I have started to explore clock face imagery and reduce it to a pencil drawing, a bit like a scientific drawing. A like the delicate quality of this and want to look at animating something like this overlayed over imagery.
I am interested in how your feelings and mood can change in an instant and so i wanted to explore this through some abstract style illustration. This could work well as an accompaniment to a diary style narrative looking at changes of mood/state of happiness within a 24 hour period. Will be adding more detail to this...
I have been looking at the well known section of the old testament book Ecclesiastes, "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven..." I thought it would be interesting to layer these verses, which state that history merely repeats itself and nothing is new, over imagery of dead flowers which grow and die over and over again.
As i constantly walk everywhere i have chosen to film myself waking in different shoes, on different roads, in different weather on my mobile phone. Here is a short test for some ideas i have of incorporating this footage into an animation.
For the 24 hours brief i have started looking at anxiety disorder and how one minute a person can feel fine, and then the next minute they may suffer from a panic attack and i want to portray the sudden and all-consuming nature of this disorder and how it can completely change the course of your day.
I've started looking at a new brief today - exploring the theme of 24 hours...
i think the theme of time is vast and can open up so many possibilities to look at so to start with i've been researching how other artists explore the theme in their work, beginning with the work of Bill Viola.
Viola is a leading proponent for contemporary video art and has pioneered it from the late 60's. Viola looks at themes of life vs death, mysticism, supernatural beings, religion - which to me is the more serious and consuming side of time, looking at questions of what happens to our lives, our purpose, a side which can be hard for a human being to comprehend. So in his work Viola really hits you and makes you question your existence. I really love his work Ocean Without A Shore which was installed in a small chapel in Venice and portrays people at the intersection of life and death. The simple effect of the water almost bursting out of the people is amazing and really draws you in to watch it again and again. The low sound levels and the slow quality of the film emphasise the impact of the person standing before you and allows the viewer to experience every second of it.
In contrast I also looked at Bruce Nauman who looks at human activity in his video art, and the more immediate aspects of everyday behaviour - there are lots of films of him performing mundane tasks over and over again. I don't enjoy watching this type of video art but it does make you reflect on the repetitive nature of life and it might be interesting to look at how repetitive my own patterns of behaviour on a day to day basis? I did like this installation though...
MUTO by Blu - i love the simple time lapse animation in this film and the playful nature of it, you don't know what will happen next and it is constantly evolving and changing.
I think it would be useful to use video to look at aspects of everyday life that we miss as life is so fast paced. This short video i found highlights the beauty of everyday things if you just stop and look for a minute.
I think for this brief i am going to explore a few different outcomes: - video/photos of everyday occurrences to make an animation - look at colours in terms of how colour can affect/represent mood over time - printed materials examining how time is represented using collage, ephemera, old and new photos
I'm currently undertaking a part-time HND in Graphic Design at the Birmingham Metropolitan College FEED studio. I'm also Marketing Coordinator at Light House in Wolverhampton.
