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Sadly couldn’t show the video on blog as the film was too large for the tumblr file.

However I shall talk about the discussion of achievements and feedback. Overall, the teachers were expressed with the film and was a success for the conceive style and creativity of the paper cut medium , clear transitions has been fulfilled

The areas of improvement have been scale to most important to do before the submission date and less important but can be applied over summer break.

Our producer kindly added all the notes which were need individually

Overall, the group collaboration has been a combined of learning curves. The positives resulted was a great animation success with full transitions and told a clear story , with good decision taking and great producer having great organisation and patience with the team . With the use of paper cut everyone was fairly comfortable with the decision for where some used digital or rostrum or both , we have done a great job to complete.

However to balance there were negatives. We all make mistakes and sometimes try to hide those mistakes , we have personal needs that need attending , however this cause losing a bit of communication when hitting deadlines , naming folders and some not attending to important meetings.however our producer always wrote messages to all device apps we used to communicate so if anyone missed something It can be known straight away or was clear to ask for the help.

My completed final animation. 

This page is following from my second pass , where i have added some sound effects under the music to give off an atmosphere of nature, such as , a wind breeze , bird chirping and the flutter of butterfly with wings to extract detail and place 

I have also learned how to remove green screens ,ready for the background of my partners animation. 

This part of the research was where I looked into some films, they are a set of experimental and iconic mind-bending full-length films across the world, this video was a top 10 to look at and watch over summer break to start analyzing the film language. 

many short films and young animators in the industry of animation really like to play on the theme of surrealism , as there no limit to the rules of animation and where ideas , dreams and journeys collide. 

Brief  : What is surrealism? 

An art movement that expresses dreams , thoughts and unrealistic desires or odd objects, shapes  that creates messages in the mind of psychedelic mind bending .

The people who founded  was by the French avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire in a play written in 1903 and performed in 1917. But it was André Breton, leader of a new grouping of poets and artists in Paris, who, in his Surrealist Manifesto (1924), defined surrealism. 

‘ one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.’

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/surrealism 

automatism 

means drawing without unconscious thinking and where only using our imagination is a type of surrealism. 

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/automatism  

Collaboration project : My second animation pass 

Overall i feel very happy with this outcome, i feel confident to move forward with editing and transitions.where the blank ending occurs 

 although the animation was a lot smoother , i listened and reflected my aims of feedback towards this. The animation of the flowers were smoother and drawing less attention away from the butterfly.using a fine metal pointer to move it at  millimetres , simple touch movements to make it agile. the caccon begins a little before the change. 

I added the additional flight sequence where the butterfly will track out of the body of my partners beginning sequence. this worked very well and shows clear elegant flight movement of butterflies. 

There is still some speed to it ,however its more clearer for what is going on in the sequence to catch the message 

Next aims 

Get anymore feedback 

Editing the green screen

This where I have lay out the similar design from the first pass I produced last week but I have couple of changes by rescaling the lungs and butterflies to an A3 , as I thought to do but was advised by feedback and I’m very happy that it has turn out a lot better and in a good set up of size and position.

Collaboration team project:  Individual work , My first rostrum animation pass 

This is my first pass animation on the rostrum over individual study week. 

I am pretty proud of how this animation turned out for a first pass and i feel confident to take it further for the next pass .I was given feedback from myself and my stop motion teacher. 

Feedback notes 

Timing needs to be really improved on, slowing it down and increase back to the 10 seconds . Ill be getting some help from teachers at the workshop tomorrow, so it should be working better in the next pass. 

great use of layers , cohesive style of surrealism. 

positions are well thought, although it can be tweaked, such as the flowers can move out more , add additional leaves.

 help for composition from the teachers. 

the movement of the butterfly is a beautiful and moves well to the research.  

enlarge the lungs and butterfly to A3 paper . 

the cocoon needs to start animating a little before the butterfly begins to emerge.   

This are my rough ideas towards my report , with concepts , ideal books , films and internet link content referenced on the paper 

I have chosen the route of the theme of surrealism. influenced by many artist  through fine art history and stop motion animation , they bring an aura of fantasy and surrealist life contrast to reality. 

Brief and expectations 

1000 word proposal - DUE 21st May 

In preparation for next year assignment of research report of 5000 words. 

‘what they are expecting in the proposal’

(template on VLE)

Title 

A epiphany, colon , a quotation or question 

Report Type    

 Extended essay - visual culture discussion and and analysis of media texts from historical, social and culture. The normal academic writing style 

Industrial essay - industry practices at interest of trade journals. Marketing and business statistics and interviews   

Technical essay - practical aspects of experiments and research with materials and techniques used in the industries. Research and overview of historical use.Documenting and analysis of practice.   

Propose a table of content 

List of chapters which will be covered in the report. Covering around 3 areas of interest. 

Background and context 

history 

social 

culture 

Research questions 

How , where , what , when and why 

Aims 

How it progress towards you? 

specialisms?

