Monday
In our final groups i was put in with: James Davies, Victoria Bisatt, Ryan Allen And Shannon case.
We could create anything we want but it has to be something that can work in 2D (Flat), 3D (Object) and 4D (Interactive).
We first started thinking about creating a theatre and have a film play within the screen. We decided to disagree with this idea for the fact that it would have taken time to create the theatre.
We instead decided to use the dark room to become the theatre, that way people can interact with the set and watch the movies, almost becoming part of the presentation.
For the movie we wanted to create show puppets but we had to come up with exactly what movie we would show. Me and James wanted to work along with a Disney/Pixar theme having the background of the locations the films were located. Animate the environment and then have the fine art students create a shadow puppet over the light of the selected characters from each movie with the songs from the movies playing over them.
We decided against this because we wanted to push away from the Disney idea and be more original with our ideas.
We worked on the idea of environments having things like forests, beaches, seaside, underwater, and cities.
We would then have an animated background based on those landscapes while having physical objects represents the things that live in those areas.
We liked this idea better since we weren’t going to copy any ideas but we would be creating our own version of those selected environments.
James took control with creating the animations, while Ryan, Shannon and Victoria decided to create the physical objects.
I had the job of creating and locating the environmental sounds for the environments chosen.
The 3 locations we decided to work on were the Jungle, the sea and a city. The reason for these 3 locations is because they’re so different from one another that each would have there own unique and recognisable sounds and look.
Unfortunately it seems we didn’t communicate our ideas as much as we had thought/hoped. Because while me and James were doing our tasks as we were set the fine art students created a tree full of rubbish which to be honest would have worked perfectly within the city environment. But it doesn’t fit with our initial idea of three environments.
Reason why i found this an issue was because even though we created a group chat so we could keep each other updated i would say that not once did they mention or ask if they were doing was planned or even if they changed anything they never informed us so we could change accordingly.
I managed to collect all the environmental sounds for each location while James was quickly working on each of the Animations. and as known Animation takes a lot of time to actually complete and keep up to a reasonable standard.
We then got told that we were no longer going to be using the animations since apparently James was not keeping everyone in the loop about how long it would be to finish the animations, even though he kept mentioning how much he has left and that he was almost finished.
Luckily i was still able to keep some of but not all of my soundbites. We are now only using my city music since that seems to suit the situation much better than the other sounds i gathered.
Here are the animations James created with my audio creating the atmosphere for the pieces.
When we shown off our presentations me and James decided we wanted to show off our animations and sounds since this was really important to us and it felt bad to basically be pushed aside due to thinking our piece didn’t need animation when it clearly said in the brief to have 2D elements in our final piece.
We managed to complete this and show if off in the stop motion room after we shown off the tree sculpture the fine art students created.
Afterwords we where told it would have been better to have both the animation and the physical tree shown at the same time. I couldn’t have agreed more. We then got told to take our animations and sound and mix it with the fine artists tree.
Its almost like that’s what we should have done to begin with and i honestly dont understand why this was such a hassle for the fine artists to add this to our final. But i felt a huge satisfaction knowing that having to record the animation and the tree really annoyed them which was really fun to witness.
Thoughts?
I thought this project was very unorganised, i thought we would be fine on Monday since we sat down and chatted about what both Fine Art and Animation students could do together to create something we all could be happy with. I didn’t see that while The animation students (me and James) were off following the plan and keeping with our initial idea that the fine art students went ahead and changed without letting us know before hand. I feel it would have been better for if i had to redo this would be instead of having Monday has the main talking and deciding point every day we set aside maybe an hour to meet up, show what we had done and keep everyone inline so we all have an idea on the final product and not stray away from our initial idea.
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