animation review

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In the first two lessons we watched five or six animations that were made by some professionals, there was one that really stood out for me and that was called ‘food’ by Jan svankmajer (1992) this was about two people who went to a restaurant and the waiter kept running past them, so they chose to eat their own clothes such as; hat, shirt, trousers, pants and shoes. They also ate the table, chair and cutlery from the table.

I thought this animation was good because it was very humours the whole class thought it was a good animation and our group decided to bring some funny elements into our piece so that we could make our audience laugh.

The target audience for the film Jan created was from 8-12, even though I thought it was a funny film I wouldn’t be able to watch the whole clip as it got quite repetitive and boring so this is why younger kids would find this much funnier than some of us did but on a whole it was a film anyone could watch.

ANIMATION

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We were given a new assignment to do called ‘animation’ as a group we had to come up with an animation from the wining short story from 2011 ‘the bovine histories’ which is about some kows (cows) who live on a farm and there are some secrets that get passed down each generation.

The class got a visit from Joe Melia, organiser of the Bristol short story prize who told us; short stories work well in as animation also he said it’s a chance for 400+ people to see these films at the arnolfini gallery which is something we can put on a college application.

Our ideas were that we wanted to focus on the short song the kows sing at the start of the story, we thought to break off from the story because we all like music and the ideas that we came up with for it were looking good. The outcome of all our inputting ideas was that the kows would start by eating the grass and singing this heaven song to breakdancing and rapping.

Some of the problems that could come out of this are that when we come to producing our animation it could possibly take longer than expected because we are doing stop-motion which includes making a set, characters and moving them frame by frame which takes a long time.

On the whole I think we have a good idea that could get a lot of recognition if we really try to create a good piece of animation.