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Idea Generation


The idea process of creating an advert can sometimes take months, it starts with the brief which the first thoughts and ideas get disgust about the product. Once the list of ideas gets   

Three pigs story board and Treatment

The story starts with a peaceful sunny setting when the camera zooms in onto the three houses, a wolf then quickly runs into the first house. Shortly after three pigs enter the scene which walk around and start searching for the wolf, the pigs start at the first house which is made of straw. The three pigs then break the house down until the wolf quickly runs to the next house which is made of twigs. The pigs continue by breaking down the second house which results with the same outcome leading the wolf to run and hide in the third house which is to strong for the pigs to break down because its made of solid bricks and concrete. After not being able to get to the wolf the three pigs wonder off leaving the wolf in the brick house on his own.

Fairytale animation

Fairytale animation

The Assignment brief was to create an animation based on a fairytale, The animation had to start with the characters from one side of the set and end with them leaving through the other. After lots of research and planning i finally chosen to base my animation on the fairytale known as The three little pigs. The story will be about three pigs but instead of a wolf blowing the houses down it will be the pigs representing police men (riot police) breaking the houses down. Im planing on using three plastic toy pigs instead of making my own because it would be much easier and it would save time. For the set i will be making paper or card houses as well as trees made of the same materials, the background will be quite plain to stop any distraction from the animation itself. I will be using a song called sound of da police to keep within the theme that i am creating.

Cameras, photos and effects

I used a camera from the store room to take photos of examples of movement, close ups and light. I first took a picture of a cat because i thought it would be a good opportunity to test the camera because of the fine detail of the cats fur. i used some effects to enhance the result. in another photo i captured the movement of someone jumping, i tried to create an interesting appearance to the photo but mainly the wall in the background. when i took a close up of a leaf i adjusted the lens to enable the background so the focus is drawn to the leaf. I added effects to add extra texture and a green filter to expand the nature feeling. I used a torch to create the pattern by moving it at a fast speed while the photo was being taken with a slow shutter speed. Afterwords i sharpened the photo and added a comic book look filter.

Gisele Kerozene Jan Kounen

Jan kounen gisele kerozene

Jan Kounen is a Dutch-born french film director and producer mostly known in France for his films Dobermann in (1997), Blueberry, I'experience secrete (2004) and 99 frances (2007). Kounen used stop motion as an animation technique to manipulate objects to appear to move on its own. The object is moved between individual photographed frames, this creates the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a sequence. Dolls with moveable joints or clay figures are often used in stop motion because it is easy for them to repsond to even the slightest of movements. But obesely not all stop motion requires figures or models, many stop motion films like this one involve using humans, household appliances and other things for comedic effect. 

Flick Book

Flick book

A flick book is a book with a series of pictures that vary gradually from one page to another, so that when the pages are turned quickly, the pictures appear to animate by motion or some other change. 

Obesely at first i explored my ideas by making a mind map within the themes that we where given such as halloween, fireworks, and nature. After writing down some ideas i then narrowed it down to a tree slowly growing, a pumpkins face slowly appearing and Zombies coming to life, in the end i decided to choose the pumpkin because i liked the idea the most. Then i simply started drawing the pumpkin and used tracing paper to make sure that it looked the same on each page when the face was growing on the pumpkin.

Neighbour's - Norman Mclaren

Neighbour's Norman Mclaren 

A story of two men, Jean-Paul Ladouceur and Grant Munro, live peacefully in adjacent cardboard houses. When a flower blooms between their houses, they fight each other to the death over the ownership of the single small flower. Originally made as an anti-war film in 1952, Neighbours is the winner of both a canadian film award and an academy award. Strangely, it was in the Documentary category even though it was supposed to be a short drama. A press release issued by AMPAS states that Neighbours is "among a group of films that not only competed, but won Academy Awards in what were clearly inappropriate categories." In 2009 Neighbours was listed the most significant documentary heritage collections in the world. McLaren created the soundtrack of the film, creating various blobs, lines, and triangles which the projector read as sound.  Even though some people prefer the orignal soundtrack, some people do partially like a second version which uses a very passionate song that most people agree it improves the experience of the film. The film uses the technique known as pixilation, an animation technique using live actors as stop-motion objects. 

Her morning elegance-Oren Lavie

Her morning elegance-Oren Lavie 

Partially known for his stop frame animation/music video "her morning elegance" Lavie is an israeli singer, songwriter, playwright and theatre director. His video earned a 2009 Grammy award nomination for "best short form music video". He then continued by releasing his debut album,The Opposite Side of the Sea, in the United States. In March he revealed on his Facebook page that he has a second album in the works, with a possible release date in September or December 2011. The meaning of this video has been thought about by many people, some say that the meaning is so deep that their not sure what it is and sometimes even debate weather the woman is dead or dying. Oren's rich voice soffens his lyrics calmly with simplicity which underlines the song-writing of his unique language. 

