Pioneer of animation - Lotte Reiniger

Lotte R from Matie

Pixilation Animation

Evaluation:

In our Pixilation Animation we decided to make a short scene with a person driving an imaginary car with normal sound effects. We simply did this by taking multiple pictures of the driver getting into the car, putting their seatbelt on, put the keys into the ignition , drive and unfortunately crash. We didn't want to over complicate anything as we aimed for simplistic yet entertaining outcome.

I would say our video lacks in a lot of movement. We could improve this by having the driver drive round the building , have drive by's and maybe a high speed chase. But we didn't have a lot of time to experiment. However I found our video quite funny with or without sound.

Single Camera presentation

Single camera 

Film Idea

Title: 'Save yourself'


Genre : Thriller , Horror and Sci-Fi.

Theme: Afterlife,courage , death, fear, saviour.

The story is about a teenager that gave up on their own life to save another. They wake up again in a white room with a letter in it on the wall. The letter explains that they have 24 hours to save their own life without being spotted by themself or death.Thy have 3 tries to not be spotted or caught by death ( the day will start again if they do get spotted or caught). Death is disguised as regular people and hard to be recognized till face to face.


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Inspirations for this idea :

Gantz: An anime about a school boy ( Kurono Kei) that died saving a homeless man with his childhood friend ( Kato Masura). They both jumped into a room with a black orb called the 'Gantz' that tells them they must kill aliens to earn points to have their own life back.

Another inspiration was from a music video by Slipknot called ' Vermillion'. I like the effect of having one character in one time and the surrounding people a lot faster.



If I was to take a scene and film it within 60 seconds I would have the scene of the main character waking up in the white room with the letter. Then have them enter the day they just had again in the street and catches a glimpse of the back of their own head.

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The 60 second will have no dialog except the voice over of the main character reading the letter in their own head.

The letter will say:

"You are now dead.

 Another chance at life?

 Save yourself?

Don't let yourself be noticed.

You have 24 hours.

You have 3 tries.

Avoid death.

Good luck."

Story board: 

Shot list:

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Location:

1st location : Studio room.

2nd location: Green Dragon lanes N21.

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1st scene: INT- White room (Studio) DAY

Main character is laying on the floor of the white room. There eyes open and then they proceed to gaze around the room. He sits up (looks confused), notices letter on the wall in front of them. Gets up and rips letter off wall. 

Beings to read the letter in their head ( voice over ) .

"You are now dead.

 Another chance at life?

 Save yourself?

Don't let yourself be noticed.

You have 24 hours.

You have 3 tries.

Avoid death.

Good luck."

2nd scene : EXT - street ( green dragon lanes)DAY

Character begins to feel dizzy and a light flashes across screen. Character appears on the street. Character looks round and notices they are back in reality, on the same day they died. Time suddenly becomes slow for them and the civilians around them become faster then their own time. Character notices the back of their past self who is in their time. Begins to chase them but then time suddenly goes back to normal and the 'past self' lost in crowd. Future self became tired , looks up at the first form of death, death smiles and screen becomes static.

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cut out animation

Cut out animation.

Cut out animation is one of the simplest and cheapest forms of animation.

Lottie Reiniger a famous animator known for her interest in chinese puppet silhouettes. 

Terry Gilliam another famous animator in the region of cut out animation most famous for the hilarious films under the monty python.

Strengths of cut out animation:

1. Cheap
2. Easy to create ones own world.
3. Any picture could be used.
4. Effective
5. Quick in some aspects.

Limitations of cut out animation:

1. Time consuming in some aspects.
2. Everything must be kept the same before any movement.
3. Limited movements.
4. Hard to continue if a mistake has taken place.
5. If hand is caught during picture without realising hard to remove.

My groups cut out animation:

 

Pro's: 

• Its simplistic.
• A lot of movement.
• Music goes well.

Con's:

• Some hands have been caught.
• Lighting is off.
• No narrative.

Evaluation.

During the creation of out cut out animation we decided we didn't want to have a narrative, we choose that because we wanted to do the 'Harlem Shake', a popular parody. Also we didn't want to over complicate our first cut out animation. So went with simplistic yet effective. We wanted the set to be in a room/ office, an everyday place. By doing so we can disrupt a calm place with the 'Harlem Shake' theme. We cut out 8 different characters  that would be less or just at half the size of the A4 piece of paper and changes a few of them by swapping heads.

By looking at our turn out we have achieved what we went for as it ticks our own criteria of simplistic and effective. The video is 29 seconds yet we had longer footage so we cut and even changed the speed to give it a livelier feel to it as the song is up beat and fast.

However we had many technical issues. As you can see we did catch our hands during the taking picture process, out lighting was off at times and we even moved some of the cut outs too much at some stages. But I would say our mistakes  have degraded the final piece as the video can be seen well and the placement of hands are hardly there. Some may say there is too much movement during the piece but we wanted to do the 'Harlem Shake' and the parody is based on many movements at once.

Overall I would say our final piece was good. Needs some improvement but for our first time using this form of animation we did a good job.

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Edward Muybridge

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