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