Week 5
Planning final outcome with narrative (scrapped):
Storyboard for the final outcome:
Final outcome:
Monochrome feedback summarised:
Reflection:
Within my 5 weeks of Monochrome I managed to explore various ways to work with material and overcome this brief. I learnt that there are other ways I could use to animate – rather than just drawing on the frame. With this outcome, my main intent was visually creating interest in the videos I took, with only a small amount of personality sprinkled through exaggerating the footage’s details.
Within the final feedback, I was asked where in my outcome do I start to consider myself animating within my outcome, which was a question which really resonated with me, since I made me question myself as to whether I’ve accidentally created pretty visuals instead of an authentic animation. But looking back at my work and journey, I noticed that although the footage weren’t animated, I had to consider the timing and fluidity of the lines that I cut, as well as the narrative flow of the video – in a way the audience could catch up to what was happening. Adding my own visual takes on the layering of the frames and blocking out shapes also is a way of animating to capture focus on a particular area of the frame as well.
During the experimentation, I’m glad that I built up on the chaos of the experiment rather than remake it again – since having that successful build up was the pinnacle of my animation – it also created something visually stimulating which I might not have thought of if I had create a another footage that I thought would be perfect. However, to improve it I should try to find a way to animate the distance between each layer to make it more interesting – such as changing the distance of each cutout layer from close to far away from each other. I could also try and manipulate the shadows more to see how it works with the footage.
This was quite an interesting structure of workflow that made me see another perspective in making an animation, and I’m curious to see where it takes me if I attempt it again next time.