A topic that’s strong/ 

experiences 

future careers  

Research methods 

books 

Articles 

Internet 

Surveys 

Interviews 

statistics

Potential Outcomes ( technical)   

Document and analyse the hypothesis of the experiment

Timetable 

Plan out your research and chapters 

organizing your layout  

Bibliography 

sources used cited main text, around 12 sources or more. 

Harvard style referencing

alphabetical order by author’s surname  

Top tips

Look out for examples online 

laid out in specific way 

pay close attention, use capital , italics and brackets 

sources need different information 

some can be different from each other

always included the date you viewed the website 

Lay out of my cut outs

This page is showing all my recent cut outs most all printed out.

printing A4 and A3 Scans of my assets and layers,to begin tests on my composition and animation movements

The backgrounds were A3 and sure was a good size to capture details and smooth compositions, The assets were in A4 , all show good detail and easy cut out . However, I’m still in the balance of making it A3 to scale it but if this change is required from the feedback.

This is the original lay out from my animatic , I need to include the background of my partners animation to complete the transition and layout.

I tweaked the layout with additional assets and colours to make more surrealism and cohesive style. The flowers have moved into my final animation lay out.

Collaboration Project: Quick testing in the rostrum workshop 

During Wednesday afternoon , We all got the chance to feedback to the rostrum since its been a while due to current problems. 

I got to use many random sorts of pictures , magazines , all sorts of styles of paper to create a short animation on the rostrum, it was just collect a good amount of experimenting  with style and the principles which can be helpful to reflect and practice for our project when filming 

I decided to go towards an ocean, surrealist theme, as finding a young sailor , a man with ropes which really looked like seaweed and a half human and fish portrait and a banana from the selections. 

creating a groovy ride on the waves like a ship collecting food. it was funny and good weird ideas. 

Collaboration team project : My final animatic 

This here is my final updated animatic where i applied all my feedback and tweaks to composition , scale and colours ,hue enhanced.also included some wiggles of the butterfly , however will be improved on the rostrum. 

i am feeling fairly confident within my animatic , i am positive it can work well in many areas and bring the message across and keeping to the surrealism style, however there are few tweak i am prepared to change and others to experiment and play with the collage style , when it comes to working on paper rather than digital after effect animation. 

Feedback and Aims

Begin a cut out test , printing out the cut outs and lay them out. To test and play around with for any smooth movements and composition of layers during the first pass on the rostrum 

test with the movements of the butterfly morphing from the cocoon and how their fly pattern and the transition

My second adapted animatic with the updated transition 

Things that are working well

The layers of textures , keeping to the chosen medium , clearly showing tone , depth and movement 

a well executed message from the elements used to represent morph-ism , creative freedom and respiration/breathing. 

a pretty smooth transition

Next Aims and Improvements- Teachers feed back 

change the composition lay out 

re scale and reposition the lung into the center 

tighten the focus of the animatic - scale in

Creating a test on real paper to animate the butterflies movement, from the references i have researched. 

inspiration of the day:

Tristan Oliver , a cinematic cinematographer of stop motion, Worked on animation movies such as Chicken run , Isle of dogs , Paranorman and Wallace and Gromit the curse of the were-rabbit 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004336/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI1ZtkCCZrU

‘Before shooting , create a break down of what lighting needs to look like and all point through out the film.’

artist with great use of lighting

Edward Hopper

an american landscape artist 

https://www.edwardhopper.net/

factors to take note

time of day?

the colour of the light-creating a mood?

special effects- smoke , fog, lightning , a glow

Three points lighting 

key lighting- used to fill primary lighting point 

fill lighting - used to fill opposite the key light 

back lighting/ rim lighting- use to extract the third dimension  

Tips 

using a white board to bounce light

light at the distance, the longer the sharper the light dense

Daylight is a cooler tone of light, white can be too much  

Ideas for my animation

blue high key tone for a daytime sky 

Things I have change:

 The colour pallet a bit from white to a blue background and removing the red lining, keeping to the ideal of the art directors style. 

went back to the skin texture layer which will form around the next animatic, create a more human appeal and help link back to the previous new animatic .  

using my own primary and royalty free photos of the flowers and other characters.

Style frame of Transition: 

This is the style frame from my partners animatic, The transition we have chosen, will include a zoom out from mine as the butterflies fly out of the body from close up to a long shot , representing freedom , respiration and release.

The transition before from Frankie's to Mine we have chosen to create a pan down from head , neck and to the lungs. 

The pallet is very cohesive through out.  

Style frame of transition 

From the frame before i have positioned and adjusted the scale to fit into the chest opening and making flow of the human anatomy. 

So through the last meeting from completing most transition in the last pass edit. The needed improvement for the group was a cohesive style of colour pallet.

Our art director Annie, created this set of our frames and set out similarities of colours we have all used and tweak with some , this also allow transitions work better.

we have all decided on main colours will be pink , purple and blue , also with tints red to extract highlights and focus. 

This a timeline of the pallets, I have gone through with my animatic and group decisions when adjusting colour pallet and group colour script