New Way of Looking Evaluation

I found a new way of looking very very difficult at first, i stuck with an idea too soon causing me to get very lost later on in the project. It took me ages to finally find an abstract way of looking at my colour coding (traffic lights)...In the end i thought my film was very successful it showed exactly what i wanted!! It was easy to read my message as i used coloured objects to look industrial ... man made as such light traffic lights! The day before we had to show our films to the rest of the group i only had roughly about 5 seconds of footage and i worked hard throughout the night to create my final piece! In the amber section of my film i decided to use the same footage to show hesitation .... to portray the feeling of how you as a driver or pedestrian would feel as your getting ready to move (should i go .... no not yet ...go? .... not yet). The green was very successful i felt the pase was right and the sound that was recorded as i was filming creates a great beat to connote the adrenaline rush when the lights are on green and the cars go rushing past! I was very pleased with my film but if i were to do it again i would of liked to use different images in the green section and have a broader range to make it even more interesting!!!

Summary!!

I really enjoyed looking at animation from a different culture!!! I would never of thought to look at Germany especially i take most of my examples from the most obvious to me America and British so it was really exciting to find a huge variety of Animation and moving image from a completely different country! I found like in many other countries that the animation differs depending on the time is was created ... as society and popular culture changes through out generations! I found some animations that used techniques i know a bit about and some that i never even thought of such as Lotte Reiniger silhouette animations (they remind me a lot of shadow puppets and i didn't know many animations that use that technique). The older animations are fairly simple i found and experiment more with colour more than image such as Oskar Fischinger's scratch films which i love!!! I love the sophisticated look and the fact that you wouldn't think of it as an animation but its so simple and effective! And the sound that accompanies it makes it so satisfying to watch...more thought has gone into it than you think!! Then later on animation developed a bit more into stop motion an example of this is 'Balance'...this reminds me a lot of Tim Burton's work as the figures used are extremely elongated, thin and slightly creepy. I am going to continue looking throughout the summer at more animations from Germany and from other countries also to broaden my knowledge to the world of Animation!!!!!!'