Finished Experimental Project
Here is my finished experimental project:
The music is Be Cool by Big Infinite which I found from jamendo here: https://www.jamendo.com/track/1507068/be-cool
Here is my production report detailing my experiments and what I was aiming for:
Here is my production report detailing my experiments and what I was aiming for:
First, I tried paint on glass in the stop motion studio, and although I did enjoy doing it, the outcome wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be, and I felt like the abstract narrative I was thinking it was showing in my head while doing it wasn’t clear at all in the outcome. I also did it on ones rather than twos due to restriction of time and having technical difficulties for 40 minutes before I could start, so it goes too fast which I think is part of the reason why you can’t see the story as it passes by too fast.
Then in the Easter holiday when I was at home, I had lots of time and space to try out new things, and I had thought of and storyboarded a simple idea to do as stop motion outside in my garden, which I was planning on doing at uni but there was too many difficulties, especially with changing weather, and because I know my garden well I was able to try out different places that I could do the animation and then find the best way of doing it. I also chose to do it at nighttime to try and help keep the lighting consistent and not ruin the quality of the video. I tried doing simple animations in different places in the daytime with leaves to test out where to do it, which I included in the final film because I liked how they came out even though there are imperfections, like my knee being in frame.
Then in the Easter holiday when I was at home, I had lots of time and space to try out new things, and I had thought of and storyboarded a simple idea to do as stop motion outside in my garden, which I was planning on doing at uni but there was too many difficulties, especially with changing weather, and because I know my garden well I was able to try out different places that I could do the animation and then find the best way of doing it. I also chose to do it at nighttime to try and help keep the lighting consistent and not ruin the quality of the video. I tried doing simple animations in different places in the daytime with leaves to test out where to do it, which I included in the final film because I liked how they came out even though there are imperfections, like my knee being in frame.
One issue that was definitely difficult to get around was that I couldn’t monitor the animation as I did it, and could only quickly look at the shot on the camera screen after it was taken, and daylight made it difficult to properly see the screen without moving the camera, so I was animating blind, however I did enjoy this in a way as it meant that I just continuously animated. Of course, this meant that almost all of the animations came out much too fast, which I should have thought more about beforehand as the timings were all wrong. For the “final” animation of my story that I did at night, the beginning is supposed to show the sticks in a sort of abstract brain shape, beating back and forth a bit like a heart, however with the cold and rough floor and strong winds, I found it hard to move the sticks in small amounts and keep them in the right place as they kept blowing away.
I also played around doing pixelation in my garden with myself moving around the garden and sitting on the swing.
I then planned out an animation using my noticeboard that is also like a whiteboard except that its black with a white pen, so I thought it would be a great way of replacing paint on glass, and also thought it would suit the brief well as it shows some things I care about and memories from my past before coming to uni, and then it all falls off and gets wiped away to show a clean slate with Falmouth Uni’s postcard in the middle, and then I planned to animate me drawing around the postcard continuing the rest of the beach and coastline, however I then found that the pen for the board had completely dried out no matter how much I tried to shake it and keep it pen nib down hoping gravity would fix it, but sadly not. It was also the day before I was coming back to uni so unfortunately I didn’t have time to buy a new one which I could only get online, so I finished it off with me in the reflection and then moving to look out the window.
I also did an animation in TVPaint where I coloured the background and then did a wobbly circle and just animated forward doing whatever came to mind as I did it, which was really fun.
I have picked a song from jamendo.com called Be Cool by Big Infinite which is quite upbeat but has a sad feeling to it and I like the lyrics because they’re quite weird and abstract.
I then experimented with doing an animation on my white board at uni, and I was gonna do a self portrait but ended up doing more abstract drawings on it, starting off with a flower growing and another flower inside it, while 2 insects were moving towards it, one of which met a mario mushroom which made it grow bigger like in the games (sadly this is not very easy to notice as it goes by very fast), while the flowers grow bigger and join together and become a mess and the insect at the top left gets stood on and blood comes out of it, while the other side on the right a tree grows from the flower as if it’s stood at the edge of a cliff. The flower also had rupees from the Legend of Zelda game series growing from the middle, and after a while the flowers starts to disappear while the blood turns into a hand and the tree keeps growing and a waterfall comes out below the tree. When the flowers completely disappear the tree falls as its earth/waterfall is gone and the hand starts to reach towards the tree but starts to melt away as well.
After that, I decided I wanted more nature in my film, as that was the original aim for the medium for the whole thing, so I did some stop motion/pixelation with the plants I had in my room, one of which had died over Easter from not being watered, so I removed the leaves and flowers bit by bit and then had the more alive plant become the focus, and while doing it I was thinking about the life cycle and how when one thing dies, another is born which I find really comforting. Then for the ending I had done screenshots of my TVPaint animation with the onion skin on, because when I was doing it I really liked the way it looked with it on, making the lines look like they’re glowing, and it fits with the music well.
I then experimented with doing an animation on my white board at uni, and I was gonna do a self portrait but ended up doing more abstract drawings on it, starting off with a flower growing and another flower inside it, while 2 insects were moving towards it, one of which met a mario mushroom which made it grow bigger like in the games (sadly this is not very easy to notice as it goes by very fast), while the flowers grow bigger and join together and become a mess and the insect at the top left gets stood on and blood comes out of it, while the other side on the right a tree grows from the flower as if it’s stood at the edge of a cliff. The flower also had rupees from the Legend of Zelda game series growing from the middle, and after a while the flowers starts to disappear while the blood turns into a hand and the tree keeps growing and a waterfall comes out below the tree. When the flowers completely disappear the tree falls as its earth/waterfall is gone and the hand starts to reach towards the tree but starts to melt away as well.
After that, I decided I wanted more nature in my film, as that was the original aim for the medium for the whole thing, so I did some stop motion/pixelation with the plants I had in my room, one of which had died over Easter from not being watered, so I removed the leaves and flowers bit by bit and then had the more alive plant become the focus, and while doing it I was thinking about the life cycle and how when one thing dies, another is born which I find really comforting. Then for the ending I had done screenshots of my TVPaint animation with the onion skin on, because when I was doing it I really liked the way it looked with it on, making the lines look like they’re glowing, and it fits with the music well.
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