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The crafty animator : handmade, craft-based animation and cultural value  

Caroline Ruddell (ed) and Paul Ward (ed)

https://nua.cirqahosting.com/HeritageScripts/Hapi.dll/search2?SearchTerm=CAROLINE+RUDDELL&Fields=A&Media=%23&Dispfmt=B&SearchPrecision=10&DataSetName=LIVEDATA

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Test_03

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resource I consult to help with my essay

remembering: Shot size, composition, camera position and angle but also sound 

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Session 3 with Phil. I started from the beginning adding audio tracks and amending them to suit video clip. I cut out parts of the clip which are still without sound tracks. 

In this test I experimented with Reverb/Convolution Reverb, ease In/Out, cutting the right bits of the track to suit the steps of the characters. Added ambient sounds relevant to the cave.  

I key framed volume of each track and made sure all are within appropriate ‘green’ levels and not going beyond into the ‘red’ extreme.

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Notes (help list)

Use the weekly summaries to reflect and plan ahead.•

Research Sources list and review research sources

Development How have you progressed the project?•

Strengths successes of the week•

Area for Development an updated plan for how to steer the further progress, short term and if necessary long term.

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I adjusted timing for the middle shot but I will have to film everything from scratch as I don’t like the actions and light is very dark

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Final shot iteration 1

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after the brief of IO project I straight away had a couple of ideas for the story. This was the first one ‘Food for fight’, where the cutlery is anticipating the food to ‘arrive’ on the plate, they are preparing in anticipation as the sportsmen would be before the start of a running competition, for example. When food comes to the table, the cutlery still keeps still waiting for the moment to jump into the plate. Then the convenient moment arrives, when the dinner (never included in the scene, though first I thought to include the hands only) after pouring wine into the glass on the table realised that the classic music is missing to complete his late solo dinner, walks away from the table. Here, for the sound (off screen) I wanted to include human steps and then a search for the right track, switch on just a few notes of several different tracks until classical right track is found. Whilst this sound is playing the cutlery being alone at the table and food next to them, jump into the plate, fight and eat up the food. Once the dinner is satisfied with his choice of music he returns to the table (again steps off screen) only to find the empty plate. 

Concerns:

1. I am not sure this is the right story for the night themed film. I appreciate that one can have a meal with the glass of wine at night but not sure how well it can be received by the viewer.

2. By the brief’s specs food shouldn't be included, so I will need to make it possible from plasticine or fimo though it might take a long time, which I don’t mind to spend but making the props isn’t the priority for this project.

3. The narrative appeals to me as there are clear three narrative beats, in line with the project’s Rule #1: establish, conflict and resolution. However, I am not sure yet, if this is enough for me to settle on this story. I don’t see yet how much emotional and rhymical actions can be included here to make the film engaging enough for the viewer.

4. I am not clear how I could show visually a surprised face of the dinner at the end of the story, perhaps with the sound but the Rule #4 states: characters can not make audible noises.

5. I feel that this narrative can correspond with only 2 shots: medium and close up, though the Rule #3 dictates three shots to be included with wide one. 

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Iteration 2. Mid shot. Interaction between mother and child

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My first iteration of the IOs project. Mother and child - entering the scene. Shadows. 

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Animatic for IO project. I am not sure how I will call the film yet, the idea is of a child being apprehensive on the first day to a nursery, or ‘kinder basket’ as I named it as we are animating the cutlery, ‘basket’ was more suitable for a ‘kinder garden’. It is 9 sec long, a fraction shorter than the required specs (10-15 secs). There are no title or credits included yet.

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I want to try creating a digital storyboard in TVPaint, so that the whole process of the storyboard and the animatic are in the same place. Will see if I can succeed!

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Wonderful example of how emotions are clearly demonstrated in this episode without words but purely with actions and responses to those actions. Also, camera moves work complementary to the actions.

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 I doubt that many of my peers have seen this film of classical Russian cinematograph.

Originally filmed as black&white, later in 2009 was restored and colorised https://youtu.be/UpROWpF4mmY

This film is beautiful in every way. Decorations, acting of actors, humor, elements of stop motion animation, music and songs all are simply ideal for such story and the time of making it (film was released in 1947, only two years after the WWII was over in Russia, and country was still recovering). 

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‘Troll 2′ I will include in my ‘awful films’ list. 

Every cloud has a silver lining! Nearly twenty years after its release, the movie's child star, Michael Stephenson (now dentist), made a documentary about its production and fanbase titled Best Worst Movie, released to critical success in 2009. 

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len‘The curious case of Benjamin Button’ is one of my favourite films,  an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story. I love films based on the original books.

Critics Consensus Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an epic fantasy tale with rich storytelling backed by fantastic performances.

What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging in reverse. This sweeping film follows the character's unusual life into the 21st century as he experiences joy and sadness, loves lost and found, and the meaning of timelessness.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/curious_case_of_benjamin_button

Fincher’s version of Benjamin Button is a far cry from the original source material. Largely concerned with the more mundane aspects of a person who ages backwards, Fitzgerald’s story follows the titular character through Yale, the Spanish-American War, a football career at Harvard, and eventually death as a child. Benjamin is born with the ability to speak, his father passes the Button Hardware family business on to him, he goes to college, falls in love, goes to war, goes back to college, and ends up abandoned by his family.

‘In the film, adapted by Eric Roth into a sweeping epic, Benjamin’s condition pushes him out into the world and into several unexpected and therefore more dramatic situations.’

https://medium.com/@orinocoflow/10-years-on-the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button-778dfac138f0

The sound design of that world, the music, the lines of dialogue all are so touching and inviting that I was magnetised whilst watching it. The reverseness of Benjamin’s life is the most peculiar yet realistic with true emotions displayed. The film is about how two people are made for each other, who loved each other through their lives to the very end.

‘The concept of a person who ages in reverse throws some of the most mundane, seemingly unremarkable moments of life into a relief that creates an uncomfortable awareness of where one is then and there, in what condition, under what circumstances. And when it comes to the film’s central relationship between Benjamin and Daisy, it’s ultimately a story about two adults who are intentional in every part of their commitment to one another, right through to the hardest end.’

https://medium.com/@orinocoflow/10-years-on-the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button-778dfac138f0

One of my favorite Woody Allen’s quotes comes to my mind when thinking about Benjamin film: 

“In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people's home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! You finish off as an orgasm!”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/110186-in-my-next-life-i-want-to-live-my-life