Week 3

I booked the animation room on weds to play with some shadows and other materials. It wasn’t a particularly productive session as I am not sure I like much of what I produced but I think it has brought me a step closer to deciding on a working method. I like the idea of limiting the type of animation that I will use, that way the project will be concise and there won’t be too much meandering. I would like to use mainly shadow, light, water and reflections.

I have come to realise that some of my photography work, which I previously believed to be relatively unrelated to my animation practice would be extremely relevant to this project. Some of my photography over the past few years has focussed on light/dark and reflections. I have large groups of images that have been obtained in several different ways but have a similar quality. These images, though removed from my animation work, reflect the aesthetic that I would like to achieve for the Masters project.

On Thursday I had a tutorial with Tom and we discussed several option for sound design. Using water, both visually and in the sound track would be interesting and we talked about using underwater microphones to record the sound of running or moving water. I feel that there needs to be something to tie the image and sound together if I am to just use voice for the musical composition. If I recorded water noises and then use them kind of like a filter to give any other sounds a water-like quality this would go further to help tie the sound to the image.

Friday was spent on research and more software training, this time on text reader program, which will certainly help with written work and some of the reading that needs to be done. I feel that I should see if I can talk to someone who is more knowledgeable than me in the field of psychoanalysis, possibly one of the art school critical studies tutors or someone at the UEA. I feel that I should try and further my understanding of this area of psychology before I get too into the masters project. I have read some bits here and there but a discussion would probably help a lot.