A frame by frame animation documenting the entirety of a chess game. Have two players (myself and one of my friends); neither of which would be visible in any of the shots, play a real game, and photograph the board after every move. We would play until there was a game that occurred which could sustain a long enough movie. The frames would be taken from an overhead view of the board. All the pieces moving in somewhat fast time would, aesthetically, create a great flow across the board. PIeces would move very rhythmically and mechanically due to the strategic nature of the game.
Idea # 2
Also a frame by frame animation, this time of a book removing itself from its self, moving about the floor (or whichever space it would be in) and begin to create forms with the pages within. The idea of pulling pages out and cutting images from them, and having them grow out, or interact with the book seems like an interesting idea as well. The goal would be, in the end, to create a world purely grown from the pages of a book, existing on (or inside) the book itself.
Idea # 3
Based on the short part included in my previous film with the flowers flying backwards into the mouth of one of the characters. Experiment with similar imagery (natural) growing in and out of objects, probably ones around my apartment. Would show naturepersonal space, sort of a flip of the reality of the situation, in which, or persona infesting personal space impede nature. I'd like to experiment more with having these objects grow out of humans, I thought, out of my entire first project, that scene (stated above) was the biggest aesthetic success. I feel I should keep experimenting with the idea, flush it out.
Your 3rd idea sounds the strongest to me, although i am a little confused about how you will pull this off. The idea of nature overgrowing humans is very interesting and could have multiple meanings. How will you make things appear to grow, will you use clay or some kind of sculpting material? Will this also be stop motion? Have you thought about using pixillation to make the humans slide around as things grow out of them, or do you want them to be fixated?
ReplyDeleteIdea #2 sounds really interesting. I'm imagining stop motion shots of the pages flying out of the books and latching onto walls, people, objects, etc. You could also mess with folding the pages of the books into props for the book world, those seem like they would be really interesting stop-motion shots. What kind of books are you thinking of using? Books with only text, or books with illustrations as well? or just picture books?
ReplyDeleteI think that idea number two could be the most interesting. The idea of a book becoming part of narrative is rather interesting, as it is the book itself that is the story. Also the idea of the pages growing into something larger than the book itself is a beautiful metaphor.
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