This week we studied moving image and photography and for our project we had to make a short animation clip, working in a team of five.
First we brainstormed our ideas for themes in our sketchbook and eventually came to the idea of twitter. We then came up with a storyboard which is also in our sketchbooks. We cut out clouds, birds and letters from card and printed out tweets we found interesting and cut them out to use in our project. We then used lighting and filming equipment to capture our animation. We made the lights as bright as possible and made our animation by taking lots of pictures and putting them together so the birds and the tweets look like they’re moving. Taking all these pictures actually did not take as long as I thought it would; the editing took almost as long as the software was quite complicated to use, especially since none of us had ever used it before.
The narrative of our animation is about social media and how online arguments get out of control. We used a variety of shots such as zooming 300m in and out depending on how much the shot relates to the issue. We also made some shots blurry for effect.
Our animation is below:
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