, trains, to achieve a nice stop motion animation. It's quite a laborious job to make it, as the model should be quite big and obviously well made and the stop motion is going to require many pictures to create a sequence.But the final outcome is going to be defenitly very impressive.

we could then integrate the stop motion with the filming of someone standing in a room (this is going to require a bit of set design and most of all we should find an empty space/studio) and combine the two together in a way that it seems that the character is leaving in the city created by our imagination.