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As I was working on my pictures, I realized that I had strayed from my original point of focus : the letters. They were what I had accumulated and they should be at the center of my project. I thus decided to cut up the letters to reduce them to their building blocs the words. That is when I thought about stop motion. Through animation I can let the letters come to life and really represent what they mean to me. | As I was working on my pictures, I realized that I had strayed from my original point of focus : the letters. They were what I had accumulated and they should be at the center of my project. I thus decided to cut up the letters to reduce them to their building blocs the words. That is when I thought about stop motion. Through animation I can let the letters come to life and really represent what they mean to me. | ||
===First test with stop motion=== | ===First test with stop motion=== | ||
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I rejected this idea because I thought it wasn't concentrating on the letters enough and the link between the cut up words from the letters and the transforming object wasn't strong enough. | I rejected this idea because I thought it wasn't concentrating on the letters enough and the link between the cut up words from the letters and the transforming object wasn't strong enough. | ||
===Second test with stop motion=== | |||
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I came up with another idea to present the idea of a relationship through letters. The letter I received from my friend would cut itself up and rearrange itself to form the answer to this letter that I would send back to my friend. | |||
I tried to make an animation on my desk and film it from a distance. This was interesting because we ould see my desk and working space where I would normally write a letter. However, this did not render the cutting very well. Because of the camera angle, the words cutting themselves away from the letter where not evident enough. | |||
===Third test with Stop motion=== | |||
I tried to cut the letter up in stop motion a second time, this time using the animation stand in the Limona library to get a birds eye view of the letter. This would make the cutting more visible on the camera and make it more interesting. I only managed to get 40 pictures, altough I felt like I had many more. This could not create a long enough and smooth enough animation. | |||
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===Final Stop motion animation=== | |||
During my second try with the animation stand I managed to create an animation that I find smooth enough. I now wanted to develop a sound track to the animation and a short introduction and conclusion to start the film and finish it in a more | |||
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===First idea of introduction and sound=== | |||
I tried a standart introduction for the animation with just someone bringing the letter and sitting down to write a reply. In this version I also tried to have the words read and mixed as they move to form the new letter. I didn't like both of these ideas once they were edited in with the animation. I thought that the words being read were too confusing and didn't work well with the animation. I found the introduction the introduction felt a little bit forced and didn't quite sync with the animation. | |||
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===Final Film=== | |||
In the end I decided to go for simplicity. I remembered a french saying that says : "Words fly away, the written stays". I thought this really represented what I was trying to say with letters. It transmits the idea of keeping in touch through the written medium, through letters. I also like the simplicity in the sound which is just that of the paper. | |||
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