The opening credits from the Wilco doc 'I am trying to break your heart' have this sort of grey city look to it.

I also like the combination of the text and the visuals.

I think it also conveys well the idea of viewing the city through someone else's eyes.

Imagine this but with drawings over and text added. I like the hand held camera look I think it would work much better than using a tripod because of the idea of seeing it through someone's eyes.

I like the slightly grainy look to it as well, which could be recreated by using a hand video cam and also printing the frames. Using more processes will degrade the quality increasingly.

Research for 'flow of consciousness film'

For this, I want to use the narration as a kind of 'inner thought' whilst the visuals show the everyday and perhaps certain texts that span the inner and the outer.

I really like the aged, black / white super 8mm aesthetic. And the look of drawing on film.

This film by Eric Andersen gives an idea of this aesthetic at it's most basic.

phew

Untitled from eleanor woodburn on Vimeo.

example of 'look' of the video. thank god it seems to be working out right!

Developing some of the key frames in the selected styles:

styles

Been trying to experiment with the style of my animation by taking influence from various other sources.
These are some of my experiments so far:


This is a shot from a little tester video I put together. I used a graph background and inverted the stars film, when put together the effect is that it looks really handmade and the black stars look like little splodges of ink on a page, which I think it quite neat.


This look was inspired from the Adrian Tomine 'shortcomings' book cover. This is very graphic and completely different from the traditional / diy look i have been going for so far. But as something totally contradictory to what I have been doing I really like it, and because it is so different I think I would be able to style all the other scenes accordingly, rather than using images from what I have already done.
I would like to test the background colour for this, I would keep most of the images black and white and perhaps have the background colour changing constantly.


This has similarities to th previous idea. This idea was taken from certain comic books and also aiplane safety cards, hence the frame, which I actually think adds a nice touch to the images in containing them in some way.

I would however like to add a little colour to this but I am unsure as to how it could be done.


Using parts of the work I have already done I have experimented with printing the images out onto different papers. I quite like this look, I think that the lower opacity would make the globe seem flatter.



More paper experiments. I tried to see what the images would be like on aged paper to try give all the shots some consistency, but for me I don't think it works, in terms of image and in terms of the actual song I am using.


I have tried to desaturate the colour from the images I already had then digitally adding them in. I quite like the dotted background but it reminds me too much of the transparent background on photoshop too much!


This is where i desaturated the image and coloured it in by hand which I think loks better than the digital version.

mp3s

Looking for an audio track as the base for an animation, I have been rigorously searching ubu.com for a couple that grab my attention.
So far I like this track entitled 'i really should' by Kelly Mark, it is a long running stream of consciousness that explores the idea of 'i really should' one thing is reeled off one after the other, ideas that probably most people identify with.

And this track by Martha Rosier entitled 'whats your name little girl?' which explores the idea of names and what they have come to mean in relation to their history and origins.