Moving image project.
Context:
“Television completes the cycle of the human sensorium. With the omnipresent ear and the moving eye, we have abolished writing, the specialised acoustic-visual metaphor that established the dynamics of Western Civilisation” – Marshall McLuhan (1967) The Medium is the Massage
Result: 10-20 second piece of moving or animation with sound.
Prompt: What are you passionate about?
In a world where everything is moving, everything is moving. Since the post World War II consumer boom in the middle of the 20th century, artists and cultural philosophers have been theorising and predicting a future defined by spectacle. Now, it is not just our television that contains digital moving image and sound, but our billboards, bus advertisements, websites, smart phones, social media, and so on — even fine art paintings, stage shows, and album art are now defined by movement thru a lens in the 21st century.
As contemporary illustrators, it is essential for us to have a grip of the medium of moving image, and our position in it. Throughout this project we will consider many facets of practice within animation and filmmaking, from action, style, and rhythm, to audience, platform and cultural critique.
This studio employs lens-based working methods that generate ideas through the cross-fertilisation of analogue, digital and moving image techniques. Students will explore their visual practice by embracing new media and learning working methods in a studio environment. Students will also embrace a knowledge of contextual media studies in relation to illustration practice.
Artist research
Kadeem Oak Image Behaviour interview.
Research ‘into the spiderverse’ for research animating on 2s or 3s.
Hiromu Oka STUTS Back and Forth (Visualiser).
Intro to moving image:
Still frames: individual images that make up moving image.
Key frames: the ‘key’ moment in a piece of moving image.
Tweeting: the junior animations filling in between key frames that senior animators made.
FPS: frames per second, frame rate, the amount of still frames in a second in a moving image.
12FPS is the lowest, 24 FPS is smoother movement. 25 FPS is European Television Standard.
1 minute of 12 FPS animation requires 720 still frames.
This workshop is enquiry and knowledge and process
Music and rhythm are important when displaying a painting. Image is obvious but music is subtler. The meaning of the image becomes transmittable then it can be manipulated by the music and the camera movement. (John Berger)
Research the first sound recording 1850s-77 Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville.
We can’t touch music – Karin wasifi
Opposite of a bomb going off, communicating life instead of death in the bombs.
Illustrators communicate meaning through media, including sound.
We listened to five pieces of music with eyes closed without knowing context. Forms a basis for experimental decision making.
Visualise the sound playing. Illustrative sound methods
- Shirt – bongo dog doo-dah band, (1969) field recording.
- Kinshasa’s Music Warriors – Fulu Miziki (2019) instrumentation.
- Revolution 9 – The Beatles (1968) sound collage.
- Kaise Rahoon Chup – Lata Mangeshkar (1969) foley.
- Face Shopping – Sophie (2018) electronic music.