Final piece evaluation

Final piece evaluation 

I try to incorporate music in the majority of my work which is exactly what i have done for my final piece. The overall product of my final piece was a black and white stopframe animation which included one of my favorite music artists called Dub Fx. The idea came from a drawing of mine that was originally a photo of Dub Fx that i found on the internet which gave me the idea to draw music notes coming out of his mouth to embrace the symbol of music. That was how i came up with the idea for animating the music notes to look like they where moving and basically show the music that he was creating. The piece contains two parts, first the animation itself and second the music along side it that i chosen especially to suit the fact that its Dub Fx in the animation. The music was one of his songs called 'Made', but because the song had to be instrumental i picked a section from the beginning were he is just beat boxing. To create the animation i used paper and pencils to draw it including the music notes that i cut out with scissors, then i took photos of the individual music notes using my digital camera one by one until i had enough pictures to make my stopframe animation. I then finally edited them together and put the music to it to finish it using Premier on one of the macs. 

Southpark

Southpark 

South Park is an american sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone originally Intended for people of ages between sixteen and eighteen. The program is defiantly for mature audiences mainly for its wide range of crude language, dark hummer and surreal topics. Of course this creates some negative responses from some viewers but despite the negativity South park has received numerous accolades, including four Primetime Emmy awards and a Peabody award, not to mention it remaining as one of Comedy Central's highest rated shows. The show is made by using stop frame animation which is originally known by taking a number of pictures of an object or an item. The process includes taking a picture every time you slightly move the object to create frames, then by playing the photos at a fast speed its possible to create the illusion of movement. 

Dub FX-research

Dub FX 

Dub FX (real name Benjamin Stanford) is a worldwide street performer and recording artist from Australia. He started to travel and perform solo after playing and singing in a band called Twitch. His world known trademark style is creating live music using only his own voice combined with using live looping and effect pedals. He creates a range of music rhythms originally reggae but also likes to create his own versions of hip hop and drum and bass. 

His performances are like none other because of his unique music style. The process that he has been through to write his songs (mainly on his album every things a ripple) is only one part of what makes him stand out above the rest. His real lyrics and music in just a short amount of time has spread over the world because of the way he uses his pure talent to address issues around the globe. His music is positive and gives people inspiration and hope. 

Banksy-research

Banksy

Banksy is a famous graffiti artist that is known throughout the world for his dark humour and distinctive stencilling techniques. His artistic work of political and social issues that has been featured across the streets and walls of the world is the key to what makes him so talented and stand out from the amateurs that give graffiti artists such a bad name. Some of banksys fans have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in Paris 1981. However Banksy himself made clear on his website that technically he based his work on a 3D format from Massive Attack, stating, "No, I copied 3D from Massive Attack. He can actually draw." 

Despite for his known issue with the government in stereotypically labelling graffiti as vandalism, Banksy displays his art on public surfaces such as walls. He shows his ability to create more than just graffiti wall art by even going as far as building physical prop pieces. Although Banksy doesn't sell his street art directly himself but art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art.

Count down

Count down 

Based on the olympic ceremony's count down we each found a number and then put them together to create our own. First we went to the store room to get some digital cameras and then we had a look around the college to find numbers that we could take pictures of and then use for our count down. After picking the number three i first found some examples on posters and signs, but as i continued to look i found a number three on one of the elevator buttons which i decided to use because i thought it looked good when it had the light around it. When we had our photos of numbers we then drawn our own but with faces somewhere in the picture. 

Paper faces (stop frame animation)

Paper faces (stop frame animation)

For this project we where required to work in pairs to create an animated face using paper and a basic digital camera from the ERC. We decided to create an alien face that we cut out of green paper and used other coloured paper to create the facial features such as the mouth, tongue, teeth and an eye. I was going to make two eyes for the alien but we both thought that it looked much more alien like if there was only one in the middle instead. We also created a piece of cake that the alien used its powers to make it spin round. We made the piece of cake out of paper which had jam on the top of it, we where going to put a cherry on top of it as well to add decoration but it looked better without it so it wasn't included in the animation. 

The big draw

The big draw:

This is were we first started painting the outer circle with black paint 

At this stage we finally finished painting the black circle 

This is were we flicked the colourful paint on the big piece of paper to create a backdrop 

finally we finished both the circle and the backdrop so we were able to stick the two together 

We gathered information about the artist we have chosen (Terry frost) from the LRC using books, magazines and the internet. We have created our own abstract interpretation of one of his pieces of work called the circle of life, paint and paper were the only materials we have used to create our work. We have mainly used the same colours as the original circle of life such as black, yellow and red but we have used other techniques to show our impression of the piece such as creating faint footprints on the black outer circle as well as cutting the around it and sticking it on top of a sheet of paper that we have flicked with paint which adds texture to the whole painting.