Final Animation. End of.

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To see FINAL ANIMATION, please click the link below (and imagine Bob Dylan's 'Blowin in The Wind' playing to it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpJljL0FP64

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Dictionary Definition Photos... analysis and reflection

My piece, ‘Acquaintance and Passer-by’ is a photograph of the postman who has been delivering to my family home for years. It is observing the acceptable relationship in society between persons within a job role. Although he is very friendly, as he is working, there are some unspoken rules about what is OK, and what is not. This is why I felt the photo should be taken through a CCTV camera. This creates a sort of barrier between the viewer and him but also questions the kind of relationship a person has with someone to feel comfortable about capturing them on CCTV.

Reflection and Analysis of Animation

When creating each individual image, I deliberately ensured that an object or pattern continued on from each picture to the next. For example, the chair in ‘Day 8’ to ‘Day 9’ (below). 


This is because I intended for the images to be viewed in a continuous journey, so that when I animated them, one element could animate into the next, as a transition. It is essentially inviting the viewer to see through my eyes and watch the diary playing out to them.



Stop-Motion

I could have chosen to create a drawn animation, which would seem more logical due to much of the content being digital images. But instead, I decided to do a stop motion animation. I feel that some transitions benefit greatly from being made of a real 3D material, such as plasticine. They have a gravitational movement to them which I feel can never quite be reproduced in drawn animation.

End of the Foundation Course... Reflection

Well, I've defiantly found this project has taught me the basics of photoshop. I can use it pretty quickly and do a fair amount with it. Throwing myself into self teaching myself it has worked, although there's probably lots of quicker ways to do the things I've been doing, that I haven't discovered yet.
I spent a lot of time reflecting and analysing my work.



Composition

Each image is essentially a photo montage, with one image usually as the centre point. Everything else in the frame must compliment that image. Photos are layered up and often with filters on them to create the illusion of texture. I play with perspective as each image has its own depth and by layering these, it questions the audience’s viewpoint. This results in the conclusion that the image is not a still life, nor is it a landscape as nothing quite sits right within a setting. This creates some unease within the picture and I hope, brings interest to it.

I often use symmetry in the images, as this usually makes the main image catch the viewer’s attention but then the eye continues outwards, following the symmetry.

Many of the images have a sort of border around then, making them seem contained. The only images which are uncontained are those where my surroundings were the main focus, rather than the objects. However, I prefer those which are contained as it is easier for the eye to settle and observe the meaning of the images.


Colour

Each image has its own colour scheme, based on the main image. I think this is often subconciously influenced by my mood of the moment, not necessarily the mood I felt on the day of the diary.

I tend to enhance the colour of the main object in each image, as this draws the viewer’s eye to it and the background is usually faded or slightly desaturated so that it falls behind. However, the colour plays a much more important role in some of the images, as they directly represent a mood which I have written about in the diary entree for that day.

So I need to think about presentation for the show. My animation is being put on the showreel along with other people, which I hope will be on the big screen in the Mac Room.

I need to create a ‘catalogue’ of 1000 or so words, but think I will merge this and the book which I have kept a diary in. The diary book also contains my plans of how I would turn each day into an image. This therefore also describes each piece, so acts as a sort of catalogue anyway. I will add extra information about each piece from a retrospective position, about the feel of the piece etc.

Need to do some sketches about the layout of this catalogue/diary/visual representation log. 

Also, I will arrange the dictionary definition photos along side part of a dictionary with the word in question highlighted.

Animation section 7

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmeOlc3CORw to view full screen and good quality)

Update

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGMS4bZ3KNo

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdmmB6ShdHI to see in full screen & better quality)

Newest bits of animation. Pleased with how it's going. Need to keep the pace up, due to deadlines and I must think ahead to which angle the camera needs to move to for the next shot.