False consciousness



"Epic montages of the excesses of industrial consumer culture"



Tongue in cheek commentary on popular culture especially the issue of women's magazines.



Music video visualising a rather sarcastic song.I like the simplicity of the style of animation and also the look of the shots, with the cut outs and sepia colour.

Pistache

I almost always reference this film, but in terms of a project that brings work and theory together this is a great reference point.





A rather simple slide show type animation that explores / explains the 'theory of everything'



'Theory of relativity' animation. There are some really nice visual parts to this especially the beginning.

Big bang!

Big bang video, on a timeline with narration. Ideas are based around certain theories. Totally helpful.

Amelie

I also found a pdf of the storyboard for the film Amelie here which looks a bit like this.


I really like the look of this storyboard and the way that instructions don't infringe on the images, but it is also more important for me to remind myself how things will work.
It is really interesting to see the different methods and techniques though!

Storyboarding

I found this great site for information on storyboarding.

I'm not really sure what the site is / for, but it seems super useful. At the moment I am currently converting a choice of initial ideas into very basic sketches / storyboards. But I realise that looking at some of the images they do not convert so well to explaining movement and as this is a longer animation than usual it will be important for me to plan out the time and know what is going on.
So tomorrow I will have a look in the library to see if they have any books on storyboarding, and perhaps ask will in my crit who seems knowledgeable about such things.
Hopefully after these initial sketches, I can start building up the first storyboard of the ideas...and do it properly.

frames
passed around

reflection in glasses?
camera?
magnifying lens

---> makes things grow

See view

Things multiply

things move out of the frame.....

maybe everything gets jumbled up at the end?

picked up and put in a box?

"GREATER BEING" (that moves things, hands, arms, legs, picking things up)

Last go with the poster. I think the text works much better like this.