Monday 29th September 2014
Session Review
This session today we were given a brief history of the moving image and my
academic tutor Rob Tovey mentioned some of animations pioneers and early
forefathers dating back to ancient Egypt and Greece. After a few important
alerts such as deciding our class representatives and another recap about
taking equipment form the tech team and we were given a brief demonstration of
how to appropriately set up a tripod and video camera and were warned
first and about the dangers of the tripod in public and what happens if any of
the class damage equipment which would result in us being sued and paying a substantial
amount of cash. The tutor then proceeded to show uis some video examples of
pixilation and then the class and I were placed into groups of three and chose
a keyword that would be the theme for our video by random.
The keyword was "Loss" which it did seem challenging to portray
in a visually photographic frame by frame animation; nonetheless, after the group had worked our brains concocting concepts for our video I suggested an
idea where the character in our video has a series of unfortunate events that
eventually, lead to the loss of his sanity. Rob the tutor came by and liked the concept which reinforced our confidence in the idea and soon began to further
develop it by planning the stages of the video where the character would
receive a text message on his phone stating "She’s gone I'm sorry",
this message would cause the character to go in a state of panic changing his
calm walking into quick power strides. I also suggested using an analogue clock
that would tick in a linear fashion to show the character racing against time
to get home and the linear ticking his linear sane strain of mind however he
would soon snap and the clock hands would spin out of control then going to a
close up of the characters face showing a blank emotionless expression showing
his mind has finally snapped and thus losing his sanity.
Interestingly, one of our group members Kate mentioned to Rob she thought of
filming this in the noir sin city artistic style, however, this would be over
stretching our novice skills and Rob suggested instead of filming the video in
the dark using one light to capture that noir style. Therefore, if we were to
film this in the dark at night outside the city or around campus then I would
have to check the train and first bus times because If I cannot make it back to
Birmingham I may need to look at some emergency accommodation or see if
Worcester has any nearby hotels for the night.
By Sebastian Jones
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