Tutorial review

Reflective writing
Review of tutorial and peer discussions (Jon Hamilton/Donna Rumble-Smith)

Animation:
The flow of the animation is apparent, the use of wallpaper to allow pauses and continuation works well. (DRS)

Much improved and professional (DRS)

Alter the visibility of narrator’s voice (key change, but important) (JH)

Reduce time allowed on end credits (perhaps 3 blocks of text in one go), allow text to scroll on and off, too much time dedicated to this (JH)

Positive feedback about the audio (end part of the credits, ‘off mic’. (JH)

Positive feedback about poster and its relevance (MA level) (JH)

Positive feedback about including own terms ‘Textura kinetic’ (JH)


Beach storyboard:
Consider aligning visual language of older and younger voices using non-clinical background. (DRS)

Tom’s background is too ‘clean’ perhaps needs to be more painterly and an insight to his fantasy world. (DRS)

I like the ice-lolly fish, they are fun! (DRS)

You can see the parallel of Ken’s animation with the beach storyboard, the wallpaper is replaced by the beach (DRS)

Consider showing how the text appears on screen, show more stills to show that only key words appear in the sand (DRS)

Positive feedback about beach storyboard. (JH)

The storyboard gives a good insight into your intended animation and indicates your progression on the MA, using the quotes to contextualise the work is helpful. (JH)

Approach linguistic departments, create an abstract for a linguistic conference, consider your options to enable the funding of this next animation. (JH)

As regards the stock images, just reference where they are from and do not worry about showing them (JH)

For the narrator’s lolly stick background, think about how this could flip onto screen, perhaps it has lolly juice on it, or the old joke wears out to reveal the narration?(JH)


1,000 words
Instead of reviewing sketchbooks, I am keen to concentrate on analysing the Ken animation. Suggestions and questions are as follows:

1 Discuss the time code, when does it appear and why?
2 Have you achieved what you set out to achieve (animation)?
Did you have preconceived ideas and have these been shattered?
3 Your style of interviewing is not formal, you tend to feed answers to the speaker, discuss this in more depth. Should the interview be seen as formal or informal?
4 Discuss how you gathered the data and what the process was like
5 How did audio additions help or hinder the project?
6 What methods have worked in the animation, which methods are less successful?
7 Why did you treat the more animated voice in a neutral way and vice versa?
8 Why is there a mixture of contemporary processes and more traditional methods?
9 What does the map signify, and the doors?
10 Discuss the relevance of the pictures show, Welsh lady, shield, council calendar.
11 Why does the 3 legged Bambi feature in the animation?
12 Why have you shown laughter in 5 different ways throughout the animation? What were your influences?
13 Why do numbers appear in red throughout, spelled out, not in their numerical forms?
14 Are you celebrating Ken’s life or commiserating with him?
15 Does the wallpaper signify anything other than wallpaper?
16 What does Ken think of the animation?
17 What are other’s perceptions of Ken’s life?
18 What parts of previous animations have you applied or included?
19 Why is the word tea changed into a capital ‘T’, what is the significance?
20 How many tea-related visuals or audio clues have you embedded in the animation?
21 What are the key things you have learned form creating this animation that will inform future work? Your response can be from personal and professional viewpoints.
That there are questions that lead to more questions and the answers are not finite but are fluid as more research unveils new directions.
22 What are the parallels between the animation and the visual summary of the letterpress poster? Discuss the texture of tone of voice and the precision of the linguistic data analysis.
23 What are the parallels between typography and spoken language? (This is the question I set out to explore)

Letterpress poster
The letterpress poster received positive feedback from tutor and peer. Suggestions to create overlays using hand written text onto acetate and allow the audience to interact with the poster.

I am keen to use acetate printed overlay or dry transfers.

The use of precision and vector as a contrast to the raw unfinished imperfect letterpress interested tutor and peer.

It was suggested that small paragraphs are included to aid the contextualisation
of the work.