Trying To Get Started

I'll be honest and say I'm finding it hard feeling inspired with this project, not because I don't like this idea. I think it might just be this time in the year, and I need to get my priorities in check. I did a few sketches of random things I thought of to do with the fears I researched.

Those being:

• Dentists 
• Murder
• Death

My favourite so far being the grime reaper looking character.

 

All happy topics, I will try to develop and maybe visit a few museums to get my drive back. Maybe look back at pictures of museums I took before for inspiration. 

Fears

I just googled what fears were the most common;

• Public speaking
• Heights
• Fear of the dark
• Intimacy
• The end
• Fear of failure
• Rejection
• Spiders
• Commitment
• Flowers
• Driving
• Dogs
• Dentist
• Snakes
• Needles
• Being alone
• Water
• God
• Abandonment
• Long words
• Clowns falling
• Change
• Germs
• Music
• Doctors
• Crowds
• Being touched
• Open spaces
• Engulfment
• Girls
• Thunder
• Flying

It would be interesting to try and ask as many people as I can what there's is, it might spark some more ideas.

Tim Burton Locations

As I was on a role with Burton I wanted to look at location, to which I found a variety. as I'm planning to essentially do horror. I don't want the location to be generic, I want it to be interesting which helps the story along. I like the idea of going psychological..IDEA.

They're in the doctors office mentioning their greatest fears (like clowns in the photo) - they hear and noise and it turns out to be that exact thing.

Tim Burton Animals

Going back to the way animals react, I decided to find some obscure animals that stood out to me. Naturally they were dogs. All showing a lot of emotions, what I found interesting about the two dogs with weapons in their backs. Was their unusual happy expression, if I went deeper with the pictures I could say it's about animal cruelty, that dogs are always happy and do nothing wrong, yet they're still stabbed in the back and abandoned by their owner.

Tim Burton - Back To My Roots

Going with my idea of going from fear to surprised in a bad way, from my quick sketch of the guy in the jacket. I thought maybe the person they see could be scary but obscure, I have Tim Burton art book that I like to browse for inspiration. I picked out a few 'people' that stood out for me.

Emotions That Interest Me

I realise when thinking about my original ideas that I was making it too difficult for myself, I decided to strip my ideas down to the bare emotions.

I've always enjoyed horror films, so the fear to surprised interests me. whether or not I will have a happy surprise or not is something I need to figure out.

It might not be a smart idea, but as I get scared easily. I had the idea of going around the city finding things that I find scary (while not putting myself in harms way) - to create the ideas going. 

Dogs Reactions to Barking

This video just made me happy, (as dogs do) I had to idea of researching into animals facial expressions and how humans would react instead. Or showing they having the same emotion so you can notice the significant differences in how they look, with their facial strctures.

(POSSIB SKETCHES)

Quick Ideas

• The way a person reacts compared to how an animal reacts
• The way music effects you're mood
• Facial expressions when listening to music
• Seeing through lies - police interviews, hiding their emotions

Mini Task

In groups we had to find different examples representing one of the six emotional states from any media expect film or animation.

Our method was to go around Norwich trying to find things that made us feel emotional, for example: charity shop clothes, racsim/slavery, technology taking over our lives, bare trees, anglia square in general, and animal skin.

We found the art of Alberto Giacometti in our university library, it suck out due to it's sketchy lines and blacked out silhouettes. Silhouettes I feel are often used to show sadness, to portray the darkness you feel within. The sketchy lines I feel portray sadness since it could show anxiety and uncertainty, it's a deeper version of sadness.

Basic Emotions

Paul Ekman and Wallace van Friesen from their research in the 70's said there are six 'basic emotions', these emotions are linked to facial expression. They found them to be universally recognisable, even through different cultures. They are;

                            JOY                                     DISGUST                               SADNESS

                         ANGER                                SURPRISED                                   FEAR

(Spot the odd one out)

Ekin describes the basic emotions as distinct 'emotion families', each category contains a range of different emotions. In 1999 Ekman updated his list of emotions;

 Amusement, anger contempt, contentment, disgust, embarrassment, excitement, fear, guilt, pride, relief, sadness/distress, satisfaction, pleasure and shame.

BA1b - Introduction

This week we were introduced to our project 'Animated Expression' where we have been asked to research into representations of the key emotional states (how are they expressed and symbolised). We need to develop a scenario for a short animation conveying a change in emotion, Eg joy to sadness, frustration to acceptance. I can either choose to focus on facial expression or body language/gesture, the animation can be self-portraiture, character based or symbolic/abstract in context.

This project will run alongside other for the whole of next term, to give us more basics of different animation techniques to create the style of the film,

In summary I will create a short 10-15 second animation which conveys a change of emotion.

For pre- production we need to start to:

• Research examples
• 3 Ideas/ rough storyboards
• Develop board for final ideas
• Try out and experiment with techniques 

I MUST PRODUCE:

• Animated change in mood/ expression of between 10 and 15 seconds and rendered as QuickTime Movie 
• Research Portfolio reflecting on the results of the iterative process used to develop your character and narrative concepts 
• Evaluation of 250 words on the project and achieved outcomes

We can look at paintings, sculptures, illustrations. film and animation etc. 

SUBMISSION: 22/04/16