Here I have created a mood board, collecting images, words, photographs that related to the words that described the song.

Stop Motion workshop.

Rayogram experiment...

Rayograms.

I really like this technique; the contrast between the black and grey backgrounds against the light negative shapes look really effective. I'm not sure if ill use this method when creating my animation, however, I want to experiment with capturing different objects, as the images created are very inspirational when coming up for ideas for a subject to work on. 

This was the first one I made which turned out better than expected. This was a tester piece to see how many seconds of light exposure I would need to create a good colour and contrast. I did this in about 7 sections, using 2 seconds of light each time so the beginning of the strip had a total of around 14 seconds of light exposure.

I feel these two turned out better than the one above as the detail of the objects is a lot more defined

This is a ball of string, I like the detail of the tine strands.

... a few more animations I found on youtube

I also came across quite a few 'Amazon Kindle' adverts where stop motion has been used...

PRINT TO PIXEL.

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988- Variation 1. Quite a happy and jolly song which is very repetitive throughout so I have decided to use the first part of the audio, finishing around 26 seconds; at this specific time, it has a low finishing note which would be a very suitable tone to end the animation on.

I'm very unsure whether I want to create a hand drawn detailed animation such as creating a character or a more abstract piece- experimenting with different materials. Firstly,  I have been researching and coming up with words and information that relate to this audio in my sketchbook. I also want to research existing examples of animation for inspiration- which I will display in this blog.

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Goldberg Variations, BWV 988- Variation 1:

This was one of the first animated videos I came across while researching on youtube, I like how it has been created using just rough biro sketches. The audio used is a classical tune which goes well with this animation.

This has got to be one of my favourite animated videos, I find it amazing that such an effective animation could come from something as simple as post it notes.

Carphone Warehouse advert...

Poster Finished!

I decided to use large text as I wanted it quite dramatic and eye catching, I decided to use a dark lilic shade, which adds just the right amount of colour.

Here are two examples of experimentation on Photoshop, above is one of the examples when I was trying to choose a colour for the text.

Below I started messing around with smaller text and just sticking to black, I feel the larger text works a lot better on the page.

Evaluation:

I feel the poster was quite successful, I am glad I decided to re-take the photos on a white background as it has a more professional look and shows off the design and 3D aspect to the numbers. If I were to do it again or alter areas, I would make the word 'years' into the same 3D shapes as the numbers, however, I would make them slightly smaller and position them in front.

This blog  displays most of the photographs and development of my work and designer inspiration, my sketchbook displays more of the sketches and ideas.