[ explorations in audio and moving imagery ]
FADE IN INT. ANIMATION STUDIO – NIGHT An experimental animator posts a final blog update about writing a script in one month for something called Script Frenzy. A printed copy of his final script sits nearby waiting to be read. Empty stage sets from some unfinished stopmotion projects hug the nearby walls. Puppet parts huddle…
Seventy-six pages done! I continue to write my script non-linearly. As one scene is written, the dialogue or descriptions will spark ideas that are incorporated into other scenes. Celtx has an index card view that lets you drag-and-drop scenes anywhere in the script. It is a great feature and is similar to moving video clips…
I made it past page 50 this week for Script Frenzy! I spent some time this weekend using MindMeister which helps since I dove right in on April 1st with no real character or plot outlines. So far, the combination of mind-mapping in MindMeister and writing the script in Celtx seems promising. The mind map…
Sometime on April 1st I learned about Script Frenzy via news feeds and tweets and looked into it further. For several years, I have had one idea for a feature length, live-action film so I decided to sign up for the frenzy to see what I could come up with. I usually storyboard my animation…
Quote (by a stopmotionanimation.com forum member named glenglen) about clichés. “A teacher told me once that clichés happen when an artist in a particular medium looks to the same medium for inspiration. I think many of us are inclined to imitate the stop motion films that inspired us, but for originality, we have to look…
Figure 1: One dimensional content delivery. Elements: Content Format: Oral and written communication Figure 2: Two dimensional content delivery. Elements: Form and Content Format: Oral, written, and visual communication Figure 3: Three dimensional content delivery. Elements: Form, Content, and (Context, Time, or Space) Format: Oral, written, visual, and (psychological, experiential, or referential)…
Facet A (absence of sound) is more important than facet B (noise or tone). Facet A or B exist individually as data. Facets A + B together equate to information. The existence of facet A provides definition or identity for facet B. Without A the accumulation of sounds from B results in noise. The illustration is…
I was thinking about my stopmotion projects and also what I find attractive in the work of other creatives. I then thought about ways to visually represent this method, approach or general philosophy. So… A is more important than B. More to come…
I found another post on the web about the impact, or influence, of technology in filmmaking, videomaking, and animating. In this case it is the ideas borrowed from the semantic web that could be used to enhance traditional narrative structures and possibly change the way people consume-create media. This approach lends to the portability of…
I made some story cubes over the weekend as a creative project. Story cubes seem to be used for brainstorming stories or narrative content. You roll them out and based on the icons that are showing formulate some kind of story. Since they are physical blocks it adds a tactile quality to the activity which…
In my previous post I was pondering the impact of technologies on content in film-video productions. While searching for more examples of emergent or disruptive ideas regarding film-video making I ran across the Future of Cinema Debate on YouTube. It’s worth a watch, specifically for the ideas offered by Arin Crumley on the idea of…