Marissa Lim

This is a blog to write about my process on creating the video for the Ba3a 2.2 RSA Brief (Brief 8 - Animation) for Norwich University of The Arts.

This blog is to write about the process that I’ve taken when making the video and the changes along the way. I’ll be putting up short clips / WIP of the video as posts on the blog. Other research will be in the back up work/research folder.

The order of the posts are from the newest first, please scroll all the way down to the bottom for a chronological view. I’ve also categorised my posts as “Research” and “Development” for easy browsing. Development shows the progress made of the animation.

Due to partly changing briefs halfway through, there are some research on Tifanny Dufu - Not Enough Time on this blog, however it’s not very disruptive hence I left it in there.

Here’s the final video!

Two hands of very different styles coming together, and forming a new style : colourful line art. 

Changed the style of the politician so that it’s consistent to the style of the icons at the beginning of the video. I’ve also tweaked the animation so that it has more purpose, showing the politicians juggling factual claims and emotional significance in their hands.

Also further developing the video, for the “shouldn’t sacrifice veracity to theatricality part”, using a tv screen showing news for veracity, and replacing performance for theatricality.

Showed this video for tutorial on the 8th of January with Darren and Martin.

Animation for “Politicians for example...” part of the video

Futher developing the video for the “emotional and rational imperatives” part of the audio. The heart conveys emotion while the brain conveys ration.

Further develop the next part of the animation since the previous video. 

Decided to add another element to the animation which supports the “direction of the narrative” idea that I’m trying to convey.

Trying out if I could use 3D space to convey the “bombardment of more and more and more data” (part 2)

Trying out if I could use 3D space to convey the “bombardment of more and more and more data” (part 1)

Darren’s comment gave me an idea, since overlapping lines and things are to make things more difficult to perceive, it made me think of using noise to makes things fuzzy and unsharp, taking inspiration from old tv screens. 

I’ve also to further convey the post truth by basing the style on swirls that’s inspired from psychedelic art. 

I’ve also decided to set the “Post-Truth” era in a darker background, not only it conveys the bleakness of the post-truth era, it’ll also contrast nicely with the white background in the facts area.

For this first part I wanted to do a short “intro” before the audio starts, showing how post-truth emerged from the darkness. 

For today’s last tutorial before Christmas Break I showed this to Darren and the group, 

The group liked the transition in this animation, however Darren wasn’t sure about the ‘painterly style’ I was going with because he was concerned whether it really reflected the word “post-truth”. He gave me a hint on how I used overlapping lines and text, which could make things undefinable and hard to see.