Wednesday 13 December 2017

Experiments and Next Steps



Above is a montage of all of the experiments I animated. I tried to use various materials and found objects so that I could really experiment with the ways that they can move and the tactile qualities they hold. As I experimented I started to get the into the idea of contrasting materials to create juxtaposing characteristics, and my last experiment with the wool and wire started to move the project in a new direction for me.

As I am starting to understand how important the material is in the way that audience will react I want to create a final animation to solve this notion. After showing a few others my experiments, there were comments of feeling uncomfortable when the wire was wrapping around the wool. This was very interesting and starts to link to the theory of my essay as I explored how Jan Svankmajer made audience's feel uncomfortable using tactility of juxtaposing materials.

My next idea is to get a teddy bear, and either have an operation performed on him where he is cut open using pixilation and inside we see lots of wire and rusted metals and this is pulled out of him along with stuffing and he's put back together again with glitter, cake, and colourful plasticine before being sewn up. I feel that this idea suggests the different meanings that materials and objects can hold for us as viewers, we may see rusty metal as grim and glitter as pretty and these make us feel differently.

If I don't decide to go with this idea, I want to simply animate a teddy bear being attacked by all different utensils and pulled apart to create emotion, however I like the bear operation much better.