Today we had the opportunity to watch our seminar groups stop-motion animations. I was very impressed with them all, the ideas were fantastic and I was extremely impressed at the imagination and creativity of my peers.
Rhian Davies, a member of our group presented her animation; 'Solution No Pollution', to us all today and I found it compelling.
The Message
Rhian's animation was a simple tale of a stick man enjoying the fresh air after a tree had grown from the ground. Unfortunately, the stick man chops the tree down and burns the wood by using a match which releases Co2 into the atmosphere. The stick man becomes ill from the unhealthy air and grows a new tree to clean the air. The message was very clear and the topic used is strong in schools today.
The Sound
The animation was supported by soft music which represented the animation beautifully. The music had no vocal which meant the viewer was not distracted by lyrics. Another advantage of having music without lyrics was that Rhian was able to use sound affects to her animation. You can hear the crackle of a fire, and the stick man has the line 'oh no!' which made me empathise with the stick man's unhappiness of his actions; a clever use of identification.
Technical Ability
The use of paper and clay at the beginning showed a good technical ability. It was simple and effective and must have been very time consuming. Rhian used speech bubbles with very little words so not to distract the viewers attention or confuse the working memory. The fire scene was incredible as with paper, to create the flickering movement, is very difficult. The movement was simple which did not take away the focus of what was being viewed. I was not distracted by an array of things going on so my eye was drawn to exactly what was going on. If the stick man moved, my eye was on him, if the tree moved or the fire flickered that is what I was looking at. The whole animation was very creative and cleverly put together.
Enjoyment
I thoroughly enjoyed Rhian's animation. It was professional but also raw. After I had viewed it I felt as though I should do more for the environment as the message was strong. I could easily see this very animation being seen by schools all over Wales as an environmental message. A very enjoyable viewing.
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Thursday, 29 January 2015
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Global News: An Auditory Space.
Making an interesting sound recording which can grab the listeners attention with only using their hearing sense is a difficult task. Within a group today we published a spoof recording of a news report for the class to peer review. Using the theme of news readers, myself and two others recorded a topical news report on Audacity.
This fun, hands on learning tool allows the learner to record themselves along with other sounds relevant to the theme that the learner has chosen.
This requires many skills including team work, communication, organisation and it also builds confidence. During the lesson there was a learning buzz with laughter and team discussion as each individual organised and got into character.
On reflection of this activity I was interested to research further how sound in animation can change a viewers perspective of a character. During our attempt at becoming newsreaders we instinctively changed our personas to become the characters that we were playing. We became professional, clearly spoken with a tone replicated from what we hear of newsreaders on the television and radio attempting to make our characters credible. This has made me realise that sound has a profound affect on the listener.
Collins (2013) explains how the use of sound in film and animation influences Identification, and Psychological Role-Play, where we understand, empathise and feel that we become the character on screen, in equal extent as the visual aspects of film and animation. The author argues that especially within animation, sound brings reality and credibility to the animation allowing the viewer to identify strongly with the characters. The visual representation is also argued not to be the only space where a viewer identifies and experiences the story, but auditory space is as important when representing a the stories and characters of film. However, sound must be organised in a way that a camera would be and is a scientific process of auditory space. Cleverly, sound, can create difference in scenes by using placement of microphone and speaker set up allowing a sense of distance, to make the viewer turn to view another aspect of the film, to create mood and develop auditory proxemics: volume to create empathy and identification.
Sound in film is a scientific and technical process that surprisingly has many strands. In the case of our topical news, many of the aspects of auditory experience were intuitive, however on reflection many of the different components that Collins (2013) argues could have been used to improve the quality and deliverance of our Global News coverage.
This fun, hands on learning tool allows the learner to record themselves along with other sounds relevant to the theme that the learner has chosen.
This requires many skills including team work, communication, organisation and it also builds confidence. During the lesson there was a learning buzz with laughter and team discussion as each individual organised and got into character.
On reflection of this activity I was interested to research further how sound in animation can change a viewers perspective of a character. During our attempt at becoming newsreaders we instinctively changed our personas to become the characters that we were playing. We became professional, clearly spoken with a tone replicated from what we hear of newsreaders on the television and radio attempting to make our characters credible. This has made me realise that sound has a profound affect on the listener.
Collins (2013) explains how the use of sound in film and animation influences Identification, and Psychological Role-Play, where we understand, empathise and feel that we become the character on screen, in equal extent as the visual aspects of film and animation. The author argues that especially within animation, sound brings reality and credibility to the animation allowing the viewer to identify strongly with the characters. The visual representation is also argued not to be the only space where a viewer identifies and experiences the story, but auditory space is as important when representing a the stories and characters of film. However, sound must be organised in a way that a camera would be and is a scientific process of auditory space. Cleverly, sound, can create difference in scenes by using placement of microphone and speaker set up allowing a sense of distance, to make the viewer turn to view another aspect of the film, to create mood and develop auditory proxemics: volume to create empathy and identification.
Sound in film is a scientific and technical process that surprisingly has many strands. In the case of our topical news, many of the aspects of auditory experience were intuitive, however on reflection many of the different components that Collins (2013) argues could have been used to improve the quality and deliverance of our Global News coverage.
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