Photograms/ Rayograms

 

Man Ray

 Emmanuel Radnitzky an artist famous for his photograms created this iconic piece, the strong contrast and the use of interesting objects makes this a strong piece of work, Man Rays photograms have influenced my work in the present and past.

I created my photograms by placing objects onto light sensitive paper and exposing the paper  to the light,  i adjusted the aperature/shutter speed accordingly to develop a photograph, to test how the photograms would come out i created a test strip where i cover and exposed parts of the paper to different apertures or shutters speeds.

  
these are some of the photograms i made , using the test strip to guide me to the create exposure i think i have created some some photograms , i like how you can see through some of the objects and the different effects they all give off.

Animation

Looking at animation I had to turn to Disney, Ive grown up watching Disney films and think they have such charm and quality. Disney started out in 1929 and became publicity-traded as Walt Disney Productions in 1938. By 1934 the company had already pushed so many boundries of the animation world with the first Mickey Mouse sketches and decided they wanted to go even further. This lead them to create their first feature length animation film in 1934, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, based on the Grimm Brothers fairytale. Taking three years to complete, it became the highest grossing filmof its time by 1939.

The sketches they draw out, and each frame is checked for movement and quality, a lengthy  process but worth it.








I found these scenes and thought i must put them in just to show what effort goes into such art, the process can take up to 3 years in and it has to be planned and scripted throughtout , well i hope you enjoy these disney clips.

Kaleidescope

Looking to develop on my ideas of using, i thought id look at kaleidoscopes as a way of using just pattern and colour for my animation, I researched some videos on youtube and found these two as inspiration.I found the  patterns and colours mesmerizing and think it could work well for an animation.

Stop motion

After getting this assignment i went away and starting researching different animation , the techniques and styles used , these are all the interesting stop motions i found on my travels.

This post it note stop motion , literally blew my mind, i thought the use of the post it to create characters and a narrative along side the colours and reaction from the male it works well , connecting with the audience making keeping them interested.


Below, T shirt war:
This video uses T-Shirts to create an interesting/amazing stop motion , over 220 t-shirts where used, designed and animated even pulling real objects out to add to the effect, i think its really clever and originally used to create advertisements.





Blow Tetris:
I liked this stop motion because they have represented the game really well , using people and colour, and even creating the noises , this just brings to life the idea of the game and how it involves people, i think it is a well executed stop motion and works well




Below:
Her Morning Elegance video
Directed by: Oren Lavie, Yuval & Merav Nathan
Featuring: Shir Shomron
Photography: Eyal Landesman

I think this video is really well done, its really clever , everything links together and almost looks like a normal film. The music is presented in the music and it all flows together and fits.

Music is math

The audio for my motion piece is music is math by Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin  and after listening to the audio several times i thought about how it made me feel and how i could work with it , the audio has different paces but throughout maintains a slow and chilled theme.

Research: The Brothers Mike and Marcus make up Boards of Canada, who had their own self run music label 'Music70' where they first started releasing their music until they were signed by 'Warp Records' and released their first album 'Music Has a Right to Children' in 1998. Music is Math is the second track on their album Geogaddi which was released in February 2002. 

I decided to mindmap all the things that went through my head while i was listening to the track and here are the things i was thinking about:

* Dreams, nightmares, night, sleep, dark

* Futuristic, space, time, travel, aliens

* Water, swimming, slow, sound

* Technology, instrument, sound

* Space, sky, stars, mission, astronauts-suits, slow

* Time, passing by, slow

* Alone, sadniess, empty, loss

* Mental, depressed, mind

* Patterns, shapes, kaleigscopes

* Pariond, dark, danger, followed

* Trance, chilled, relax, control

* Exploration, travel, time, space

listen and watch this please!

After watching this video on you-tube i found that most of the things i felt throughout the track where in fact shown in the video , i think the music has a strong sense of how it want the audience to feel and hear it.

Assignment 1 -print to pixel

In assignment 1 we will be using a series of images to plan an animation or stop motion, and for it to be represented in a short storyboard that will give a linear view of your animation and it’s timings. 

this print to pixel module is new for me, i have have only ever made a music video so i am excited to get working on these different motion pieces.

I created a mind map of what i was thinking about for this module and any ideas i had on how to approach it, it was quite interesting because at first i thought i didn't have many ideas and one after another they built up and a few ideas really stand out for the audio and could work well together.