Animation day

Wednesday 22.10.08 - Animation day
I went through the audio files for beach and Ken animations. Reflecting on Barnbrook’s approach for the Radio Scotland animations, I listened to key words and decided to try the opposite of his approach. Instead of creating visual noise before and after the key word, I allowed the key word to have centre stage. In Barnbrook’s work the key words are static, in my version, they are rapid in their movement and a different visual style sets them apart from the rest of the words. This is an area I am keen to emphasise.

Presently, I have not concentrated on type at all. Key words ‘tea’ and ‘half’ are represented using stop frame footage and the rest of the audio is left to play without text at this early stage. This has emphasised rhythm and pace in an interesting way, it is more considered and calmer than previous animations I have produced. Text will be introduced, but not until I have listened to the audio in more detail and produced a storyboard.

My next aim is to annotate the speeches in terms of timing and try different methods to illustrate key parts of the speech. My main way of doing this is using a paintbrush with ink and creating fluid text in storyboards and the using colour to break the speech down. I will also look at the ways linguists approach illustrating speech and other methods (‘Talking Voices’ and ‘Visual Research’).

I will be organising a meeting with the ESOL department to test the work before it is too developed to gain vital information from the overseas students.